Silicon Valley Chapter | SLA

Searching for Silicon Valley - What's in a Name?

Greetings All - Does anyone reading this have any doubts about where is Silicon Valley? I'll guess not.

 

And you know what, I'll guess also that a whole lot of folks who are not living in this region also know - at least generally - where is Silicon Valley. During my tenure as Chapter President in 2009, I took the opportunity to randomly poll folks in other chapters when I had the opportunity for an interaction. 

 

I attended the Leadership Summit in mid-winter, I attended the annual conference in the summer, I worked on an Association project and led a committee of nine members from various regions, and I had reason to interact with a few Association-level leaders or employees. And I asked if they had regional recognition of Silicon Valley. And I asked if they knew where San Andreas Chapter was located. And in most cases the answer was "yes" to the former and "no" to the latter.

Event: Quick and Easy Library Mobile Services, May 11, Tuesday, in San Mateo - Joint Chapter Meeting

 SF Bay Region and San Andreas Chapters, Special Libraries Association

  present

Quick and Easy Library Mobile Services

 by Sarah Houghton-Jan, the Librarian in Black 

 

 

 

  Tuesday, May 11, 2010

 

 

 

  Astaria Restaurant

  50 East 3rd Avenue, San Mateo, CA 94401. (650) 344-9444 

http://www.astariasm.com 

 

 

  

 

 

 

Many libraries are trying to respond quickly to the proliferation of mobile devices and services. They are struggling to provide innovative mobile services with little resources to devote to staff, software or hardware. The buzz about ground-breaking mobile technology can sometimes seem impossible to implement in smaller, poorer, and under-technology-staffed libraries. But we, too, can offer excellent mobile services to our users! Take advantage of the quick and free services that any library can create with minimal time or expertise. 

 

 

 

 

Sarah Houghton-Jan is the Digital Futures Manager for the San José Public Library, one of the first libraries to use downloadable mobile applications. She was named a 2009 Library Journal Mover & Shaker. Sarah is a well-traveled consultant, speaker, and technology instructor and has been published widely in both library and technology publications. Her first book, Technology Training in Libraries, was just published. She has applied for an LSTA grant using augmented reality technology and is an organizer for the Handheld Librarian Conference. Sarah also writes the award-winning blog about library technology, Librarian In Black (http://librarianinblack.net/librarianinblack/  ).

 

 

  Agenda

5:30-6 p.m.      Registration and networking

6-7 p.m.           Dinner

7-8:30 p.m.      Program with Q&A following

 

 

  

 

 

Event: Preserving Digital Heritage with LOCKSS & CLOCKSS at Stanford, March 17, 2010

On Saint Patrick’s Day, SLA chapter members got a behind the scenes look at LOCKSS and CLOCKSS presented by Vickie Reich, one of the first employees of HighWire Press, part of Stanford Libraries. LOCKSS (Lots of Copies Keeps Stuff Safe) came into being in 1998 to address the trend in academic libraries to rely on leasing access to content. rather than actively acquiring collections.

Reich focused on the preservation of e-materials, concerned that a lot of digital content was digital only and not appearing in print. If libraries lose access due to funding, or publishers go out of business or formats changes, then their research communities lose access to this content. Creating an archive of digital content which separates payment from ongoing access ensures this value is not lost.

The key to digital preservation is maintaining a minimum of 7 copies of digital content in libraries in various geopolitical locations. If one copy is corrupted or destroyed,