International Institute of Municipal Clerks Honors Nien-Ling Wacker With Visionary Award; LaserFiche Cited For IIMC Educational and Advocacy Programs.Business Editors KANSAS CITY, Mo.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--May 21, 2001 The International Institute of Municipal Clerks (IIMC IIMC International Institute of Municipal Clerks IIMC Indian Institute of Management Calcutta IIMC Institute for Investment Management Consultants IIMC Inadvertent Instrument Meteorological Conditions (US Army) ) presented its Presidential Visionary award at its annual conference to Nien-Ling Wacker Wacker may refer to:
"Nien-Ling Wacker and LaserFiche have devoted countless hours helping our membership understand the best ways to use technology to serve their communities," said J.W. Tiernay, president of the 1,500-member association. "Her unselfish dedication to educating our members has enabled municipal clerks to bring a new level of professionalism and efficiency to their expanding responsibilities." The award was presented at the IIMC annual convention, attended by over 1,000 city officials whose responsibilities include the preparation and archiving of all municipal records. Increasingly, the records are scanned and retained in searchable databases where they can be readily accessed by citizens and elected officials. "When I started working with IIMC members over a decade ago, I was impressed with their commitment to service despite the overwhelming number of records they had to deal with," Wacker said. "I knew they needed help, so we began a concentrated educational program to teach them the best ways to safeguard and retrieve their records using emerging digital image technologies." Nien-Ling Wacker and John Devine, LaserFiche's Director of Government Programs, have criss-crossed the continent delivering educational seminars to IIMC chapters throughout the United States and Canada. The company's document imaging systems, installed and serviced by a network of over 900 VARs (value-added resellers) are generally acknowledged as the industry standard in the municipal market. Wacker, who started LaserFiche in 1987, is recognized for the creation of document archival and retrieval solutions now in use in over 16,000 government agencies, schools, law offices, insurance companies and businesses around the world. Earlier this month, she received the prestigious Pioneer Award from the Association for Information and Image Management The Association for Information and Image Management or AIIM (pronounced aim) is an international industry association focused on enterprise content management (ECM). (AIIM (Association for Information and Image Management International, Silver Spring, MD, www.aiim.org) A membership organization founded in 1943 devoted to creating industry standards and disseminating information about the document management industry. ) in New York City New York City: see New York, city. New York City City (pop., 2000: 8,008,278), southeastern New York, at the mouth of the Hudson River. The largest city in the U.S. . LaserFiche, www.laserfiche.com, a division of Compulink Management Center, founded by Wacker in 1974, creates software which allows organizations and companies to digitize, store and quickly find documents and images. Tiernay said Wacker's company has in recent years been especially responsive to the needs of the evolving municipal market, developing LaserFiche WebLink, an effective method of distributing documents via the Internet and LaserFiche Plus, enabling the publishing of documents on royalty-free CDs. Wacker currently serves on the Board of Directors for the Municipal Clerks Education Foundation (MCEF MCEF Mixed Cellulose Ester Filter MCEF Municipal Clerks Education Foundation MCEF Montgomery County Education Forum (Maryland) ) and has served on the Board of Directors of AIIM. She has traveled worldwide advocating the development of technology tailored to people's everyday working rhythms. A native of Shanghai, China, she holds a Bachelor of Science Noun 1. Bachelor of Science - a bachelor's degree in science BS, SB bachelor's degree, baccalaureate - an academic degree conferred on someone who has successfully completed undergraduate studies in Physics from the University of Melbourne
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