VOLUNTEER SPOTLIGHT |
Celebrating Our VolunteersAIIP members contribute extraordinary talent to making our association all it is today — their work is essential to our success as a professional community. AIIP's Volunteer Spotlight recognizes members who have contributed exemplary service to the association and their fellow members. Volunteers in the Spotlight are selected by the AIIP Board. |
![]() |
Andrea expertly manages the day-to-day operations of one of AIIP’s most valued benefits, AIIP-L, our listserv. She is always incredibly professional, responsive and willing to troubleshoot whenever required. Andrea has been quietly serving AIIP for many years and her generosity is critical to the success of both the listserv and to AIIP overall. —Maureen Shields, Director of Professional Development
—Andrea Carrero, Word Technologies, Inc |
![]() |
Connie, Margaret, and Denise thoughtfully worked to refresh the public facing webpages for SEO optimization as well as reworked the members only navigation and organization. This work over the past 6-8 months has given the website a must needed detailed review and helped to establish key data that any new webpage needs to include going forward. —Janel Kinlaw, Director of Outreach
—Denise Claridy, Evandy InfoSolutions
—Connie Clem, Clem Information Strategies
—Margaret Harrison, Harrison Data and Information Services |
![]() |
Since joining AIIP three years ago, Rhonda has generously shared her time and talent presenting the Recipes for Business Progress webinar series, giving AIIP members the opportunity to learn from her and each other. Rhonda has also presented at the annual conference and is an active supporter of the association. —Karen Klein, Immediate Past-President
—Rhonda Bowen, bells |
![]() |
As a volunteer on the Inquirers Committee, Amelia handles inquiries from the public that require more involved responses – her unique gift to all of us in AIIP and to others in the info pro world. Even as an emeritus member with many AIIP volunteer positions behind her, Amelia continues to share her knowledge and insight with generosity, thoughtfulness, and thoroughness. And not only on the Inquirers Committee. We’ve all seen it on AIIP-L and on other lists she participates in. Her responses are considered “must-read” by many of us. It’s that consistent willingness to share her expertise in such a generous spirit and her willingness to continue to put that sharing in the service of AIIP by volunteering on the Inquirers Committee that merits this recognition. —Susan Baerwald, Director of Membership
—Amelia Kassel, Retired |
October 2022 | Jan Knight
|
![]() |
Since 2019, Marcy has kept the AIIP Blog updated with content that helped with AIIP’s outreach efforts as well as sharing information between AIIP members. Her innovation on new series and standardizing of blog procedures has crucial to maintaining the AIIP Blog. —Janel Kinlaw, AIIP Director of Outreach
—Marcy Phelps, Marcy Phelps & Associates |
![]() |
As Chair of the #AIIP22 Program Committee, Rachel designed and delivered an exceptional and engaging conference program. —June Boyle, AIIP22 Conference Chair
—Rachel Yang, Poplar Consulting |
April 2022 | Betty Nording
|
November 2021 | cathy muth
|
August 2021 | Kirsten Smith
|
APRIL 2021 | connie clem
|
OCTOBER 2020 | RACHEL YANG
|
March 2020 | Rhonda Kleiman
October 2019 | ALISON HAMILTON
Congratulations Alison – not only were you extremely capable in your role as blog tech & graphics whiz, you were a pleasure to work with. —Heather Carine, past Editor, AIIP Connections Blog |
AIIP’s Webinar Committee was transformed into the Virtual Events Committee in January 2019, in response to requests from our members for different ways to present valuable content and provide virtual networking opportunities. Since that time, Kelly Berry (ResourceAbility, LLC), Elizabeth McLean (Knowsaic), and Betty Nordeng (WillowRiv Consulting) have imagined, created, tested, tried, evaluated, and improved AIIP’s virtual event program with creativity and grace.
Because of their hard work, AIIP members now have a well-received selection of virtual meetings and other virtual events. Kelly, Liz and Betty are willing to try out new technology, make mistakes, break things and nevertheless, persist. AIIP thanks these dedicated volunteers for making the Virtual Events Committee and its offerings a huge success. Read more on the AIIP Connections Blog.
AIIP’s video hosting service needed an upgrade for the the functionality and the flexibility needed to keep up with growing demand. Jennifer Pflaumer and Becky Leung volunteered to take on an analysis of products and services we might use to upgrade our capabilities. They created a list of requirements, prioritized those functional requirements, and then began the hard work of analyzing the alternatives and providing fact-based recommendations. Jennifer and Becky’s hard work resulted in the AIIP Board selecting Vimeo as our new hosting platform. We would like to thank Jennifer and Becky for stepping up to the plate and hitting it out of the park!
—Scott Attenborough, AIIP President-Elect
“As an information technologist, Jennifer lends her technical chops to AIIP as the Web Team lead. She gracefully juggles a chorus of requests from across the organization. Jennifer is a leader with strong shoulders. Becky is a technical content expert who loves to take on important projects. For every new idea tossed her way, Becky says, 'Bring it on'. Her strong technical expertise was invaluable to the hosting platform discussion. I'm grateful that Jennifer and Becky stepped up to help push AIIP's digital presence forward.”
—Jane Langeman, AIIP President
![]() Becky Leung — AIIP Web Team | ![]() Jennifer Pflaumer — AIIP Web Team |
AIIP’s diverse mix of information professionals has exacting expectations. Every year, for many of us, the AIIP Annual Conference is the highlight of the entire year. At the center of it all in 2016 was Peggy Garvin.
Peggy wrote, "It was an honor for me to lead the conference planning for AIIP 2016 in Pittsburgh, where I grew up. . . I have volunteered to work on two other AIIP conferences in the past, one in Pittsburgh in 2008 and another in Baltimore in 2014. Before that, I took on program planning and leadership roles for SLA and several local groups, and helped as staff for the conferences hosted by past employers. What was special about coordinating the AIIP conference is that it requires bringing all of the pieces of a conference, from start to end, together into one cohesive experience for your audience. It is a bit like staging a major performance."
She continued, "The experience made it clear to me that AIIP is what individual members, working together, make it. There is no 'they' to innovate and get things done. It takes you. I was fortunate to have a great team that came up with creative solutions and carried them out, and I am truly grateful to each and every one of them."
Peggy has been a star in her role as Conference Chair. I admired Peggy’s leadership of the conference team scattered around the world. She is calm, forward thinking, across the detail, happy to delegate and very appreciative. The proof of her skills is in the wonderful Pittsburgh conference and the legacy she is leaving to run a great conference in New Orleans in 2017.
—Heather Carine, Workshops Coordinator, AIIP Pittsburgh 2016
How lucky are we to have had a leader like Peggy Garvin for our 2016 conference? She preserved what was best of our conference traditions while shaking things up in ways that tickled. Peggy is a first rate project manager and an even more valuable AIIP leader.
—Jane Langeman, AIIP President, 2016-2017
"If you've worked on a conference planning team, you know what a herculean job it is. If you haven't, a) you should, and b) hope like heck for a leader like Peggy Garvin. Peggy led the team with grace, patience and professionalism, and the results demonstrate her effectiveness. 5 stars for Garvin!"
—Anne Hengehold, 2016 conference volunteer
Cathy has been an enthusiastic member of the AIIP webinar team for several years and is crucial to delivering the high-value professional development that AIIP offers to members via its webinars. Said Webinar Chair Mary Ellen Bates, “Cathy has been a great asset to the webinar team, providing the backstage support that enables webinars to run smoothly. She always brings a fresh perspective, sense of humor, and generous spirit.”
With her trademark green hair, fiber-optic light-up umbrellas, huge smile and infectious laughter, Cathy is a creative force to be reckoned with and easily spotted at AIIP events! Marketing Director Jennifer Burke said, “Cathy is simply one of the biggest and best brand advocates that AIIP has!”
The AIIP Volunteer Spotlight award always pleasantly surprises its winners, and Cathy was no different. When informed of recognition of her volunteer contributions, Cathy replied. “Whoa! I didn’t expect to be recognized! But thank you: it’s a delight and an honour.” Cathy likes the opportunity that AIIP gives to work on teams and projects of varying length, intensity and duration - all opportunities to learn as well as give back.
Jennifer says "Can do!” and does it—which is a wonderful attribute in a volunteer. We had aggregated information from similar organizations to AIIP. Jennifer analyzed it, organized it and came up with recommendations for the Board to coordinate all of AIIP’s marketing opportunities in one document. Her marketing and information background helped develop an important guide for AIIP’s future growth.
Jennifer says: I appreciate the opportunity to give back to an organization that is now quite dear to my heart and invaluable to my professional life and business. It’s been great to work with Susan Berkman and others on the AIIP board to craft documents and plans to help others see how wonderful AIIP is and make a difference in growing the organization. I’m honored for the recognition and look forward to more opportunities like this one!
Page updated April 27, 2022 |