June 29, 2007

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June 29, 2007

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

CONTACT: Joel Patrick Berger; 630.653.1115, ext. 212

C. BERGER GROUP SPONSORS KAREN J. SWITT AWARD AT SLA CONFERENCE IN DENVER

Carol Stream, IL -- June 29, 2007. C. Berger Group, Inc.(CBG), one of the nation’s oldest and largest library consulting and staffing firms, recently announced that Innocent Awasom received the prestigious Karen J. Switt Leadership Award at the Special Libraries Association (SLA) 98th annual conference in Denver. CBG sponsored the prize for the seventeenth year for the Leadership and Management Division (LMD). Joel Patrick Berger, CBG President, presented the citation to Mr. Awasom during the LMD business meeting on June 4, 2007. The Award, instituted in 1988, recognizes a member's significant contributions to leadership in the profession of information management over a five year period. CBG funds a monetary gift and the LMD provides an etched crystal sculpture to the recipient.

"This is just another example of Innocent’s work as an information specialist." said Mr. Berger. "It acknowledges his tireless effort in showing the status and prospects of library services in Cameroon and the prospects of open access technology in developing countires. Our Division is especially proud to honor once again one of its own, who has overcome so much in his life and career to be here with us today.”

Mr. Awasom received his Master of Information Science degree in 1995 from the Africa Regional Center for Information Science at the University of Ibadan, Nigeria. He also has a BS and MS in Zoology from the same school. He has been a science librarian at the University of Idaban, the University of Ngaundere, Cameroon (where he also was deputy University Librarian and Head of the Research Library), University of Minnesota, and now at Texas Tech University in Lubbock. He has also taught information literacy at and other library courses at each of these schools. Mr. Awasom was an SLA Global 2000 Fellow, received the SLA’s David Bender International Development Scholarship in 2002 and the Diversity Leadership Award in 2004, and has received grants from IFLA and the Mortensen Center for International Library Leadership. From 2000 to 2004, he was a director of the Sub-Saharan Chapter of SLA and was founding President of the Association of Information and Documentation Professional, a local regional library association in Cameroon.

In addition to presenting the award, Joel Berger participated on a panel entitled, "Dream Jobs of the Future” presented by the Business & Finance Division and was the moderator for the LMD session, "Managing Multiple Departments", presented by Bob Oaks, both on June 5, 2007.

The Special Libraries Association (SLA) is a nonprofit global organization for innovative information professionals and their strategic partners. SLA serves more than 11,500 members in 75 countries in the information profession, including corporate, academic, and government information specialists. SLA promotes and strengthens its members through learning, advocacy, and networking initiatives. For more information, visit us on the Web at www.sla.org. Photographs are available on request.

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The Karen J. Switt Leadership Award is one of several prizes that CBG funds or sponsors annually for professional librarians and support staff of distinction. They include the Librarian of the Year for the Illinois Library Association each fall, the Library Assistant Award at Reaching Forward South in Illinois each September and the CBG Entrepreneurial Promise Awards, given to one graduating librarian from each school of library and information science at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, University of Wisconsin at Madison and Dominican University in River Forest, IL.

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Founded by Carol A. Berger in 1982 as C. Berger And Company, C. Berger Group, Inc. is a woman-owned full-service firm which provides specialized temporary and contract workers, permanent placement, consulting and project management services to libraries and information centers from its suburban Chicago headquarters. CBG clients include corporations, government agencies, law firms, trade associations, nonprofit organizations, healthcare centers, public libraries and academic institutions throughout the U.S.

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For further information about C. Berger Group, Inc., contact:

Joel Patrick Berger, President

Phone: 630.653.1115, ext. 212

Email: jberger@cberger.com