Buying & Selling eContent 2009

Janice Lachance has been CEO of SLA (the Special Libraries Association), since 2003. SLA is the global association representing the interests of 11,000 information professionals and their strategic partners in 75 countries. She has led reformulation of the association's mission, vision and strategic plan, created the online Click University, and expanded SLA's public policy program. She designed and leads a multiyear comprehensive research effort that will produce a shared and evidence-based vision of the future of the information profession and the association's role in it. She serves on the board of the American Society of Association Executive's Center for Association Leadership and is a Fellow and a Member of the Board of Directors and Executive Committee of the National Academy of Public Administration. She was a member of the U.S. delegation to the United Nations World Summit on the Information Society.

Formerly, Janice advised nonprofit organizations on strategic planning, organizational transformation and culture change. From 1997 to 2001, she was the Director (CEO) of the U.S. Office of Personnel Management (OPM), the federal government's independent human resources agency with a 3,700 person workforce and a $27 billion budget serving the 1.8 million member civil service. She received her J.D. from Tulane University School of Law and B.A. from Manhattanville College.