San Andreas Chapter

Solo Librarians Meeting on July 15th

The Solo Librarians of the San Andreas Chapter of SLA invite you to join them at their next meeting on Wednesday, July 15th. Anyone with an interest in libraries is welcome, including students and recent grads of the MLIS programs.

Carol Chatfield will be hosting the meeting at 6 P.M. on Wednesday, July 15th at The Career Development Center, 563 Salvatierra Walk, Stanford University, Stanford, CA.  Carol has provided detailed information about the location and parking below.

Carol will give a tour of the Career Resource Library at the Career Development Center. We will also have a panel of librarians that attended SLA 2009 in Washington DC to share their impressions and experiences.

You are welcome to bring a snack or dinner to the meeting.  There is a kitchen with water, ice, and a soda machine ($1.25/bottle) next door to the conference room.

Those who are planning to attend need to contact Sonia Dorfman by July 10th at sdorfman@neuropace.com or (650) 237-2784.

Sonia Dorfman
Eric Kristofferson
San Andreas Solo Librarians

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The Career Development Center at Stanford University is located in the Student Services Building at:
563 Salvatierra Walk
Stanford University
Stanford, CA  94305
http://www.mapquest.com/mq/5-IX2x
(Please note that our building is incorrectly labeled Student Services Center on this Mapquest map.)

Parking is available across the street (Campus Drive East) from the building.  The parking lot can be seen on the Mapquest map, just above and to the left of the words, "Gould Center."  Parking is free after 4:00 pm.  

TIP for Driving Directions:  The best online mapping service for finding our building is Mapquest.com.  And I really recommend BEFORE starting out that you run a "get directions" from your starting address to the Career Development Center’s address; the Stanford campus is large and can be confusing!

Registration for June 4 Career Agility Program

Join your San Andreas colleagues for a breakfast program on Thursday, June 4th at Exponent in Menlo Park.

Career Agility: Working with an Agency

Speakers:  Linda McKell and Sarah Vogel, moderator Cindy Hill

Explore alternatives to working in a salaried position for a company.  What are the opportunities, the pros and cons?  What is the current situation?  How do you get projects?  And how do you market yourself?

Our speakers on this panel provide perspectives from both the contractor and agency viewpoint.  After several layoffs at local pharmaceutical companies, Sarah Vogel, independent Information Research Consultant, became an independent contractor.  Linda McKell is the founder and owner of AIM Library & Information Management ("AIM").

Cindy Hill, our moderator, is the founder and president of Hill Information Consulting Group.  She was previously Vice President, Information Management Service, with Outsell, Inc., a research and advisory firm focused on the publishing, information, and education industries.  Prior to that, she had been the manager of Sun's Digital Libraries and Research Group.

Lee Pharis has graciously agreed to host us at Exponent in Menlo Park on June 4. Exponent is located off Marsh Road on the Bay side of 101. A buffet continental breakfast will be served in our meeting room prior to the program. We are starting this one early and plan to end by 10 am, for a minimal impact on your work day.

Agenda:  

    7:45 - 8:15 a.m.  Registration & Continental Breakfast

    8:15 - 9:45 a.m.  Program

    9:45 - 10:00 a.m.  Q&A

Cost:   $12 for members; $16 for non-members and guests; $8 for student/unemployed members

Location:   Exponent  -- 149 Commonwealth Drive, Menlo Park, CA 94025

Parking:  Free parking is available at Exponent.

DEADLINE:  Make sure your registration form (below) and check are received by Tuesday, June 2. 

Patricia Parsons

Jean Bedord

Program Directors, San Andreas SLA

Keep an eye on SLA and related events in the Bay Area -- check out the "San Andreas Events" Google calendar. Click on the link in the top right corner of the Chapter blog webpage:

http://sla-divisions.typepad.com/sanandreas/ or  http://www.san-andreas-sla.org

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Send your check payable to "San Andreas Chapter of SLA" and the registration form below to:

SLA Reservations

c/o AIM Library & Information Staffing 

P.O. Box 391210

Mountain View, CA 94039-1210

 

Name: _____________________________________________

 

Telephone: _________________________________________

 

E-Mail: _____________________________________________

 

Employer/Affiliation: ___________________________________

 

SLA Member (@$12): ____   Non Member/Guest (@$16): ____

 

Student//Unemployed Member (@$8): _____

 

Check enclosed for:  ____________

 

Please make check payable to San Andreas Chapter of SLA

 

DEADLINE: Make sure your registration & check are received by Tuesday, June 2

 

June 11, 2009 Colloquia Session

The School of Library and Information Science at San José State University is pleased to invite you to attend our continuing Summer Colloquium Series featuring SLIS faculty and invited guests, as they address the challenges and promises of our rapidly changing profession.  Our June 2009 featured Master's of Archives and Records Administration (MARA) speaker is:

    

Gina Jones, MLS

Member, Web Archiving Team, Office of Strategic Information, Library of Congress

Title: Archiving the LIS Elections Websphere: An Historical Perspective

Thursday, 11 June 2009

Time: 5:30 – 6:30 p.m. (PST)

Location: Live from San Jose using Elluminate

URL:  https://nexus.sjsu.edu:443/join_meeting.html?meetingId=1241060362863

Password:  mara

 ELLUMINATE:  If you have not used Elluminate before, a student guide is available to help you prepare beforehand: http://slisweb.sjsu.edu/software/elluminate/students/. 

More information about this presentation is posted on our Colloquia: Summer 2009 web page at http://slisweb.sjsu.edu/slis/colloquia/2009/colloquia09su.htm.

RSVP: Although virtual seating is unlimited, we’d appreciate an estimate of the number of participants.  Please respond to Pat Franks at pfranks@slis.sjsu.edu if you hope to join us.

 Presentations are free and open to the public.  We videotape each presentation for those who are unable to actually attend them live.  Links to an Internet webcast (streaming video), an RSS feed, and/or an iTunes Portal podcast (usually both audio and video versions) will be posted to the Colloquia: Summer 2009 calendar web page at http://slisweb.sjsu.edu/slis/colloquia/2009/colloquia09su.htm about a week after each event.  

June 17, 2009 Colloquia Session

The School of Library and Information Science at San José State University is pleased to invite you to attend our continuing Summer Colloquium Series featuring SLIS faculty and invited guests, as they address the challenges and promises of our rapidly changing profession. 

 Our 17^th June 2009 Master of Archives and Records Administration speaker is

 


Michael P. Martin, Records Management Specialist

Archival Services, Electronic Records Unit, New York State Archives

Title: There’s a Hole in the Bucket: One Institution’s Method of Preserving Electronic Records

Wednesday, 17 June 2009
Time: 5:30 – 6:30 p.m. (PST)
Location: Live from upstate New York using Elluminate*

URL:  https://nexus.sjsu.edu:443/join_meeting.html?meetingId=1242112633470

Password:  mara

 *If you have not used Elluminate before, a student guide is available to help you prepare beforehand: http://slisweb.sjsu.edu/software/elluminate/students/.

More information about this presentation is posted on our Colloquia: Summer 2009 web page at http://slisweb.sjsu.edu/slis/colloquia/2009/colloquia09su.htm.  Presentations are free and open to the public.

RSVP: Although virtual seating is unlimited, we’d appreciate an estimate of the number of participants.  Please respond to Pat Franks at pfranks@slis.sjsu.edu if you hope to join us.

We videotape each presentation for those who are unable to actually attend them live.  Links to an Internet webcast (streaming video), an RSS feed, and/or an iTunes Portal podcast (usually both audio and video versions) will be posted to the Colloquia: Summer 2009 calendar web page at http://slisweb.sjsu.edu/slis/colloquia/2009/colloquia09su.htm about a week after each event.

 Feel free to distribute this announcement to interested people, and please excuse any cross-postings you may see. 

Career Agility Series Breakfast Program June 4

Plans for the next San Andreas Chapter breakfast program, our second event in the Career Agility series, are coming together. 

Please save the date, Thursday June 4th.  Join us for a continental breakfast and a presentation about tools and strategies for Career Agility. We'll be hearing about different employment options. Our speakers are Linda McKell, the founder and owner of Advanced Information Management, and Sarah Vogel, Information Research Consultant. Lee Pharis will be hosting us at Exponent in Menlo Park. As with the previous Career Agility programs, we expect to start this one early and end by 10 am, for a minimal impact on your work day.

Details will be available soon.

"Career Agility: The Brand is You"

by Alison Finch

Advocacy, professional development, and networking highlighted in this talk on the "Resilient Career."

San Andreas Chapter's first breakfast program of the year got off to a great start on April 9th with this timely presentation (PDF) given by Cindy Hill, Affiliate Associate at Outsell, Inc. and founder and president of Hill Information Consulting Group, and by Christian Gray in charge of Business Development at Reprints Desk. Lee Pharis graciously hosted the event at Exponent's Menlo Park headquarters.

The talk spanned a variety of topics from identity management and personal branding to LinkedIn best practices and social networking etiquette.

• How do you ask for a recommendation on LinkedIn?
• What is the risk of identity theft?
• How should you manage your LinkedIn connections?
• Are there examples of effective LinkedIn profiles for librarians/information professionals?

The "Resilient Career" is one that is agile, opportunistic, and sustainable. Cindy and Christian demonstrated how librarians and information professionals can use Web 2.0 tools to develop

• professional portfolios
• visibility
• a community of colleagues

Cindy and Christian encouraged information professionals to start building their own reputation, to push their boundaries and reach out to people beyond their immediate circle of colleagues and friends, and to explore professional options. Christian Gray showed a "before" and "after" page SLA and former San Andreas Chapter member Jeanie Fraser developed.

LinkedIn Recommendations

• Use the Summary section to develop an introduction to who you are and what you are passionate about and remember to include important keywords that search engines can find.
• Use results-driven examples of past accomplishments but be careful not to use proprietary information.
• Invite people
• Search and surf. Search for hobbies and favorite past-times to see who might also share your interest in peregrine falcons, for example. Social networks are about people. Have fun with this!
• Consider adding a photo and remember to include your activities outside your day job.
• Turn on some of LinkedIn's applications such as SlideShare, TripIt, Company Buzz, etc.
• Look at Groups and add some.
• Consider using LinkedIn answers as a way to position yourself as an expert.

Rocky Mountain Chapter SLA member Kim Dority has written and presented on career agility for information professionals. Christian had arranged to make several copies of her recent book "Rethinking Information Work" available which were then raffled off at the end of the session.

San Andreas Chapter's own Jean Bedord contributed her poster, "Building a Web Presence from Domain Name to Website" and offered helpful suggestions for librarians and information professionals wishing to build an online identity.

The message was start marketing yourself now before you need to start looking for another job. These are difficult times but sites such as LinkedIn offer opportunities to take advantage of the power of networked relationships to get your name "out there" and to let a larger circle of potential employers and colleagues know who you are and what you can do. Cindy Hill's parting comments were to anticipate, look for opportunities, enjoy the ride, and remember that career development is a continual cycle.

Did you attend this session? What did you think? Please feel free to post your comments to the Blog.

SJSU-SLIS Colloquium Series - April 29 in Fullerton

The School of Library and Information Science at San José State University is pleased to invite you to attend our continuing Spring Colloquium Series featuring SLIS faculty and invited guests, as they address the challenges and promises of our rapidly changing profession.  Presentations are free and open to the public.  We videotape each presentation for those who are unable to actually attend them live.  Links to an Internet webcast (streaming video), an RSS feed, and/or an iTunes Portal podcast (usually both audio and video versions) will be posted to the Colloquia: Spring 2009 calendar web page at http://slisweb.sjsu.edu/slis/colloquia/2009/colloquia09sp.htm about a week after each event.

 

Our two end-of-April 2009 speakers are:

 

Dr. Dan Fuller

Assistant Professor, School of Library and Information Science, SJSU

Title: "Library Jobs in California and Economic Recession – 2009"

Wednesday, 29 April 2009

Time: noon - 1:00 p.m.

Location: CSU Fullerton campus, Pollack Library, Room 68

 

Joe Matthews

Lecturer, School of Library and Information Science, SJSU

Title: "The Value of a Library Balanced Scorecard?"

Wednesday, 29 April 2009

Time: 1:00 p.m. – 2:00 p.m.

Location: CSU Fullerton campus, Pollack Library, Room 68

 

More information about these presentations is posted on our Colloquia: Spring 2009 web page at http://slisweb.sjsu.edu/slis/colloquia/2009/colloquia09sp.htm.

Maps and directions to the CSU Fullerton campus can be found at http://slisweb.sjsu.edu/slis/maps.htm.  These presentations are wheelchair-accessible.

 

Please feel free to distribute this announcement to interested people, and excuse any cross-postings you may see. 

SJSU SLIS April 2009 Colloquia

The School of Library and Information Science at San José State University is pleased to invite you to attend our continuing Spring Colloquium Series featuring SLIS faculty and invited guests, as they address the challenges and promises of our rapidly changing profession.  Presentations are free and open to the public.

 

We videotape each presentation for those who are unable to actually attend them live.  Links to an Internet webcast (streaming video), an RSS feed, and/or an iTunes Portal podcast (usually both audio and video versions) will be posted to the Colloquia: Spring 2009 calendar web page at http://slisweb.sjsu.edu/slis/colloquia/2009/colloquia09sp.htm about a week after each event.

 

Our April 2009 speakers are listed below:

Jeff Paul

Project Manager, Librarians for Tomorrow, SJSU

Title: “An Overview of SJSU’s Librarians for Tomorrow Program”

Wednesday, 1 April 2009
Time: noon - 1:00 p.m.
Location: SJSU campus, Clark Hall 304

 

 

Jane Light

Library Director, San Jose Public Library, San Jose, CA

Guest: Sarah Houghton-Jan

Digital Futures Manager, San Jose Public Library, San Jose, CA

Title: “The Filtering Challenge at San Jose Public Library”

Wednesday, 15 April 2009
Time: noon - 1:00 p.m.
Location: SJSU campus, Clark Hall 304

 

 

Thomas D. Norris
Public Records Manager, Office of the City Manager, City of San Jose, CA

Title: “Establishing an Effective Records Program: Considerations and Choices”

Wednesday, 15 April 2009
Time: 5:30 pm – 6:30 p.m. Pacific Time
Location: Live from San Jose via Elluminate

Live URL: https://nexus.sjsu.edu/join_meeting.html?meetingId=1234284973459
Password: mara

 

The Thomas D. Norris presentation is delivered live using the web conferencing tool, Elluminate Live!  If you have not used Elluminate before, a student guide is available at http://slisweb.sjsu.edu/software/elluminate/students/ to help you prepare beforehand.  RSVP:  Although virtual seating is unlimited, we would appreciate an estimate of the number of participants in the Live: Elluminate session.  Please respond to Pat Franks at pfranks@slis.sjsu.edu if you hope to join us at the actual event broadcast.

 

More information about these presentations is posted on our Colloquia: Spring 2009 web page at http://slisweb.sjsu.edu/slis/colloquia/2009/colloquia09sp.htm.

Maps and directions to the SJSU campus can be found at http://slisweb.sjsu.edu/slis/maps.htm.  Presentations are wheelchair-accessible.

SLA RESEARCH GRANTS 2009

The Special Libraries Association (SLA) has posted its 2009 SLA Research Grant guidelines and application materials at http://www.sla.org/SLAresearchgrant/.   SLA supports two types of proposals. 

• Research projects focused on the needs and concerns of information professionals in special libraries and related venues, with its current focus being on evidence-based practice, as in the Special Libraries Association (SLA) Research Statement, “Putting Our Knowledge to Work” (seewww.sla.org/researchstatement).  Awards may be granted up to $25,000.  
  
• Projects which directly benefit the operations of SLA and its units, by furthering the scientific, literary and educational purpose for which the association is organized and operated.  Awards may be granted up to $10,000.

This focus on evidence-based practice includes but is not limited to the following topics and approaches:

 

Impact of Information Professionals;

Roles of Information Professionals within organizations

Current/User Issues;

Core Competencies;

Measures of Productivity and Value;

Client/User Satisfaction Measures;

 

Grant applications are evaluated by SLA's Research & Development Committee based on the purpose and objectives of the proposed project within the context of evidence-based practice, the significance of the topic to the profession, the project's methodology, qualifications of staff, and the appropriateness of the project's budget and timetable.

 

Research should focus on the demand for increased professional competence and accountability through consciously and consistently making professional-level decisions that are based on the strongest evidence of what works best for our clients.  Areas in which evidence-based practice may be applied are listed in SLA's revised Competencies for Information Professionals of the 21st Century (www.sla.org/competencies) and include selection and acquisition of information resources, methods of information access, selection and use of information technologies, and management of library and information services. Research techniques that support these competencies include: benchmarking, program evaluation, quality management, performance measurement, identifying best practices, and operations research.

 

The focus of Association operation projects should be on projects which directly benefit the operations of SLA and its members.  They should focus on projects which can be adapted for wider use within SLA’s community, and may include publications, study grants, continuing education programs, public awareness activities, special studies and reports, and information dissemination efforts.

 

Application Information

 

The grant is announced internationally.  A new solicitation for applicants is made each year.  Application materials are available on SLA’s website at http://www.sla.org/SLAresearchgrant/ or by contacting: Director, Information Center, Special Libraries Association, 331 S. Patrick Street, Alexandria, VA 22314-3501, USA; e-mail: resources@sla.org.

 

Timetable

 

March 2009

Application materials are made available.

 

August 3, 2009

Deadline for submission of the proposal and application form to SLA

 

December 2009

Notification of award decision.

John Latham
Director, Information Center
SLA
331 S. Patrick Street
Alexandria, VA 22314 USA
Tel. +1.703.647.4915 Fax +1.703.647.4901 jlatham@sla.org
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Certified Content Rights Manager Course

SLA has joined with the Software & Information Industry Association (SIIA) to develop a new professional development course for librarians and information professionals entitled the Certified Content Rights Manager (CCRM) course in San Francisco, CA!

The CCRM course is designed to help an organization properly manage their content rights and to help mitigate any risk in terms of the copyright law.

The goal of content rights management is to lower costs and lower liability.

Topics covered in the CCRM course include:

• Understanding vital copyright law components and concepts, including the fair use defense and orphan works
• Evaluating and managing different types of content rights within license agreements to help lower liability and costs 
• Discussion of key copyright cases and settlements  
• Developing, communicating, and maintaining a content rights management plan within your organization 

Who Should Attend: All professionals who purchase, manage or create content and are responsible for ensuring it's used appropriately and that the content rights are maximized at all levels of the organization.

 

See the CCRM Information Page and Syllabus

 Register today @ San Francisco, CA-CCRM--May 6, 2009!

 

Price: $395 for SLA members with “SLA08” promo code/ $495 for non-members

*Group discount – send 3 attendees from your organization for the original price of 2 ($495 * 2) – call LicenseLogic @ (202) 789-4445 to register groups*

 

Presenter: Adam Ayer, LicenseLogic

LicenseLogic is the leading content rights management training organization chosen by the SIIA and SLA to administer the CCRM course.

For questions or additional information, please feel free to contact LicenseLogic at (202) 789-4445 or via email at ccrminfo@licenselogic.com.

Stacey Bowers

Director of Business Development
SLA
sbowers@sla.org
www.sla.org

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