Program: SLA Philadelphia Annual Wine & Cheese Event

Donations to the Knower Fund will also be accepted. Beverly M. Knower worked as a librarian at the Sun Oil Company and was active in SLA. The memorial fund honors Beverly's interest for support of students. The Knower Fund supports students who wish to explore areas of special librarianship by subsidizing their opportunities to attend meetings with special librarians, attend relevant conference or training and get acquainted with SLA .

Date: September 24, 2008

Location: Brantwyn, DE (part of the Dupont Country Club), 1001 Rockland Road, Wilmington, DE 19803, http://www.dupontcountryclub.com/

Time: TBD

Sponsor: Dow Jones http://www.dowjones.com/

Registration Info: Please contact Evelyn Brownlee, evelyn.l.brownlee@usa.dupont.com .

Program: Defining the Value of Information: Beyond ROI

Information Professionals are constantly being challenged to produce "ROI" statements on their expenditures for information. Upper management may ask, "Why should we spend all this money for information services, when everything we need is available on the internet for free?" This session goes beyond traditional "soft" metrics (e.g. time saved) to take a hard look at the business value information expenditures bring to those who pay for them.

This is part one in a Quantum series called: Justifying the Value of Information Services. Part 2 in this series on cost justification and the budget process (time/cost/quality tradeoffs) will follow in March 2009.

Presenter: Betty Jo Hibberd, Quantum, Dialog, http://quantum.dialog.com/team/hibberd_bettyjo/

Date: October 29, 2008

Cost: TBD

Location: Thomas Jefferson University, Philadelphia, PA

Time: 5-5:30 pm Registration; 5:30-8:00 pm Program and light supper will be included

Sponsor: IOP Publishing http://publishing.iop.org/

Registration Info: Please contact Karen Krasznavolgyi, SLA Philadelphia Professional Development Chair, 215-503-2826, karen.krasznavolgyi@jefferson.edu.

Program: SLA Philadelphia Annual Holiday Dinner & Knower Fund Silent Auction

Date: Thursday, December 4, 2008

Location: Bryn Mawr College, 101 North Merion Ave, Bryn Mawr PA

Time: TBD

Sponsor: Elsevier http://www.elsevier.com

Registration Info: Please contact Karen Krasznavolgyi, SLA Philadelphia Professional Development Chair, 215-503-2826, karen.krasznavolgyi@jefferson.edu.