Chapter Bulletin

In this Issue...
Annual Business Meeting, May 16	10
ASIS-Los Angeles Chapter Program	9
Bulletin Publication Schedule	15
Business Meeting Minutes	6
Chapter Officers, 1996-1997	13
Cyber Cites	9
Diversity Training	5
Future for Librarians Conference Highlights	11
Getting Members Involved	4
Government Relations Report	8
Mentoring Your Elects	4
Partners in Business Information Workshop	10
Phoenix Art Museum Library Tour	10
President's Message	1
Special Libraries Directory	12
Student Chapter Minutes	5
Training Opportunities	5
Transformation of a Library	7
Tucson Networking Luncheon	3
Twentieth Anniversary Celebration	10
Winter Meeting Update	3

As promised, here is a report on activities from the Winter Meeting in Ft. Lauderdale. Chris Vathis-Howell, Polin Lei and I attended. As Chris describes in her report, Ft. Lauderdale is the Venice of Florida. While I never got around to riding in a water taxi, we did get a tour of the city by boat during the conference reception. The houses and yachts along the waterways were amazing.

Actions of the Board that I need to share with you: There is a new form, a unit officer acknowledgment form that will become effective June 1997. Incoming chapter officers will need to sign this form which essentially states that you understand the bylaws and judiciary responsibilities of being a chapter officer. This form is particularly of interest to the chapter treasurer. Another action of the Board was to encourage SLA Chapter officers to promote the SLA Legacy Club. The SLA Legacy Club is an option for you if you are wondering what to do with your money when you die.

Chris and I managed to meet for lunch one day and compare notes so the Winter Meeting turned out to be very productive for the chapter. Our meeting generated a long list of ideas for the chapter. Some of the ideas we have already implemented include: Requesting internship requirements from library school, sending the information to SLA members, requesting Web site information from headquarters, and appointing a Webmaster. The internship requirements went out via e-mail. Contact me if you are interested in getting a copy.

The web page: In case you have not heard yet, the Arizona Chapter once again has a website! This one is not going to turn into a cobweb each time the webmaster changes because the website is not on a member's server, it is on the SLA server. Go to www.sla.org/chapter/caz/index.html and check it out. Jack Mount is the Webmaster, but that does not mean that he is the only person who can or should contribute to the web page! Your contributions are welcome!

April 17 is International Special Librarians Day. There will be programs in Tucson and Phoenix. Contact Pat Morris for details. May 16 is the date for the Annual Business Meeting and Program It will take place at Intel in Chandler. This year the program will be in two parts: the incoming and outgoing officers will meet in the morning for a transition of power and training session, at noon the membership will meet for lunch where they can mingle and meet the officers. The business meeting will follow and then a tour of Intel. Sometime during the summer we are planning a panel discussion on the Competencies for Special Librarians document and a program on digital libraries in Arizona. Some other topics we will be bringing to the membership include: a member satisfaction survey, participation in the second Southwest Regional Conference, and possible sponsorship of a membership for a student (in exchange for some work for the chapter).

You should have received your ballots for chapter president-elect and secretary by now. Please return the ballots by the deadline! Other news from the Winter Meeting: Seattle host chapter reception will be from 4 - 6 pm on Monday, June 9. If you are planning to be in Seattle, the reception should be a great one! Hope to see you there!

Ft. Lauderdale, Florida, January 23-25 1997 Winter meeting is designed for Division and Chapter Leadership Training, Chapter Cabinet, Joint Cabinet (Info Sharing sessions), and networking with SLA Chapter and Division leaders and headquarter staff in attendance. The Leadership training is a full day event designed as a professional development skill building session. Topics include: how the association works; parliamentary procedure techniques; mediation skills; how to work with volunteers; tips on planning events for your chapter; and strategic planning tools. Chapter Cabinet is the board meeting for chapters where policies affecting chapters are forged and the business of the association at the chapter level is done. At the Joint Cabinet, the competencies for special librarians document was discussed along with SLA Logo guidelines, electronic information guidelines for the SLA webpage, and fiduciary responsibilities of SLA units.

Key Learnings

(1) SLA's "Competencies for Special Librarians of the 21st century include both personal and professional Competencies; the document can be found on the SLA Website http://www.sla.org

A forum with library school deans from the University of Pittsburgh and the University of South Carolina affirmed the document will influence curriculum development. They encouraged SLA leadership to work with the ALA accreditation committee, external review panels and the graduate education caucus. Although the document is not a mandate, it can be used by schools to make sure course content is on track.

(2) Digital Library initiative by IBM: spoke with a librarian who is responsible for the higher education IBM digital library initiative, i.e networking the campus with hardware and software.

(3) Networking with Florida chapter: SW regional conference: The Florida & Caribbean Chapter approached the AZ chapter to participate in their ongoing research project guided by Dr. Melody Hainsworth of International College to discover if there is a correlation between corporate profitability and employment of an information professional in a particular state. They picked Arizona since it closely resembles the Florida business environment. So far no correlation was found in revenues to having a library. The research results did find that the public companies surveyed had the highest number of companies with libraries in the top twenty-five companies while private sector companies were evenly distributed across the top one hundred. It may be once a company goes public, government and stockholder rules and regulations may change the need for libraries and organization of information.

SW regional conference: Rio Grande, AZ and San Diego Chapter are in discussions about holding another SW Regional conference - this time in San Diego in 1998/99 timeframe.

(4) AZ Chapter activities: Reactivate dialogue with University of Arizona (UA) library school - recently changed school name to information science and library resources; schedule officer transition meeting with tour of Intel ERC; hold brown bag for students and library school faculty and send out e-mail message about advantages of SLA membership.

(5) Information Outlook: SLA's new publication contains three articles that forecast the future of information professionals by Eugenie Prime. "Reaching the Promised Land," by Jenna Hartel. "Knowledge Navigation, or Why I Taught Tango Lessons," by Jane Dysart and Stephen Abram's, "What isYour Information Outlook?"

Additional Tidbits: Ft. Lauderdale is known as the "Venice" of Florida; there are many elegant homes built along the intercoastal waterways and they all seem to have a larger yacht than their neighbor. I had the opportunity to view a yacht costing over $20 million dollars; built in Scandinavia, the design and paint job - priced at $1 million - made it standout from all the other yachts.

Travel can be hazardous to your health; brought back a bad case of bronchitis and a viral infection imitating the flu. Next time I am traveling with a mask and cleanroom bunny suit...

Ann Strickland has graciously offered to invite us to her home for a picnic -

Date: Saturday, April 19
Time: 12:00 to 2:00 pm
Place: 3421 East Bunell Street

Go East on 5th Street to Jones and turn North. Her home is 2 blocks straight ahead.

This luncheon is especially in honor of the SLS students, and all other SLA members are encouraged to attend. We are suggesting that SLA (non-student) members bring some food item to contribute, as this is a potluck meal. Ann will provide beverages.

1 Have elect-elect come to DACOLT before election.

2. Start grooming people for office by having them serve in various offices with the knowledge these offices are stepping stones to presidency.

3. Tell someone you think might make a good president that they would be good at some future date - plant the seed.

4. Ask people to be speaking at programs - get them used to speaking in public.

5. Share plans for the future, dynamics of membership, answer questions, give all paperwork.

6. Create or update an officer manual: have committees write change and have past president be responsible for updating manuals.

7. Give president-elect a list of past programs.

8. Make your website the place to go for all official documents. For those who can't access web, send copies printed from web of needed documents.

9. Don't have committees of one.

10. Have transition meetings where information is passed on to new officers

11. Know and use the archives.

12. Provide descriptive, qualitative annual reports in addition to the quantitative report required by headquarters. Publish annual report in bulletin.

13. When to call chapter Cabinet Chair - mainly for political problems, present relocating, present-elect resigning, interpreting bylaws, understanding non-profit status, ideas for anniversaries, interpersonal problems with members.

1. Do a member survey: many people are interested in doing one-time things like registration at meetings. One chapter did phone survey - board divided up membership list. One question could be, "would you be willing to do something?" and list some possibilities. Another idea, offer free memberships to students in exchange for 5 hours of service.

2. Publish profiles of committee assignments in bulletin, or in newcomers welcome letter.

3. Send coupons for free dinner with new member welcome letter.

4. Ask existing committee members to recruit new members.

5. Have a newcomers brunch.

6. Send letters to people's employers thanking them for involvement.

7. Find out who attended annual and ask them to get involved locally.

8. Take new members out to lunch.

9. Stagger committee chair assignments so board is not completely new each time.

10. Appoint new chairs of committees from committee member pool.

11. Fund development - utilize the strengths of members, show people what they will get for sponsorship.

Heather Lindsay was selected treasurer. Projected tours were discussed. Future tours will be open to all students. Tours planned: April 4 - Center for Creative Photography April 25 - Pima Council on the Aging Tour of the Pima Air and Space Museum is planned for the summer school session. Also, Holy Trinity Monastery Library, Singing Winds, outside of Benson, and Nature Conservancy in Patagonia are being considered as possible tour options for the summer.

Ann Eagan suggested that the SLA plan a picnic sometime in April.

SLA decided to purchase the Directory of Special Libraries and Collections in Arizona, 1996. $35.00 from the SLA funds was approved for the purchase. Eileen Smith will keep the directory. Any student wishing to see the directory may contact Eileen at elsmith@u.arizona.edu

The student SLA Home Page was created by Rachel Berrington and it should be up soon. It will be linked to the Arizona Chapter SLA web site. The home page will include announcements and meeting times. Next meeting is scheduled for May 15 at 3:00 pm.

April 1997
13 National Library Week http://www.ala.org/alaevents/promoevents/nlw_97/nlw_97.html
15 AGTS Supervisor's Academy - $649/$749 - Mesa, AZ - Contact: (602) 967-7544 ext.21 or (800) 970-1270 ext. 21 if outside the Phoenix Metro Area
15 Library Legislation Day - Washington, DC
16 Logon@the Library day http://www.ala.org/alaevents/promoevents/nlw_97/nlw_97.html
22 USMARC for Serials - San Antonio, TX - Contact: Beverly Geer-Butler at (800) 843-8482 or amigos@amigos.org or http://www.amigos.org/amigos
24 Gila County Regional Forum - Payson, AZ - Contact: David Gunkel at (520) 458-4239 or dgunckl@sierravistapub.lib.az.us
24 USMARC for Serials - Albuquerque, NM - Contact: Beverly Geer-Butler at (800) 843-8482 or amigos@amigos.org or http://www.amigos.org/amigos
25 Arizona Library Association Executive Board Meeting - Payson, AZ - Contact: David Gunkel at (520) 458-4239 or dgunckl@sierravistapub.lib.az.us

May 1997
1 EDIC Workshop - free - Flagstaff, AZ - 9:00 am - 4:00 pm - Contact: Nancy Palmer (520) 779-7670
22 Web Search Engines - San Antonio, TX - Contact: Will Stuivenga at (800) 843-8482 or amigos@amigos.org or http://www.amigos.org/amigos
27 Web Search Engines - Houston, TX - Contact: Will Stuivenga at (800) 843-8482 or amigos@amigos.org or http://www.amigos.org/amigos instructor

Kyla Macario (University Teaching Center) and Tim Wernette would like to invite you to participate in an exciting diversity training program that will be offered Monday and Tuesday, June 2-3, 1997, with an optional third day, Wednesday, June 4th or Friday, June 6th.

The Diversity Development Program will train participants to provide diversity workshops for Graduate Teaching Assistants at the beginning of each semester, and will address such diversity-related issues as gender, race/ethnicity, sexual orientation, disability, class, age, religion, etc.

This training will be held off-campus and will include meals and materials. We are asking participants to pay $20.00 to help offset some of our expenses, but if this is a problem let us know and we can discuss it with you.

Following the training, participants need to commit to doing one diversity session for Graduate Teaching Assistants each semester. If available and interested, participants will also be invited to do other diversity-related presentations around campus when these are scheduled.

We are planning for this to be an interesting, exciting Diversity Development Program, increasing our information about and awareness of diversity-related issues. If this is of interest to you (or other faculty/staff you know), please call the University Teaching Center at 520-621-7788 for additional information and an application form.

All are welcome to apply; we hope to have a diverse group of participants exploring diversity!

Tim Wernette, Coordinator, Diversity Education wernette@u.arizona.edu (520) 621-6867 University of Arizona 888 North Euclid P.O. Box 210158 Main Gate #220M Tucson, AZ, 85721-0158

The meeting was held at O'Connor Cavanagh Molloy Jones Library in Tucson. Ann Eagan called the meeting to order at 12:19 p.m. on Friday, March 7, 1997 with eight members present. Louis Howley moved and Jack Mount seconded that the minutes of the December 11, 1996 meeting be approved; motion passed.

Executive Board Reports
President (Ann Eagan). Ann and Chris Vathis Howell attended the Winter Meeting in Fort Lauderdale, Florida. Implementation of some of the ideas obtained there is beginning.

It was learned that SLA headquarters was allowing Chapters and Divisions to mount their web pages on their server. Jack Mount is now the Chapter Webmaster. The address of the web site is http://www.sla.org/chapter/caz/index.html

President-Elect/Program Chair (Chris Vathis Howell). The next meeting will be at Chandler on Friday, May 16 at Intel. A leadership meeting will precede the Chapter business meeting to allow for officer transition and for practical matters such as transferring files. From noon to 2 p.m.there will be a business meeting and from 2 to 4 p.m. a program.

Treasurer's Report (Polin Lei)
Total Outflows - 2562.36
Total Inflows - 2201.25
Balance as of 12/31/96 - 3378.04
Balance as of 3/5/97 - 3016.93

Secretary (Louis Howley). Louis prepared the minutes for the December 11 meeting. He also collected proxy votes for the Bylaws election.

Officer Reports
Affirmative Action Chair (Sheila Donnelly). No report. She has taken a position at the Show Low Public Library.

Bulletin Editor (Carla Smith). Publication of the Bulletin is going well.

Bulletin Business Manager (Esther Gil). In terms of advertisers, the Bulletin lost Lexis - Nexis, which had a full-page ad. When Lexis-Nexis was on board, there was an ad-to-text ratio of 3 3/4 pages to 11 usable pages of text. This was 1/4 more than the 3 1/2 pages / 11 usable text pages that had been our standard. At the same time the Bulletin lost LN, TDI increased their 1/4 page ad to 1/2 page. So now there is ratio of 3 pages / 11 usable text pages, giving us a ratio of .5 below our standard.

Esther tried to contact Knight Ridder several times, but they never called her back. Esther believes that they are not interested in advertising in the Bulletin. If anyone else has any leads on potential advertisers Esther will gladly take them. Jack Mount suggested Bookman's as a potential advertiser.

Career Guidance Chair (Ann Strickland). Ann is working with Claire Macha on a picnic for students in April, exact date not set. The format will be a potluck with librarians bringing the food and the students enjoying the offerings. This will be at Ann's house.

Chapter Archivist (Jack Mount). A 1991 edition of the Directory of Special Libraries and Collections in Arizona is still needed. There is a complete set of bulletins, but there are several annual reports missing.

Consultant Chair (Lucy Marshall). A company wanting someone to do cataloging contacted Lucy.

Employment Chair (Cinda McClain). Since last report, Cinda has helped one corporation advertise their job opening. No additional job seekers have contacted her. Cinda appreciates the work Jack Mount did to "flesh out" the employment section of the Chapter Web site.

Susan Coffin contacted Chris Vathis Howell with the following information. Susan Coffin is a head hunter devoted exclusively to filling library skill-related positions. Interested applicants can contact Ms. Coffin at: mscoffin@aol.com (216-236-3034)

1. MANAGER OF SCIENTIFIC RECORDS Manage staff of 5-7 information professionals; handle FDA audits, regulations, systems issues related to document delivery systems, records management, lab notebooks.

2. SENIOR BUSINESS INFORMATION SPECIALIST High energy, very analytical corporate librarian needed for fast-paced information organization. Searching Dow Jones, Lexis-Nexis, D&B for purpose of mergers, acquisitions, company intelligence. Ability to do end-user training.

3. SENIOR TECHNICAL INFORMATION SPECIALIST Solid understanding and ability to search Biotech, chemistry and patent areas. B.S. Science related degree, able to work independently, decision maker. State of the art technology.

Government Relations Chair (Barbara Hutchinson). Barbara's full report follows in this issue.

International Relations (Pat Morris). There will be programs for International Special Librarians Day in both Tucson and Phoenix. The Tucson program will be at the Main Library, Room A313, at the University of Arizona. Ninfa Duran who spent time in South Africa will speak about her experiences at the event beginning at 11:00 a.m. Lydia LaFaro who spent time in Scotland will speak about her experiences at the Phoenix area program.

Membership Chair (Tom Turner). According to the most recent monthly statistics (for January) the Chapter has 128 members, an increase of 5 members from December.

Networking Chair-Phoenix (David Bickford). The Phoenix area networking group met in February for a dinner meeting. Half a dozen members attended and we are looking forward to continued growth in the coming months.

Networking Chair-Tucson (Claire Macha). No report.

Professional Development (Jennie Oleksak/Bambi Wessel). There are about 20 people registered for the March 20th videoconference program on the "Future of Librarians" in Phoenix. About 30 to 35 people are expected. CABL is co-sponsoring the program in Phoenix, which is being hosted at SRP. Chris Vathis Howell is handling the Tucson program at the University of Arizona Harvill Building. This program is free to students.

Publications (Laura Bender). She put out the Directory of Special Libraries and Collections in Arizona. These are available for purchase.

Public Relations (Donna Gerometta). The Chapter received permission from SLA to reprint all or part of the "Competencies" executive report. There will be an article on the SLA librarians' competencies in the Arizona State Library Association Newsletter. Donna is also planning to put out a brochure on the Arizona Chapter.

Strategic Planning (David Bickford). No report.

Student Chapter Liaison/Webmaster (Jack Mount). SLA Student Chapter Web Page Announcement: http://timon.sir.arizona.edu/lf/sla/index.html

Career Day is Wednesday, March 26 from 3:30-6:00pm in the School of Information Resources and Library Science Courtyard.

SLA Student Chapter Tours - Everyone is welcome. Friday, April 4 at 3:30 - Center for Creative Photography Library. Friday, April 25 at 3:00 - Pima Council on Aging Library. Participants meet at Library School at 3:00.

Old Business - Bylaws Vote. Carla Smith moved, and Jack Mount seconded, that the Bylaws changes be approved. The vote was 19-0 in favor of the changes, with 11 proxy votes included in that total.

New Business - Florida Survey. Ann and Chris were approached by members of the Florida/Caribbean Chapter to participate in a survey. They took the top 100 public and private companies based on revenues as reported by Florida Trends. Then they surveyed these companies to try to find an answer to the question, what was the revenue threshold for employment of a librarian.

This survey could be done in Arizona by library school students under the direction of a professor. Sandy Hirsch would be willing to lead the effort here. While the surveyors would be volunteers, a funding source isdesired to pay for phone calls. Florida and Arizona share some similar characteristics, such as climate, tourism, and economics. Perhaps this survey could be replicated in the future in all 50 states. There is a grant request for funding pending. Students working on this project could get a publication credit.

Chapter Anniversary. Chris discovered that the Chapter's 20th anniversary is forthcoming on February 1 of next year. She would like to plan something to celebrate this event. A committee will be formed at the next meeting to plan this event.

Candidates. Sara Ashton and Laura Bender will be the candidates for President-Elect/Program Chair and Louis Howley will be the candidate for Secretary.

Future for Librarians videoconference. This will be held in both Tucson and Phoenix on March 20. Carla Smith moved, and Louis Howley seconded, that the meeting be adjourned. The meeting was adjourned at 1:47 p.m. After the meeting Sara O'Neill of O'Connor Cavanagh Molloy Jones presented a program on "The Transformation of a Library."

Thanks to Sara O'Neill of O'Connor Cavanagh Molloy Jones who presented a program on her experiences as a librarian for a law firm. She also provided us with a tour of her library. Sara discussed the historical overview of the firm, the changes it has gone through and how it merged with another law firm.

Sara first began as a six-month consultant and ended up becoming a valuable full-time librarian. Prior to her arrival, the library consisted of random books in assorted places. There were also "hidden collections" that only a few people knew about. These might be stacks of books that one partner had "hoarded" and they had never made it back into the library. She also told us an interested antecdote of massive weeding. When the library moved to a smaller location, the firm rented a train car size dumpster and Sara filled it with discards from the library. Another horror story Sara told us: during some of the moving/transofrmation, 10 weeks of mail was never checked in. There were backlogs of updates/pocket parts and subscriptions were being cancelled. But through it all, Sara says she has enjoyed every minute.

1) SLA Joins Title 44 Reform Debate
The United States Government Printing Office (GPO) is a Legislative Branch organization committed to the printing and dissemination of documents produced by all three branches of the government. It is responsible for the Federal Depository Library Program (FDLP). The Problem: Last year, the nature and scope of the services performed by GPO became the subject of debate among Members of Congress and Executive Branch officials. Congress spent 1996 developing proposals for facilitating a transition to a more electronic FDLP. The Office of Management and Budget (OMB) issued a clarifying memorandum to all federal agencies recommending that they continue to use GPO for printing of all government documents, although it was determined that "Congress may not require Executive Branch agencies to use an entity controlled by the Legislative Branch." The Solution: Representatives of the five major library organizations in the United States met on 2/19/97 to discuss the creation of an inter-association working group on the reform of Title 44. The library community wants to ensure that legislators will take very seriously the potential effects on libraries if changes occur in the system of printing of government documents. The primary goal of the working group is to craft a bill that would balance the concerns of libraries as recipients of government information. This process has already begun, and will continue at the next meeting of the working group on 3/7/97. NOTE: SLA needs your input on this matter. If you would like to consult SLA, contact John Crosby.

2) Copyright Term Extension is Back
Another issue that took shape last year in the U.S. will be debated in Congress this year. Content owners, in particular, Disney and the estates of George Gershwin and Irving Berlin, are pushing for enactment of an extension of copyright twenty years beyond the existing "life plus fifty years." Last year, the Shared Legal Capability (SLC) group of five major library organizations agreed to the proposal in principle, primarily because the bill included an exemption for libraries and archives. However, the proposed legislation for the 105th Congress also includes a provision in the exemption that reads as follows:

"No reproduction, distribution, display, or performance is authorized if... the work is subject to normal commercial exploitation..."

No clear definition of "normal commercial exploitation" has been provided by content owners or the U.S. Copyright Office, which was involved in negotiations on this proposal last year. More as developments occur...

3) Remember the WIPO Database Treaty?...
Well, it's back -- almost. You may recall that, in December of last year, the World Intellectual Property Organization's Diplomatic Conference had been considering a treaty for the protection of sui generis databases. In other words, databases would have become protected basically due to the collection of data, regardless of whether the data were proprietary or not. The proposal died due to lack of popularity among the 160 participating nations. The supporters of the proposal have convinced WIPO to take a second look. At a WIPO meeting in April, discussions will be held to determine the merits of convening a Committee of Experts on a new database treaty. The likely outcome of those discussions is not clear, but early word out of the U.S. Copyright Office is that they will be communicating their concerns to the Director General of WIPO very soon.

4) Internet Access Charge Issue Under SLA Scrutiny
The U.S. Federal Communications Commission (FCC) is currently accepting comments on a Notice of Inquiry (NOI) to identify policies that would best facilitate the development of the high-bandwidth data networks of the future, while preserving efficient incentives for investment and innovation in the underlying voice network. The NOI does not make any specific proposals, but seeks comment on the implications of information services such as Internet access for the telephone network. The FCC, through a recently issued Notice of Proposed Rulemaking on interstate telephone access charges, rejected proposals to allow for similar charges to be assessed for usage of the public switched network for Internet access. However, the Commission wants to hear all points of view on the matter in comments submitted for the NOI. The deadline for submission of comments is March 24, 1997. SLA staff is currently developing comments on behalf of the membership, and your input will be greatly appreciated. For more information contact SLA staff.

5) U.S. Supreme Court to Hear Arguments in Copyright Liability Case
The U.S. Supreme Court will soon decide whether to consider a copyright case that could affect the use of coursepacks in university education. Michigan Document Services, Inc. v. Princeton University Press, et. al. involves the liability of a copyshop for the duplication of coursebook material requested by educators. Of importance to the academic world is the fact that the defendants in this case are the copyshop and its proprietor, not faculty. Because the copyshop profited on the photocopying, the Supreme Court could view the case as one involving commercial use. In at least one instance, the copying was so substantial (45 pages) that the publisher preferred that the book be purchased, rather than granting a copying license. SLA will monitor the developments of the case as it affects information professionals in all capacities.

6) SLA Nominates Garvin to Depository Library Council
SLA has nominated Margaret A. "Peggy" Garvin to serve on the Depository Library Council (DLC) to the Public Printer. Garvin is an SLA member and is employed by the Library of Congress/Congressional Research Service. In a to Public Printer Michael DiMario, SLA Executive Director David Bender noted Ms. Garvin's record of service as a United States Government information professional and her experience with the depository library program as major qualifications. "I am very confident that Ms. Garvin will provide expertise and assistance to GPO staff and members of the depository community," Bender added. DLC was established in 1973 to provide advice to the Public Printer, U.S. Government Printing Office, regarding the Federal Depository Library Program (FDLP). Nominees are expected to have a strong level of experience with FDLP and government information issues. Acceptance of an SLA member ontoDLC would mark a major step in ensuring that information professionals from all sectors of the economy will have a voice in the development of government information policy.

If you have questions or require further information, contact John Crosby, Director, Government Relations, Special Libraries Association via email at: john-c@sla.org

This is a first time column and if you find a nugget or two let me know and I will continue it. The plan is to present about three web sites per column on a subject. This issue deals with three directories: BigYellow, Hoover's Online, and D&B's Companies Online.

BigYellow (//s8.yellowpages.com) is the BIG DIRECTORY IN THE SKY. It contains over 16 million business addresses throughout the United States, 70 million residential addresses, and 9 million e-mail addresses. WOW. I found my name, address and phone number but not my e-mail address. If you have trouble connecting with the above address try www.nynex.com and click on the big yellow block on the left.

BigYellow allows searching by subject, city and state. Pull-down menus guide you through state, city and subject with subject having a second pull-down menu. BigYellow uses the subject headings found in the print version. The nice feature here is that you don't have to know those headings - the search software will do the work for you. Choose city or state. I chose Phoenix, AZ. For category, 'car dealers.' Here the software searched for car dealers, car-dealers, and dealers-car. A pull-down screen appeared with appropriate headings. I clicked on 'Automobile Dlrs New Car' and clicked find. The result was 99 hits in alpha order with name of company, address and phone number, There were multiple listings for some companies but all were in Phoenix, Good for finding a company or creating a marketing list. Searching the Residential portion is easy - just fill in the blanks.

Hoover's Online (www.hoovers.com) gives you more searching capabilities than BigYellow but contains only 10,000 public companies. The key word here is public - companies that are publicly traded. In the free version you can search by company name or by 'location, industry, and/or sales'. To search by sales, at the mail menu click on "Search by Location, Industry, and/or Sales". Pull-down menus will guide you through. Be careful at the sales window - $1,000,000 should be entered as 1. The field is millions whole numbers only no commas, dollar signs, etc. Subject categories are present and allow no room for inventiveness. Results of a search will yield company name, sales, location, and a link to company's home lists such as; 'Top 50 Companies in Phoenix'.

Dun & Bradstreet with LYCOS has www.companiesonline.com. While not as comprehensive as the above it does provide data on 60,000 companies both public and private. I suggest you 'register for free' to get the most data possible. Registered users can view information on Annual Sales, Employee Size, Company Trade Name(s), Immediate Parent, Ultimate Patent, Contact Name, Contact Title, E-Mail and Location Type. It also allows you to search by Annual Sales and Employee ranges.

Searching the text imput fields you may enter whole or partial words or phrases. The CompaniesOnline search engine will find all companies in its database that match the word fragments you supply. Pull- down windows allow you to narrow your search criteria by State and Industry and (for registered users) by Annual Sales and the Number of Employees. The list generated is by company name only, you then have to click on the name you want to get the data sheet.

Comments both good and bad can be directed to judithf@worldnet.att.net

Mark your calendars for Friday, May 16th from 12-3 for the annual business meeting; the board and officers will meet prior to this meeting from 11-1 for an orientation session. Intel Corporation in Chandler Arizona will be the host site. Following the annual business meeting there will be a program on how Intel's corporate librarians support the information needs of the corporation as well as a tour of a typical library facility. A notice with directions to the Intel site and more meeting details will be went by electronic and postal mails, and placed on the website: http://www.sla.org/chapter/caz/index.html

Hope to see you there!

The Department of Library, Archives and Public Records, the Flagstaff City-Coconino County Public Library and the Coconino Community College - Small Business Development Center are sponsoring a free, all day Economic Development Information Center (EDIC) workshop. The one-day workshop, "Partners in Business Information," will be at the Woodlands Plaza Hotel in Flagstaff, Arizona on Thursday, May 1, 1997, from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m.

People who provide business assistance to the public -libraries, SBDCs, Chambers of Commerce, government agencies, SCORE volunteers, banks and other lending institutions, business consultants as well as high school business students - are encouraged to attend.

The $100.00 value of this workshop has been underwritten by the Arizona Department of Library, Archives and Public Records using federal LSCA funds to encourage wide participation.

This workshop is designed to teach you how to respond like a pro to common business information questions: learn business information sources in both paper and electronic formats, see demonstrations of new business CDs, software, and the Internet, meet your colleagues from throughout Northern Arizona, and enjoy a complimentary lunch and entertaining speakers.

Even though the workshop is free, we need to know how many participants will be attending.

For registration information, contact: Coconino Community College - SBDC at 520/526-5072 or 1-800-350-7122, ext. 244.

On February 1 1978, the Arizona Chapter of the Special Libraries Association was formally approved by the Special Libraries Association. Some of you may recall the 10th anniversary celebration held at the Sheraton Tempe Mission Palms Hotel on January 22, 1988. Well, another ten years have quickly passed and it's time to celebrate again!!!

It isn't toooo early to plan this event; thus, the first order of business is to ask for program committee volunteers.

This ad hoc committee will be responsible for the logistics and content of the celebration. They will design the program, arrange for the site and refreshments, communicate the event to the membership and SLA, and have fun planning a party!

If you are interested in being a member of this committee, please contact Chris Vathis at 602-554-8474 or via email: alma_c_vathis@ccm.hf.intel.com

Librarians are invited to tour the new research library at the Phoenix Art Museum on Tuesday, June 3 at 8:30 a.m.

The Museum moved into its new location last fall, and the research library is located on level one of the former Phoenix Public Library building. The 7,000 square foot facility offers increased access to the library collections, a reference center, and a spacious reading room.

In addition, the library will now house the Astaire Library of Costume and Fashion and the Carol Charlesworth Special Collections Room.

A noncirculating reference facility, the Art Research Library houses more than 40,000 monographs, periodicals, auction catalogs, artist files and exhibition catalogs.

The tour of the Phoenix Art Museum Library is sponsored by the Maricopa County Library Council's Continuing Education Committee.

To register for the tour, contact Heather Goebel, at 271-8140 between 11 a.m. and 4 p.m. on Mondays through Fridays. Or fax your registration to Heather at 271-8914.

The Arizona Chapter of Special Libraries Association hosted "THE FUTURE FOR LIBRARIANS: POSITIONING YOURSELF FOR SUCCESS", a Distance Learning Videoconference sponsored by SLA, MLA, AALL, and Lexis-Nexis, in both Phoenix and Tucson on March 20th. Almost twenty-five members took advantage of the dual locations to participate in a stimulating discussion of the profession in the twenty-first century by special librarians in various fields. Continuing education credit was given by sponsoring organizations (.15 CE from SLA).

Jennie Oleksak, Professional Development Chair, hosted the Phoenix location. She was instrumental in obtaining joint funding for this site with the Central Arizona Biomedical Librarians Chapter.

A sampling of key learnings:
1. Continuously market your resource value in the language and environment your customer/patron understands and in such a way it will make them seek you out. {ex. While at the vending machines with a customer/patron, mention a new tool or service that might benefit their work based on previous information requests}

2. Our future roles may be the following:

A.) As an information navigator we:
1.) pioneer new tools/sources and interpret their benefits, costs, and needs to the organization;
2.) guide customers/patrons to information by training and direct access;
3.) map information by organizing, filtering, and building for the organization's understanding and use. It should be noted that we do play the role of gatekeeper in a positive way -- as a useful filter to match needs of customers with the right information.

B.) As an information problem solver we:
1.) create an awareness that problem has been faced before;
2.) find prior solutions;
3.) apply information management techniques to build a solution;
4.) analyze, synthesize, compare and contrast information.

C.) As a knowledge manager we:
1.) are the original recyclers (!) -- value and reuse info;
2.) are a change agent;
3.) build systems

3. Knowledge Management is not a rewording of what we have already been doing. It is made-up of the profession's best practices linked to those of Human Resources (HR) and Information Technology (IT) to form a new whole system to process information. We should be the change agents to lead the organization in its knowledge management.

4. The ability to be flexible and change adaptive were identified as key skillsets for the twenty-first century.

5. Special librarians should be well-trained in the business of their companies; this is another skillset for the twenty-first century. One way to do this is to have mentors from business groups assigned to the library staff.

6. Position yourself/library to be at least one step ahead of the customer patron; however, this is no mean feat as customers/patrons become information savvy--but without the critical eye of the specialist.

7. Our value to the organization is often the institutional-wide view (bird's eye) we have of information needs; we know the organization's research and business initiatives.

8. In order to develop an information services strategy, competitor benchmarking - both internal and external - should be a strategic part of your plan.

The video tape of this program with handouts can be obtained from either Ann Eagan or Jennie Oleksak. SPEAKERS INCLUDED: Toby Pearlstein, Manager of Information Services, Bain & Company; Bernie Todd Smith, AHIP Director, Library and Circuit Librarian Program, Werner Health Sciences Library; Joanne G. Marshall, PhD., and AHIP Professor, Faculty of Information Studies, University of Toronto; Mark E. Estes, Director of Library Services, Holme Roberts & Owen, LLP.

The Directory is 173 pages long and features 261 special libraries and collections; up-to-date information on addresses, access, holdings, services, subjects, and staff. It also boasts three separate indexes: Library Name Index, Personal Name Index, and Subject Index.

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The following is the planned publication schedule for the upcoming year. The copy deadlines are not absolute, but if you cannot submit an article by the stated deadline, please contact the Bulletin Editor, Carla Smith, at 602-814-8862 (home) or 602-553-0333 (work) or via e-mail: R37066@email.sps.mot.com

The Arizona Republic/The Phoenix Gazette, Phoenix Newspapers, Inc. - P.O. Box 100, Phoenix, AZ 85001. 602/271-5656. Web site: http://www.azcentral.com

Document Center - 1504 Industrial Way, Unit 9, Belmont, CA 94002-4044. 415/591-7617. E-mail: info@doccenter.com. Web site: http://www.doccenter.com/

EBSCO Subscription Services - P.O. Box 92901, Los Angeles, CA 90009-2901. 310/322-5000. Web site: http://www.ebsco.com

Majors Scientific Books, Inc. - Houston. 713/662-3984 or 800/458-9077. E-mail: houston@mail.majors.com. Web site: http://www.majors.com

OPAMP On-Line Technical Book Catalog On the Web - 1-800/468-4322. Web site: http://www.opampbooks.com

TDI & Co. - 2118 Wilshire Blvd., Suite 787, Santa Monica, CA 90403-5784. 310/820-3651. E-mail: tdicolib@class.org. Web site: http://tdico.com/