May 22, 2012
This post was written by Melissa Gustafson, DSOC Webmaster. Going to Chicago this summer for SLA and want to know where to go off the beaten path? We’ve started a Pinterest board with ideas to get you around some of Chicago’s buried treasures. Whether you’re a Pinterest user or not, you can check out what [...]
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May 15, 2012
This post was written by Brandy King, DSOC Chair Each year at the conference we host a breakfast meeting where members can network with each other and learn about what’s happened in our Division. It’s a great chance to meet the DSOC board and get to know other DSOC members. To join us, you can [...]
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April 26, 2012
This post was written by Laura Palumbo, Rutgers MLIS student and co-webmaster of the Student College, Academic, and Research Libraries Association (SCARLA). I just attended a a webinar on how to present a poster presented by Tara Murray, Director of Information Services/Librarian for the American Philatelic Research Library, and hosted by the Social Science Division of [...]
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April 24, 2012
This post was written by Laura Puls, Assistant Director of Research and Collections Services at the Council on Foreign Relations. DuckDuckGo, an ad-free search engine that does not track individuals’ search histories, presents a visual explanation of why you and your colleagues get different search results in Google and Bing–and how these search engines modify [...]
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April 18, 2012
This post was written by Brandy King, DSOC Chair and Melissa Gustafson, DSOC Webmaster and Chair of the Communications Committee We were so excited to have 38% of DSOC members participate in our Communications Survey last month! That is an incredible response rate, and it gave the board a great basis on which we could [...]
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April 13, 2012
Webinar registration is now open! The Academic; Education; Museums, Arts, & Humanities; and Social Science Divisions of SLA invite proposals for a poster session to be held during the divisions’ joint open house at SLA 2012 in Chicago. The theme for this year’s poster session is “Jumping over the Candlestick: Individual and Institutional Efforts to [...]
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April 11, 2012
This post was written by Brandy King, Chair of the Social Science Division. For the past few years the Social Science Division, Education Division, Academic Division and Division of Museum, Arts and Humanities have hosted a Poster Session as their Open House event at the annual conference. The event has been consistently well-attended and a [...]
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April 10, 2012
If you’ve been thinking about submitting a proposal for our 2012 poster session and open house, we’ve got good news for you! First, the deadline has been extended to April 30, giving you a couple extra weeks to work on your proposal. Second, we are offering an online training session with tips on designing, printing, [...]
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April 6, 2012
This year, the think tank in which I work is examining ways to leverage technology to accomplish our mission and improve in-house operations. With many of our researchers now writing for blogs, their need—and expectation—to find relevant and authoritative resources easily and quickly is only increasing. Our library discussed how to improve the search and [...]
March 22, 2012
From Nonprofit Sector Section Chair Sophia Guevara: There will be a dine around scheduled for July 16th @5pm at Cafe Bionda (1924 S. State Street, Chicago) (http://www.cafebionda.com/). This is a joint event that is open to members of DSOC’s Nonprofit Section and members of the Consortium of Foundation Libraries. Everyone is responsible for their own [...]
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