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Registration for June 4 Career Agility Program

Join your San Andreas colleagues for a breakfast program on Thursday, June 4th at Exponent in Menlo Park.

Career Agility: Working with an Agency

Speakers:  Linda McKell and Sarah Vogel, moderator Cindy Hill

Explore alternatives to working in a salaried position for a company.  What are the opportunities, the pros and cons?  What is the current situation?  How do you get projects?  And how do you market yourself?

Our speakers on this panel provide perspectives from both the contractor and agency viewpoint.  After several layoffs at local pharmaceutical companies, Sarah Vogel, independent Information Research Consultant, became an independent contractor.  Linda McKell is the founder and owner of AIM Library & Information Management ("AIM").

Cindy Hill, our moderator, is the founder and president of Hill Information Consulting Group.  She was previously Vice President, Information Management Service, with Outsell, Inc., a research and advisory firm focused on the publishing, information, and education industries.  Prior to that, she had been the manager of Sun's Digital Libraries and Research Group.

Lee Pharis has graciously agreed to host us at Exponent in Menlo Park on June 4. Exponent is located off Marsh Road on the Bay side of 101. A buffet continental breakfast will be served in our meeting room prior to the program. We are starting this one early and plan to end by 10 am, for a minimal impact on your work day.

Agenda:  

    7:45 - 8:15 a.m.  Registration & Continental Breakfast

    8:15 - 9:45 a.m.  Program

    9:45 - 10:00 a.m.  Q&A

Cost:   $12 for members; $16 for non-members and guests; $8 for student/unemployed members

Location:   Exponent  -- 149 Commonwealth Drive, Menlo Park, CA 94025

Parking:  Free parking is available at Exponent.

DEADLINE:  Make sure your registration form (below) and check are received by Tuesday, June 2. 

Patricia Parsons

Jean Bedord

Program Directors, San Andreas SLA

Keep an eye on SLA and related events in the Bay Area -- check out the "San Andreas Events" Google calendar. Click on the link in the top right corner of the Chapter blog webpage:

http://sla-divisions.typepad.com/sanandreas/ or  http://www.san-andreas-sla.org

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Send your check payable to "San Andreas Chapter of SLA" and the registration form below to:

SLA Reservations

c/o AIM Library & Information Staffing 

P.O. Box 391210

Mountain View, CA 94039-1210

 

Name: _____________________________________________

 

Telephone: _________________________________________

 

E-Mail: _____________________________________________

 

Employer/Affiliation: ___________________________________

 

SLA Member (@$12): ____   Non Member/Guest (@$16): ____

 

Student//Unemployed Member (@$8): _____

 

Check enclosed for:  ____________

 

Please make check payable to San Andreas Chapter of SLA

 

DEADLINE: Make sure your registration & check are received by Tuesday, June 2

 

100 Members for 100 Years! The San Francisco-San Andreas Joint Chapter Meeting

The May 21st joint meeting of the San Andreas and San Francisco SLA Chapters was a great success, with 100 members attending from both chapters at the San Francisco Airport Commission Aviation Library & Louis A. Turpen Aviation Museum.

San Andreas Chapter President Leslie Fisher noted the fortuitous number of attendees, thanked DIALOG for sponsoring the event and Ken Haycock, Professor and Director of the School of Library and Information Science at San jose State University, for the 100^th anniversary cake, and observed a number of anniversaries or near anniversaries. 2009 is the 85th anniversary of the founding of the San Francisco Chapter as well as the 100th anniversary of the founding of SLA, and 2010 will be the 30th anniversary of the founding of the San Andreas Chapter, which split off from the San Francisco Chapter in 1980.  She also thanked the Communications Committee for their efforts so far.  Leslie also noted that there is a second Career Agility event the morning of June 4^th.

Sandy Malloy, the president of the San Francisco Chapter, thanked the San Andreas Chapter, and Leslie in particular, for putting on the event. The next event for the San Francisco Chapter is Maplight at the UC Berkeley faculty club.

Next up was Cindy Romaine of Romainiacs Intelligence Research, who is running for President-Elect of SLA International. Cindy pointed out we are part of a noble profession--at a time when people don’t trust public institutions, they do trust libraries. US News & World Report listed librarians as one of the top jobs of the future.  SLA can soak up 20 times the anxiety going on in the profession, like chamois (a prop Cindy had) can soak up 20 times its weight in water. She also compared us to the Verizon guy, people coming (rappelling) to each others’ service and providing a strong and robust network. The next step for the profession:  we have to get future-ready. Cindy asked what are the tools, constructs, competencies we need and mentioned that she uses and has accounts on Facebook, LinkedIn, and Twitter.

After a brief interlude for anniversary cake, a panel moderated by Bill Fisher and consisting of Richard Geiger, Cindy Hill, Libby Trudell and Deb Hunt gave their quick thoughts on where the profession was headed and engaged the audience. Themes included user focus, differing generational attitudes towards privacy, staying current on new technologies and how librarians should brand themselves. Part of the panel discussion included presenting videos from the Strategic Alignment Project. SLA members and, in at least one case, a professional actress read statements and the reactions of information users (C-level executives) and information providers were tracked in real-time.

Questions posed by Chapter members included how to convey our value to middle management who might oversee expenses but not directly use our services or see the value we provide, different terms for the people we work for (collaborators, decision makers and team members were all proposed) and a lively discussion of differing generational attitudes towards privacy and how to reach out to younger people and how to be more inclusive.

Photos are forthcoming!

Deb Hunt threw out a challenge to all of us to try out at least one of the following services by June 1, saying, "You'll be glad you invested the time in yourself and added new skills to your toolbox."

SLA wiki home:  http://wiki.sla.org/dashboard.action

(be sure to create a log in that will be good for all wiki pages)

23 Things:  http://tinyurl.com/ok4k5v

Innovation Lab (which includes links to all the spaces below):  http://www.sla.org/innovate/

Atomic Learning

http://www.sla.org/innovate/atomic.cfm

Enter the user name: slastudent and the password: slastudent

Leadership & Management and KM Library:  http://sla.learn.com/learncenter.asp?page=202

execuBooks:  http://sla.learn.com/learncenter.asp?page=156

Deborah Hunt

Exploratorium http://www.exploratorium.edu

 [email protected]

Steven Kaye

Novarica

[email protected]

June 11, 2009 Colloquia Session

The School of Library and Information Science at San José State University is pleased to invite you to attend our continuing Summer Colloquium Series featuring SLIS faculty and invited guests, as they address the challenges and promises of our rapidly changing profession.  Our June 2009 featured Master's of Archives and Records Administration (MARA) speaker is:

    

Gina Jones, MLS

Member, Web Archiving Team, Office of Strategic Information, Library of Congress

Title: Archiving the LIS Elections Websphere: An Historical Perspective

Thursday, 11 June 2009

Time: 5:30 – 6:30 p.m. (PST)

Location: Live from San Jose using Elluminate

URL:  https://nexus.sjsu.edu:443/join_meeting.html?meetingId=1241060362863

Password:  mara

 ELLUMINATE:  If you have not used Elluminate before, a student guide is available to help you prepare beforehand: http://slisweb.sjsu.edu/software/elluminate/students/. 

More information about this presentation is posted on our Colloquia: Summer 2009 web page at http://slisweb.sjsu.edu/slis/colloquia/2009/colloquia09su.htm.

RSVP: Although virtual seating is unlimited, we’d appreciate an estimate of the number of participants.  Please respond to Pat Franks at [email protected] if you hope to join us.

 Presentations are free and open to the public.  We videotape each presentation for those who are unable to actually attend them live.  Links to an Internet webcast (streaming video), an RSS feed, and/or an iTunes Portal podcast (usually both audio and video versions) will be posted to the Colloquia: Summer 2009 calendar web page at http://slisweb.sjsu.edu/slis/colloquia/2009/colloquia09su.htm about a week after each event.  

June 17, 2009 Colloquia Session

The School of Library and Information Science at San José State University is pleased to invite you to attend our continuing Summer Colloquium Series featuring SLIS faculty and invited guests, as they address the challenges and promises of our rapidly changing profession. 

 Our 17^th June 2009 Master of Archives and Records Administration speaker is

 


Michael P. Martin, Records Management Specialist

Archival Services, Electronic Records Unit, New York State Archives

Title: There’s a Hole in the Bucket: One Institution’s Method of Preserving Electronic Records

Wednesday, 17 June 2009
Time: 5:30 – 6:30 p.m. (PST)
Location: Live from upstate New York using Elluminate*

URL:  https://nexus.sjsu.edu:443/join_meeting.html?meetingId=1242112633470

Password:  mara

 *If you have not used Elluminate before, a student guide is available to help you prepare beforehand: http://slisweb.sjsu.edu/software/elluminate/students/.

More information about this presentation is posted on our Colloquia: Summer 2009 web page at http://slisweb.sjsu.edu/slis/colloquia/2009/colloquia09su.htm.  Presentations are free and open to the public.

RSVP: Although virtual seating is unlimited, we’d appreciate an estimate of the number of participants.  Please respond to Pat Franks at [email protected] if you hope to join us.

We videotape each presentation for those who are unable to actually attend them live.  Links to an Internet webcast (streaming video), an RSS feed, and/or an iTunes Portal podcast (usually both audio and video versions) will be posted to the Colloquia: Summer 2009 calendar web page at http://slisweb.sjsu.edu/slis/colloquia/2009/colloquia09su.htm about a week after each event.

 Feel free to distribute this announcement to interested people, and please excuse any cross-postings you may see. 

Neighborhood Dinners Coming June 24 - July 1

Please mark the timeframe June 24 - July 1 on your calendars and plan to attend an informal San Andreas SLA neighborhood dinner.

Better yet, offer to host or organize a dinner. The goal is to gather informal groups of SLA members to share a meal, and make it "nearby" no matter where you live or work -- South Bay, South South Bay, East Bay, Peninsula, Mid-Peninsula, Monterey, etc. If you have a favorite restuarant near your home or office, why not share it with your fellow SLAers? If you're finding the locations of our regular programs are inconvenient, this is your chance to bring us to your neighborhood!

Are you going to Washington DC for the Annual Conference? Please plan to return to the Bay Area and share your impressions and new knowledge with your colleagues at a neighborhood dinner.

If you're willing to host a Neighborhood Dinner, please send us an email. And let us know if you have questions. 

Patricia Parsons

[email protected]

Jean Bedord

[email protected]

Chapter Program Directors

Career Agility Series Breakfast Program June 4

Plans for the next San Andreas Chapter breakfast program, our second event in the Career Agility series, are coming together. 

Please save the date, Thursday June 4th.  Join us for a continental breakfast and a presentation about tools and strategies for Career Agility. We'll be hearing about different employment options. Our speakers are Linda McKell, the founder and owner of Advanced Information Management, and Sarah Vogel, Information Research Consultant. Lee Pharis will be hosting us at Exponent in Menlo Park. As with the previous Career Agility programs, we expect to start this one early and end by 10 am, for a minimal impact on your work day.

Details will be available soon.