NJSLA Blog

SLA President Anne Caputo Highlights Alignment Outreach, Ethics Code

The DC Chapter of SLA has posted a great interview with SLA President Anne Caputo, as part of its January/February 2010 Chapter Notes (PDF file). In the interview, starting on Page 19, Anne talks about her experiences with SLA and plans for her presidential year, including "making the findings of the Alignment Project usable in practical ways for our members."

One of the first results of the Alignment Project was the unsuccessful effort to change the name of the association (or success in keeping the name SLA, whichever you prefer). Anne has called on Mary Ellen Bates to promote and develop tools to use the findings of the Alignment Project, which is meant to help information professionals demonstrate their value. (Mary Ellen is SLA's Division Cabinet Chair-Elect.) In the interview, Anne also mentions that SLA is working on its first Code of Ethics.

As a side note, on Page 21 of the newsletter there is a picture of Anne and other SLA leaders from her Oct. 7 visit to the New Jersey Chapter.

Best regards,

Eric Schwarz, NJSLA Past-President

 

 

P.S. to library students studying Dialog: Did you know that elementary and high school students used to learn it as well? See Anne's response on Page 20 of the Chapter Notes.

 

Pictured: Anne Caputo, SLA President

Top 10 Reasons Why You Should Register Now! for Guy St Clair's Alice Rankin Talk

Come join us on Wednesday, March 3rd for NJSLA's annual Alice Rankin lecture featuring the incomparable Guy St Clair.  Register Now! or view the full announcement.
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Without further ado … Guy gives us the Top Ten Reasons you should come hear what he has to say.

Like Pete said last year, it’s all about YOU and what YOU’LL DO with your future professional life. Guy’s probably going to say some pretty provocative things. But he promises – at the same time – to make you very proud of being a member of SLA.

10. Learn how John Cotton Dana was creating what we now think of as “KM/knowledge services” when SLA was born

9. Why is specialized librarianship a distinctive branch of librarianship? Or more provocatively: is specialized librarianship a branch of librarianship?

8. Hear how the President of the United States recognized our professional skills

7. Hear about the three times in our association’s history when we had the chance to make history and we stepped aside

6. Since we’ve been combining ICT management, KM, and strategic learning for 101 years, we’re natural “knowledge thought leaders” for our employers. Are we up to it? Are we brave enough?

5. Find out why other knowledge workers are moving ahead of us – and fast

4. Find out why managing strategic knowledge is our future… and why we can’t go back

3. Learn a clear, straight-forward statement of the mission of specialized librarianship, whatever it’s called and however it’s structured within the organizations that employ us – and how it’s not about membership in any professional association

2. Hear how we can get comfortable with our role in “building the knowledge culture”

1. Learn why – if our professional lives are going to be professionally satisfying – we must “make no small plans”

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Come join us on Wednesday, March 3rd for NJSLA's annual Alice Rankin lecture featuring the incomparable Guy St Clair.  Register Now! or view the full announcement.

Free Meal! Help Set up a Meeting

Program committee volunteers are needed.

 

This is your chance to come to a meeting for free.  Help plan it – eat free.

 

We need to plan a meeting in May as well as plan for the Chapter’s 75^th anniversary event. We already have some plans but we need help executing.  You won’t be working alone. We can tailor tasks to the time you have.

 If you are interested and want more details, contact me at [email protected] or call my cell 201 650-8606.

P.S.

If anyone is a member of the arboretum in Summit, please let me know

 

Sherry

NJSLA President-Elect

Register Today! March 3rd NJSLA Alice Rankin Lecture featuring Guy St. Clair

Register Today! for New Jersey Chapter SLA's 33rd Annual Alice Rankin Distinguished Lecture.

Guy St. Clair will be honored as this year's Alice Rankin Distinguished Lecturer. Guy will discuss his recent work compiling SLA's 100-year history and will share his thoughts on the future of specialized librarianship.

"SLA at 100: From Putting Knowledge to Work
to Building the Knowledge Culture"

Date: Wednesday, March 3rd

Time: 5:30pm - 9:00pm

Where: Rutgers Club, 199 College Avenue, New Brunswick, NJ 08901
       Directions/Map from Rutgers: http://bit.ly/ruclubdir
       Google Map: http://bit.ly/ruclubgmap

The Chapter gratefully acknowledges the support of Dow Jones for this event.

ABOUT THE EVENT
The social hour will begin at 5:30 pm and a buffet-style dinner will begin at 6:15 pm with Guy’s presentation to follow.  The buffet will include several entrees, soup, vegetables, hot pasta, and salads.  Dessert and coffee will be served after dinner. A cash bar will be available.

Please make your reservation via SurveyMonkey at: http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/rankin2010. You can pay by check or PayPal.

ABOUT GUY ST. CLAIR
Guy St. Clair has been a leader in the library field for over 40 years.  In May, 2009, St. Clair was recognized by the New York Chapter of SLA with the chapter’s Outstanding Achievement Award for 2009 for his work in writing SLA at 100: From Putting Knowledge to Work to Building the Knowledge Culture. Prepared for the SLA Centennial, the book is offered not only as a history of the association but as a description of and predictions about knowledge services delivery in the future. St. Clair's book will be available for sale and signing at the event for 50% OFF the cover price.

Register Today! for New Jersey Chapter SLA's 33rd Annual Alice Rankin Distinguished Lecture.

Last Chance! NJSLA Ground Hog's Day Dine-Around is this Friday - Feb 5th

For more info see: http://sla-divisions.typepad.com/njsla/2010/01/njsla_groundhogsday-2010.html