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Librarian's Toolbox: Presence with Elena MacGurn

By Amanda Acquard

“In an ideal world where libraries take over the planet,” we would always have enough resources and stakeholder would automatically know our worth. Unfortunately, this is not an ideal world, but luckily Elena MacGurn of Cornell University provided a model libraries can use for community outreach.

This workshop focused on strategy, in order to maximize limited resources, prove worth to key stakeholders and focus; i.e. not kill ourselves doing more with less. Outreach was the most important aspect of this workshop and everything else discussed was a means to outreach. Elena mentioned that 80% of SLA survey respondents say management does not understand the importance of the information profession. This gives us the opportunity to reach out to them and convince them otherwise.

Student Stipends to Attend SLA Annual

Students, want to go to SLA annual in New Orleans, but your budget is pretty tight?

The Business & Finance Division offers professional grant awards and student stipend awards to help cover expenses at the 2010 SLA Annual Conference in New Orleans, LA, 13-16 June 2010. The Division will award student stipends and professional grants for a total of up to six $1,500 awards.

See the application materials for eligibility requirements.

Deadline: 1 March 2010

New Member Profile: Nell Aronoff

Nell Aronoff is in the midst of her second semester in the Library & Information Sciences program at SUNY Buffalo. Nell attended the University of Rochester and has a B.A. in political science and a minor in studio art. She spent two years in Richmond, V.A. working for a national non-profit health care organization. Her desire to work in an academic arts library or special library, especially in the museum field, led her back to school to pursue her MLS. Besides going to school, Nell enjoys watching movies, printmaking, baking, and traveling.

SLA Annual Call for Posters

All Sciences Poster Session
Sponsored by: Biomedical & Life Sciences, Chemistry, Engineering, Food Agriculture and Nutrition, Physics-Astronomy-Mathematics, and Science-Technology Divisions, and the Special Libraries Association

Please consider sharing the results of your efforts at the upcoming All-Sciences Poster Session on Tuesday, June 15, 2010, at the Annual SLA Conference in New Orleans, Louisiana. We are looking for poster submissions that explore any of these themes:

• New Strategic Alignments
• Survival and Success Beyond an Economic Recession
• Information Literacy, User Instruction and E-Learning in the Sciences During and Beyond an Economic Recession: New Methods, New Participants, New Tools

For more information see the Chemistry Division's site. The deadline for abstract submissions is 15 March 2010.


B&F Poster Session "Innovations & Best Practices in Business Librarianship"

In this call for posters, the Business & Finance Division of SLA is providing an opportunity for business librarians to share ideas and develop research collaborations. We are looking for case studies or practical applications on a wide range of issues including:

• Standards and competencies for business information librarians
• Pedagogic approaches to business information education
• Assessment of learning outcomes
• Integrating business information with the curriculum
• Librarian / faculty collaboration
• New technologies for teaching business information topics
• Business information education in multi-disciplinary contexts
• Professional development for business librarians
• Promoting business information research services

This session is sponsored by the Business & Finance Division and the College & University Business Librarians Section.

Guidelines for materials and layout of poster presentations are available on the SLA Business & Finance Division site. The deadline for abstract submissions is 1 March 2010.

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