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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>
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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)
flyer
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
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Elizabeth
Eliason |
| BULLETIN EDITOR |
open- |
| BUSINESS MANAGER |
Kathy Bradshaw |
| CAREER GUIDANCE
/ EMPLOYMENT CHAIR |
Liz Arnold |
| CONSULTANT |
Janet Weiss |
| MEMBERSHIP |
Annette Feldman |
| MENTORING |
Linda Kunz
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| 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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Special
Libraries Association Continues Dialogue with U.S.
Environmental Protection Agency on Library Closures
SLA
Obtains Clarification from EPA Surrounding Recent Media
Reports on Closures
The
release is posted on sla.org
here: http://www.sla.org/content/SLA
/pressroom/pressrelease/07pr
/pr2712.cfm.
Alexandria,
Virginia, USA, 9 May 2007—
In a continuation of the dialogue between Special
Libraries Association (SLA) and the U.S. Environmental
Protection Agency (EPA), officials from both organizations
met on Monday in an effort to clarify recent media reports
that libraries were closing and materials discarded within
the EPA’s regional library network. The meeting, called by
SLA, was the fourth between the two organizations which have
been in communication since February 2006 about EPA’s
future plans concerning the operations of its network
special libraries.
“SLA
has been diligent in reaching out to EPA officials, getting
status reports, and sharing the expertise of our members,
and we will continue to work closely with EPA on this issue.
Our meetings have been open and informative, and we
appreciate that EPA is responding to SLA’s concerns and
giving our members a voice as the agency implements changes
to its operations policies and procedures within the
regional library network,” said Janice Lachance, CEO of
SLA.
During
an April 6 meeting at SLA Headquarters, Mike Flynn EPA
Director, Office of Information Analysis and Access Office
of Environmental Information told SLA that further closures
and changes to EPA library network have been “frozen” as
the agency works to develop and implement policies and
procedures, as well as goals and a strategic direction that
would best serve the needs of the public and EPA scientists.
Flynn
confirmed in a letter on May 8 to SLA that this was indeed
still the case, “I assure you that we are working
diligently toward the goals I have discussed with you. EPA
is committed to increasing access to environmental
information through a combination of online and traditional
library services via the EPA Library Network.”
Flynn
will appear in person to address the recent reports as well
as share future plans with SLA members in three weeks at the
2007 SLA Annual Conference, 3-6 June in Denver, Colo.
He is scheduled to provide a status update on the EPA’s
plans for its library network on Tuesday, 5 June, 2007
9-10:30 a.m. as one part of SLA’s Public Policy Update.
For
detailed information on the status of EPA libraries:
·
Letter
from Mike Flynn to SLA's Chief Policy Officer
·
EPA
Interim Library Policy
·
Draft
Dispersion Procedures
·
Draft
Library Usage Statistics
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NOTE: the SLA-NJ list
will now be the SLA-CNJ list
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Special
Libraries Association Begins Planning for 2009 Centennial
President
Appoints Commission to Oversee 100-year Anniversary, Invites SLA Members to
Participate in Creating Framework for Year-long Celebration
Alexandria,
Virginia, USA, 11 April 2007—
2009 marks the 100-year anniversary of the founding of the Special Libraries
Association by John Cotton Dana in 1909 as a professional association dedicated
to serving the needs and interests of professionals who handle specialized
information and research services. Today SLA announces the creation of the
SLA Centennial Commission and asks its 11,500 members to send ideas and thoughts
on how to best celebrate its 100 year anniversary to the Commission via the
email address 100@sla.org.
“The
Centennial is a pivotal milestone for our Association and it is vital that we
engage SLA members in the planning of the celebration in 2009. We
encourage members to send their beneficial suggestions via email to 100@sla.org
from across the globe so we may create a year-long event that makes all SLA
members proud to be a part of this community,” said SLA President Rebecca B.
Vargha. “I am confident that the talented members appointed to the
commission will work with the Association staff and SLA Units to formulate a
wonderful celebration and annual conference that commemorates this important
anniversary while recognizing our innovative past and inspiring a
state-of-the-art future for the profession.”
The
SLA Centennial Commission:
- Commission
Chair:
Dav
Robertson, National
Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, Research Triangle Park, North
Carolina
- Tom
Calcagni,
Chief Communications Strategist, SLA, Alexandria, Virginia
- David
Cappoli,
UCLA, Los Angeles, California
- Patricia
Cia,
Langara College, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
-
Nick Collison,
Prenax, New York City (formerly of the United Kingdom)
- Kristin
Foldvik,
Director, Events, SLA, Alexandria, Virginia
- Stacey
Greenwell,
University of Kentucky, Lexington, Kentucky
- DeVonne
Henry,
Director, Exhibits, SLA, Alexandria, Virginia
- Jill
Konieczko,
US News & World Report, Washington, D.C.
- Karen
Kreizman Reczek,
Bureau Veritas, Buffalo, New York
- John
Larrier,
Elsevier, New York City
- Lynne
McCay
, Congressional Research Service, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.
- Tamika
McCollough,
North Carolina A&T State University, Greensboro, North Carolina
The
commission has started work on the theme and the activities surrounding the
Centennial and is asking for ideas and inspiration from all SLA members.
Please send any thoughts for consideration by the Centennial Commission to 100@sla.org
About
SLA
The Special Libraries Association (SLA) is a nonprofit global organization for
innovative information professionals and their strategic partners. SLA serves
more than 11,500 members in 75 countries in the information profession,
including corporate, academic, and government information specialists. SLA
promotes and strengthens its members through learning, advocacy, and networking
initiatives. For more information, visit us on the Web at
www.sla.org
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Constance
(Connie) J. Fontana has been named the recipient of our
chapter's first scholarship. Read her essay
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new 'Dine Arounds' will be posted
on the Dine-Around page as
they become available
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Buddy!
Have you ever attended a
function and knew absolutely NO ONE in the room? You
try to not act like a wallflower. Perhaps, you
slowly walk near a group of people waiting for someone to
talk to you. Without knowing it, you have
successfully studied the intricate pattern of the Oriental
rug that you are standing on. It is a
situation that we all can relate to.
Yet, it would all be different if one had a "dinner
buddy" to meet at the function and sit with during
dinner.
You can help a meeting's first time attendee feel welcome
by being their dinner buddy for that particular meeting.
Being a dinner buddy does not require you to fill out a
lot of paperwork, (except for the registration form of
course) no report to submit, no need to give up your first
born-just pleasant dinner conversation with someone who is
attending one of our chapter meetings for the first time.
On the bottom of this meeting's (and future meeting's)
registration form(s), you will see "Would you like to
be a buddy to a first time attendee?" I
encourage you to check off that box and welcome a new face
to our chapter's meetings. Remember, it was not too
long ago that YOU were a new face to the chapter.
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NJSLA
Programs are a great learning and networking opportunity.
Join US!
Schedules for all dinner meetings
and the annual meeting are:
Fees for all meetings are (Note:
Fees subject to change.):
**Special Offers!!**
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Students - attend one dinner
meeting or professional development session for free
and attend additional dinner meetings for $20
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NJSLA Members - bring your
non-SLA manager or MIS person to one dinner meeting
for free (if you are between jobs and need to network,
attend one free dinner meeting)
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