10 Questions: Gimena Campos Cervera

摘要

GROWING UP IN A COUNTRY WHERE THE GOVERNMENT TRIED TO CONTROL ACCESS TO INFORMATION TAUGHT THE RECIPIENT OF THE 2009 SLA INTERNATIONAL AWARD TO VALUE LIBRARIANS AND THE ROLE THEY PLAY. At the 2009 SLA Annual Conference in Washington, D.C., Gimena Campos Cervera was given the SLA International Award in recognition of her instrumental role in organizing an annual international conference on libraries in the 21st century, which has helped to create and strengthen an American-Italian library network in Italy, Originally from Paraguay, Gimena is employed at the U.S. embassy in Rome as the senior information researcher in the Information Resource Center. Her career spans a multitude of national and international organizations, including the United NationsInternational Fund for Agricultural Development and the World Health Organization. Information Outlook spoke to Gimena a few months after she returned to Italy from SLA 2009.