Hi San Andreas Chapter Members!
The annual conference in New Orleans is just around the corner and hopefully some of you will be able to attend! The Virtual Program Planner is up and running and keep up with Conference happenings via the Conference blog. Below are some of the events related to our Chapter, Chapter members or SLA members from the Bay Area which might be of interest.
- Get up early on Monday, June 14 - 8:30am and join Cindy Hill who is hosting Your Personal Brand and Social Media.
- Helen Josephine will moderate the very popular Engineering Division Standards Update Session on Monday, June 14 - 2:00-3:30pm. Ten standards-issuing organizations and/or standards aggregation vendors will provide an update from their organizations on what is new and noteworthy for 2010. The featured organization is BSI (British Standards Institute) with an update on Eurocodes.
- At the same time on Monday, Marlene Vogelsang will be moderating a panel for the Energy Division on Energy Information Resources. Several experts will present on where to find free energy resources and statistics on the Web.
- Cindy Hill will also host a discussion on Evolving Roles: Conversation in the Round on Monday, June 14 - 4:00.
- West Coast Chapter Reception; Monday, June 14 - 5:30-7:30 at the Louisiana Law Library.
- Monica Ertel is on a fun panel on Tuesday, June 15 at noon entitled Library of the Future: Conversations in the Round. Using the format of the popular TV quiz show To Tell the Truth, this session will allow attendees to question panelists and try to determine which one is the director of the “Library of the Future.” Through their answers, the panelists will reveal what will be required for the successful library of the future.
- Libby Trudell will receive the Karen Switt Award from the Leadership and Management Division (LMD) Tuesday, June 15 - 2:00 during the LMD business meeting.
- Recently retired SJSU SLIS Director Ken Haycock is speaking about leadership in the Solo Librarians 3rd Annual Gerry Hurley Memorial Leadership Session on Tuesday.
- Dale Stanley of Gilead will be teaching two Continuing Education (CE) courses for the Knowledge Management division.
- Libby Trudell will be hosting the Rising Star and SLA Fellows Roundtable. The 2010 class of SLA Rising Stars and SLA Fellows will share their collective insights into today’s hot topics in the information profession. Learn how these leading info pros are dealing with changes brought on by the digital data deluge – and of course, by the economy! Do these issues look different from the perspective of someone just making his or her mark in the profession compared to that of a seasoned veteran? Come and find out as Webb Shaw of J. J. Keller moderates the first-ever SLA Rising Stars/Fellows Roundtable.
- Also catch Libby Trudell at the Closing General Session providing a short presentation (as chair of the 2011 Conference Planning Council) to get everyone excited about plans for the Philadelphia conference.
- For fun join the Baseball Caucus meeting on June 15th - 2:00pm-3:30pm open to all SLA members. Ron Swoboda and Derby Gisclair will speak. Ron Swoboda, after completing nine years in Major League Baseball with the Mets (including the 1969 World Champions team), Yankees and Expos, spent twenty years as an anchor and reporter in local television news. He started in New York with stops along the way in Milwaukee and Phoenix, winding up in New Orleans. He is involved in community relations and also writes a monthly column in New Orleans Magazine. A lifelong resident of New Orleans, Mr. Gisclair has written several articles and is a noted speaker at regional and national conferences on baseball history. He is the editor of Between the Lines, an annual compendium of baseball research, and writes articles for the Schott-Pelican Chapter of SABR. He has a website on the history of baseball in New Orleans – www.NewOrleansBaseball.com.
If you have any additional events happening during the Annual Conference which are related to the chapter, or you would like to highlight, please add them as a comment to this blog entry.
For those of you unable to make it to the Annual Conference this year, keep up with what's happening via Conference Tweets and blogs. There will also be sessions in Second Life via the Virtual Conference.
Join the Conference via the Virtual Conference Component (get $50 off if you register before June 4)
The San Andreas Chapter will be organizing Neighborhood Dinners and a speaker panel at which those who attended the conference will share news and their experience. Stay tuned for more on both events coming soon!
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