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The new website for SLA Silicon Valley Chapter is at siliconvalley.sla.org.  It has all of the historic posts from this site and much more.  Please check out our new home and please remember to update your links.

Event: Pecha Kucha Leadership for Information Pros / Recognition and Awards Celebration, Jan. 12

Join your colleagues for our first meeting of 2011, recognizing the remarkable accomplishments of our  local Silicon Valley members during 2010. Leadership in our chapter is truly outstanding with several members providing leadership at the highest levels of SLA. We'll be looking back and looking forward at this program:
 
"Pecha Kucha Leadership for Information Pros / Recognition and Awards Celebration"
When:  Wednesday, January 12, 5:30 - 8:00  Signup Deadline: January 6
Featured Speakers: Libby Trudell, Cindy Hill, Deb Hunt and Helen Losch, with others pending
Location:  MacArthur Park, in Palo Alto, right next to the train station
Registration URL: http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/H69M5SN 

Give a warm farewell to our current president, Helen Losch, and other outgoing Board members. Welcome new Board members with your excellent ideas and opinions and seize the best professional networking opportunity to volunteer for open committee positions in 2011. Connect with fellow colleagues and enjoy a scrumptious appetizer buffet at the architecturally historic and unique MacArthur Park in Palo Alto. 

 

Dec. 11 Holiday Tour of Patterson House at Ardenwood Historic Farm

Saturday, December 11, 2010  3:00PM

Event: Holiday Tour of Patterson House at Ardenwood Historic Farm, an East Bay Regional Park in Fremont

 Come join us for some holiday cheer in Fremont at the Patterson House, Ardenwood Historic Farm.  Several of us are meeting there on Saturday, December 11 for the 3:00pm tour of the Patterson House, currently decked out in a festive holiday 1900’s Victorian style.  The 3:00 tour is the last of the day, with the park closing at 4:00, so don’t be late!

A departure from typical chapter tours, there is no chapter registration and you pay your own fees as you enter the park.  The cost is $2 to enter the park (general admission) plus $4 for the Patterson House tour.

Information about the tour can be found here (see Christmas Tours of Patterson House):

http://www.ebparks.org/files/Ardenwood_NNB_December_rev3_2010.pdf

Arrive early enough to queue up at Patterson House by the beginning of the tour. It is recommended that you arrive at least an hour early to tour the grounds, possibly earlier to take a Monarch Butterfly Tour since the butterflies are back at Ardenwood this year.  (This is also described with the house tour description using the link above.)

For general information about Ardenwood Historic Farm: 

http://www.ebparks.org/parks/ardenwood

Afterward we’re headed to a nearby Starbucks for hot chocolate (also Dutch treat). 

http://www.starbucks.com/store/8815

"Holiday Tour of Patterson House at Ardenwood Historic Farm"
When:  Saturday, December 11, 3:00 - 4:00
Location:  Ardenwood Historic Farm in Fremont (next to Hwy 880 just off Decoto Rd./Hwy 84 east of the Dumbarton Bridge)  http://www.ebparks.org/parks/ardenwood#reach

 
Please join us!    

 

 

Publications by Chapter Members

Several of our members have published articles in the professional literature this year, and one has even published a book.  Congratulations to the authors!

 Jean Bedord, Principal, eContent Strategies

 "SMX West 2010: Nature of Search is Changing", Information Today, May 2010, p.26. http://www.infotoday.com/it/may10/index.shtml

 

Deb Hunt, Principal, Information Edge

"The Accidental Knowledge Manager: Another Role for Independent Information Professionals" ASIS&T Bulletin , October/November 2010  http://www.asist.org/Bulletin/Oct-10/OctNov10_Hunt.html

 

Raveena Raman, Senior Information Specialist, Analysis and Information Management (AIM) Services,  Elan Pharmaceuticals. 

1)  “Advancing the careers of life science professionals of Indian origin,” with Jagath R Junutula, Darshana Patel, Holly Butler & Anula Jayasuriya; Nature Biotechnology v28, 757–758 (2010).

2) “Protecting information resources before and After emergencies”, with Lisl Zach, Information Outlook, v14, n3, p25(3), April 1, 2010. Special Libraries Association    

 

Virginia Tucker, PhD Candidate, San Jose SLIS

Finding the Answers to Legal Questions: A How-To-Do-It Manual  with Marc Lampson, published by Neal- Schuman Publishers, October 2010    http://www.neal-schuman.com/bdetail.php?isbn=9781555707187   

 

Libby Trudell,  VP, Market Development, Dialog

“Does Taxonomy Matter in a New World of Search and Discovery?”  with Suzanne BeDell, Online  September 2010, v34, no 5 http://www.infotoday.com/online/sep10/BeDell-Trudell.shtml .   

 

Submitted by Libby Trudell

Event: 30th Anniversary at new "Bookless" Frederick Emmons Terman Engineering Library, Nov. 18

Come celebrate the 30th anniversary of our SLA Silicon Valley chapter, formerly the San Andreas chapter, at the  new Frederick Emmons Terman Engineering Library at Stanford. This will be hosted by our own Helen B. Josephine, Head Librarian. We'll have tours of the new library, plus hearty h'ors d'oeuvres and refreshments in the MacKenzie Board Room,followed by speakers and a brief annual business meeting. 

"30th Anniversity Chapter Celebration: Future of the Library"
When:  Thursday, November 18, 5:30 - 8:00
Featured Speaker: Michael Keller, University Librarian, Director of Academic Information Resources, and Publisher of Highwire Press and Publisher of the Stanford University Press.
Special Guest: Cindy Romaine, 2011 President-Elect of SLA
Sponsors:  IEEE, Elsevier, Springer, Dialog, CRC/Taylor & Francis, Morgan & Claypool
Location:  Stanford University Campus https://lib.stanford.edu/engineering-library/engineering-library-visitors
Registration URL: http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/L23G32F     
 
 
This is your opportunity to see this new Engineering Library, hailed in the press as “bookless” despite having 10,000 print volumes. It is envisioned as an “Information Collaboratory” where students and faculty no longer rely on print books and journals. The intention  is to have librarians working closely with faculty and researchers in their classrooms and labs.

 

Event: Solo Librarians Meeting on Thursday, November 11th

The Solo Librarians of the Silicon Valley Chapter of SLA invite you to join them at their next meeting on Thursday, November 11th.

The Internet Librarian Conference (http://www.infotoday.com/il2010) is taking place this week in Monterey from October 25 – 27. We will have a panel of librarians on hand who attended the conference and will be discussing their impressions and experiences.

Eric Kristofferson is hosting the meeting at 6 P.M. at St. Jude Medical at 701 East Evelyn Avenue in Sunnyvale. The map link is below.  We will be serving pizza for dinner courtesy of Reprints Desk.

Anyone with an interest in libraries is welcome, including students and recent grads of the MLIS programs.

Those who are planning to attend need to contact Sonia Dorfman by November 5th at sdorfman AT neuropace.com or (650) 237-2784.

Sonia Dorfman

Eric Kristofferson

Silicon Valley Solo Librarians

St. Jude Medical is at 701 E. Evelyn Avenue, Sunnyvale—between Wolfe & Fair Oaks. Park near the first building and go into the lobby.

Map link to Saint Jude Medical: http://www.mapquest.com/mq/6-EKD1AtG5

Event: Internet Librarian 2010 Dine Around in Monterey, Sunday Evening October 24

Come kick-off the Internet Librarian 2010 meeting with Ann Jacobson (Naval Postgraduate School) and  Silicon Valley  (formerly San Andreas) Chapter colleagues at the Monterey Dine Around on Sunday, Oct. 24th, at 7pm at Krua Thai Restaurant down the street at 731 Munras Avenue. This is a great opportunity to network, share expertise and have a little fun with your Silicon Valley Chapter colleagues in SLA right before the first day of Internet Librarian 2010 Conference.
 
Krua Thai is an inexpensive, delicious and quiet Thai restaurant located an easy walking distance (about 10-12 minutes) from the conference center. Food can be ordered mild, medium or spicy, and they accept separate checks. Local members and friends of SLA who are not attending Internet Librarian are also welcome.

To reserve a spot, please email Ann Jacobson at ann.jacobson AT gmail.com, and put “SLA Internet Librarian Sunday Evening Dine-around” in the subject header. Ann will confirm your place, so if you don't hear back from her, your email may have been blocked and you can call her instead at (831) 809-7760

See you there!
Jean Bedord & Vicki Garlow
Program Directors
SLA-Silicon Valley Chapter

New address for Silicon Valley Discussion List

As part of our transition to being the Silicon Valley Chapter of SLA we have changed the “name” of the discussion list. The SLA Discussion List for our chapter has been changed to sla_csv AT sla.lyris.net (please note the underscore between “sla” and “csv”). The members who were on the previous discussion list will automatically (and hopefully seamlessly) be transferred to the new list. For those of you who are SLA members and not on our local discussion list, this might be a good time for you to become active. You can signup through SLA Headquarters at: http://www.sla.org/content/community/lists/index.cfm