December 20, 2011
Our Nonprofit Sector Section, together with the Consortium of Foundation Libraries, presents a learning session, “Lessons of a first time digitizer,” on Jan. 30 at 1pm EST. The presenter, Jackie Kilberg, has been a corporate librarian for more than 25 years and presented on being an “accidental archivist” at the SLA Annual Conference last June. [...]
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December 2, 2011
Check out this infographic about librarians. Much of it is no surprise to anyone in the profession – for example, that only 1% of librarians are 20-24, considering most jobs require a masters degree and many choose librarianship as a second career, or that women outnumber men. But our chair-elect, Brandy, pointed out that the [...]
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November 29, 2011
Do you know a special librarian or information professional who deserves to be honored with an award from SLA? Nominations are still being accepted, but don’t delay – the deadline is December 1!
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October 28, 2011
Even if you don’t hold a current SLA leadership position, I encourage you to attend the 2012 SLA Leadership Summit. Take a look at the schedule and you’ll find sessions that will help you develop leadership skills that will help you in SLA and also in your professional and personal life. The summit is also [...]
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September 1, 2011
From DSOC Nonprofit Sector Section Chair Sophia Guevara: Alicia Biggers will be presenting a 30-minute learning session on negotiations in the purchasing process. She has years of experience with negotiations for content in the corporate environment, but you will be able to gain value from the lessons she will share during this learning session. Session [...]
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August 30, 2011
Need an update on copyright and licensing issues? SLA is offering a webinar, free to members, on Sept. 14. Ask the Copyright Experts – Fall Update will include a presentation from the panelists and time for questions.
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August 16, 2011
A recurring theme throughout the conference in individual sessions as well as in major speaker’s presentations was the emphasis on User Experience or UX. Tom Friedman commented in his Opening General Session address that in a world that is getting flatter and flatter, “how we deal with people is more important than ever.” Steven Bell [...]
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August 12, 2011
A unique session offered at the SLA annual conference was the field trip/visit/ presentation about the Map Collection at the Free Library of Philadelphia. The Geography and Map Section of the Social Science Division sponsored the tour given by Richard Boardman, Map Librarian at the Free Library. His presentation included a history of the map [...]
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August 9, 2011
From our Nonprofit Sector Section Chair, Sophia Guevara: The next scheduled learning session will be held on Thursday, September 8th @ 2PM (ET). The presenter, Josh Shortlidge, will be speaking about InterEthos, an open source project that makes taxonomies interoperable. Here is the session description: InterEthos – Making Taxonomies Interoperable What if internet users could search [...]
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July 25, 2011
The Library Day in the Life Project round 7 begins today. (Actually, it began yesterday for me, as I started noticing Library Day in the Life posts from librarians in Australia.) This is a great way for SLA members to show the world what they do all day (and for our student members, or those [...]
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