JOINT
MEETING OF THE NEW JERSEY AND PRINCETON-TRENTON CHAPTERS
Building and Valuing Diversity in Your Organization
Trevor A. Dawes
Princeton
University Library
The
chapters gratefully acknowledge the generous support of
Springer for
this event.
Tuesday,
October 7, 2008,
5:30 – 8:30 p.m.
The
Rutgers Club
Rutgers
University
http://rutgersclub.rutgers.edu
(includes directions)
199
College Avenue
New Brunswick, NJ 08901
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Word,
pdf
Does thinking about diversity in your library make you cringe? How well do
your collection and services meet the needs of your user
population? How
do you ensure that diversity is valued in your
organization? What strategies can be used to build
community within your organizational context?
Trevor Dawes, a founding member of the New Jersey
Chapter of the Black Caucus of the American Library
Association, and past chair of the American Library
Association’s Committee on Diversity, will share his
views on these topics.
He’ll address the importance of diversity in
libraries and offer a few suggestions as to how to
make the environment more welcoming and supportive.
Trevor A. Dawes is the Circulation Services Director at the Princeton
University Library, where he is responsible for the
circulation, reserve, stack, remote storage and
BorrowDirect (a rapid, unmediated book delivery service)
operations. He
previously held several positions at the Columbia
University Libraries in New York.
He has over ten years’ experience managing access
services departments in large academic research libraries
and has helped to develop new or enhance existing services
in each of his positions.
He has worked with staff in developing and
providing training for electronic reserve services; has
written on RFID technology in libraries; has co-authored a
publication on the organization and management of access
services and is editor of a volume on electronic reserves.
Mr. Dawes earned his MLS from Rutgers
University’s School of Communication, Information, and
Library Studies, and has two additional Masters Degrees
from Teachers College, Columbia University.
He is an active member of several library
professional associations.
5:30 meet and greet / registration
6:00 “Conversation with
SLA President-Elect Gloria Zamora” –13 minute
presentation on benefits of SLA
6:20 Dinner
7:00 Presentation
NJSLA's Night at the Ballpark - August 1 in Bridgewater
If you didn't get to the Somerset Patriots Ball Park with NJSLA last
summer, you missed a good time.
If you did get there, you probably want to do it again!
Sign up now for a FIREWORKS night as the Patriots take on the Newark
Bears at their home field on Friday, August 1 at 7:05 PM.
Premium Field Box Seats are just $14 ($12.50 + $1.50 service charge)
so bring your spouse, kids or friends to enjoy the ambiance of minor
league baseball, conveniently located in Somerset County.
Deadline for registrations is MONDAY, JULY 21...so don't delay!!
You can pay by check or make it easy on yourself and use our
convenient credit card via PayPal option (you don't need a PayPal
account).
All the registration and payment information is in this link:
http://www.surveymonkey.com/s.aspx?sm=_2fINX_2fhwgoc9uzFYL6cwdRQ_3d_3d
Hope to see you there!!
Barbara
burton.barbara@gmail.com
Networking
Event
Sat., May 31 from 1:30-4:30pm
Morris County Library
NJ/SLA is organizing another Networking Event, following the success of our March 29th meeting in Westfield. We will have time for introductions, a 30-minute presentation, group discussion, and end with some light refreshments. At the end of this event, if you think these are useful, we can continue to schedule similar meetings around the area.
What: We will continue to focus on our changing profession - coping today, preparing for tomorrow, and adapting for the future.
Where: Morris County Library, first floor conference room. The library is located in Whippany, just across from the Frelinghuysen Arboretum. Directions at http://www.gti.net/mocolib1/compass.html
Bonus: Margaret Bennett, president of ProLibra Associates, will give an informal presentation with observations and insights on the changes she has seen in our profession, and where it may be going.
Who: To sign up, contact Claudia Cuca at cbc500@yahoo.com; tel (908)233-2535 from the present through May 21; after May 21, contact Susan Katz, susanekatz@att.net; tel. (973) 895-1194.
PS. If any members are attending the annual SLA meeting, which will be held in Seattle this year, would you be willing to share your thoughts in a summer get- together? In particular, if you are attending CE courses or sessions with specific skill set information, would you be willing to write those up for us? (i.e.: web design hints, better presentations on search results, CI/BI ideas, speaking with mgmt…).
Claudia Cuca
For Those
Attending SLA in June!
The West Coast Chapter Reception will be held on Sunday, June 15, 2008
from 7:30 - 10:30PM in the Cascade View Room on the 51st Floor of 2
Union Square <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Two_Union_Square>
, mere
steps away from the Convention Center. The views will be
breathtaking,
and the food - divine! We'll be featuring Pacific Northwest cuisine
and
drink. We have many sponsors for this year's event, and you can see
the
full list at our Wiki page
<http://wiki.sla.org/display/SEATTLEATTEND/West+Coast+Chapter+Reception>
.
Please plan to attend what is sure to be the party everyone will be
talking about!
Alice
Rankin Distinguished Lecture Series
Stephen
Abram--2008 President of SLA
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Stephen
Abram's Blog
Reality
2.0: Transforming Ourselves and our Association
How can we open up our associations? How can we convince tomorrow's members that SLA is valuable and worth a career-long commitment? Which technologies will help us prove and communicate our value proposition? Are there different ways to build community or to attract new community segments? Stephen Abram is 2008 President of SLA and a technology futurist and strategic technology innovator. He shares the top technologies causing change in our organizations and special librarianship. He defines a way of 'playing' with them and finding a way to make our libraries more open to our own learning, our host organizations, and fellow members. He'll end with five suggestions to enjoy change and have fun adopting new technologies.
Rutgers
Univ. Inn and Conference Center
Reality 2.0: Transforming Ourselves and our
Association
New!
Register online
(Using
PayPal, credit card, bank account
or old-fashioned check)
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NJSLA
BLOG
As you know, we now have a chapter blog, http://sla-divisions.typepad.com/njsla
. The blog will include chapter announcements, etc. and a number of individuals will be blogging regularly on a rotating schedule (about one blog post per week) on subjects of interest to the profession. This a big step towards creating a more virtual chapter--one of the goals Barbara Burton has set for NJSLA to promote communication.
You can also:
access the blog posts through RSS using My Yahoo, Google Reader, Blogspot, Newsgator, etc.
have posts emailed to you once daily
Simply go to the blog site, and you can select one or both of these options.
Interested in being a chapter blogger or contributing anything to the blog? Just let me know!
Here are the topics currently being covered:
Barbara Burton
SLA Happenings-- what's new in the chapter and the organization as a whole
Anne Marie Clift
Focus on the customer---topics about the things that have sparked positive (or negative) customer response ; commentary on case studies
Kate Creegan
Survey of the librarian blogscape--commentary on topics that have come up in other library-related blogs
Kristen Fitzpatrick
"State" of the profession (NJ & surrounding areas)--commentary on what's happening with special libraries
Beth Kaminski
Careers--discussion of various careers, specialties, and non-traditional librarianship
Eric Schwarz
Tech news and tools to use
Arda Agulian
Freedom of Information and legal, copyright issues
New
NJSLA Officers Elected at Annual Business Meeting
The
2007 NJSLA Annual Business Meeting was held in conjunction
with the Holiday Party at the Morris Museum on Tuesday,
December 4.
The
following Officers were elected:
Eric Schwarz as President-Elect, Arda Agulian as Director
of Communications, Anne Marie Clift as Secretary and Sonal
Shukla as Treasurer: details below . . .
NJSLA
also collected 3 boxes of new books for the Lincoln School
in New Brunswick.
Attendees
enjoyed the newly completed addition to the Museum which
contains the historical Guinness Collection of mechanical
musical instruments and figures, wonderful food and good
networking time.
NJSLA Officer
Candidates 2008
(see photos below)
For President-Elect—Eric Schwarz
For Director of Communications—Arda Argulian
For Secretary—Anne Marie Clift
For Treasurer—Sonal Shukla
Also serving on the Executive Board
will be President Barbara Burton and Past President Carol Feltes
We say farewell to Ruth Wolfish who
has served three years as President-Elect, President and Past
President.
We also thank and give best wishes
to Melissa Brown who is leaving as Secretary and Mary K Joyce
whose term is ending as Treasurer.
Serving as Committee Chairs are the
following:
| ARCHIVIST
|
Elizabeth
Eliason |
| BULLETIN EDITOR |
open- |
| BUSINESS MANAGER |
Kathy Bradshaw |
| CAREER GUIDANCE
/ EMPLOYMENT CHAIR |
Liz Arnold |
| CONSULTANT |
Janet Weiss |
| MEMBERSHIP |
Annette Feldman |
| MENTORING |
Linda Kunz
|
| PUBLIC RELATIONS |
open |
| STRATEGIC
PLANNING |
open |
| WEBMASTER |
Kate Creegan |
About
the Candidates
FOR PRESIDENT-ELECT
Eric Schwarz
Eric Schwarz graduated from the
Rutgers MLIS program in January 2007, with a concentration in
business research, information architecture and knowledge
management. He has worked since 2001 as a Customer Service
Executive at Dow Jones, for Factiva and Dow Jones Newswires. Eric
helps clients with research and account queries, and has led
presentations, training sessions and product testing initiatives.
During a 2006 internship at Princeton Public Library, Eric
answered research questions from customers and from other
libraries, redeveloped reporting of electronic database usage, and
helped customers use the Technology Center.
Eric joined SLA in 2005. Within
SLA, Eric has served as Webmaster for the Rutgers Chapter and as
co-convener of the Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual and Transgendered Issues
Caucus. For the New Jersey Chapter, Eric planned a get-together at
the 2007 conference in Denver. Eric’s Web site (EricTheLibrarian.com)
will lead you to his Facebook and Linked In profiles. His email is
Eric@EricTheLibrarian.com.
FOR DIRECTOR OF COMMUNICATIONS
Arda Argulian
Arda Agulian is a Senior
Information Specialist at BASF Catalysts’ Technical Information
Center (TIC). BASF Catalysts is a part of BASF Corporation
and is focused on surface and materials science in a
wide range of business areas. Her roles include patent and
literature technical searching, business and market research, and
maintenance of the TIC intranet site. She has been at BASF
(formerly Engelhard Corp.) for the past 10 years.
Arda is a Political Science/
English graduate of Rutgers University and received
her MLS from Rutgers as well. She has been a member of the
NJSLA program committee and is currently Director of
Communications for the chapter as well as Program Associate
Liaison.
FOR SECRETARY
Anne Marie Clift
After a brief stint working for a
"dot bomb," and a few years doing web design and content
management for a major book publisher, Anne Marie Clift
graduated from C.W. Post/Long Island University in 2004 with a
MSLIS and a Certificate in Archives and Records Management.
Her first professional librarian position was through Library
Co-Op at J&J Corporate in New Brunswick, NJ, working in the
Worldwide Quality and Compliance Information Center.
Currently, she is employed by Bayer HealthCare Pharmaceuticals
(formerly Berlex Laboratories) as a Senior Information Scientist,
specializing in biomedical and regulatory searching, business and
competitive information, current awareness, and charged with
providing end-user training and technical support for all things
"e" - online databases, eBooks, and eJournals. She
has been a member of SLA since 2003.
FOR TREASURER
Sonal Shukla
Sonal Shukla is Director of the
Information Resource Center at Centeon Management Group in
Somerville, NJ. In this role, she develops, maintains,
enhances and promotes all aspects of the company’s virtual
resources. She is also a part time Reference Librarian at
East Brunswick Public Library. Sonal’s past positions have
included Manager of Library Services at Ingenix, Web Developer,
Product Management and Marketing, at Telcordia, Medical
Librarian/Continuing Medical Education Coordinator at St.
Elizabeth Hospital, Health Sciences Librarian at Rahway Hospital
and library technician at Saint Peter’s Hospital.
Sonal has a BA from the University
of Bombay, an MLS from Rutgers University. She has been an
SLA member since 1999.
NJSLA PRESIDENT
Barbara Burton
Barbara Burton is currently a
consultant in the information industry focusing on marketing
communications and customer training programs for a variety of
clients. She spent over 20 years at Dow Jones and Factiva
working in Marketing and Sales programs for Information
Professionals. Her information career began with the New
York Times Information Bank as an indexer and abstractor and also
included a stint at Dun & Bradstreet. Barbara is the
librarian for the Presbyterian Church in Westfield, NJ. She
has a BA in History from Northwestern University and an MLS from
Rutgers.
Barbara has been an SLA member
since 1988 and served as Professional Development Chair for NJSLA
from 2004-2006. She worked with NJSLA Past President Rita
Reisman to help bring Indonesian librarian and NJSLA international
colleague Widharto to the SLA Annual Conference in Toronto in
2005.
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