Archives of announcements on the HOA website

March 31, 2009

Measuring Your Impact:
Using Evaluation for Information Services Advocacy
Midwest Research Institute
March 31, 2009
8:30 a.m. Registration
9:00 a.m. - 4:00 p.m. Seminar
(Lunch Included)

$20.00 for SLA members
$30.00 for non-members

Presenters: Barbara Jones and Betsy Kelly

Information about the seminar,
including the Event Registration Sheet
(fillable PDF)

December 2008

Congratulations to our new officers:
Margo Campbell-Szabo, President-Elect
Carl Smith, Treasurer (elected for another term)

July 17, 2008
Tour of Federal Reserve Bank

Thanks to the efforts of Ellen Johnson, longtime SLA member who works at the Federal Reserve Bank, SLA-HOA has secured a tour slot during the first month of tours of the new facility!

We will be touring the Kansas City Office of the Federal Reserve Bank on Thursday, July 17 at 1:15 pm.

http://www.kc.frb.org/kansascity/

At this point in time, the parking situation has not been finalized. Also, please sign up by e-mailing both myself (curtiss@lindahall.org) and Ellen (ellen.johnson@kc.frb.org) so that we can make sure that you are alerted about the identification you will need to tour the building, and parking arrangements.

Following the tour, there will be refreshments in the Fed's library. This is an excellent mid-summer opportunity to get together, network with fellow information professionals, and see this brand new facility.

Again, mark your calendars for Thursday, July 17 at 1:15 pm to tour the Federal Reserve Bank facility with SLA's Heart of America Chapter!

May 12, 2008

Patent Search Strategies at Linda Hall Library

On May 12th 2008 at 3:30 p.m. at the Linda Hall Library, Michelle Lahey, a 20+-year-member of SLA and reference librarian at Linda Hall, will present a talk on patent search strategies.

Linda Hall Library is a US Patent and Trademark Depository Library (USPTDL). Every year it sends librarians for training on the latest techniques of patent searching. In the past several years, as more of the resources of the Patent and Trademark Office have become available on the Internet, the USPTDL has made several changes in its recommended search strategies.

Come to Linda Hall Library, located at 5109 Cherry Street in Kansas City, and learn how this impacts your patent searching. A lively discussion is sure to follow the program.

March 14, 2008

The SLA at SLIM group has arranged an event at the KU Spencer Library in Lawrence, Kansas. Karen Cook of the Department of Special Collections will speak on the library's special collections. This will be a great opportunity to get together and meet with some of our student members, while touring a truly wonderful library at the same time!

The SLA-HOA chapter awarded $250 each to two student members in our chapter planning on attending the 2007 SLA Conference in Denver this June. The students are Kate Rogge and Eric Hutchinson.

The student application information read as follows: If you are a member in SLA and the Heart of America Chapter, and interested in applying, please send the following to the HOA board via email by March 9th (email Ginger Shields at vbshields@yahoo.com):

The Heart of America Chapter is pleased to announce two new chapter awards for professional excellence. The requirements for Heart of America (Distinguished service) Award and Promising Professional (Student) Award requirements are listed below, along with a Nomination Form. Questions? Contact Carol Doms. 816-460-3072.

If there is someone you would like to see honored at our Annual Business Meeting, please send nominations to Carol Doms, HOA Award Committee Chair. Deadline for nominations is April 5, 2006.

Required
· Must be a member of good standing for at min. of 5 years. (consecutive paid membership)
· Outstanding or leadership/service to the Chapter, at meetings, committee work and participation in special projects.*

Special Consideration
· Extracurricular activities, which provide the profession and/or the Chapter with commendable publicity and acclaim.*

· Other achievements indicating noteworthy dedication to the profession of special librarianship/information science.*

Required
· Must be a Student member of the Heart of America Chapter.
· An active participant in the chapter.
· Recommendation by SLA Chapter Student Advisor.
· Eligibility. Currently enrolled student or post graduate up to 6 months after graduation. (If award is given at Annual Business Meeting in May, December graduates would still be eligible.)

Presidents Message

I encourage everyone to participate in HOA. Contact any of these officers to offer ideas or help. We look forward to hearing from you!

Our first program this year will be held in Emporia on October 22nd. It includes a tour of the University Archives and a presentation by Ed Burgess on Digitization. Mark your calendars for this event!

In November we are teaming up with SCIP (Society of Competitive Intelligence Professionals) to give them insight into SLA and for our members to learn more about SCIP. This program will be November 17th beginning at 5:00 pm. More program announcements are on the way!

If you are a member of HOA, be sure that your information is correct on the SLA web site and that you are a member of our listserv.

Gail Kammer

HOA Chapter is to receive an award at the national meeting of the SLA for its committment to student groups. The chapter was nominated by Lu Dayrit, HOA President and she has just received the award anouncement reproduced below.

Understanding the value of its membership among students and in the academic community, the Special Libraries Association issues Certificates of Recognition for Promoting Student Group Activities. At the Annual Conference, SLA pays special tribute to organizations that provide outstanding service to students. I am pleased to inform you that the Heart of America Chapter (CHOA) will receive the first place SLA Certificate of Merit for Chapter/Division Dedicated to the Support of Student Groups.

The official presentation of your Certificate of Merit Award will be made, to a representative of the Chapter, during SLA's Annual Conference in Toronto at SLA's Student & Academic Relations Committee's Awards and Scholarship Presentation, to be held Monday, June 6, 2005, from 3:30 - 5:00 p.m. I congratulate you as Chapter President. Please extend my congratulations to your executive board, liaisons to the SLA Student Group and to members of the Heart of America Chapter.

From the Nominating Committee

Proposed nominations to fill the 3 officer positions opening up as voting members of the Heart of America Chapter Board.

Inside HOA, members of the Executive Board and Committee Chairs have met several times since June 2004. Significant to our meeting agenda was the carrying out of HOA's strategic goals and objectives. To have that 'flow' in HOA membership, we visited several ESU SLIM and UMC SISLT classes. During these visits, we shared our experiences and encouraged students to join us... and I see that it is surely working.

Our membership is continually getting stronger, what with the addition of two Librarians from Shook, Hardy, & Bacon Library, who recently joined us. I am pleased to let you know that Shook Library is at the top of HOA membership list, with seven Librarians.

As few of us in the Executive Board are completing our terms, it is significant to let you know of our accomplishments during our annual business meeting.

Annual business meeting - the event that I am hoping you will attend. I would love to meet all of you ; our members from Washburn, K State, American Institute of Baking, KU, GCSAA (Golf Course Supt Assn of America) and others outside of Kansas City, may I encourage you to join us for this get-together : May 12th, 5:30 - 9:30/10 pm at Ritz Charles, Overland Park. There will be lots of networking, good food, and great speech by Ethel Salonen, SLA President. Ethel will be coming from Boston and will be our guest from May 11-14th. She will speak on 'Managing leadership : yours and those you lead'. Details of the event will be sent by Gail Kammer, Program Chair.

Dr. Cathy Perley, our Director of Student Relations and SLA@SLIM Faculty Advisor, has finalized Ms. Salonen's schedule of activities. She will be visiting Linda Hall Library, UMKC Miller Nichols Library, Sprint Corporate Research Center, Kansas City Public Library, Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City Research Library, Shook Hardy & Bacon Library and Hallmark Cards Libraries.

Hello SLA HOA members, I am pleased to let you know that we have success stories in assisting our student members prepare for their carreers. I am thanking everyone's support in making HOA a dynamic organization.

Few weeks ago, I informed you of Christine Barrett's internship at CARL in Fort Leavenworth that led to her full-time position as a Reference Librarian.

I heard from Scott Curtis. Last summer, Scott completed internship at Linda Hall. Recently, he accepted a job offer for a Reference Librarian/Search Services Coordinator position at Linda Hall. If you remember, Scott made a presentation during our annual business dinner meeting last May. He was the Past President of SLA@SLIM, our student group at the ESU SLIM. Scott hopes to attend our programs this year now that he is in KC!

A note from Scott : " I must thank you and HOA for providing me with Mary Moeller as a contact at Linda Hall for my practicum. My employment offer can be traced directly to the positive experiences I had during this practicum. Without your help and the support of HOA, I may not have realized the opportunity I now enjoy."

I also heard from Darrell Willoughby. Darrell was one of ESU SLIM students who was always there when it comes to volunteering during the programs. With his attendance during HOA programs, he made our conversations lively. He had great stories ! Darrell worked at the ESU Newman Nursing Library then at the Olathe Medical Center Library. I received this note below from Darrell few weeks ago.

Here's what he says : "Hi Lu, My practicum experience at the University of Nebraska Medical Center School of Medicine (McGoogan Library of Medicine) in Omaha last February paid off for me. I have been working as the Library Services representative for the VA Medical Center since the first of the year! I work for the university. They have a contract with the VA. Thanks again for your sponsorship of the SLIM students. I will always remember the tours and the dinners. Darrrel".

My hope in sharing you their notes is to continue strengthen our relationships with our student members or even non-members. I encourage everyone to open your doors to our students when they request for observational practicums; when they have questions or when they may need to interview you for their papers... or when they are looking for libraries of their interest to get a feel of the 'real world' in librarianship - what it is like to be a law librarian, advertising librarian, medical librarian or what is it like to be a solo librarian, reference librarian ... or an information professional in a non-traditional library setting or information broker, just to name a few of the experiences we have in this membership.