SLA-Iowa Chapter

2008 SLA Conference Scholarship Winner

SLA-Iowa Chapter awarded Elizabeth Hoover de Galvez its 2008 Student Scholarship to attend the 2008 SLA Annual Conference in Seattle. Elizabeth, an Iowa native, was raised in West Des Moines and attended Valley High School. She graduated in 2007 from the University of Iowa with a B.A. in Interdepartmental Health Studies.  In 2006, Elizabeth became a small business owner, publishing and distributing a Spanish-language bulletin twice monthly.  

She became more aware of SLA-Iowa and its parent organization during her first semester in library school when an SLA-IA member came to one of her classes to discuss the field.  Elizabeth's exposure to SLA via the Iowa chapter has opened up the world of corporate and company information and knowledge management.  She's anxious to learn and develop new skills to help with her current business, and to expand her knowledge in analyzing company information and competitive intelligence research.  During the Spring of 2008, Elizabeth had the opportunity to work in a special library for several weeks and came to better understand how special librarians fit within their organizations. She is looking forward to beginning a job search within special libraries in anticipation of her December 2008 graduation.

In her letter of recommendation, Padmini Srinvasan, University of Iowa Professor, spoke of Elizabeth's "phenomenal" performance since joining the MA program as a Digital Library Fellow. The project is about using XML to make existing health texts more accessible for diverse cultures and for non-literate and semi-literate populations.  During their work together, Professor Srinvasan gives nearly full credit to Elizabeth for building, demonstrating and having had accepted a prototype of a health literacy book titled "Where there is no doctor."  In addition to presenting at the Document Academy Conference in 2008 (University of Wisconsin-Madison) in March, a proposal was submitted in January 2008 to the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to convert the complete book using Srinivasan and Galvez's XML model. 

We look forward to Galvez's report during our Fall 2008 meeting and her essay about her Seattle experience in the December 2008 issue of the Iowa Chapter Bulletin, SLA@iowa.

Spring Meeting, May 23, 2008.

State Historical Building, Room B on 3W
600 East Locust
Des Moines, IA 50319-0290
(515) 281-5111

Registration Form

Program 

• 9-9:30 a.m.                         Refreshments/Registration
• 9:30-10:30 a.m.                  Welcoming Remarks and announcements
• 10:30-11 a.m.                     Business Meeting
• 11:15-noon                          Sandy Dixon, State Library Program Director
• 12-1:30 p.m.                        Lunch – see below for information on lunch choices
• 1:30-2:30 p.m.                     Doug Haefele, Biofuels in Iowa, Pioneer Hi-Bred Int'l
• 2:45-3:45 p.m.                     Thomson Reuters updates
• 3:45-4:30 p.m.                     State Historical Building Library tour (optional)

Lunch information:

This year, we thought we’d do something a little different. Taking our lead from many national conferences, we are introducing dine-arounds. By meeting at the State Historical Building, we are in the heart of Des Moines’ East Village. The East Village has undergone a revitalization process over the last few years, and offers a wonderful variety of places to eat. Members of the SLA-Iowa Board will be coordinating lunch at several of the restaurants listed here: http://www.eastvillagedesmoines.com/Dining/tabid/65/Default.aspx. We will be organizing lunch groups during the morning of the meeting—just bring your wallet and an adventurous attitude!

To get here from the I-235:

Take Exit 8B toward E 6th St./ Penn Ave.
Turn Left at Grand Ave.
The Historical Building is on the right side of the street.

**Free parking is available directly across from the building in a ramp on Grand Avenue. In addition, there is metered parking on the streets surrounding the building.

Save the Date!

Spring Meeting, May 23, 2008.

State Historical Building, Des Moines

Hello all!

I hope that everyone is having a wonderful almost-first-day-of-spring! After so much snow for so many of us this winter, it's nice to think that this winter is almost over.

With the coming of spring, so comes the SLA-Iowa Spring Meeting. We will be meeting on May 23, 2008, at the State Historical Building in downtown Des Moines. Look for a meeting agenda, registration forms and speaker information in a few weeks.  In the meantime, add the meeting to your calendar and get ready to visit Des Moines!

Beth Arnold, Programming Co-Chair.

SLA-Iowa Chapter Student Scholarship (Deadline January 31, 2008)

Are you interested in a paid, guided tour of your first professional conference? Look no further.

The Iowa Chapter of SLA will award a $1200 stipend to a library and information science student
to attend SLA's Annual Conference in Seattle, Washington, June 15-18, 2008. Click here for more info

Fall Meeting, November 9, 2007

Driving Directions

Parking-Main Library

Map to Main Library

Registration Form

Program