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Past Events

COSLA Annual Business Meeting

November 17th, 2009 at 6:30 p.m.

Please join SLA Central Ohio Chapter for our annual business meeting!

The Winds Cafe
215 Xenia Ave
Yellow Springs, OH 45387
937.767.1144

http://www.windscafe.com/

Please R.S.V.P. by November 13 to Melissa Hill at hill_mk@hotmail.com or hillm2@ohiodominican.edu.

Attendees will have the opportunity to order from the menu. The meeting will be held as we await our food. The slate for next year's officers was announced earlier this week by our current Director, Karen Jensen.

We do still have some open positions for 2010, those of Membership Chair and Alignment Ambassador. Please consider serving in one of these capacities or on the Planning Committee.

Contact Melissa if you are interested or have any questions! If you have any items for discussion at the meeting, please submit them to Melissa before November 13.

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CO-SLA November Social Hour!

Please note that the date has been changed so that Ruth Wolfish may join us. She is the president of SLA's Chapter Cabinet. This will be an excellent opportunity for us to discuss the activities of the organization. I hope many of you will be able to attend! (Melissa)

November 3, 2009 at 5:30 p.m.

Special Libraries Association Central Ohio Chapter invites you to join us for a social gathering at Claddagh Irish Pub during the first week of November! This is a great opportunity to get to know members of the chapter, network, and relax.

Claddagh Irish Pub (in the Brewery District)
585 S. Front St.
Columbus, OH 43215
Phone: (614) 224-1560

http://claddaghirishpubs.com/

No R.S.V.P. is necessary. However, you are welcome to email Melissa Hill at hill_mk@hotmail.com so that we can estimate how many people are coming.

While this event is intended for current, future, and past library professionals, everyone is welcome. The more the merrier!

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Bulls Eye! – Hitting Your Mark in Presentations

(Designing and Delivering Effective Presentations)

Speaker: Sue Polanka
Tuesday, October 6, 2009 10:00am-4:00pm

workshop attendee making 3-minute presentation

Workshop attendee giving 3-minute presentation

Are you tired of presenting the same information? Do you sound like a broken record? Are you ready to lose those butterflies in your stomach? Want to freshen up your presentation skills in a fun, interactive, and non-threatening environment? Then Special Libraries Association's Central Ohio Chapter invites you to this full day public speaking workshop with Sue Polanka!

This program offers practical advice to librarians (from librarians) who want to develop or improve their presentation skills. Presentation design and organization, learning styles, delivery techniques, getting high-tech, overcoming anxiety, and plenty of other helpful tips and tricks for successful presentations will be discussed and practiced. Each attendee will have the opportunity to do a 3-minute presentation to a small group.

Fee: $35 for members
$25 for students/retirees
$55 for nonmembers

State Library of Ohio
274 E 1st Ave # 100
Columbus, OH 43201
Parking is available in the adjacent parking lot at no charge.

Space is limited! Please R.S.V.P. to Melissa Hill at hill_mk@hotmail.com by Friday, October 2.

Boxed lunches from Panera Bread will be provided at no extra cost. You will have the opportunity to select your sandwich in advance.

About our speaker:

Sue Polanka earned a degree from University of Dayton in Communication - Public Speaking as well as her Master of Library Science from Kent State University. She has been Head of Reference and Instruction at Wright State University for last 5 years.

Sue previously worked at University of Dayton as well as Texas State Library and Archives Commission. Her presentation skills were polished while in Texas, providing workshops to librarians across the state as a Continuing Education Consultant for TSLAC.

She is the librarian behind No Shelf Required - a blog about eBooks for librarians and publishers. Sue is the current Chair of Booklist's Reference Books Bulletin Advisory Board and a member of the Booklist Advisory Board.

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Tour OSU's Thompson Library with SLA!

The Special Libraries Association Central Ohio Chapter invites you to tour The Ohio State University's newly renovated William Oxley Thompson Library with Larry Allen. You can find information about the renovation project at OSU's website.

September 10, 2009
Tour begins at 11:00AM

Lunch afterward at
The Happy Greek in the South Campus Gateway

1858 Neil Avenue Mall
Columbus, OH
43210-1286

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CO-ASIS&T and CO-SLA Joint Program

You are invited to a special program, co-sponsored by the Central Ohio Chapter of the American Society for Information Science & Technology (CO-ASIS&T) and the Special Libraries Association (SLA) on Tuesday, August 4, 2009 at The Columbus Dispatch:

What types of information and systems does a news library (and a newspaper) use? We'll answer that question by looking at the information systems, tools and the physical facilities of the editorial library at the Columbus Dispatch. The Dispatch uses a variety of open source tools to build and present the Dispatch's editorial intranet. Come and see what's involved in providing research information to a news organization.

Presenter Julie Albert, Information Specialist for the Columbus Dispatch, has an MLS from Kent State University and a BS in Computer Science and Engineering from OSU. Join us for this program, specially co-sponsored by CO-ASIS&T and the SLA. This program is free, however, registration is limited.

WHEN: Tuesday, August 4th, 2009

6:30 - 7:00 pm - Refreshments and Networking

7:00 - 8:00 pm - Presentation, Tour and Q & A

WHERE: The Columbus Dispatch, 34 South Third Street, Columbus OH 43215

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Parking available at the Statehouse Garage, east of the Dispatch.

RSVP to Dr. Laura Cheng at yrcheng[at]kent.edu

Laura Cheng, Ph.D., M.L.S.

LRC Manager

Bohecker College - Columbus

Phone: 614.882.2551

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The Dayton Daily News: Challenge and Opportunity

Moving, Preserving and Providing Access for One Hundred Years of Dayton History

Join Special Libraries Association for a presentation about the Dayton Daily News Archives! When the Dayton Daily News moved out of it 100-year-old building in downtown Dayton, it did not move its archive. A few years and some negotiations later, Wright State University Special Collections & Archives staff "rescued" the immense archive from the unheated building. Our speaker is Dawne Dewey, Head of Wright State University Libraries Special Collection and Archives.

Date: Wednesday, April 22, 2009
Time: Meet at 5:30; program begins at 5:45
Place: Center for Performance Excellence at the Kettering Center

140 East Monument Ave.
Dayton, OH 45402
Directions to the Kettering Center

Please R.S.V.P. to Mary Lou Baker Jones at marylou.jones[at]wright.edu by Monday, April 20 and please indicate whether you plan to attend dinner.

Parking: Enter the parking lot immediately after passing the Kettering Center Building on Monument Street (one-way west-bound). Park and go inside the building to the front desk for a temporary parking permit. If there is an attendant in the lot, tell him/her that you are at the Kettering Center for a meeting so that you do not get charged for parking for a Dayton Dragons Baseball game.

Dinner: Join us for dinner after the presentation at Pacchia (410 E. Fifth Street, 45402) in Dayton's historic Oregon District. We'll have our own dining room. Check out the menu!

Directions to Pacchia from the Kettering Center: Exit the parking lot onto St. Clair Street and turn right. In about 4 blocks, turn left on Fifth Street. After you pass under a brightly painted railroad bridge, look for Pacchia on your right and a parking lot at Fifth and Pine on your left. Pacchia has free evening parking privileges in that lot.

The Dayton Dragons' stadium is two blocks from the Kettering Center and the team has a 7:00 game that night. For ticket information, see their web site at http://www.daytondragons.com/

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The Special Libraries Association Central Ohio Chapter invites you to tour Mount Carmel Health Sciences Library with Stevo Roksandic. See what is happening in medical libraries today and learn about the services that they offer their patrons!

Center for Learning and Education, 3rd Floor
127 S. Davis Ave.
Columbus, OH 43222

Our CO-SLA Planning Committee will meet February 4 at 4PM at Ohio Dominican University. If you are interested in participating but have not notified me, please let me know. Otherwise, I look forward to seeing you at our meetings this year!

Melissa Hill
CO-SLA President

It's time for our rescheduled 2009 annual business meeting at Der Dutchman in Plain City!

Please R.S.V.P. by January 17 to Melissa at hill_mk[at]hotmail.com. We will need to fill positions for President-Elect and Secretary. We will also need volunteers for a planning committee, which will meet in February. Contact Melissa to volunteer for any of these positions. If you have any subjects for discussion, please submit them to Melissa by January 17.