SLAPSG: Special Libraries Assn. Pittsburgh Student Group

SLAPSG looking ahead

We had an eventful year full of service projects and professional development. 3 of our officers attended the SLA conference in Philadelphia.

SLAPSG will not be meeting for the remainder of the year--we used up all our funds and now it is time for us to all find jobs!!!

If anyone is interested in joining SLAPSG in the fall--or running for office which is greatly encouraged--for now contact the current president at amy36@pitt.edu. We are currently working with student services to implement a process in which to carry over the student groups and holding elections. As soon as a decision has been made, we will let you know!

Thanks for a great year!

Happy Summer Semester!

The new semester is upon us, bringing changes for SLAPSG: new officers have been appointed! The current officer roster stands as follows:

Amy Yonick - President
John Clark - Vice President
Sarika Sharma - Treasurer
Priya Shenoy - Secretary
Becky Brendel - Webmaster

This and other SLAPSG news can be read about in the latest meeting's minutes, viewable here. We also welcome the Summer Semester students - it was lovely to meet those of you who attended orientation on Friday, May 6!

Also, OML is in need of volunteer assistance! The Children's Hospital has donated a fantastic eight boxes of material, and it's now in need of sorting and organizing! If you're on campus for class or to pick up books for the new semester, any time you can spare to help would be wonderful.

Heading to SLA in June? Bring an old suit to donate!

If you're heading to SLA in June, be sure to to check out this service project...or if you can't make it and still want to donate, you can give your clothing to someone who is attending to bring.

http://slablogger.typepad.com/sla_blog/2011/04/sla-2011-in-philadelphia-give-back-while-youre-in-town-.html

OML @ Pitt Press

Here are some stories about OML @ Pitt's first shipment. We are in the process of putting together another small shipment now!

 

iSchool website: http://www.ischool.pitt.edu/news/04-15-2011.php

SLA Pittsburgh newsletter "The Confluence": http://units.sla.org/chapter/cpit/bulletins/confluence_v76n1_11.pdf (page 4)

Operation Medical Libraries Blog: http://operationmedicallibraries.blogspot.com/2011/03/sla-pittsburgh-student-group-collects.html

 

OML @ Pitt sends first shipment!

OML @ Pitt sent our first shipment of 76 medical textbooks over to US troops in Afghanistan today. We look forward to sending more! Here are some pictures taken over the past few months of SLAPSG members working on this project.

Ricardo Figueroa, Lauren Kime, Priya Shenoy

Ricardo Figueroa, Lauren Kime, Priya Shenoy

Amy Yonick

Ricardo Figueroa, Priya Shenoy, Amy Yonick, Lauren Kime

Amy Yonick, Ricardo Figueroa, Lauren Kime

Amy Yonick

Becky Brendel, Lauren Kime

Lauren Kime

Sarika Sharma, Lauren Kime

Amy Yonick, Sarika Sharma

Amy Yonick, Sarika Sharma

Sarika Sharma, Amy Yonick

Next Meeting-Wednesday, April 20th at 1pm in IS 1A04

Our next meeting is on Wednesday, April 20 at 1pm in IS 1A04. We will be holding elections to fill the position of treasurer, secretary and possibly membership coordinator and webmaster. If you can't attend but want to run for one or more of these positions, just send amy36@pitt.edu an email stating why you want to run and what position(s) you would like to run for (if more than one, list your preference).

Other items on the agenda are: OML @ Pitt update, SLA conference update and summer workshop planning.

p.s. there will most likely be food

 

Check out the OML @ Pitt blog post

OML has published a blog post about our OML @ Pitt efforts:

http://operationmedicallibraries.blogspot.com/2011/03/sla-pittsburgh-student-group-collects.html

Preparing for our first OML shipment...

We are getting ready to send our first shipment of Operation Medical Libraries (OML) books! We will be in IS 604 next Wednesday between (4/6) between 11am and 2pm preparing the books for packing and shipping and we could use all the help we can get. We hope to see you there!

Join Us for a Tour of the GLCC Library and Check Out How they Catalog Their Books Using LibraryThing

Sign up for one of our hands-on grant-seeking workshops!

Sign up for our hands-on grant seeking workshop with The Foundation Center at the Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh (main).

There are two dates you can sign up for: Thursday, April 14th and Monday, April 18th both from 6:00-7:30 at CLP Main, PC Center, third floor.

There is a maximum of 10 people per session so sign up now to reserve your spot by emailing say11@pitt.edu.