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Programs: July 2005 - December 2006 |
| Dine Around with Sylvia James of SLA Europe | Tuesday, December 19, 2006, 7:00pm | S&S Restaurant, Inman Square, 1334 Cambridge Street, Cambridge, 617-354-0777 | Come join us for a dutch-treat dinner with Sylvia James from SLA's European Chapter [http://www.sla-europe.org/]. Sylvia is a well known business information researcher, trainer and consultant and is truly a thought leader on recent issues in the realm of business research. |
| SLA Boston Presents the 2006 Annual Business Meeting | Wednesday, November 15, 2006, 6:00-9:00 p.m. | Omni Parker House, Boston, MA | Join us for a professional networking event that highlights the activities and accomplishments of the past year, and looks forward to the future. Come vote for your 2007 officers and applaud SLA Boston award winners! Enjoy a wonderful dinner and network with your colleagues. |
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SLA
BOSTON presents the EIU Views on the World Economy |
Thursday, October 26, 2006, 6:00-8:00 p.m. | Poetry Center, Mildred F. Sawyer Library, Suffolk University, Boston, MA | Join Leo Abruzzese, EIU's Editorial Director for North America as he discusses the World Marketplace today and what is coming in that marketplace tomorrow. |
| SLA Boston New Professionals Committee Presents a Haunted Dine-Around | Tuesday, October 24, 2006, 6:00 p.m. | Montien Restaurant, 63 Stuart St., Boston, MA & New England Ghost Tours | We'll meet downtown for a light and refreshing meal at Montien Thai. After, we'll scare the wits out of ourselves on the New England Ghost Tour, a 90-minute walking tour of many of Boston's most haunted locations. |
| SLA Boston & SLA Connecticut Valley Basketball Hall of Fame Event | Saturday, October 21, 2006, 5:00 p.m. to 8:00 p.m. | Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame, Springfield, MA | Attention sports fans, librarians, families: save October 21 for a special event in October at the Basketball Hall of Fame! |
| SLA Boston Annual Kick-Off 2006 | Wednesday, September 13th, 2006, 6:00 p.m. to 10:00 p.m. | New England Aquarium, Boston, MA | Catch up with colleagues and spend the night enjoying the amazing sights in the New England Aquarium's Main Exhibit Building! |
| TRIED AND TRUE ADVICE FOR CAREER SUCCESS | Thursday, September 7th, 2006, 3:00 p.m. to 5:00 p.m. | Pierce Atwood, Portland, ME | Come for an inspirational and practical session focused on something near and dear to us all: Our careers! Dutch treat to follow at David's restaurant in Portland. |
| SLA Boston Northern Outreach Librarians Leveraging New Technologies for Knowledge Sharing & Access | Friday, July 21, 2006, 9:00 a.m. to Noon | Manchester Highlander Inn (at Manchester Airport), 2 Highlander Way, Manchester, NH 03103 | This session will hear directly from librarians who embrace new technology challenges, and a consultant in the library services sector who will take us beyond what the technologies are and can do. |
| SLA Boston New Professionals First Friday at the MFA | Friday, June 1, 4pm on | Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA | Join the Boston Chapter
SLA new Professionals for an afternoon of art, education, and networking! |
| SLA Boston Spring Fling | Thursday, May 25, 2006, 6pm-9pm | The Newton Holiday Inn, 399 Grove St., Newton, MA | May used to be the time
for SLA Boston's Annual Business Meeting and Awards Dinner, but now that SLA
has moved to a January to December fiscal year, our business meeting will now
be in November... ...but that won't stop us from getting together for a Spring Fling! |
| Dine Around...Metro West | Wednesday, May 10, 2006, 6pm | Bella Costa Ristorante, 147 Cochituate Road, Framingham, MA | Join us for dutch treat dinner in Framingham to meet new people, connect with colleagues, and have a good time! All are welcome to join us, so bring your friends. There is no cost beyond what you eat and drink, and it's a great opportunity to network! |
| The Future of Search is Here! | Wednesday, May 3, 2006, 1pm - 5pm |
EBSCO Publishing Home Office |
In order to make content available for everyone, you need search tools designed for everyone. Groxis is leading the way in designing search tools with everyone in mind. Join Shawn Lorenz in a discussion of next generation search tools and how they’re changing the way in which content is delivered |
| Great Gadgets in Libraries: Keeping up with current technology | Thursday, April 13, 2006, Noon - 3:30pm | UMass Dartmouth Library, First Floor, 285 Old Westport Rd., North Dartmouth, MA | Are they gadgets or toys? Or are they useful tools for information management and knowledge sharing? Come to hear and see what is happening with gadgets in the information world. |
| Dine Around...SLA Boston Western Region! | Saturday, April 8, 2006, 6:00pm to ??? | Fedora's Tavern, 23 College St., South Hadley, MA, in the Village Commons, across from Mt. Holyoke College | Join us for Dutch treat dinner in beautiful Western Massachusetts to meet new people, connect with colleagues, and have a good time! All are welcome to join us, so bring your friends. There is no cost beyond what you eat & drink, and it's a great opportunity to network! |
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An
Evening at Baker Library
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Tuesday, March 21, 2006, 5:30-8:30pm | Aldrich 107, Baker Library, Harvard Business School, Soldiers Field Rd., Boston, MA | This program will highlight some of the exciting new projects happening at Baker. Innovation at Baker doesn't stop with the beautifully renovated building, but continues with ongoing initiatives to support the HBS community’s research needs. |
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Gary Price Presents "Web Searching
Beyond Google"
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Wednesday, Mar. 8, 2006, 6:30pm | Room C-101 Main College Building at Simmons College | Come hear about the latest in search from renowned librarian and search expert, Gary Price. In this fast-paced talk, Gary will cover the future of search engine companies, the invisible web, and tips for keeping up with the ever-changing search landscape. Gary will also discuss his unusual path as a non-traditional librarian. |
| What Blogs Bring to the Enterprise | Tuesday, Jan. 31, 9:00am to Noon | Bain & Co., 131 Dartmouth St., Boston, MA | Blogs are hot, but what do they really bring to businesses and other organizations? How are successful early adopters using them? These are questions that Bill Ives asked well-known bloggers as part of the research for his new book, Business Blogs: A Practical Guide. |
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Intelligence
Source Collection: From Paper to People |
Wednesday, Dec. 14, 4:30-8:00pm |
PricewaterhouseCoopers |
Whether
you are expanding into research using human sources, learning to manage
internal or outsourced Human Source Collection, or are interested in better
supporting this function, join us in this dynamic workshop as we discuss
successful source collection. The program will also include an exercise on
elicitation techniques and
include Q&A sessions. |
| SLA Boston Holiday Party | Wednesday, Nov. 30th, 6-9pm |
Three Cheers Restaurant & Bar 290 Congress Street, Boston MA (617)-423-2140 |
Join your friends and colleagues for drinks and food to start off the holiday season with a smile. A special guest for the event will be one of the 2006 Candidates for the SLA presidency, Dav Robertson. |
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Dine
Around...Boston! Boston Chapter New Professionals Committee, Student Relations Committee & Student Chapter @ Simmons |
Friday, Dec. 9th, 6pm |
Brown
Sugar Cafe-Fenway, 129 Jersey St., Boston, MA 617.266.2928 |
Join us for dutch treat dinner in Boston to meet new people, connect with colleagues, and have a good time! All are welcome to join us, so bring your friends. There is no cost beyond what you eat and drink, and it's a great opportunity to network! |
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Thursday, Nov. 3, 2005, 1:00-4:00pm | The Conference Center at Harvard Medical, Boston, MA. | Are they gadgets or toys? Or are they useful tools for information management and knowledge sharing? Come to hear and see what is happening with gadgets in the information world. This talk is for anyone with an interest in new technologies, especially portable or wireless ones, which have uses in libraries today or will have in the future. |
| Thursday, Oct. 27, 2005, 1:00-4:00pm | Holy Cross College, Worcester, MA, Faculty Room, Dinand Library |
Are they gadgets or toys? Or are they useful tools for information management and knowledge sharing? Come to hear and see what is happening with gadgets in the information world. This talk is for anyone with an interest in new technologies, especially portable or wireless ones, which have uses in libraries today or will have in the future. |
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| Boston Chapter Western Region & New Professionals Committee Dinearound | Friday, Sept. 30, 2005, at 6:00pm |
Max’s Tavern in Springfield, MA for drinks and dinner. Cold Stone Creamery for dessert. |
Join fellow SLA members
and others for Dutch Treat dinner in the Western Mass region! Meet new people,
connect with colleagues, and have a good time. All are welcome to join us, so
bring your friends. There is no cost beyond what you eat and drink, and it’s
a great opportunity to network! |
| Annual Kick-off Meeting | Wednesday, Sept. 21st, 2005, 6:30pm - 9:30pm | Harvard Museum of Natural History | Catch up with your colleagues, kick off a great year of programming, and see the beauty of Harvard's famous glass flowers, geology, room, dinosaurs, and other wonders! |
