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Last Chance! May 12 - $20 = Learn about eBooks, eat a delicious dinner, network w/ colleagues, win a Kindle

Register now at: http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/eBooksMay2011

9 vendors, 3 panelists, 50 librarians, lots of food, great prizes, all for $20!

Kindle 3G w/ Wi-Fi -- You gotta be in it, to win it.

flyer (pdf): http://units.sla.org/chapter/cnj/Speakers_Presentations/2011/ebook_2011.pdf

NJSLA eBooks Vendor Fair - May 12th - $20 gets you dinner & a chance to win a Kindle!

Download the Flyer and Register Today at http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/eBooksMay2011

Find out what YOU need to know
about eBooks for your Library

Thursday May 12th, 2011

4:30 – 6:30 networking and vendor demos
6:30 – dinner followed by Panel Discussion and Raffle Drawing

                       Somerset Hills Hotel                       
200 Liberty Corner Road
Warren NJ 07059
908-660-4506

$20 per person

Thanks to our participating vendors it’s the same price for all!
CRC NetBase (Taylor & Francis), eBrary (Proquest Dialog), NetLibrary (EBSCO), MD Consult (Elsevier), Inspec, Morgan & Claypool, Ovid, Rittenhouse, and Springer

Library Panelists:

Elizabeth Sosnowska
Electronic Resources Librarian, UMDNJ University Libraries

Mei Ling Lo
Math/Computer Science Librarian, Rutgers University Libraries, New Brunswick

Mary Mallery
Associate Dean for Technical Services, Harry A. Sprague Library, Montclair State University

4:30 – 6:30 pm - Networking & Vendor Fair

6:30 pm - Followed by a sit down dinner
Tableside choice of Chicken Francaise, Roasted Sirloin with Mushroom Sauce
or Penne in Vodka Sauce

7:15 – 8:00 pm Panel Discussion
Followed by last minute vendor visits, Raffle entries, Coffee & Dessert

8:30 pm - raffle of a Kindle eBook Reader
(winner MUST be present to win)

To learn more about the Kindle, see: http://amzn.com/B002FQJT3Q

Download the Flyer

Please make your reservation today at: http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/eBooksMay2011

If you have any questions contact Cheryl Erenberg

Register Today! April 5th NJSLA Alice Rankin Lecture featuring Kee Malesky, NPR's Librarian

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

Kee Malesky, Librarian, National Public Radio (NPR) and author of "All Facts Considered: the Essential Guide to Inessential Information" will be honored as NJSLA's 34th Alice Rankin Distinguished Lecturer.

"Just the Facts, Ma’am: An Evening with Kee Malesky"

Date: Tuesday, April 5th

Time: 5:30pm - 9:00pm

Where: Sheraton Edison Hotel, 125 Raritan Center Pkwy, Edison, NJ 08837
       Directions: http://tinyurl.com/SheratonEdisonNJ
       Google Map: http://tinyurl.com/SheratonEdisonMap

The Chapter gratefully acknowledges the support of our sponsors: Leadership Directories, ReprintsDesk, Wolters Klumer Pharma, and LibraryLinkNJ.

Download the flyer

ABOUT THE EVENT
Social hour begins at 5:30 pm with book signing and a cash bar. Dinner at about 6:15 pm
with Kee’s presentation to follow. Entrees will include a choice of salmon, chicken, or a vegetable lasagna. Coffee/tea and a dessert of Decadent Chocolate Cake will be served after dinner.

Please make your reservation via SurveyMonkey at: http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/rankin2011.
You can pay by check or PayPal.

ABOUT KEE MALESKY
Kee Malesky has been working for National Public Radio (NPR) for over thirty years. Kee earned her MLS from The Catholic University of America. Working in NPR's News Reference Library, she performs research, answers fact-checking questions, finds experts and story ideas, and provides guidance to staff on grammar, usage, and pronunciations. This experience led Kee to write All Facts Considered: The Essential Library of Inessential Knowledge (Wiley 2010), a compendium of interesting and unusual facts that she has accumulated over the years answering questions for NPR reporters, editors, and hosts.

Special! Only $20 for Students/"Between Jobs" members!

Special! Member rate of $30 applies to current ALA, SCIP, or AIIP members!

Please reserve your spot and your book by Monday, March 28th, 2011.

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

If you have any questions contact Claudia Cuca.

A Recap and Photos from Guy St. Clair's Lecture on SLA's History and Future

I've posted photos from Guy St. Clair's March 3 lecture, SLA at 100: From Putting Knowledge to Work to Building the Knowledge Culture. (The photos are also shown in a slideshow below.)

Guy, NJSLA's 2010 Alice Rankin DIstinguished Lecturer, had researched and written his book SLA at 100 for 10 years before SLA's centennial in 2009. He used SLA's history as a jumping-off point to speak about the future of the profession, the importance of knowledge management and knowledge services, and how information professionals can take leadership roles in their organizations.

The lecture prompted a lively debate about (among other topics) library school curricula and SLA's leadership in continuing education (via Click University's Webinars and online certificate programs). Guy and the attendees also discussed both challenges and opportunities as the roles of professionals in information technology and knowledge services (such as librarians) converge.

The event, held at the Rutgers Club in New Brunswick, was generously sponsored by EBSCO and Dow Jones. Among the photos are a few showing the glass bookends we gave Guy in appreciation of his visit. NJSLA Past President Barbara Burton in 2007 started the tradition of presenting these bookends to our Alice Rankin Distinguished Lecturers.

Eric Schwarz

NJSLA Past President

 

Economics writer Louis Uchitelle on the 'Great Recession' — Thursday, May 21 (SLA-NY event)

WHEN: Thursday, May 21, 2009 5:30 - 7:45 PM
Networking Reception: 5:30 - 6:30 PM
Presentation including Q&A: 6:30 - 7:45 PM

PROGRAM: New York Times prize-winning economics writer Louis Uchitelle will discuss the current "Great Recession" in New York and beyond. He will also share insights from his 2006 book "The Disposable American: Layoffs and Their Consequences." The book will be available for sale (ca. $15), and Mr. Uchitelle will be glad to sign copies. Please join us for this interesting and insightful presentation on the most important issue of today! (Free event.)

WHERE: Skadden Arps, 4 Times Square at Broadway (between 42nd and 43rd Street) 37th Floor. Enter on 42nd or 43rd St. side.

For the speaker's biography, directions and RSVP information please see the SLA-NY Chapter Events blog. (RSVPs must be sent by Thursday, May 14. All attendees must be on the security list in advance.)

See this event on the NJSLA Calendar and add it to Outlook.

'Democratic Idealist' John Cotton Dana Discussed at Newark Museum — Wednesday, April 22

The Newark Museum and SLA are both celebrating centennials in 2009. At the center of both institutions was John Cotton Dana, a quite busy man 100 years ago, as he was (a) the founding president of SLA (as many SLA members know), (b) the founding director of the Newark Museum, and (c) continuing as director of the Newark Public Library.

Librarian William A. Peniston at the Newark Museum has asked NJSLA to promote the following event:

Renowned art historian Carol Duncan will speak on pioneering librarian and museum director John Cotton Dana at the Newark Museum on Wednesday, April 22 at 2 p.m. An afternoon tea and book signing will follow. (The event is free; the book retails for $40.)

Carol Duncan is professor emeritus of art history at Ramapo College in New Jersey. An expert in the history of museums in the United States, she is author of numerous books and articles. Her most recent work is entitled "How to Have A Museum With Brains": John Cotton Dana and the Making of A Democratic Culture in America (Periscope, 2009).

In this critical study, Duncan examines the work of John Cotton Dana, best known as the director of the Newark Public Library from 1902 to 1929 and of the Newark Museum from 1909 to 1929. She is particularly interested in the tension between Dana "the democratic idealist who fought the powerful upper class of his city" and Dana "[the] ideologue who advanced upper-class agendas." Dana himself was "convinced that he could serve the cultural interests of all classes without compromise" -- a conviction that Duncan questions.

In the course of eight chapters, Duncan discusses the young Dana as a man "struggling to throw off a detested New England upbringing and remake himself as a free-thinking intellectual;" the professional Dana whose modernization and democratization program reshaped American public libraries; and the established Dana who "endeavored to create a progressive museum [as] an equivalent to his reformed library." Much of her book is devoted to his career as the director of The Newark Museum, where he "staged exhibitions ... that challenged conventional distinctions between art, craft and industrial design" and where he was "determined to establish the museum as a force within the new consumer economy."

This book is a welcomed addition to the scholarship on John Cotton Dana and The Newark Museum. Unlike earlier biographies, which have been celebratory in tone, this one situates the man in his times and adds significantly to the existing studies of the Progressive Era. It should make the man and his institutions better known to a wider audience and it should encourage all thinking individuals to reflect seriously on the role of libraries, museums, and other cultural institutions in the democratic world of today.

The Newark Museum is pleased to have Professor Carol Duncan speak to its diverse constituencies about the innovative work of its founding director during its centennial celebrations. And we invite you and your colleagues to attend this important event.

William A. Peniston, Ph.D.
Librarian
The Newark Museum
49 Washington Street
Newark, NJ 07102
Office: (973) 596-6625
Fax: (973) 642-0459
Email

See this event on the NJSLA Calendar and add it to Outlook.

Photo: John Cotton Dana, ca. 1910.
Credit (and link to download): Library of Congress (Bain News Service collection) via Flickr.
No known restrictions on publication.