SLA @ OLA 2003

SLA's Sessions for 2003

Thursday, January 30, 2003 @ 9 a.m. - 10:15 a.m.

Session: 119
9:00 am - 10:15 am
Special Libraries Association
Legal Research for the Non-Law Librarian
Speaker: Ted Tjaden, Coordinator, Information Services, Bora Laskin Law Library
Shikha Sharma, Reference Librarian, Bora Laskin Law Library

Librarians who have little to no experience with legal research will learn legal and investigative research skills. An overview of the Canadian legal system and legal bibliography will be presented. Discover how you can help your clients use materials in your own collection in addition to identifying titles to purchase that won't stretch your budget to the breaking point. Most importantly, learn where to draw the line between providing information and providing legal advice.

Thursday, January 30, 2003 @ 10:30 a.m. - 11:45 a.m.

Session: 203
10:30 am - 11:45 am
Special Libraries Association
Advancing Your Products with Strategic Branding
Robert Gillelan, President, G2-Group.net

Strategic Branding of Corporate Library products is about supporting the competitive advantage of your company at every level of the organization, and in all of your activities. Increase the corporate value of their information resources. Learn how to use branding principals to promote internal resources that: are developed as an extension of the primary brand, that are employee-centric, have a well communicated and managed purpose, are kept internal, helps employees reinforce the primary brand message to your company's customers.

Thursday, January 30, 2003 @ 3:45 p.m. - 5:00 p.m.

Session: 401
3:45 pm - 5:00 pm
Special Libraries Association SPOTLIGHT SESSION
THE OLA IDEA CLUSTER: LJ's Movers and Shakers 2002
STEPHEN ABRAM
MLIS, Vice President, Corporate Development, Micromedia ProQuest
2002 President, Ontario Library Association.
"The Next Net Generation"

Generational change and the different behaviours of those younger and older folk who aren't exactly like 'us' is a continuing challenge for libraries and librarians. It's challenging us on many fronts - our users are changing; the demographics of our colleagues are changing; and the volunteer profile of our associations and networks are changing. We have a new imperative to understand these changes or we are likely to create one of the biggest Generation Gaps in history. Our speaker explores and reflects on the library challenges and opportunities of this unique period in generational demography. (There are three Canadians on the 2002 Library Journal Movers and Shakers list. The other two are also speaking: Cate McNeely, Session #801; Darlene Fichter, #1001.).

Friday, January 31, 2003 @ 8:45 a.m. - 10:00 a.m.

Session: 523
8:45 am - 10:00 am
Special Libraries Association
Custom Information Products - Creating Next Generation, Value-Added Services
Vicky Casey, Director, Content, Information Highways.

These are challenging times for librarians who deliver information services. On the one hand, many users who may formerly have relied on the library to meet their information needs, now routinely turn to the public Internet and to other services available at their desktops. On the other hand, these same users are suffering from information overload and may not be using the tools and resources available to them to best advantage. This workshop suggests new, value added information products as one solution to the challenge. It offers a new way for librarians to think about how they package, position and deliver services, and addresses approaches to providing user communities with the convenience of precise, relevant intelligence in formats that are customized for particular contexts.

Friday, January 31, 2003 @ 2:15 p.m. - 3:30 p.m.

Session: 722
2:15 pm - 3:30 pm
Special Libraries Association
Salary Negotiations for the Hesitant Employee
Ayodele Ojumu, College of Fredonia, Reed Library, State University of New York

Salary negotiation is always a HOT topic. This workshop will provide you with a step-by-step strategy to guide you though even the most challenging salary and benefits negotiations. How do you evaluate your value and communicate your worth to your organization? Attend this session to learn powerful techniques, to be persuasive, to control your emotions, and most importantly, to use tricks of the trade for a physiological advantage.

Friday, January 31, 2003 @ 3:45 p.m. - 5:00 p.m.

Session: 820
3:45 pm - 5:00 pm
Money Matters: Financial concepts to promote
Maggie Weaver, Principal, Shaftesbury Associates, Toronto.

Money matters: Financial concepts to help promote (or defend) your library. Management tends to see a library as a cost only, since benefits have hard to demonstrate in concrete terms. Learn to describe your library's impact on the organization in financial concepts that managers can relate to, so that they "get the picture" in their own terms.