[SLA-SF] Claudia Bach receives honor

[Vogelsang, Marlene]

Dear all -
Sorry if this is a duplicate post. Claudia Bach has long been a local
SF/SA chapter member and active in professional activities. She was one
of the first SLA members I met when I was in graduate school at SJSU and
warmly welcomed me to the profession.
Congratulations, Claudia on this honor!
Marlene Vogelsang

Document Center Inc. President honored by Standards Engineering Society
Belmont, CA.  September 7, 2006:
Ms. Claudia Bach, President of Document Center Inc., became a Fellow of
the Standards Engineering Society at an Awards Luncheon during the
organization's annual convention on August 14, 2006.  The presentation
represents the association's acknowledgement of professional distinction
and accomplishment in the field of standardization.

The award committee conferred the grade of Fellow upon Ms. Bach "...in
recognition of her dedication, leadership, and valuable contributions to
the principles and practices of standardization."

Ms. Bach has owned Document Center Inc. since January 1985.  During that
time, she has presided over the development of Document Center from an
idea in a garage into an internationally respected standards
distribution service.

The company pioneered the use of the Internet, and particularly the web,
for the distribution of standards and standards information.  Launching
it's first website in 1993, the company significantly influenced
information organizations as diverse as Dialog and Information Express
to Standards bodies such as ISO (the International Standards
Organization) and ANSI (the American National Standards Institute).


The site was the first to make use of the Mosaic browser and the WAIS
search engine to provide an interactive catalog of information products
for sale.
Just a few months later, Marc Andreessen, co-author of the Mosaic
browser and co-founder of Netscape, highlighted the Document Center site
on the NCSA "What's New" page in October 1993.  He closed the article
with this early
recommendation: "this is a great technology demo of advanced Mosaic/WAIS
features, including Mosaic 2.0's fill-out forms-check it out!"

The Ziff Davis publication PC Computing magazine included Document
Center as one of the approximately 400 sites on it's "Road Map to the
Internet" in September, 1994.  Forbes magazine highlighted the company
in it's February 27, 1995 ASAP supplement as one of "three companies
with stakes in the Net biz game..."  They quoted, "Claudia Bach...says
she would have had to be 'brain-dead' not to put her company on the
World Wide Web."

Document Center was assisted by Marc Fleischmann, then at EIT in Palo
Alto, in setting up the site.  Fleischmann and the others at EIT felt
that the Internet was a kind of "Field of Dreams-build it and they will
come."  Bach decided to take a more proactive route.

Thanks to the ANSI SDSC, Standards and Data Services Committee, there
was a forum for advocacy of the new technology as early as 1993.  Ms.
Bach played a pivotal role in educating the standards community about
the benefits and technology involved in getting Standards and Standards
information on the Internet.  Her demonstrations, training sessions, and
speaking tours in the U.S. and abroad contributed to the early adoption
of the technology.

Under Ms. Bach's leadership, Document Center has continued to expand its
products and update services to stay current with the needs of Standards
clients. Additionally, Ms. Bach has chaired the Special Libraries
Association (SLA) Engineering Division's Standards Committee, hosting
the Standards Roundtable and the various sessions.  She has a continuing
column in Intercom, the journal of the Society for Technical
Communication and she has been a speaker at the SES and the SLA Annual
Conferences.
"There is no finer reward than the recognition of one's contribution by
one's peers," said Ms. Bach.  "Becoming a Fellow of the Standards
Engineering Society is a real honor.  I am delighted with the
recognition of our accomplishments by SES and the Standards community."