Chapter & SLA News

By Lynne Foster, Communications Director

Greetings to all SLA WCC members and Wired West readers. For those of you who do not know me, I am this year's Director of Communications (yes, a notably absent contributor to the Summer issue of Wired West). I have been busy since the AGM trying to absorb all of the ins and outs of the SLA WCC website. Fortunately, and thanks to Patricia Cia's help and guidance, I think the website has remained up to date. I always welcome suggestions and feedback about our site and would be happy to hear from anyone about new content ideas.

I am also fortunate to be working with Teri Tarita (Discussion List) and Kate Bird (Wired West Editor). Both Teri and Kate have been very busy so far this year and have been providing SLA WCC members with exceptional service.

On a personal note I wanted to inform members that I have recently left the B.C. Securities Commission Library to join TELUS as Corporate Librarian. Please check the Board Members page for my updated contact information.

Chapter News

Your directors have started presenting Chapter professional development opportunities. Various WCC cities participated in the September virtual seminar titled "What I Should Have Learned in Library School: Insights for Library Professionals " (see a report on the session in this issue of Wired West). This session, facilitated by Lucy Lettis, was part of SLAs 2000 Virtual Seminar Series and proved to be very interesting.

Registration details and event synopsis for the rest of the year will be available on the Professional Development page as they become available. If you have attended an event or session and wish to submit your opinion or a summary of the event please send me an email.

Be sure to check out the Minutes from the Future Planning Committee.

Upcoming Events & Conferences

2nd Worldwide Conference on Special Librarianship - Brighton, United Kingdom - October 16-19, 2000

Internet Librarian 2000 - November 5-9, 2000

SLA 2001 Winter Meeting Savannah, Georgia, USA - January 25-27, 2001

SLA Web Updates

A whole NEW LOOK - take a peek at the re-designed SLA site! On Tuesday, October 3, 2000, SLA HQ went "live" with SLA's new web site. You can now find links to other chapters more easily by clicking on the SLA Units link on the home page.

Slides and materials from the 2000 Annual Conference sessions in Philadelphia are available.

SLA has released two new documents dealing with the site selection processes for the 2005 Winter Meeting and the 2010 Annual Conference.

Check out the corners of SLA!! Executive Director's Corner and President's Corner .

SLA News Releases

Latest 2000 News Releases include:

• SLA and LEXIS-NEXIS Announce 21st Century Partnership September 7, 2000

• Lettis to Facilitate One of Three 2000 Virtual Seminars September 6, 2000

• Brighton, UK Hosts Global 2000 Information Management Expo August 30, 2000

• Working in Virtual Community Wins 2000 Goldspeil Grant July 26, 2000

• Professor Nancy Dixon Appointed as Faculty Director of SLA's Knowledge Champions Institute July 7, 2000

• Fifteen Selected as Fellows for Global 2000 Information Conference July 6, 2000