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Photos from the NJ Chapter Get-Together

Please see photos from the NJ Chapter Get-Together at Seattle's Tap House Grill, now available on our chapter's Facebook group page.

NJ Chapter - Seattle Get-Together Update

Please see the updated original post.

Join the SLA Innovation Laboratory

SLA members should have received the email below June 10. If you don't have your SLA username and password (hint: if you haven't changed them, they should each be five digits), you can retrieve them with just your email address.

SLA President Stephen Abram highlighted the Innovation Laboratory during his May 5 visit to the New Jersey Chapter.

Announcing:

The SLA Innovation Laboratory
a place to explore

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Innovation Home | Application Suite | Twitter | Technology Links | 23 Things |
Second Life | Innovation Wiki | Volunteers | SLA Blogs & Wikis | Atomic Learning

 

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Be a lab rat!
The SLA Innovation Laboratory is designed to be a place where you can play, learn, and discover uses for the latest emerging technologies. It's a unique resource exclusively for SLA members to discover, and get comfortable with, new technologies. The Laboratory offers a wide variety of Web 2.0 software learning tools to help you become more business savvy and technologically adept.

The SLA Innovation Lab also provides tools to SLA units (chapters, divisions, committees, councils, caucuses, task forces, etc.) to build and implement useful services for members. The initiative adds deep value to acquiring and retaining SLA membership.

Join us in the Laboratory
SLA has a long tradition of successful education initiatives. Learning opportunities abound, but the SLA Innovation Laboratory differs from traditional continuous learning in that it does not necessarily require a course, conference or event. It is something members -- you -- do for yourself, independently or in small groups. By offering the SLA Innovation Laboratory for members to discover, play, and learn, we have the framework for 24/7 independent learning opportunities. This is an expansion of SLA's learning programs, and is designed for you to invest the time and have fun learning.

So, join us in the laboratory! Enter your SLA userID and password and you're on your way to becoming an Innovation Lab Rat!

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SLA Innovation Laboratory

Seattle, DC, New Orleans, Philly

SLA 2008 is coming up this weekend, and we already know where and when the next three annual conferences will be held. This information was printed on the back of the Expocard I received in the mail.

Here are the upcoming dates:

• 2008, June 15-18: Seattle, Wash.
• 2009, June 14-17: Washington, D.C.
• 2010, June 13-16: New Orleans, La.
• 2011, June 12-15: Philadelphia, Pa.

Best regards,
Eric Schwarz
NJSLA 2008 president-elect

New Jersey Chapter Get-Together in Seattle

(updated June 11)

NJ Chapter members:

For those attending SLA 2008 in Seattle ... the NJ Chapter would like to invite you to a get-together at 8 p.m. from 7:30 to 8:30 p.m. Monday, June 16, at Tap House Grill, 1506 6th Ave., Seattle. The chapter will pay for appetizers; members will pay for drinks. (Note: We're meeting earlier to accommodate those who have plans for dinners or vendor presentations at 8. You can come anytime in that hour, and I'll happily stay later if people are still around.)

Here's a link to a Google Map showing directions from the Washington State Convention & Trade Center to the restaurant, and from the Sheraton (headquarters hotel) (two blocks away).

Note: The Business & Finance and Legal divisions are also meeting at 8 p.m. in the Sheraton. Maybe you can stop by the Tap House then head back to the division open houses!

Please let me know if you can come; we may be able to reserve tables if we have enough guests. Hope to see you in Seattle!

Best regards,
Eric Schwarz
2008 NJSLA president-elect
eric@ericthelibrarian.com

P.S. Confirmed attendees are listed in a comment.

Expert on Communication and Information Policy Named Dean of Rutgers SCILS

Jorge Reina Schement has been named dean of the Rutgers School of Communication, Information and Library Studies. SCILS produces many (if not most) of our librarians in New Jersey and has worked closely with SLA. Dr. Schement replaces the retiring Gustav Friedrich, who has led SCILS since 1998.