In this issue of the Bulletin the RGSLA board brings two important items before you.

You've probably noticed that this issue is in black and white. That's because (1) we want to get your attention and (2) we have run out of Bulletin first sheets with the colored RGSLA logo.

Please take a moment to consider our logo and its colors, and let us know if you would like to change it or keep it.

We will need to create it electronically, whether we keep the current logo or design a new one, so we think this is a great opportunity to see if we want to change or continue as is.

The second item is a survey. No one likes filling them out, but this one will have a direct impact on your experience of RGSLA in the coming years. We last did a member survey in 1994, and we want to find out what members today want to get from (and give to) the Rio Grande chapter.

Please complete the survey and submit it. The old saw 'it's your group to do with as you want' is still quite true for RGSLA--let us know what you want to do with our logo and in our programming.

We'll all be better for the discussion!

By Katherine Bertolucci, LMD Consulting Section Chair

Harry Beckwith, services marketing authority and celebrated author of Selling the Invisible: A Field Guide to Modern Marketing, will speak on Tuesday, June 6, 1999 at 9:00 am at the SLA Annual Conference in Minneapolis. Selling the Invisible is about selling services and is the top-selling business book of the 1990’s. Mr. Beckwith will research and address the issue of marketing special libraries for his SLA presentation. Libraries have always provided services, but traditionally have struggled with marketing those services to their best advantage.

Mr. Beckwith will prepare for his SLA address by interviewing a group of special librarians selected by the program sponsors: the Consulting and Marketing Sections of the Library Management Division, the Advertising and Marketing Division, the Business and Finance Division, and corporate sponsor LEXIS-NEXIS. This select interview group will represent diverse perspectives within the profession and will discuss with Mr. Beckwith the unique marketing issues that face today’s special library.

The SLA membership is indeed fortunate to have the marketing analysis of Harry Beckwith, the foremost expert on services marketing. SLA members will be able to purchase his book Selling the Invisible

Be sure to attend the other marketing programs at this year’s conference: 1) The annual Marketing Swap & Shop will be presented by LMD’s Marketing Section 2) As part of the LMD Consulting Section’s all-marketing program in Minneapolis, SLA’s very own Special Librarian, John Latham, will speak about the new CONSULT Online. This is an important new marketing tool for members who are consultants or for anyone who is seeking a consultant. 3) The LMD Consulting Section is co-sponsoring "Contractor Opportunities 4) The LMD Consulting Section offers an exciting CE Course for prospective, new or established consultants who are interested in library management consulting. Sylvia James and Katherine Bertolucci will present the all-day course, "So You Want To Be A Consultant," It covers the basics from setting up your office, to getting the contracts, to doing the job. 5) Interested SLA members from all Divisions and Chapters are invited to attend the LMD Consulting Section Breakfast on sponsored by Inmagic.

If you need to market your library services or your own services, be sure to attend the SLA Annual Conference in Minneapolis. These inspiring programs will help you promote and perform your way to success.

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Washington, DC, January 13, 1999 -- West Group, a leading provider of online business information and case law to the legal industry, has agreed to serve as the principal sponsor of the 90th Annual Conference of the Special Libraries Association, to be held in Minneapolis, Minnesota, June 5-10. West Group is headquartered in nearby Eagan, Minnesota, and has offered its own corporate campus and facilities to host several of the events.

In addition, West Group has pledged substantial financial and in-kind support of the overall conference, and of specific events, such as the keynote speech, the Management Competencies Institute in Minneapolis, and the hands-on technology CE courses at the 1999 conference. This year's keynote speaker will be Laurence Prusak, managing principal of the IBM Consulting Group in Boston and the worldwide competency leader in knowledge management for IBM. West Group also will play host to a reception for all chapter and division leaders in appreciation for their service during the past year.

West Group has also made a commitment to the President's Circle of the SLA Annual Campaign for the next four years, providing $10,000 a year in unrestricted support, and has chosen to sponsor several other SLA activities, including self-paced on-line courses and real-time desktop courses. "Few corporations have demonstrated the level of support to which West Group has committed itself, and its presence at the conference will be unprecedented, acknowledging the importance of SLA and its members to the development of information resources" said David Bender, Executive Director of SLA.

The National Library of Medicine (NLM) announced free Web-based access to MEDLINE through PubMed and Internet Grateful Med (IGM) on June 26, 1997. With this development, the National Online Training Center is offering the following classes:

1) Introduction to Web-based Searching for the Librarian and Information Specialist: Using PubMed and Internet Grateful Med to Search NLM's Databases. This 2-day class designed for individuals who are new to searching MEDLINE will be held March 17-18.

2) Making the Transition: Converting to PubMed and Internet Grateful Med to search NLM's Databases. This 1-day class designed for experienced MEDLARS or MEDLINE searchers will be held March 19th.

The introductory course is an excellent opportunity for librarians new to MEDLINE to learn how to search PubMed via the Internet.

Another free continuing education opportunity scheduled for March is the Medical Library Association approved course "Choosing and Using Web Search Tools for Medical and Scientific Research." 4 MLA CE credits will be awarded to registrants upon completion of the course which will be held in Albuquerque on March 16th from 1:00-5:00pm at the UNM Health Sciences Center Library's Electronic Classroom.

Choosing and Using Web Search Tools Course Description:

Various tools exist for locating information on the Web including subject directories, meta-indexes, and search engines. Each tool has its appropriate and inappropriate uses, strengths and weaknesses. Learn how to evaluate, select and use Web search engines and other Web search tools for more effective medical and scientific research. Understand how Web tool development trends are likely to impact Web searching in the future. Special emphasis will be placed on creating medical and scientific search strategies using the search engine Alta Vista. Participants will learn how Alta Vista is indexed, details about the content of the database, and search commands. Beginning to advanced Web searchers will both benefit from this course designed for librarians and biomedical researchers.

To register for "Choosing and Using Web Search Tools" contact Eileen Sullivan, phone: (505) 272-0638, e-mail: esullivan@salud.unm.edu.

Eileen Sullivan

Reference Librarian

University of New Mexico

Health Sciences Center Library

(505) 272-0638

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The New Mexico A to Zia Indexers Chapter of the American Society of Indexers (ASI) invites you to join us on Saturday, May 1st when indexer Do Mi Stauber

will present her workshop Facing the Text: Content Analysis and Entry Selection in Social Sciences and Humanities Indexing. ASI president Lori Lathrop will also be here to give us an update on ASI activities at the national level.

Facing the Text is a participatory workshop which, focuses on the practical processes of indexing. We will survey the steps that indexers follow as we interpret texts and create index structures, using examples and hands-on exercises from a range of real texts and indexes. While this is not a basic introduction to indexing, novices as well as experienced indexers should benefit.

Do Mi Stauber has been a full-time back-of-the-book indexer for the past eleven years. She indexes scholarly books, textbooks, and government documents in all of the social sciences and humanities, and has been the chair of the Wilson Award judging committee.

The workshop will take place on Saturday, May 1st, from 8:30 -5:00, in Albuquerque, NM. The cost is $75 for ASI members, $85 for nonmembers; late

An AMIGOS Book Repair class is scheduled in New Mexico this March!

Developed as a follow-up to Basic Book and Paper Repair, this advanced class will cover more complex general collection repair treatments and activities, and options and resources for conservation treatment of special

collection materials. The workshop will provide practice of a number of treatments, including spine repair, endsheet replacement, hinge tightening and replacement, and recasing. Equipment and materials needed for advanced repairs will be discussed and

demonstrated, organization of the repair unit for performing repairs efficiently. It is recommended that participants attend the AMIGOS Basic Book and Paper Repair workshop (or a similar course) prior to registration.

Due to the intensive hands-on nature of this course, class size will be limited. Instructors must approve registrant's qualifications.

Date: March 25 & 26, 1999

Location: New Mexico Tech Library Socorro, NM

Time:10:00am - 5:00 p.m. Contact Hours: 11

AMIGOS Member Fee: $205

Non-member Fee: $220

All classes are subject to cancellation if insufficient registrations are received by the early bird deadline.

An online registration form is available at:

www.amigos.org/training/mailform

A separate form is available for non-AMIGOS members.

If you prefer to register by phone or mail, contact Andi Allen at AMIGOS (972-851-8000 ext. 129 or 1-800-843-8482).

A printed registration form is required in addition to telephone

registrations; ask Andi to mail or fax you a registration

form if you need one. If you have any questions, contact Andi by phone or email <allen@amigos.org>.

Thank you for your attention.

Sharla Richards

Preservation Field Service Officer, AMIGOS Bibliographic Council

14400 Midway Road, Dallas, TX 75244-3509

PHONE: (800) 843-8482 (National) (972) 851-8000 (Local) EXT: 144

FAX: (972) 991-6061 EMAIL: srichard@amigos.org

INTERNET: www.amigos.org

The National Environmental Respiratory Center (NERC) is a national research center established this year at the Lovelace Respiratory Research Institute (LRRI) by the Environmental Protection Agency. NERC

facilitates research to improve the scientific basis for understanding and managing the health risks related to air quality. NERC's web site provides information to the public on published research and regulatory

issues on the respiratory effects of environmental pollutant mixtures. These pollutant mixtures are: tobacco smoke, wood smoke, cooking fumes,

paved road dust, engine exhaust, and power plant emissions.

NERC Information Services will develop and continuously update Internet databases of published research, ongoing research projects, research

resources, and relevant scientific and regulatory issues. NERC librarians have provided thousands of bibliographic records from scientific and medical databases, relevant notices and rulings from the

Federal Register, and selective bibliographies on the NERC subject areas. They are also scanning and indexing full-text technical reports and government

Betsy Kraus is the Site Coordinator/Librarian for NERC Information Services. Betsy most recently was Librarian at the Environmental Evaluation Group (NMIMT) in Albuquerque. Larry Compton is the NERC

Research Librarian. He previously managed a nuclear engineering library as a contractor at Sandia National Laboratories (most of that time for Access Innovations). Betsy & Larry have downloaded database records, edited bibliographies, indexed report metadata, helped with the design and interface of the web site, and are developing a thesaurus. They will be answering reference questions and running online searches on NERC subjects. Robert Guerrero is a Library Technician at LRRI. Previously, Robert was a Library Assistant at the Albuquerque Publishing Company. Robert has been selecting and scanning the technical reports for the database and will fulfill document delivery requests. The NERC librarians are reached at 262-7726 or 1-800-700-1016.

Larry Compton

NERC Research Librarian

Lovelace Respiratory Research Institute

2425 Ridgecrest Drive SE

Albuquerque, NM 8710

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Hi! Hope your holiday season was great. My son is here - he's getting his Master's in Computer Science at Georgia Tech - and he 'fixed' my email so I'm again in the 20th century (not sure about the 21st!).

Since I haven't received any phone calls or snail mail I assume that no one in the chapter has received any employment requests. I'm sorry about being out of the loop for so long.

My news is that starting Jan. 4, I will be at the Main Library downtown in Bib Services. I wanted to go into cataloging after finishing library school so I'm very pleased. It's a lateral transfer so, unfortunately, my salary remains the same but my hours are now M-F, 8-5, so I should be able to attend more Special Library meetings and functions. Have a Great Year!

Anna Wade

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By Heather de Pastino

I have, at long last, completed my move to Montana, "The Last Best Place" according to the ubiquitous tourist items on display.

My husband, Blake, and I have settled into a nice ranch style house in the middle of town, and for the first time in my life I live under a pitched roof instead of one that is properly flat, and I am thinking about re-painting siding instead of patching stucco!

Missoula is a wonderful enclave of contrasts, but somehow not the ones I expected. I have yet to see very many cowboys, and I am frequently surprised the number of live music (both popular and classical) performances, stage

plays, ballet, and other cultural events. Finding balsamic vinegar, European cookware, imported cheeses, and anything off this week's best seller list is just as easy as locating a snow shovel, skis, or a thick juicy steak.

Missoula is a surprisingly cosmopolitan town, especially given its size and location. My impression is that for this, we have partially to thank the presence of the university and partially a handful of "ranch" owners in the area - Mel Gibson and Andie McDowell are two examples.

Missoula is on a small plain that is completely surrounded by mountains, very similar in topography to Albuquerque. Because of that, it is mercifully protected from the severe storms that hit the rest of Montana, Wyoming and the Dakotas in the winter. There are herds of elk that winter on Mount Jumbo and Mount Sentinel, which are closed to hikers for the season. Occasionally, the elk wander around to the city side, and we can see them from our living room window. Missoula temperatures seem to be only about 15 degrees lower than those in Albuquerque. In August I won't be envying you, but in the meantime I have been wearing my PolarFleece socks!

I am joining the Pacific Northwest chapter of SLA, as well as maintaining my membership with the Rio Grande chapter. I am working from home in Missoula for Access Innovations, continuing in my role as Director of Marketing and Sales. Bill Richardson has taken over as the manager of Administrative Services for the company, with a small but able staff.

I will be visiting Albuquerque about once a month, and I hope I will get a chance to see many of you on one of those visits, or in Minneapolis in June!

Formed officially on Friday Feb. 5th our Committee (Sarah actually) has been hard at work.

It gives me great pleasure to announce that Pam MacKellar has accepted the nomination as President-Elect. And, I am most pleased to announce that Frankie Ewing, Presbyterian, has accepted the nomination for Treasurer of the Chapter.

Our slate is complete with Pam as President-Elect and Frankie Ewing asTreasurer. The Committee is obtaining written letters from both.

Linda Morgan Davis

Chapter members may be interested in several items about libraries and/or librarians that have appeared recently in publications outside of the library profession.

Richard Feldman, Technical Writer

Camber Flight Simulation LC

5550 Midway Park Place, Albuquerque, NM 87109 e-mail: rfeldman@cfslc.com PH: (505) 342-5369 FX: (505) 343-0766

We now have 91 members of the Chapter.

Please welcome a number who have joined since the September issue of the Bulletin was published:

• Julie Schneider at the Interhemispheric Research Center in Silver City
• Carol Hoover
• Susan Heckethorn of LANL
• Maryhelen Jones at the College of Santa Fe
• Gregory Wright at Access Innovations
• Betsy Kraus now at the National Environmental Research Center at Lovelace
• Diana Leute at the Alliance for Transportation Research in Albuquerque

PLEASE, it would be wonderful if any of you sent in a little more information about who you are and where you work. We always love to hear more about our new members.

SLA/RGC Discussion list

Rio Grande Chapter

Special Libraries Association

c/o 455 Wagon Train

Rio Rancho, NM 87124

To all the contributors of this informative issue, I would like to say thank you very much.

Being my first solo issue, without the joy of getting to work with Heather de Pastino, I took the opportunity to develop the skills required for publishing rather than weeping uncontrollably. Since this issue focuses on professional development, that did seem to be fitting. But, I really do appreciate the chance to be a part of the Rio Grande Chapter and all that it provides.

As always, corrections or any comments are welcome.

Heather O'Daniel