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Gary at a Great Price!

Register today for Gary Price's Research Tool Box. Via Click U Live! you’ll have a front row seat at a great price of only $15 to a presentation which is usually standing room only at conference. The one hour presentation will take place on 13 February 2007. Find out more here http://sla.learn.com/learncenter.asp?id=178409&sessionid=3-58F6E7F1-50E4-4497-BDF4-FB00F80F3764&page=199

Event: Joint Chapter Meeting Thursday, February 22, 2007

The San Francisco Bay Region Chapter of SLA is hosting the joint meeting with the San Andreas Chapter at San Francisco International Airport Aviation Museum. The meeting features Mia Garlick from Creative Commons.

Creative Commons is a San Francisco-based nonprofit corporation that

"offers free licenses and tools designed to help creators to publish their works more easily and on more flexible terms in order to enable their wider use and reuse. Their licenses help you keep your copyright while inviting certain uses of your work — a 'some rights reserved' copyright.

As General Counsel, Mia Garlick oversees implementation of the domestic and international legal strategy for Creative Commons and advises on ongoing legal issues that arise in relation to Creative Commons’ licenses and activities". (From San Francisco Bay Region Chapter announcement at http://units.sla.org/chapter/csfo/calendar/calendar.html).

Registration deadline is February 15. Please see San Francisco Bay Region Chapter website at http://units.sla.org/chapter/csfo/calendar/calendar.html for further information and registration form.

2007 Board Members & Committee Leads

We have vacancies in the Nominations, Hospitality and Vendor Relations committees - email us to volunteer!

Executive Board

President: Helen Josephine  ([email protected])
President-Elect: Joe Langdon ([email protected])
Secretary: Marie Bojnowski   ([email protected])
Treasurer: Helen Keil Losch ([email protected])
Senior Director: Eli Edwards ([email protected])
Junior Director: Lisa Sammon  ([email protected])
Past President: Lee Pharis ([email protected])

Advisory Board

Archives Committee
Past President – Lee Pharis ([email protected])

Awards Committee
Past President – Lee Pharis ([email protected])

Bulletin Committee
Claudia Cohen ([email protected])

Directory Committee
Belinda Beardt ([email protected])

Discussion List
Lorna Beich ([email protected])

Hospitality Committee
- vacant

Governance Committee
Past President – Lee Pharis ([email protected])

Jobline Committee
Lorna Beich ([email protected])

Mailing Committee
Linda Yamamoto ([email protected])

Membership Committee
President-Elect – Joe Langdon ([email protected])

Nominations Committee
- vacant

Professional Development Committee
Cindy Hill ([email protected])

Solo Librarians Committee
Eric Kristofferson ([email protected])
Patricia Parsons ([email protected])

Student Relations Liaison
Beverly McLeod ([email protected])

Tours Committee
Leslie Fisher ([email protected])

Vendor Relations Committee
- vacant

Website Committee
Mary-Lynn Bragg ([email protected])

SLA + Newsgator = Customized RSS Feeds

From Headquarters:

We want your input! Through a recent partnership with NewsGator, SLA is now offering members a customized RSS feed service. The categories of pre-selected feeds are based on subjects of interest to SLA divisions, and these feeds are a great way to keep up with recent developments in  your industry. To maximize the value of this service, we encourage you and the members of your units to submit suggestions for feeds of all  types--blogs, journals, news--that can be added to the categories, thereby  sharing them with your colleagues across SLA.

Please send along any suggestions!

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