SLA Hawaii-Pacific Chapter Newsletter
September 2004
| Table of Contents |
| President's Message |
| Business Meeting |
| Student Chapter Revival |
| Terese's Nashville Report |
| P. K. Jain's SLA Report |
| Fun at Nashville |
| Australia and New Zealand Chapter |
| List of Freebies |
President's Message
Greetings Chapter Members!
If you attended the annual meeting last May, you are aware the other
officers presently are: Past-President, Susan Johnson; President-Elect,
Amy Saxton and continuing Board Members, Kris Anderson (Treasurer),
Franda Liu (Network), Sara Rutter (Membership), Gwen Sinclair (Program
Chair) and Phyllis Tabusa (Secretary).
Joining the Board are Directors Ann Marsteller, and Elaine Schultz. We will be meeting regularly with Student SLA-ASIST
Chapter President Richard Miles, as the student members are bringing
new and fresh ideas to the group.
This was evident at our first meeting to kick off the school year,
an icebreaker where we invited the Student Chapter to meet with us for
a screening of a recently purchased SLA program, “Exploring Alternative
Careers.” It was produced as
a session in SLA’s Career Development Series, and available online as
a replay. This was our first attempt to purchase one
of these programs from SLA, which are increasingly offered remotely,
after the fact to interested parties.
As we learned, these are basically streaming audio with graphics,
in this case, a series of slides.
Preferring a dynamic interchange that evening, we decided to
focus on some of the highlights of the 90-minute presentation.
Little did we anticipate that around 3 pm that Friday (August
27) the server providing the program would be down for maintenance!
Relying on flexibility and superb mental recall, Gwen, the new
program chair, was able to reconstruct the more useful aspects of the
talk and we were able to bring in some personal suggestions of our own.
Kudos to Gwen for winging it! (SLA has offered another program
and maybe we should consider making our own!)
When Kris Anderson and Terese Leber returned from SLA Nashville,
they raved about humor therapist, Eileen Lundberg, who spoke at the
Conference. We discussed inviting
her to Hawaii, and eventually managed to cosponsor her appearance at
the Hawaii Library Association Annual Conference. She is scheduled to
be the dinner speaker on Saturday night, October 23. The HLA Conference
is being held this year at Turtle Bay Resort on Oahu, October 23-24. Hope many of you plan to attend.
From the sounds of it, there will be lots of belly laughs Saturday
night.
In the next several weeks the membership will be asked to respond
to a questionnaire. We need
to find out who you are and what you would like from membership in this
SLA Chapter. In going through boxes of Chapter records we
discovered that a survey was conducted in 1994 and we would like to
compare new results with those. I
have started entering questions into SurveyMonkey, a program made available
to all SLA members as a communication tool, either for voting or polling. Once the questions are online, e-mail notification
is made supplying the link to the survey. The program consolidates the
results. Once you receive notification
of the survey you can enter your feedback on-line, preferably within
2 weeks. We’d like to keep it
the survey short, although the 1994 survey was quite lengthy. Please
take the survey seriously and expect to provide some honest comments
and suggestions in how membership can be meaningful for you.
I’m looking forward to serving as Chapter President this year and
hope we all benefit from some professional development during the course
of it.
Linda Sjogren