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San Andreas Chapter Photo Policy

The San Andreas Chapter Board has recently approved a photo policy for use with this blog. The policy is listed below and will be linked from the sidebar of the blog for future reference.

San Andreas Chapter Photo Policy

The Board of the San Andreas Chapter would like members to be fully aware of a photo policy we have adopted pertaining the use of photos, videos and other recordings that may be made at various chapter events. We would like to encourage members to make recordings of our events in all media and ask that you share your results where feasible. In addition, our own members serving on our committees who are taking photos, recording video and/or sound at events for use on our website, blog and/or promotional materials will abide by the following and we ask that all members take these guidelines into consideration as well.

Any and all members at an event may have their photo taken, or be recorded under these guidelines:

- If you're at an event you may be recorded in a crowd photo. By this we mean a photo that shows people listening to a speaker or mingling with each other but is not posed nor specifically identifying. These would be the sort of things with a generic title like "San Andreas Members Enjoy a Discussion on New Technologies".

- If we take a posed photograph of someone we will tell you, identify the purpose of the photo and ask your verbal permission. You have the right to say no. If you do, your photo will not be taken or, if already taken, used. If you say yes we will make every attempt to identify you properly whenever/wherever the photo is used.

- Any photo used will only be used for activities related to the chapter - Faultline, blog, website informational postings or promotions. Anyone identified in a posed photo will have the right to later ask the photo be removed from use.

- We will not use a photo in any advertisement without your explicit permission however, please note that your photo may appear alongside advertisements in the blog/website/Faultline as a consequence of general placement, not specific endorsement.

- We'll do our best to choose a good photo but this is a very subjective decision.

- We will always try to get photos of any speakers. In this case, we will approach them ahead of time for a posed photo and determine if they have any problems with action photos taken while they speak or of the materials they're presenting.

- In any cases of photo, video or sound recording we will do our best to remain unobtrusive and not disrupt any presentation.

Please direct any questions about the policy to the members of the board. Thank you.

San Andreas Chapter Copyright Policy

The San Andreas Chapter Board has recently approved the following policy about copyright of items written for the blog. This will be linked in the sidebar for future reference.

Copyright for articles, book reviews, etc. on the San Andreas Chapter blog:

1. Author's copyright automatically applies to all content. While this is assumed, to be on the safe side, authors who want to retain copyright should add a copyright statement to the end of their work (© 2007 Helen Josephine All Rights Reserved).

2. To clarify the rights reserved under the copyright, it is strongly encouraged that authors apply for a free Creative Commons License for their individual works. These licenses have several levels of restriction including: no commercial reuse, no remix or changing of content, and sharing only with attribution of the creative commons license.

Apply for a Creative Commons license at: http://www.creativecommons.org

In the tools section there is a link to a plug in for Microsoft Office to automatically add a Creative Commons License to a document created in MSWord: http://wiki.creativecommons.org/Microsoft_Office_Addin

Please direct any questions with respect to this policy to the board. Thank you.

Rocky Mountain ‘Hi’!

By Ty Webb, SLA 2007 Conference Co-Chair & RMSLA Past-President

Would you like to see what downtown Denver looks like and see pictures of the conference center and the 16th Street Mall?

Members of the Rocky Mountain Chapter took pictures for you to see. Kathleen Rainwater, our local arrangements chair, has loaded them onto Flickr. The links are:

http://flickr.com/photos/8284999@N02/

http://flickr.com/photos/8257763@N05/

Kathleen says they will soon be searchable with the tag "sla2007."

The cool conference shirts that you see in the pictures, complete with the conference logo, will be available for $25 at the Denver booth.  RMSLA is excited about serving as the host chapter for the 2007 SLA Conference. We'll see you soon!

Ty Webb can be reached at [email protected]

Local Presenters at SLA 2007

By Lee Pharis, Manager - Information Resources, Exponent

For those attending the SLA Conference next month in Denver, please be apprised that several of our locals are either moderating or speaking at various sessions, and if the sessions are of interest to you or you’re curious about them, please give a show of support by filling in the audience! Briefly in quasi-chronological order, we have:

Dale Stanley co-teaches a class on Saturday on Leadership and Knowledge Services, and also speaks as part of a panel on Monday, 4:00-5:30pm, on the three stages of knowledge management.

Libby Trudell, SLA Chapter Cabinet Chair-Elect, leads some of the sessions at the Leadership Development Institute on Sunday, 7:30am-12noon, and again on Tuesday, 5:30-6:30pm, at the Chapter Cabinet Meeting.

These SLA sessions are not just for the chapter Presidential and other Board positions, but also for interested members to learn leadership techniques with and from colleagues in leadership positions throughout the SLA organization. If you are interested in further developing some of your leadership skills, and in networking with other SLA members from across the globe, you would probably be interested in coming to the Leadership Development Institute and the Chapter Cabinet Meeting.

Event: San Andreas Chapter SLA June 2007 Tour & Wine Tasting - June 16, 2007

DATE: Saturday June 16th, 2007

TOUR LOCATION: Stanford University's Hopkins Marine Station in Pacific Grove. Directions and map located in extended entry. (Note: This is a walking tour.)

Hopkins Marine Station
Hopkins Marine Station is a marine biology research and educational facility that operates as a branch of Stanford University's Department of Biological Sciences. Founded in 1892, Hopkins was the first marine laboratory to be established on the American Pacific coast. Since that time, many notable scientists, as well as a continuous population of undergraduate and graduate students have come to the Station to study and work towards a better understanding of the marine world. The Station is located in Pacific Grove, on the Monterey Peninsula. Telephone: 707-433-3772; Fax 707-433-7946. Our host will be Joseph Wible, Head Librarian and Bibliographer, and Assistant to the Station Director.

Joseph Wible, PhD
Joe Wible received his Masters in Library Science from Emory University and his Ph.D. in biology from University of Southern California. Currently he participates in the Channel Islands Research Program's long-term monitoring of subtidal communities off southern California. In addition to running the library, Dr. Wible is the Station's webmaster. He also helps with fundraising, publicity, and provides computer and networking support for the Station.