| Reflections |
| Editorial Message |
Welcome to the fall edition
of the Courier. This issue is our inaugural one, as co-editors. On behalf of
all SLA Toronto Chapter members, we extend a great big thank you to our
predecessors, Gayle Kiss and Maura Matesevic. You have left us with some pretty
big shoes to fill. This past year we have seen instability in the market place, layoffs, and job loss in industry. We should not view the situation with resignation. As one famous U.S. General once stated "There is no security on this earth, only opportunity". So be it! This issue provides some variations on the theme of "Opportunity". The invited authors of our three feature articles are certainly not strangers to the pursuit and development of opportunities.
Creating Opportunities by Roy Tennant
Roy manages Web and services design for eScholarship, an initiative of the California Digital Library. Formerly, he was Digital Library Project Manager for The Library, University of California, Berkeley. In that capacity he managed the Berkeley Digital Library SunSITE, a digital library and a support service for digital library, museum and archive developers. He also owns two electronic discussion lists, namely Web4Lib and XML4Lib. Roy is also the creator and editor of Current Cites, a current awareness newsletter published every month since 1990.
Want that Job? Understand the Process and Prepare! By Steven Droz
Steven Droz is the Director, Human Resources for EMS Technologies Canada Ltd. He is a graduate of McGill University (B.A.) and the University of Toronto (Master of Industrial Relations).
My Opportunities by Maggie Weaver
Maggie Weaver has worked in business information for 30 years: in the information industry, in fee-based research services, and in corporate libraries. She is the compiler of The Canadian B2B Research Sourcebook, recently published by the Business Research & Marketing Association, and a long-time contributor to BRMA’s member newsletter.
Enough said. The pursuit of opportunity must not diminish our celebration of autumn's beauty.
Margaret Gross
Sue Thomas
A
VAGABOND SONG
~ Bliss Carman
There is something in the autumn
that is native to my blood- -
Touch of manner, hint of mood;
And my
heart is like a rhyme,
With the yellow and the purple and the crimson
keeping time.
The scarlet of the maples can shake me like a cry
Of
bugles going by.
And my lonely spirit thrills
To see the frosty asters
like a smoke upon the hills.
There is something in October sets the
gypsy blood astir;
We must rise and follow her,
When from every hill of
flame
She calls and calls each vagabond by name.