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Programs for 2007 |
| Program | Date | Location/Host | Description | Annual Business Meeting | Tuesday, December 11, 6-9pm | Commander's Mansion, Watertown, 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 2008 officers and applaud SLA Boston award winners! Enjoy a wonderful dinner and network with your colleagues. |
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| Click U Live! 90 Minutes to Beyond Taxonomy, Part 2 - Taxonomy Advanced |
Wednesday, December 12, 2pm | Hosted by Babson College | Presented by Jay Ven Eman, PhD, Access Innovations. Part 1 presents and defines taxonomy basics. The uses of taxonomies to aid in the preparation and delivery of information and for searching are discussed. Part 2 presents advanced taxonomy topics and issues such as taxonomy maintenance, alternative uses, and deployments. |
| Click U Live! 90 Minutes to a Great Taxonomy, Part 1 - Taxonomy Basics |
Wednesday, December 5, 2pm | ||
| Click U Live! Gary Price's Research Toolbox |
Thursday, December 6, 2pm | Hosted by Babson College | Presented by Gary Price of Ask.com and Resource Shelf will cover new topics in searching and what's new on the web. |
| The Information WorkFlow Tracking Dilemma | Wednesday Nov 14, 5:30-9:00pm | Conference Center, Gutman Library | Come to this program where we'll hear how an academic and a corporate library used different software and systems to track their research work and consequently were able to easily and accurately report on the value-add they contribute to the organizations for which they work. Tomalee's presentation Toby's presentation |
| Click U Live! Managing Digitization Projects, Part 2 |
Thursday, November 15, 2pm | Hosted by Babson College | Presented by Oya Y. Rieger, Director of Digital Library and Information Technologies (DLIT), Cornell University Library. Part 1 will cover the stages in planning, developing, and managing digital collections with examples from different implementations. Part 2 will focus on development of best practices and guidelines to help workshop participants in overseeing effective and efficient projects. |
| Click U Live! Managing Digitization Projects, Part 1 |
Thursday, November 8, 2pm | Hosted by Seyfarth Shaw LLP | |
| The Fall Social at Sky Meadow Studio | Saturday Oct 13, 2-5 pm | Sky Meadow Studio in Belchertown, MA | Network with colleagues while relaxing in the fall weather just moments away from the Quabbin Reservoir in Western Massachusetts! Join members of the SLA Connecticut Valley and SLA Boston chapters for an afternoon of food and drink with nature photographer, Les Campbell, who is an authority on the history of the Reservoir. |
| Click U Live! Web Searching: Advanced Techniques for Google |
Tuesday, October 9, 2pm | Hosted by Seyfarth Shaw LLP | Presented by Greg R. Notess, Columnist for ONLINE. This seminar covers advanced Web search techniques and compares major Web search engines in terms of their databases and specifics on advanced search commands. It includes what you need to know about Boolean searches, adjacency, field searching, limits, and other special features. |
| Click U Live! Gary Price's Research Toolbox |
Thursday, September 20, 2pm | Hosted by Millipore | Presented by Gary Price of Ask.com and Resource Shelf will cover new topics in searching and what's new on the web. |
| Fall Kick-Off | Wednesday September 19, 6pm | MIT Museum | Network with colleagues and enjoy food and drink at the MIT Museum in Cambridge. for good food, good conversation, and good fun! |
| Click U Live! Survey as a Planning Tool, Part 2 |
Wednesday, September 12, 2pm | Hosted by Babson College | Presented by Dee Magnoni, Library Director, Franklin W. Olin College of Engineering. Part 1 is an overview of surveying as a business tool for planning, along with current surveying software. Using SurveyMonkey as a case study, the course will cover the nuts and bolts of designing, creating, and distributing a survey, as well as evaluating results. Part 2 will introduce the Balanced Scorecard, Six Sigma, and LibQual. With case studies from business and academia, the use of surveying in each of these structures will be examined, and a decision flowchart for choosing a structure will be discussed. |
| Click U Live! Survey as a Planning Tool, Part 1 |
Wednesday, September 26, 2pm | ||
| Click U Live! Financial Management of Information Projects |
Wednesday, August 22, 2pm | Hosted by Seyfarth Shaw LLP | Presented by John Latham, MSLIS, Director of Information Center, SLA. This seminar provides tools and strategies for understanding the general principles of financial management of information projects and organizations, and developing methods and techniques for creating, analyzing, and monitoring budgets and financial projections. |
| Click U Live! Moving to Knowledge Services: Managing the Change and Identifying Advocates and Champions |
Tuesday, August 14, 2pm | Hosted by Seyfarth Shaw LLP | Presented by Guy St. Clair, President and Consulting Specialist, SMR International. Learn the basics of knowledge services as a management methodology, the role (and value) of skillful change management in the modern organization, and keys for identifying and recruiting advocates and champions to support the knowledge services function. |
| Tim Spalding of LibraryThing.com | Friday, August 10, 2007, 3–5pm | Pierce Atwood LLP, Portland, ME | Join us for an afternoon with Tim Spalding! Tim will be talking to us about LibraryThing: what it is, recent enhancements, how people/libraries are using it. Join us for a dutch treat dinner after the presentation at RIRA. |
| An Evening with Janice Lachance | Tuesday, July 10, 2007, 5:30-8:00pm | neXus, Boston, MA | Join us for an evening with SLA CEO Janice Lachance at neXus in Downtown Crossing! Come network with Janice and SLA Boston colleagues and listen to Janice speak. Many thanks to Dow Jones for generously sponsoring this event! |
| Dine Around Cambridge | Wednesday, June 27, 6:30pm | Cambridge Brewing Company, Cambridge | Join us for a dutch treat dinner in Cambridge to meet new people, connect with colleagues, and have a good time! Did you go to the annual conference this year? Come and share your experiences from the conference, Denver in general, or other places you traveled in Colorado. Did you miss the conference this year? Come and hear about it! Share experiences from past conferences or past trips to Colorado. |
| Getting Your Feet Wet Virtually: Exploring Second Life with Hope Tillman | Thursday, May 24, 10am-12pm | Babson College, Horn Library, Wellesley, MA | This will be a practical, hands-on tour of Second Life. You can bring your laptop to Babson's Horn Library and meet face-to-face and virtually as you get to know Second Life. Or, you can join the group virtually if you have already downloaded the software and created your persona. |
| Click U Live! What's on the Horizon: A Look at Where Our Profession is Heading |
Wednesday, May 23, 2pm | Hosted by Babson College | |
| Click U Live! Twelve Tips for the One Person Library |
Wednesday, May 9, 2pm | Hosted by Babson College | Presented by Maggie Weaver, Principal, Shaftesbury Associates. In this course, you will find ways to manage your information service, your time, your customers, and your boss, using a few business management and marketing principles. |
| Click U Live! Gary Price's Research Toolbox |
Tuesday, April 24 | Hosted by Copyright Clearance Center | Presented by Gary Price of Ask.com and Resource Shelf will cover new topics in searching and what's new on the web. |
| Click U Live! Building a Content Management Strategy: Part 2 |
Thursday, April 26, 2pm | Hosted by Copyright Clearance Center | Presented by Seth Earley, Founder and Senior Consultant for Earley & Associates, Inc. Part 1 will discuss the upfront analysis that needs to take place when organizations develop a CM strategy. In part 2, we will look at building out functional requirements that are aligned with business drivers and how to use those requirements to develop functional and technical specifications for your project. |
| Click U Live! Building a Content Management Strategy: Part 1 |
Wednesday, April 11, 2pm | Hosted by Seyfarth Shaw LLP | |
| Click U Live! RSS Feeds: The Future of Information Delivery, Part 2 |
Wednesday, March 21, 2pm | Hosted by Seyfarth Shaw LLP | Presented by Newsgator's Todd Berkowitz and Brian Stern. In part 2, we will discuss strategies for building a business case and securing business owners for RSS projects and highlight some best practices in how to ensure a successful RSS project. |
| Click U Live! RSS Feeds: The Future of Information Delivery, Part 1 |
Wednesday, March 7, 2pm | Hosted by Seyfarth Shaw LLP | Presented by Newsgator's Todd Berkowitz and Brian Stern. In part 1, we will look at the problems with current information delivery mechanisms and contrast them with RSS, highlight the various sources of RSS content, and more. |
| Dine Around with the Emerging Technologies Committee | Thursday, March 1st, 6pm | LTK - Legal Test Kitchen, Boston | Join the Emerging Technologies Committee at Legal's Test Kitchen for good food, good conversation, and good fun! |
| Click U Live! Making Information Architecture Real, Part 2 |
Wednesday, February 21, 2pm | Hosted by Boston VA Medical Center COLMR | Presented by Chiara Fox. In part 2 of this seminar, we will focus on what to do with the content on your site now that you have identified and structured it. |
| Click U Live! Making Information Architecture Real, Part 1 |
Wednesday, February 7, 2pm | Hosted by NELINET | Presented by Chiara Fox. In part 1 of this seminar, we will focus on evaluating the content that exists on your current Web site. |
| Click U Live! Web 2.0 in Libraries: The Tools of Web 2.0, Part 2 |
Wednesday, January 24, 2pm | Hosted by Seyfarth, Shaw LLP | Presented by Meredith Farkas. This session explores the Web 2.0 technologies that are rapidly changing the way we all use the Internet. |
| Click U Live! Web 2.0 in Libraries: Theory and Practice, Part 1 |
Wednesday, January 10 | Hosted by Seyfarth, Shaw LLP | Presented by Meredith Farkas. This session will discuss the principles of Web 2.0 and its implications for libraries. |
