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Lori Critz receives the Member of the Year Award. Ted Johnson also received Member of the Year Award. |
Member of the Year -- Carla Smith noted that Chris Vathis Howell started this tradition. The winners for this year are Ted Johnson and Lori Critz. Ted, who was not in attendance at the time of the presentations, was awarded this on the basis of his work on the Career Fair and as Employment Chair. Lori was awarded this based on her great job in doing the membership survey as well as her work as the Treasurer and PR Chair and her contribution to the Career Fair. They each received a Jefferson Cup and certificate.
2001-2002 Chapter Officers -
President, Beki Welsch
President-Elect, Ann Eagan
Treasurer, Lori Critz
Secretary, Valorie Hanni Rice
2001-2002 Chapter President, Beki Welsch,
and outgoing President, Carla Smith.
Beki presented Carla Smith with flowers and a Jefferson Cup in honor of her service as President for the past year. The meeting adjourned at 2:50 at which time pictures were taken of the new Executive Board and Member of the Year winner. ¨
By going to the SLA Web site Members Only section, you can check the profile that is on record with SLA and request changes if necessary. To access your record, you will need the PIN that appears on your membership card.
Again, we want to recognize these winners and to especially acknowledge the many generous stores
who have donated gift certificates and/or products to the Arizona Chapter.
Sheila Donnelly - Starbucks travel mug and coffee beans
Cathy Large - $15.00 gift certificate to Changing Hands Bookstore for agreeing to write a summary of the program
Bag of goodies from The Body Shop: Ann Eagan, Ted Johnson, Lisa Bradley and Sheila Merrigan
Jack Mount - gift certificate to Mimi's Cafe
Valorie Rice - SLA Tote bag and SLA coffee mug filled with candy
Cathy Large - SLA coffee mug filled with candy
Susan Pritchard - Gift certificate to Starbucks Coffee ¨
PREPARING FOR THE FUTURE THROUGH
ACADEMIC EXCELLENCE:
SLA ANNOUNCES 2001-2002 SCHOLARSHIPS OFFERINGS
Applications are now being accepted for the Special Libraries Association's
(SLA) 2001-2002 Scholarships. Applications must be postmarked or received
no later than October 31, 2001. All scholarship winners will be determined
by the SLA Scholarship Committee and approved by the SLA Board of Directors. Each year, SLA awards more than $30,000 in scholarships for professional
development and graduate study at accredited schools of library and
information science. Each scholarship is awarded through a criteria
based on applications, transcripts, and personal interviews with SLA
members. All scholarship winners will be announced in May 2002, and officially
recognized at the SLA 93rd Annual Conference in Los Angeles, California.
Application instructions and eligibility requirements can be found on
Virtual SLA at www.sla.org. For more information, contact the SLA membership
department at 1.202.939.3671 or via email at diana@sla.org. Available scholarships include: The SLA Scholarship will be granted only for graduate study in librarianship
leading to a master's degree at a recognized school of library or information
science. Up to three $6,000 SLA Scholarships are available each year.
Applicants must possess, or be preparing to receive, a bachelor's degree
with an interest in special librarianship. Mary Adeline Conner Professional Development Scholarship will be granted
for post-M.L.S. certificate or degree programs in any subject area,
technological skill, or managerial expertise relevant to the applicant's
career needs and goals in special librarianship. One $6,000 scholarship
is available each year. Applicants must be members of SLA; must possess
a Master's Degree in Library Science; and must have five years of working
experience in special libraries. SLA Affirmative Action Scholarship will be granted only for graduate
study in librarianship leading to a master's degree at a recognized
school of library or information science. One $6,000 Affirmative Action
Scholarship is available each year. Applicants must be a member of a
minority group, defined by the U.S. Government as Black, Hispanic, Asian,
or Pacific Islander, and American Indian or Alaskan Native. Institute for Scientific Information (ISI) Scholarship will be granted
for beginning graduate study leading to a doctoral degree from a recognized
program in library science, information science or related fields of
study. One $1,000 ISI Scholarship is available each year. Applicants
must be members of SLA and have five years of working experience in
special libraries. Plenum Scholarship will be granted for graduate study leading to a
doctoral degree from a recognized program in library science, information
science or related fields of study. One $1,000 Plenum Scholarship is
available each year. Applicants must be members of SLA and have working
experience in a special library. ¨
Over the past year, the School of Information Resources and Library Science at the University of
Arizona has made changes and improvements. Enrollment is at a high point. Requests for applications are increasing. In addition, SIRLS welcomed Anita Sundaram Coleman, Cheryl Knott Malone and Elizabeth (Betty) Marcoux to the faculty. For more information on the faculty, check our web site at http://www.sir.arizona.edu
In addition, SIRLS has been awarded a $492,708 grant from the U.S. Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) for a two-year project titled Knowledge River. This project addresses the information needs of Hispanics and Native Americans. The initial concept of Knowledge River was accomplished as a joint effort between the UA Library and SIRLS with a seed grant of $10,000 from the Arizona State Library. Patricia Tarin, who holds a joint appointment with the UA Library and SIRLS, is Institute Director. Brook Sheldon, Director of SIRLS, will work as Co-Principal Investigator.
The Goals of Knowledge River are:
* to be a beacon for scholars, educators, and practitioners, public and private entities to join with American Indian and Hispanic Communities in addressing their information needs
* to set a standard for state-of-the-art, interdisciplinary library education for Hispanics and American Indians, authentically representing their cultural and linguistic perspectives
* to reach out with opportunities to inform and educate community members and working practitioners on ways to address the issues of American Indians and Hispanics with library and information solutions.
The concept has been developed working closely with University of Arizona's American Indian Studies program, the Mexican American Studies program, the Arizona State Museum, and the Tucson Pima Public Library.
- Lisa Hussey ¨
The University of Arizona Student SLA group was quite active this summer. The group co-sponsored a pizza party with the Library Student Organization to welcome summer students and promote SLA and LSO. They organized two tours to special libraries -- the Fred Hopf Optical Sciences Library and the Parker Library in the Astronomy Department at the UA. SLA and LSO co-sponsored a "brown bag" lunch at which Sara Heitshu from the University of Arizona Main Llibrary spoke on copyright. Lastly, they further promoted the club at the University of Arizona Student Organization Fair held at the beginning of the semester. Three new members joined the group this summer.
- Sheila Merrigan¨
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The Joint Conference on Digital Libraries is a major international forum focusing on digital libraries and associated technical, practical, and social issues. JCDL encompasses the many meanings of the term "digital libraries", including (but not limited to) new forms of information institutions; operational information systems with all manner of digital content; new means of selecting, collecting, organizing, and distributing digital content; and theoretical models of information media, including document genres and electronic publishing. ¨
IEEE International Conference on Data Mining Doubletree Hotel, San Jose, California, November 29 - December 2, 2001
The 2001 IEEE International Conference on Data Mining (ICDM '01) provides a forum for the sharing of original research results and practical development experiences among researchers and application developers from different data mining related areas such as machine earning, automated scientific discovery, statistics, pattern recognition, knowledge acquisition, soft computing, databases and data warehousing, data visualization, and knowledge-based systems. The conference seeks solutions to challenging problems facing the development of data mining systems, and shapes future directions of research by promoting high quality, novel and daring research findings. As an important part of the conference, the workshops program will focus on new research challenges and initiatives.
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The fall meeting of the AZ Chapter Special Libraries Association was held on September 21, 2001 at NAU's Cline Library in Flagstaff. The program: I Told You I'm Worth It, and I Can Prove It! Revealed how panelists Chris Vathis Howell (manager of research group at Intel in Chandler), Jenny Mueller-Alexander (ASU librarian), and Catherine Dimenstein (librarian at IBM in Tucson) assure that their managers understand and appreciate the value of the library to the organization.
Chris Vathis Howell conducts surveys to determine satisfaction with relevancy and currency of the information she provides to her customers. She also tries to determine why people continue to use her library and why some don't. 8 of 10 of her customers report saving 10 to 15 hours a month by having the librarian conduct searches. Chris translates those hours saved into money saved (engineer's salaries) and reports both time and money savings to her manager. Chris also tries to observe the research habits of her customers so she can cater to those habits. She participates in training sessions and meetings to keep abreast of her customers' needs and concerns. If you don't know what problems your customers are up against, you can't provide products to solve those problems.
Catherine explained that IBM libraries are responsible only to the division that funds the library. She is a contracted worker, not an IBM employee, so must justify funds and space for the library on a regular basis. Catherine emphasizes that you can't wait until the organization threatens to close the library to justify its existence. You must know who uses the library (names), and who considers your services vital so you can ask them for testimonials. It is important to give one-on-one service so you can understand what projects are in the works and so you can name specific projects you provided help on when you justify your worth. Catherine uses any excuse to promote the library through the company newsletter. She has also determined how much IBM would have to spend yearly on information needs if they had no library. That amount is much greater than what they are spending to keep the library.
Jenny told us how human resources departments determine professional value and how you can mold your job description to HR definitions to prove your worth. She suggested comparing your salary with other librarians in similar-sized institutions and within the same county to make the comparison meaningful. Jenny said that university administrators view libraries as essential, but that is often for the materials, not the staff. The challenge is to prove the value of staff, too. One way of accomplishing that is by showing how a librarian is skilled in broadening and narrowing searches as needed. This allows them to find more information faster than the non-librarians. Jenny suggested considering what happens in the organization if the information is not found or is incorrect. That could mean loss of grant monies and donations, major financial blunders on the part of the organization, loss of reputation of the institution.
Ann Eagan led the afternoon session. She explained how to compare education required for each employee involved in creating a product, and the return on investment for each of those employees. Her example showed 96% return on an engineer's input, but over 5000% return on the librarian's input. The return on investment (ROI) for the librarian can be supported with numbers.
- Beki Welsch ¨
Malee's on Main was the location of the first Phoenix Networking dinner held on Thursday, September 6. Attendees included: Suzanne Lennon, retired from AG Communications; Carla Smith, formerly of Motorola; Suzanne Pritchard (DeVry Institute) and her lovely granddaughter, Ciandra; David Bickford, University Librarian at the University of Phoenix. We had a scrumptious meal and enjoyed reminiscing and catching up on each other's lives. The next dinner is planned for 6:30 pm on Wednesday, October 17th at the Phoenix City Grill at 5816, North 16th Street.
- Carla Smith, Phx networking Chair ¨
Peggy Pedigo: I live in Phoenix and have lived in Central and Southern Arizona for most of my life. I achieved my MLS degree at the University of Arizona. My career plans were directed toward working in either the business or science-technology industry in corporate libraries. Accordingly I joined SLA as a student and served as Arizona Student Chapter President. Later I served the Arizona Chapter as Bulletin Business Editor, President-Elect and President, and also served on the Nominations Committee. I found SLA to be the most appropriate organization for networking and for professional development. Annual conferences, with their workshops and seminars, served as my continuing education forum.
After receiving my MLS, I worked at Motorola Semiconductor Products Sector as a librarian, manager and information research specialist. I left Motorola three years ago and started a freelance indexing business. I enjoyed learning a new type of information work but felt isolated by working at home.
This summer I started work at Phoenix Public Library, where I am the business librarian at the Burton Barr Central Library. This is again very different work for me. I'm having a great time learning new resources, new clientele and a new type of organization. The staff here has been wonderful, offering me much support and training.
It is good to see first-hand that there is so much work variety open to librarians. I believe that SLA will still be relevant to me, particularly the very active Business-Finance Division.
I enjoy sports (basketball nut), the great outdoors, reading mysteries, and visiting family. I'll be an aunt again in December. ¨
Betsy Lazan: I joined SLA because it seemed like a great way to share knowledge about issues relevant to all types of special libraries. Having worked in varied library settings, I feel SLA is an important organization in which to belong.
My background includes a B.A. in International Relations (College of William and Mary in Virginia) and a J.D. (Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee). My first job after graduation was a temporary position as law librarian for the Maricopa County Superior Court Law Library. I soon realized I preferred the library side to the legal side of the law library, and considered whether I wanted to return to school again for a library degree.
Having the chance to work as a bookseller and then as a consumer health information center library assistant convinced me to pursue a career in library science. In May, I received my MSLS from the University of North Carolina, moved back to Phoenix from Chapel Hill, and am now eager to start practicing librarianship.
Hiking, writing, and touring historic houses are just some of my interests. Growing up in Phoenix, I also have an appreciation for the desert and Arizona history. ¨
Jan Knight: Since graduating with my MA in Information Resources & Library Science from the U of A last year, I've been wearing two different work hats. For sanity and a regular pay check, I hold a part time position at the university's Office of Distributed Learning as a Senior Research Specialist. I'm working on controlled vocabularies, distance technology issues with the main project being the ongoing creation of an online Southwest Thesaurus. To add a little excitement and risk to my life, I'm continuing to establish my own independent research business, Bancroft Information Services. Past clients have varied but my areas of speciality may well include research for authors, business research for the marketing and publishing fields as well as providing assistance in the scholarly research arena. I'm currently spending most of my time in local networking and marketing opportunities to build my name. It's far more exhausting than working! ¨
Member news
Tom Turner recently accepted a librarian position with the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office's Depository Library Program in Arlington, Virginia. This is the same organization that Tom had a fellowship with from 11/98 to 11/99. Tom left Arizona State University Libraries on August 24th after five years of service. He started his new job, 3 miles from the Pentagon, on September 11th. The building was evacuated after the plane crashed, and he says tighter security is obvious nearly everywhere you go. Tom's personal email account is turn8421108@hotmail.com. ¨
Desert Botanical Garden
The new library and research complex is making progress toward a 2002 opening. The furniture (gorgeous wood shelves) was bought from Brodart. The compact shelves are going into the Archive room. The library was rearranged a bit to give the librarian more privacy. Beth Brand, a Library Assistant with the Phoenix Public Library, will be starting as the DBG Librarian on October 1st. She replaces Jenn Orff, who produced 2 great "first works" recently, a baby and a novel. Beth will keep the library open 30 hours a week. Check for the hours at http://www.dbg.org. ¨
The IBM Tucson Site Library celebrated 10 years of operation under UofA management with an open house on September 14. An estimated 150 employees participated as staff and vendor reps demonstrated some of the information tools that the library makes available on employee desktops, such as Catalog Xpress and IEEE Xpress. Refreshments and doorprizes were supplied by IHS (an information vendor), and education staff distributed CDs of training courseware for various programming topics. Bookmarks, pencils, and mousepads were given away to all comers, along with printed cards highlighting library services and information resources.
Seventy-three people completed a brief (5 question) user survey when registering for the doorprizes. The information will be used to help staff keep information resources responsive to actual usage patterns.
SLA member Catherine Dimenstein has been the project manager for the UofA since it contracted to manage the IBM library ten years ago. The library itself was started by IBM in 1979.
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| President -- Rebecca Welsch President-elect -- Ann Eagan Secretary -- Valorie Rice Treasurer -- Lori Critz Affirmative Action Chair -- VACANT Bulletin Editor -- Dianne Bean Bulletin Business Manager -- Lisa Bradley Career Guidance Chair -- Ann Eagan Chapter Archivist -- Wesley Rader Employment Chair -- Betsy Lazan Government Relations Chair -- Cinda McClain |
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The meeting was called to order at 1:05 p.m. on September 21, 2001 atNAU's Cline Library in in Flagstaff, by President Beki Welsch. The minutes of the previous meeting were not approved because there has not been a bulletin produced since that time, though the minutes from both today's and May 18th meetings will be in the next bulletin due out this next week. There were ten people present - members Betsy Lazan, Beki Welsch, Catherine Dimenstein, Valorie Rice, Ann Eagan, Lori Critz, students Triste Longacre and Pearl Diaz and visitors Baleka Baker and Karen Lank.
Executive Board Reports:
Secretary - Valorie Rice - No report.
Treasurer - Lori Critz - Current balance in the checking account is $3677.40. Expenditures since the last report include engraving, officer travel and donations to the student chapter and David Bender Fund, while income received was career fair sponsorship and further income as well as registration fees from the May event. We received a framed certificate indicated that we contributed to the David Bender Fund, which it was decided we will turn over to the archivist. Lori received an email from the Student Chapter Chair thanking us for the donation to their group. The major expenses expected for the next quarter includes bulletin printing/mailing and officer travel for mid-winter meeting. Lori noted that if we keep meetings/events self-sustaining we will be able to count on registration fees as income.
President-Elect - Ann Eagan - Roberta Shaffer, Executive Director of the Special Libraries Association will give a talk to members October 26, 2001 in Tucson. Thanks to Lori for helping coordinate this.
Committee Reports:
Affirmative Action - This Chair is called Diversity Leadership Development and is vacant at the time. Ann explained that the position in part encourages minority participation in the field.
Bulletin Editor - Dianne Bean - Has asked for submissions to the next bulletin by September 23rd.
Bulletin Business Editor - Lisa Bradley - Lisa will be sending renewals for bulletin advertising in early October.
Career Guidance - Ann Eagan - Ann has assisted students looking at jobs and has reviewed resumes. Most correspondence has been via email. She noted that now is the time to start applying for jobs, as it takes some time to go through the process.
Chapter Archivist - Wes Rader - No report.
Employment - Betsy Lazan agreed to serve as the Employment Chair.
International Relations - Pat Morris - No report.
Membership - Sheila Donnelly - As of July 31, 2001 there are 115 members in the Arizona Chapter.
Networking (Phoenix) - Carla Smith - Malee's on Main was the location of the first Phoenix Networking dinner of the year held on Thursday, September 6. Attendees included Suzanne Lennon, Carla Smith, Suzanne Pritchard (and granddaughter Ciandra), and David Bickford. The next dinner is planned for 6:30p.m. on Wednesday, October 17th.
Networking (Tucson) - Jim Martin - There will be an event in October.
Networking (No. Arizona) - Ann Eagan - There are two members that try to meet on a regular basis.
Professional Development - Cathy Large - No report. Cathy noted that the position at SRP formerly belonging to Valerie Pomerenke has now been filled.
Publications - Laura Bender - We are making progress with the CD version of the Directory. All the updating of entries has been completed and Laura is working with Jim Austin of the UA Computing Center to include a searchable interface. There is still some work to be done, such as the introduction, but the indexing and main content are pretty much taken care of. The plan is that Jim Austin and his associate, Jose, will be burning the CD's for us, and if he is able to do this it would cost the chapter much less than if an outside vender handled it. The exact costs and obtaining an ISBN are still not known. Laura is still looking at the Associates Program at Amazon.com for financial transactions and distribution of the Directory. She will be meeting with Jim and Jose on October 5 to work on some of the details concerning the CD-ROMs.
Public Relations - Lori Critz - Lori added the Continuing Education Electronic Calendar to her list of contacts for events. She is looking for email discussion lists of local library groups that she can send messages to regarding our programs. She already submits to, or has a person submit for her information on the following email discussion lists: Arizona SLA Chapter, Student, UA libraries, AzLA, state libraries, AZL and SCIP. Many lists are closed, so she must rely on people to post messages for her.
Strategic Planning - Carla Smith - Members of the AZ SLA Strategic Planning committee met at Ann Eagan's home in Flagstaff on Saturday, August 18, 2001. Those in attendance were Ann Eagan, Lori Critz, Valorie Rice and Carla Smith. The members completed the 2000-2001 plan and made revisions and additions to the 2001-2003 plan. Completed plans have been sent to Jack Mount so that he can make changes to the website. Our chapter's 25th Anniversary celebration will be in 2003. We anticipate that we will need approximately $5,000 for this event. Carla Smith has requested the file from the 20th Anniversary celebration from our archivist, Wes Rader. We need to budget for this event and get in our request to have the SLA President to speak at the celebration. A committee should be formed soon to begin making preparations. We also discussed the budget for the coming year and possible fundraising ideas. Member recruitment and retention was a hot topic. Officers will encourage the membership to bring a new/prospective/inactive member to meetings and introduce them. Sheila Donnelly, Membership Chair, should also be informed of any prospective members so that she can follow up with them. For our PR efforts, we also need to ask attendees how they heard about the meeting.
Student Chapter Liaison - Sheila Merrigan - No report.
Webmaster- Jack Mount - No report.
Old Business:
Ann Eagan noted that a message went out from the SLA Leadership discussion list to encourage outreach to high school students to promote librarianship. Participating in High School career day events was a focus of the Affirmative Action chair a few years ago, but that has since subsided. There was a poll of those in attendance as to whether they would be willing to attend career days and several said that they would. A question that was brought up was whether we would want a formal program in place for this or not. It was decided to bring the issue to the email discussion list to see how many of the members as a whole would be willing to speak and then move forward on this.
New Business:
Beki brought up the idea that we should be sharing our newsletters with surrounding chapters. This has not been done for a while, though Ann noted that it had been a practice in the past. It was suggested that we ask the bulletin editor to begin sending issues to the surrounding chapters.
Beki read notices for nominations of national awards and honors as well as information on SLA scholarships available. She noted that this information will be published in the bulletin. She also made mention of the upcoming virtual seminar on Wednesday, September 26th. This can be attended individually, as there is no knowledge of a local group hosting it.
Announcements:
Lori Critz is a member of the accreditation committee for the School of Information Resources and Library Science at UA and she asked for comments to pass along to the committee. There were several people in attendance that were able to provide comments to her.
Lori also suggested that we not charge for the October 26th event. It was decided that we will ask for RSVPs to plan for space, though it is thought that it will be held in the UA library meeting rooms that provide plenty of room. It was also decided to ask people to bring refreshments.
Meeting adjourned 1:55.
Submitted by Valorie Hanni Rice ¨
Update from Past-President Carla Smith
Since I was laid off from Motorola in February, I have been thoroughly enjoying unemployment. It really was a "blessing in disguise." My two boys, Nate (2) and Nick (6 months) keep me very busy and delight me every day. We have discovered the world of stay-at-home moms: playgroups and storytime at the library. I am looking for part-time work and have enrolled in the online course "Overview of the Community Colleges" with the hope of possibly teaching at the community college level. I will remain active in AZ SLA and am currently Phoenix Networking chair. I hope to see many of you at dinners/meetings this year.
October Phoenix Networking Dinner
Wednesday, October 17 at 6:30 pm
Phoenix City Grill at 5816 North 16th Street in Phoenix
RSVP to Carla Smith 480-855-1988
casjns94@home.com ¨
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