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Dialog Announces Winners

At the Online Information 2002 conference in London, Dialog announced the winner of its Roger K. Summit Scholarship for excellence in the area of library information. Daphne R. Raban, from the University of Haifa in Israel, is the winner of the company's 2002 Scholarship award for the Europe, Middle East and Africa (EMEA) region. Raban is currently a doctoral candidate at Haifa University's Graduate School of Business, researching issues related to ownership and subjective value in the trading and sharing of information.

Dialog also announced its Quantum² InfoStar Awards for Europe. InfoStar winners demonstrate some aspect of the following characteristics:

• Strategic involvement in the organization
• Proactive relationship building
• Innovative information services
• Continuous change and development

The European winners are:

• Yulia Aspinall, information officer for Cambridge Antibody Technology (U.K.). Under her direction, the company's Information Center has grown significantly, providing more than 270 staff with scientific, business and patent research support, as well as training, management of an Information Services intranet, and maintenance of internal databases.
  
  
• Carol O'Driscoll, regional research director for Russell Reynolds Associates (U.K.). O'Driscoll is responsible for developing research policy and strategy for the firm's European operations.
  
  
• Ylva Fernvall, manager of Scientific Information for Biovitrum AB (Sweden). She has been instrumental in creating her company's first electronic library.

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