**Under Construction**
TERMS OF OFFICE January - December 2009
CHAIR
Nerida Hart
Program Manager, Knowledge for Regional Natural Resource Management, Land & Water Australia
Nerida is currently the Program Manager for the Knowledge for Regional NRM Program at Land & Water Australia (www.lwa.gov.au/regionalknowledge). This Program is a Natural Heritage Trust funded program which has the overarching objective to facilitate better linkages between regional Natural Resource Managament (NRM) bodies and knowledge providers, and to assist regional NRM bodies to better manage their knowledge. Nerida has a strong commitment to knowledge management and people development and is currently the Deputy Convenor of ACTKM and has just retired as the Convenor of the Australian Government Libraries Information Network (AGLIN) Task Force for Learning and Development and as Convenor of the Australian Public Sector Knowledge Management Community of Practice. In 2005 Nerida was awarded the Special Libraries Association ANZ Information Professional of the Year.
Nerida has worked in the library, information and knowledge industry since 1974 and has experience in public, academic and special libraries and was at the Department of Families, Community Services and Indigenous Affairs (FaCSIA - previously the Department of Social Security) from 1991 to 2006. During this time she was responsible for the management of Knowledge and Information Services serving four client agencies: FaCSIA, Centrelink, the Child Support Agency and the Social Security Appeals Tribunal. It was the only shared service library in government in Australia and served approximately 40,000 clients nationally. The Knowledge & Information Services team won several Knowledge Management awards during this time. In 2003, they won the actKM Gold award for cultural KM initiatives and in 2005 they won the act KM Gold technical KM award.
CHAIR-ELECT
Karen Huffman
Karen Huffman is Manager of Knowledge Initiatives for National Geographic's Libraries & Information Services. She is Webmaster, application developer, and Web 2.0 integrator for the National Geographic's Corporate Intranet which was selected as one of the top 10 intranets by Nielsen Norman Group for 2007. She has worked 22 years at National Geographic, 9 of which have been in the Libraries. She has an MLS from the University of Maryland and a B.A. in Behavioral Social Sciences/Management from Maryland's University College. Please see my vitae for more information.
TREASURER
Layne Johnson
SECRETARY
Jeanne Slater Trimble
CO-DIRECTOR, COMMUNICATIONS
Christine Carmichael
CO-DIRECTOR, COMMUNICATIONS
Anne E Rogers
DIRECTOR-AT-LARGE