Silicon Valley Chapter | SLA

Happy Holidays!

Wishing you a happy holiday season and all the best for 2008!

Claudia Cohen

Bulletin Committee

Solo Librarians Meeting on January 16th

The Solo Librarians of the San Andreas Chapter of SLA invite you to join them at their next meeting on Wednesday, January 16th. Anyone with an interest in small libraries is welcome, including students and recent grads of the MLIS programs.

The Solo Librarians will be touring the Computer History Museum on Wednesday, January 16th at 6 P.M. The Computer History Museum will be providing a docent to lead the tour. There is no charge, but donations to the Museum are welcome.

The tour leaves at 6 P.M., so allow enough time to be ready to go at 6. Directions to the museum are below. There is a limit on the number of people who can tour, so please get your reservation in early.

Those who wish to share a dinner will be meeting at a nearby restaurant after the tour.

Those who are planning to attend need to contact Eric Kristofferson by January 11th.

Again, there is a limit on the number who can tour, so get your reservation in early.

Contact Eric at [email protected]  or (408) 522-6697.

Eric Kristofferson
Sonia Dorfman
San Andreas Solo Librarians

Maps and parking information:
http://www.computerhistory.org/about/directions/

General information about the Computer History Museum :
http://www.computerhistory.org/about_us.html

SJSU SLIS Accreditation Party Honors 40 Alumni

- Includes SLA and Local Chapter Members

On November 29, SJSU SLIS celebrated its fortieth continuous accreditation anniversary by honoring more than 40 alumni during its "Forty for Forty" celebration. The honorees included several SLA members - Sarah Buchanan, Ann Caputo, Daria DeCooman - as well as local Chapter members Christy Confetti Higgins, Eli Edwards, Monica Ertel, Fred Gertler, Cindy Hill and George Plosker.

Please click for photos of the reception, courtesy of George Plosker (Thanks George!).

Read on for a full list of honorees.

Web 2.0 Awards 2007

Hundreds of Web 2.0 sites have been rated, ranked, and awarded into 41 categories by SEOmoz. Categories include Business, Marketing, Mashups, Social Networking, among others. Click on awards for the full listing (thanks go to Karen Takle Quinn for sending me the link!)

If you’ve used any of these sites, please respond to this posting with your comments and opinions – it’d be helpful to Chapter members!

Claudia Cohen can be reached at [email protected]

Opening Keynote Speaker for SLA 2008

Headline from SLA headquarters:

"Google's Vice President and Chief Internet Evangelist, Dr. Vinton G. Cerf, to Deliver Opening Keynote Address at SLA 2008. Charlie Rose to Interview ‘Father of the Internet’ Live on Stage at 2008 Annual Conference and INFO-EXPO in Seattle”

For further information please click here for the full article.

Notes on KMWorld 2007 San Jose Conference

By Karen Takle Quinn, Ph.D.

KMWorld 2007 in San Jose this Fall was an extremely well-organized and well-managed conference by Information Today, Inc. These conferences deliver high value to sponsors, vendors and attendees. Hugh McKellar, Editor in Chief, for KMWorld provided (on page 3 of The Buyer's Guide publication) an excellent introduction to and current perspectives on the field. This 35-paged publication was made available to attendees providing contact, background and highlight information on over 60 participants. In the introduction Hugh pointed out that many businesses and other organizations have made innovative changes over the years that go far beyond just assessing their technology needs or investing in their infrastructures. The factors influencing these enhancements appear to go beyond a simple focus on service-oriented architecture. Some may be as a result of vendor consolidations, which in turn may have contributed to new products and services across broad industry segments. For example, business intelligence software may better address user needs across complex industries or global enterprise markets by simply adding graphic desktop functions to better facilitate rapid decision making in real time environments or by providing user-friendly reports thus making information readily available at a glance.

Hugh reminds us that "Knowledge Management" is currently seen as an attitude more than a technical application. In addition, content management has become recognized as the organization's agile knowledge resource pool...thereby enhancing the value and usefulness of multiple interrelated resources now often relying on new navigational tools which are interlinked with user friendly essential taxonomies.

Karen Takle Quinn, Ph.D. can be reached at [email protected]