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Joyce Fedeczko
| Project Manager, BP (630) 420-4850 joyce.fedeczko@bp.com  Joyce Fedeczko is on assignment with Library Associates Companies (LAC) as the information resources director at BP. Joyce has been outsourced at BP in Naperville, IL with LAC of Los Angeles, CA since 2002. In her role at BP, Ms. Fedeczko has responsibility for managing the workflow of the library staff serving all BP business segments and she is responsible for keeping the broader organization informed of valuable information resources and new ways of accessing critical information to aid in decision-making. Joyce serves as BP’s representative to the Conference Board’s Information Research and Management Council, and is the secretary for this group. Since joining BP and the petroleum & energy resources division (DPER) of the Special Libraries Association, Fedeczko has served DPER in the roles of International Relations chair, as Nominating Committee chair and as Membership chair. Most recently Joyce was elected Treasurer of DPER. With her local SLA Illinois chapter, she has served as the chair of vendor relations, and SLA Illinois awarded Joyce the 2006 Vendor Relations Award for her committee work. Joyce is also the president of her local public library board of trustees, having served this board for over fifteen years. With this public service role, Joyce maintains membership in ILA, the Illinois Library Association, and supports ILA in advocacy endeavors at the state and national levels. Recently, Ms. Fedeczko was elected to an Illinois state library board, the DuPage Library System (DLS) board of trustees, to fill a one year at-large seat, and she is much involved in strategic planning with DLS. In 2008 she was an invited panelist at the 3rd annual Librarian Focus Group organized by the Society for Scholarly Publishing and as a panelist discussing vendor relations for the SLA IL chapter April 2008 meeting. In addition, Joyce serves on the advisory board of Softlink America. In other library lives, Ms. Fedeczko has worked as a virtual librarian, the director of libraries for a large health care system in Chicago, as a medical librarian for an osteopathic university and for a small hospital library, and as a librarian and searcher in banking, management consulting, and paper R&D. This September, Joyce and her LAC colleague, Nancy Maloney, will teach a "Buzz Marketing" workshop for the Metropolitan Library System in Chicago. In her spare time, Joyce volunteers as the content and knowledge manager of an all hazards disaster knowledge management system. Let her know if you have any questions about pandemic flu preparations. |
