SLA Cleveland Chapter What's New

December Meeting Photos are Now Available!
(Posted January 25, 2010)

The photos from the 2009 Business Meeting and Holiday Social are now available! We had a lot of fun at the event which took place at Great Lakes Brewing Company on December 2, 2009. If you missed the event, you can review the highlights of the social hour and Great Lakes tour.

December Meeting (Photos taken by Adina Serot):

October and November Meeting Notes and Photos
(Posted January 12, 2010)

Have you missed a recent meeting and would like to know what occurred? The October and November meeting notes and photos are now available! You can download the notes for October and November.

The SLA Cleveland Chapter would like to thank Adina Serot and Stephanie Tulley for providing the notes and photos for October and November.

October (Photos taken by Adina Serot):

November (Photos taken by Stephanie Tulley):

Name Change Voting Results
(Posted December 10, 2009)

The results are finally in for the proposed name change to the Association for Strategic Knowledge Professionals. Fifty percent of those members eligible to vote participated in the referendum, with 2071 voting yes and 3225 voting no. For more details, please visit the SLA Blog.

SLA 2009 Conference Wrap-Up
(Posted July 8, 2009)

Are you looking for highlights on the Annual Conference? The Conference Connections blog offers an informative wrap-up that includes links to blogs, tweets and handouts, and previews the SLA 2010 Conference & INFO-EXPO that will take place in New Orleans, 13-16 June 2010. There are also conference photos posted on the SLA Cleveland Flickr pool and our Facebook group. Please feel free to add your SLA photos!

"Prospect Research as a Career Option for Librarians"
Photos and Information Now Available
(Posted June 6, 2009)

Program notes and photos from the April 29 SLA Cleveland Chapter event "Prospect Research as a Career Option for Librarians" are now available. Many thanks to Kathleen Franzinger for taking the wonderful photos and for writing the summary!

NORASIST Workshop: Non-Linear Thinking and New Media Literacy
(Posted March 30, 2009)

The 35th annual conference of the Academic Library Association of Ohio (ALAO) will take place on Friday, October 30, 2009. It will be held in beautiful southwest Ohio at the Roberts Convention Centre near Wilmington. This year’s theme is: "At the Crossroads: Recharging, Redefining, and Realigning our Libraries." For a description of the conference theme and examples of possible topics for presentations and poster sessions, please read here.

Call for Proposals: 2009 ALAO Conference
(Posted February 10, 2009)

Proposals are due by April 3, 2009.

SLA Adds New Dues Tier for Info Pros Making Less than $18K
(Posted November 21, 2008)

With many facing lay offs and cutbacks SLA members are able to rely on their professional association to provide assistance in tough times

Alexandria, Virginia, USA, 12 November 2008— Special Libraries Association (SLA), the premier global association for information professionals and special librarians, has added a third tier of membership dues for the full member class of membership. Dues for members with incomes of less than US$18,000 annually are now reduced to US$35 annually. Association members who fall into this category, including those who are unemployed, will have full access to all of SLA's members-only services, including professional development, the SLA Career Center and networking opportunities. This initiative is an immediate response to the global economic crisis and will allow more members from around the globe to participate in the full range of SLA's benefits. This dues structure will make membership in SLA affordable for members working in any economy, as well as those who are students, unemployed, part-time workers or retired. Read more

Special Libraries Association Begins Planning for 2009 Centennial
(Posted April 27, 2007)

President Appoints Commission to Oversee 100-year Anniversary, Invites SLA Members to Participate in Creating Framework for Year-long Celebration

Alexandria, Virginia, USA, 11 April 2007— 2009 marks the 100-year anniversary of the founding of the Special Libraries Association by John Cotton Dana in 1909 as a professional association dedicated to serving the needs and interests of professionals who handle specialized information and research services. Today SLA announces the creation of the SLA Centennial Commission and asks its 11,500 members to send ideas and thoughts on how to best celebrate its 100 year anniversary to the Commission via the email address 100@sla.org.

"The Centennial is a pivotal milestone for our Association and it is vital that we engage SLA members in the planning of the celebration in 2009. We encourage members to send their beneficial suggestions via email to 100@sla.org from across the globe so we may create a year-long event that makes all SLA members proud to be a part of this community," said SLA President Rebecca B. Vargha. "I am confident that the talented members appointed to the commission will work with the Association staff and SLA Units to formulate a wonderful celebration and annual conference that commemorates this important anniversary while recognizing our innovative past and inspiring a state-of-the-art future for the profession."

The SLA Centennial Commission

Commission Chair: Dav Robertson, National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, Research Triangle Park, North Carolina
Tom Calcagni, Chief Communications Strategist, SLA, Alexandria, Virginia
David Cappoli, UCLA, Los Angeles, California
Patricia Cia, Langara College, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
Nick Collison, Prenax, New York City (formerly of the United Kingdom)
Kristin Foldvik, Director, Events, SLA, Alexandria, Virginia
Stacey Greenwell, University of Kentucky, Lexington, Kentucky
DeVonne Henry, Director, Exhibits, SLA, Alexandria, Virginia
Jill Konieczko, US News & World Report, Washington, D.C.
Karen Kreizman Reczek, Bureau Veritas, Buffalo, New York
John Larrier, Elsevier, New York City
Lynne McCay, Congressional Research Service, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.
Tamika McCollough, North Carolina A&T State University, Greensboro, North Carolina

The commission has started work on the theme and the activities surrounding the Centennial and is asking for ideas and inspiration from all SLA members. Please send any thoughts for consideration by the Centennial Commission to 100@sla.org.

About SLA
The Special Libraries Association (SLA) is a nonprofit global organization for innovative information professionals and their strategic partners. SLA serves more than 11,500 members in 75 countries in the information profession, including corporate, academic, and government information specialists. SLA promotes and strengthens its members through learning, advocacy, and networking initiatives. For more information, visit us on the Web at http://www.sla.org.

Apply for the Vormelker-Thomas Student Award
(Posted February 1, 2006)

The award, co-sponsored by the News Division and ProQuest, is a $1,500 stipend to assist students attending their first Special Libraries Association Annual Conference. The 2006 Annual Conference will be June 11-14, 2006 in Baltimore, Maryland.

Selection Criteria:

Applicants must be members of the Special Libraries Association when they apply for the stipend.
Applicants must be attending their first SLA conference.
Applicants must be graduate students or December 2005 graduates interested in a career in news librarianship.
Applications must include:

a word-processed essay (500-1,000 words) addressing an issue in news librarianship
a letter of reference from a news librarian, a news editor, or a faculty member
a resume
a list of course work undertaken
a statement of professional goals
a statement of what the applicant expects to gain from attending the conference

Applications must be e-mailed no later than Friday, March 10, 2006.

E-mail applications to:

Amy Disch
The Columbus Dispatch
Phone : 614-461-5177
Email: adisch@dispatch.com

The winner will receive a check prior to the conference in June. The winning essay will appear in an issue of News Library News.

The News Division reserves the right not to award the stipend if there are no suitable applicants.

The details of the award are stated below and are also available on the News Division's Web site:

http://www.ibiblio.org/slanews/about/vormelker.html

Please share this notice with people who may be interested in this award.

SLA 2005 Conference Blog
(Posted June 16, 2005)

Visit the conference weblog if you missed SLA 2005 in Toronto or if you just want to review key conference activities. New posts are still coming in including highlights of conference sessions, speakers, other events, and post-conference reflections on the SLA 2005 experience.

http://slablogger.typepad.com/sla_conference_blog/

2005 Betty Burrows Seminar Presentations
(Posted June 2, 2005)

The "Millennials! They're here. Deal with it!" and "Finding OZ: Discovering a Bright Future for Libraries" presentations from the 2005 Betty Burrows Seminar are now available on the Sirsi Corporation website.

http://www.sirsi.com/Resources/abram_articles.html

SLA's Student Academic Relations Committee (SARC) Merit Awards for 2004
(Posted June 1, 2004)

Outstanding Chapter/Division Support: 1st place, Cleveland Chapter

Creative Use of Electronic Resources: 1st place, Kent State University (tie with Rutgers)

Innovative Programming: 2nd place, Kent State University

Outstanding Leadership: 1st runner up, Kent State University

The SARC Merit Awards Presentation and Poster Session will be on Monday, June 7th of the SLA Annual Meeting in Nashville.

SPECIAL LIBRARIES ASSOCIATION ADOPTS NEW NAMING MODEL

(Press Release, February 27, 2004)

"In a strategic move to more appropriately reflect its vision and mission, the SLA Board of Directors recently made the decision for the Special Libraries Association to operate publicly using its acronym in place of its extended name. The Association will continue to operate legally and financially as 'Special Libraries Association.'"

http://www.sla.org/content/SLA/pressroom/pressrelease/2004pressrelease/pr2407.cfm

The One and Only
by Kathy Ewing

(Published by Case Magazine, Winter 2004)

Sue Hansen, one of our local chapter members, was featured in an article about the Department of Special Collections at Case Western Reserve University. You can read about Sue and her unique library in the latest edition of Case Magazine.

http://www.cwru.edu/pubs/cwrumag/winter2004/downloads/OneandOnly.pdf

SLA Cleveland Chapter Award of Merit
(Posted January 25, 2004)

The Special Libraries Association Cleveland Chapter annually has the opportunity to recognize a member for his/her contribution to the chapter or to the profession. Any current Chapter member (full or organizational) who has been a member in good standing for at least four years is eligible. Self-nominations will be accepted. The Award will be presented at the annual business meeting.

Nomination forms are due by March 1, 2004.

Details and nomination form (MS Word).

Library Careers' Night
(Posted January 25, 2004)

Thursday, March 18, 2004 – 5:00 - 8:00 p.m. Library Careers' Night, Kent State University SLIS (Kent Student Center).

RSVP to Rhonda Filipan, SLIS Academic Program Coordinator, at respond@slis.kent.edu

View the invitation and details (MS Word).

Ohio Library Continuing Education: Automated Statewide Calendar System
(Posted November 22, 2003)

The Regional Library Systems of Ohio have unveiled a statewide calendar for library-related continuing education. Library staff are encouraged to access the site at http://www.CEOhio.org. Access to event listings is free of charge.

Events can be browsed by location, type of workshop, or date. Eventually, hot topic events will be browsable under their own headings.

All non-profit, library-related organizations in Ohio are eligible to participate and have their events listed on CEOhio.org. For more information, contact the NOLA Regional Library System at: http://www.nolanet.org/contact.cfm.

The Hiring Tide Turns For Corporate Librarians
by Perri Capell

(Published by CareerJournal.com on October 22, 2003)

http://www.careerjournal.com/salaryhiring/industries/librarians/20031022-capell.html

"Corporate librarians are seeing demand for their services increase from last year's rock-bottom levels.

As 2003 has progressed, recruiters say they've been filling more openings for mid- to upper-level corporate librarians than in 2002 . . ."

The Virtual Gets Real: With creativity and boldness, CLEVNET provides users with the nation's most extensive--and, yes, very real—public, web-based services

(Published in the 9/15/2003 issue of Library Journal)

View the full article

"It's 5 a.m. on a Monday in northeastern Ohio. The morning commute has yet to start, but the library is already humming with activity.

Scores of patrons come and go, with most of the activity book-related. In the next hour there are nearly 50 searches in the catalog, with an equal number of items renewed. A few dozen requests are placed for circulating items. The databases don't get much use, probably because it's June and few schools are in session."

Librarians to the Rescue: New Action Figure Salutes Unsung Heroes

(Broadcast by NPR on Sept. 1, 2003)

http://www.npr.org/display_pages/features/feature_1415714.html

"On this Labor Day, we pay tribute to the librarian. Librarians feed our hunger for knowledge, they steer us down the proper research path, they find us sources and citations, and dig out obscure facts.

And though their efforts often go unheralded, now librarians are represented by an action figure."

Hot Jobs Now

(Published by CNN/Money on August 29, 2003)

http://money.cnn.com/2003/08/28/pf/saving/hotjobsnow/index.htm

". . . Challenger and Monster identified three other jobs for which there has been demand across sectors: sales professionals, corporate librarians and information technology (IT) consultants."