Are you interested in exploring influential ideas and sharing your insights with fellow information professionals?

Participate in our DC/SLA Book Club!

Created in 2002, our Chapter’s club meets quarterly to discuss current, thought-provoking books of wide interest to our professional community. The goal of our discussions is to highlight each book’s unique points and useful takeaways through a lively exchange of ideas.

Prior to each meeting, participants nominate recent, compelling books, and vote for the title they would like to discuss at the next gathering. Books we have read in the last year include: The Search: How Google and Its Rivals Rewrote the Rules of Business and Transformed Our Culture; Reading Lolita in Tehran : A Memoir in Books; Freakonomics; The World is Flat; and Execution: The Discipline of Getting Things Done. Since 2005, we have met at diverse Metro-accessible restaurants recommended by our participants.

Next Book Club Meeting:

Date and Time: 6:30 PM Tuesday, October 13, 2009

Book: The Library At Night
By Albert Manguel

Meeting Location: Teaism (Penn Quarter location)
at 400 8th Street, NW, on the corner of 8th and D Streets, visible from the Archives/Navy Memorial Metro Station; phone (202) 877-8TEAISM. 
Note that this is the Penn Quarter location, not the Dupont Circle location.

Meeting Hosted by: Layla Heimlich
Please RSVP: Layla_Voll@hotmail.com or 202-877-5296.

Inspired by the process of creating a library for his fifteenth-century home near the Loire, in France, Alberto Manguel, the acclaimed writer on books and reading, has taken up the subject of libraries. “Libraries,” he says, “have always seemed to me pleasantly mad places, and for as long as I can remember I’ve been seduced by their labyrinthine logic.” In this personal, deliberately unsystematic, and wide-ranging book, he offers a captivating meditation on the meaning of libraries..

Do you know of a great book we should discuss at an upcoming meeting?Please send your suggestion to: Layla Heimlich at Layla_Voll@hotmail.com.

Additional Questions: Contact Layla Heimlich(Layla_Voll@hotmail.com)

Past Book Selections:

July 29, 2009 A Whole New Mind: Why Right Brainers Will Rule the Future
By Daniel Pink

April 22, 2009 Outliers: The Story of Success By Malcom Gladwell

Jan. 27, 2009 The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable by Nassim Nicholas Taleb

Oct. 29, 2008 The Future of Reputation: Gossip, Rumor and Privacy on the Internet
by Daniel Solove

July 15, 2008. Tagging: People-powered Metadata for the Social Web by Gene Smith

April 7, 2008. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies by Jared Diamond

Jan. 16, 2008. Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking by Malcolm Gladwell

Oct. 1, 2007. Library 2.0 and Beyond: Innovative Technologies and Tomorrow's User edited by Nancy Courtney.

July 11, 2007. Wikinomics : How Mass Collaboration Changes Everything by Don Tapscott and Anthony D. Williams.

April 23, 2007 . Made to Stick: Why Some Ideas Survive and Others Die by Chip Heath and Dan Heath. 

January 11, 2007 . Thinking for a Living by Thomas Davenport. October 16, 2006 . The Search by John Bagatelle.

July 19, 2006. Reading Lolita in Tehran : A Memoir in Books by Azar Nafisi.

April 20, 2006. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything by Steven D. Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner

January 12, 2006. The World is Flat: A Brief History of the Twenty-First Century by Thomas Friedman.

October 6, 2005. Execution: The Discipline of Getting Things Done by Larry Bossidy and Ram Charan,

May 19, 2005. Crucial Conversations: Tools for Talking When Stakes Are High by Kerry Patterson, el. al

September 2004 Good Business: Leadership, Flow & the Making of Meaning by Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

July, 2004. Emotional Design: Why We Love (or Hate) Everyday Things by Donald A. Norman.

May 13, 2004 Free Culture: How Big Media Uses Technology and the Law to Lock Down Culture and Control Creativity by Lawrence Lessing

March 25, 2004. Why Don’t You Want What I Want? How to Win Support for Your Ideas without Hard Sell, Manipulation, or Power Plays by Rick Mauer.

January 22, 2004. When Generations Collide by Lynne C. Lancaster and David Stillman

November 13, 2003. Nothing to Fear: Lessons in Leadership from FDR by Alan Axelrod

October 2, 2003. Alexander the Great’s Art of Strategy by Partha Bose

May 8, 2003.  Web of Deception: Misinformation on the Internet by Anne Mintz and Steve Forbes.

March, 2003. Fierce Conversations: Achieving Success at Work and in Life One Conversation at a Time by Susan Scott.

January 16, 2003.  Good to Great: Why Some Companies Make the Leap…And Others Don’t by James C. Collins. 

November 7, 2002. The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference by Malcolm Gladwell.

September 19, 2002. The Essential Drucker: The Best of Sixty Years of Peter Drucker’s Essential Writing on Management by Peter Drucker.