Silicon Valley Chapter | SLA

Event: Pecha Kucha Leadership for Information Pros / Recognition and Awards Celebration, Jan. 12

Join your colleagues for our first meeting of 2011, recognizing the remarkable accomplishments of our  local Silicon Valley members during 2010. Leadership in our chapter is truly outstanding with several members providing leadership at the highest levels of SLA. We'll be looking back and looking forward at this program:
 
"Pecha Kucha Leadership for Information Pros / Recognition and Awards Celebration"
When:  Wednesday, January 12, 5:30 - 8:00  Signup Deadline: January 6
Featured Speakers: Libby Trudell, Cindy Hill, Deb Hunt and Helen Losch, with others pending
Location:  MacArthur Park, in Palo Alto, right next to the train station
Registration URL: http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/H69M5SN 

Give a warm farewell to our current president, Helen Losch, and other outgoing Board members. Welcome new Board members with your excellent ideas and opinions and seize the best professional networking opportunity to volunteer for open committee positions in 2011. Connect with fellow colleagues and enjoy a scrumptious appetizer buffet at the architecturally historic and unique MacArthur Park in Palo Alto. 

 

Dec. 11 Holiday Tour of Patterson House at Ardenwood Historic Farm

Saturday, December 11, 2010  3:00PM

Event: Holiday Tour of Patterson House at Ardenwood Historic Farm, an East Bay Regional Park in Fremont

 Come join us for some holiday cheer in Fremont at the Patterson House, Ardenwood Historic Farm.  Several of us are meeting there on Saturday, December 11 for the 3:00pm tour of the Patterson House, currently decked out in a festive holiday 1900’s Victorian style.  The 3:00 tour is the last of the day, with the park closing at 4:00, so don’t be late!

A departure from typical chapter tours, there is no chapter registration and you pay your own fees as you enter the park.  The cost is $2 to enter the park (general admission) plus $4 for the Patterson House tour.

Information about the tour can be found here (see Christmas Tours of Patterson House):

http://www.ebparks.org/files/Ardenwood_NNB_December_rev3_2010.pdf

Arrive early enough to queue up at Patterson House by the beginning of the tour. It is recommended that you arrive at least an hour early to tour the grounds, possibly earlier to take a Monarch Butterfly Tour since the butterflies are back at Ardenwood this year.  (This is also described with the house tour description using the link above.)

For general information about Ardenwood Historic Farm: 

http://www.ebparks.org/parks/ardenwood

Afterward we’re headed to a nearby Starbucks for hot chocolate (also Dutch treat). 

http://www.starbucks.com/store/8815

"Holiday Tour of Patterson House at Ardenwood Historic Farm"
When:  Saturday, December 11, 3:00 - 4:00
Location:  Ardenwood Historic Farm in Fremont (next to Hwy 880 just off Decoto Rd./Hwy 84 east of the Dumbarton Bridge)  http://www.ebparks.org/parks/ardenwood#reach

 
Please join us!    

 

 

Event: 30th Anniversary at new "Bookless" Frederick Emmons Terman Engineering Library, Nov. 18

Come celebrate the 30th anniversary of our SLA Silicon Valley chapter, formerly the San Andreas chapter, at the  new Frederick Emmons Terman Engineering Library at Stanford. This will be hosted by our own Helen B. Josephine, Head Librarian. We'll have tours of the new library, plus hearty h'ors d'oeuvres and refreshments in the MacKenzie Board Room,followed by speakers and a brief annual business meeting. 

"30th Anniversity Chapter Celebration: Future of the Library"
When:  Thursday, November 18, 5:30 - 8:00
Featured Speaker: Michael Keller, University Librarian, Director of Academic Information Resources, and Publisher of Highwire Press and Publisher of the Stanford University Press.
Special Guest: Cindy Romaine, 2011 President-Elect of SLA
Sponsors:  IEEE, Elsevier, Springer, Dialog, CRC/Taylor & Francis, Morgan & Claypool
Location:  Stanford University Campus https://lib.stanford.edu/engineering-library/engineering-library-visitors
Registration URL: http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/L23G32F     
 
 
This is your opportunity to see this new Engineering Library, hailed in the press as “bookless” despite having 10,000 print volumes. It is envisioned as an “Information Collaboratory” where students and faculty no longer rely on print books and journals. The intention  is to have librarians working closely with faculty and researchers in their classrooms and labs.

 

Event: Internet Librarian 2010 Dine Around in Monterey, Sunday Evening October 24

Come kick-off the Internet Librarian 2010 meeting with Ann Jacobson (Naval Postgraduate School) and  Silicon Valley  (formerly San Andreas) Chapter colleagues at the Monterey Dine Around on Sunday, Oct. 24th, at 7pm at Krua Thai Restaurant down the street at 731 Munras Avenue. This is a great opportunity to network, share expertise and have a little fun with your Silicon Valley Chapter colleagues in SLA right before the first day of Internet Librarian 2010 Conference.
 
Krua Thai is an inexpensive, delicious and quiet Thai restaurant located an easy walking distance (about 10-12 minutes) from the conference center. Food can be ordered mild, medium or spicy, and they accept separate checks. Local members and friends of SLA who are not attending Internet Librarian are also welcome.

To reserve a spot, please email Ann Jacobson at ann.jacobson AT gmail.com, and put “SLA Internet Librarian Sunday Evening Dine-around” in the subject header. Ann will confirm your place, so if you don't hear back from her, your email may have been blocked and you can call her instead at (831) 809-7760

See you there!
Jean Bedord & Vicki Garlow
Program Directors
SLA-Silicon Valley Chapter

Upcoming Event: Environmental Design: Creating Digital Exhibitions Using Open Source Solutions (Sept. 23 SLA)

Meet the winners of the Silicon Valley chapter SLA  Design-A-Program student project from earlier this year! These SJSU students (and recent graduates) will be presenting a recent collaboration between the UC Berkeley's Environmental Design Library and Environmental Design Archives to create digital exhibitions using the open source software Omeka. 

"Environmental Design:  Creating Digital Exhibitions Using Open Source Solutions"
When:  Thursday, September 23, 6 - 8:30 p.m.
Speaker:  Mia Jaeggli, Environmental Design Library, UC, Berkeley
ALASC Proposal Team:  Gayle Pellizzer, Abby Dansiger and Rowena Weger
Location:  Gilead, 362 Lakeside Drive, Foster City
Registration URL:http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/38F5YR5 

Special libraries indeed have very unique collections, although many of their own users do not realize the extent of the holdings. With staff and budgets stretched thinner than ever, how can special libraries highlight their collections and reach beyond base clientele? Creating digital exhibitions with open source tools can be an efficient, economical and innovative way to keep your library moving forward into the 21st century:  http://www.ced.berkeley.edu/cedarchives/exhibitions/

Event: Silicon Valley - A History of Change, August 30, 2010

The name change vote wasn't the only thing happening on August 30th! Leslie Berlin, Project Historian for the Silicon Valley Archives at Stanford University and author of the book The Man Behind the Microchip: Robert Noyce and the Invention of Silicon Valley, spoke for about an hour on the founding and history of Silicon Valley. Before that, Chapter members tried to identify the former names of 50 people, companies and countries (I'm amazed anyone knew Burkina Faso's former name - I certainly didn't!)

A new beginning for the Chapter

In Leslie Fisher's work as Chapter President in 2009, she found that many of our colleagues did not know where the San Andreas Chapter was located, while they were aware of Silicon Valley. Given that we were also revisiting the Strategic Plan for the Chapter, including branding, it seemed opportune to revisit the Chapter's name as well.

In 2009. the Board voted to move forward with proposing a name change, following the process outlined by the national Association. Leslie posted over several months beginning in March 2010, explaining why a name change was necessary, the process and why she felt the new name suited us better. To quote from her May email:

Our Strategic Plan is being designed with an emphasis on adaptation and innovation.  It will serve us like a weathervane.  The components are like the directions, and by viewing it (and reviewing it) through prevailing currents – of business, of technology, of our social fabrics – the plan will serve as a guide, helping us steer through this time of paradigm shift, re-shaping our goals and directions as we proceed.

The name Silicon Valley Chapter is meant to serve as a beacon in this process and in the new era.  We thus identify ourselves with the regional hotbed of innovators and innovation.  We thus aspire to be of this region, a part of this sea change, participants and contributors in the evolution.  The name is meant to inspire us as achievers and to inspire our constituents – peers, colleagues, managers and executive management – with our sense of self, our commitment to innovation, and our active participation in these changing times.

At the August 30th meeting, after an excellent presentation by Leslie Berlin, the proposal was put up to a vote by the attending members and over 90% voted for the new name. So without further ado...

Event: Silicon Valley - A History of Change / Vote on Chapter Name Change (Aug. 30 SLA Event)

Want a better understanding of the changes in Silicon Valley that have occurred over the 30 year history of the San Andreas Chapter? Join your colleagues for  this presentation by an outstanding chronicler of the history of Silicon Valley, followed by the official vote on changing our chapter name to the better known Silicon Valley brand.
 
 

"Silicon Valley: A History of Change"

 

When: Monday, August 30, 6 - 8:30 p.m.
Speaker: Leslie Berlin, Project Historian, Silicon Valley Archives at Stanford University
Location: Michaels at Shoreline, Mountain View
Registration URL: http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/B5Q7VBD
 

SLA Chapter Dinners - July 19 -23 in Silicon Valley

Ah, summer! Long days. The 4th of July is over. Time to kick back and enjoy meeting your colleagues at neighborhood dinners.   

For those of you who either work or live in Silicon Valley, please join your San Andreas colleagues for our neighorhood dinners on July 19-23. There are a variety of venues and times. We hope you will participate in these informal get-togethers and take this opportunity to network, share knowledge, and have a little fun with your colleagues in SLA.

Registration is easy. Choose a venue, note the deadline for the RSVP, then contact the Host to sign-up for the dinner.

Come dine with us!

Jean Bedord & Vicki Garlow
Program Directors
San Andreas Chapter of SLA

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Here are the options, for your delectation:

Event: Panel Discussion about the SLA Annual Conference - Thursday, July 15, 2010

The Solo Librarians of the Silicon Valley Chapter of SLA invite you to join them at their next meeting on Thursday July 15th. Anyone with an interest in libraries is welcome, including students and recent grads of the MLIS programs. 

 

Sonia Dorfman will be hosting the meeting at 6 P.M. on Thursday, July 15th at NeuroPace, 1375 Shorebird Way, Mountain View. The map link is below. 

 

The SLA Annual Conference takes place in New Orleans next week from June 13 – 16.  A panel of librarians who will be attending SLA 2010 will be at our meeting to share their impressions and experiences.  

Event: Solo Librarians Meeting on May 19th - Wednesday, May 19, 2010

The Solo Librarians of the San Andreas Chapter of SLA invite you to join them at their next meeting on Wednesday, May 19th. Anyone with an interest in libraries is welcome, including students and recent grads of the MLIS programs.

 

Nicholas Siekierski will be hosting the meeting at 6 P.M. on Wednesday, May 19th at The Hoover Institution at Stanford University (http://www.hoover.org).

 

Nick will present intriguing archival materials from the holdings of the Hoover Institution Library and Archives.  He will also discuss the history of the Hoover Institution. He is the Assistant Archivist for Exhibits and Outreach at Hoover and obtained his MLIS degree from San Jose State University in 2008.

 

Nick will meet the group at the front steps of the Hoover Tower. Food is not allowed in the archives.  If you arrive early, there are benches outside of the tower where you can eat while we wait for the whole group to assemble. A map link and parking suggestions can be found below.

 

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,

Event: West Coast Chapter Chapters Reception - Monday, June 14, 2010

Are you attending SLA 2010 in New Orleans? If so, schedule to attend the annual West Coast Chapters Reception (WCCR):

• Date: Monday, June 14
• Time: 5:30-7:30 PM
• Location: Louisiana Supreme Court Building, The Law Library of Louisiana, 400 Royal Street - walking distance from the conference center

Thanks to Teresa Bailey and the SoCal Chapter, the organizers for the WCCR in 2010.

Event: Solo Librarians Meeting on April 7th - Wednesday, April 7, 2010

The Solo Librarians of the San Andreas Chapter of SLA invite you to join them at their next meeting on Wednesday, April 7th at 6 PM. Anyone with an interest in libraries is welcome, including students and recent grads of the MLIS programs.

 

The Solo Librarians will be meeting at the El Camino Hospital Health Library and Resource Center (http://www.elcaminohospital.org/Patient_Services/Health_Library) on the first floor of El Camino Hospital, 2500 Grant Road in Mountain View.  A map and directions to the library can be found at the link below.

 

There will be a tour of the Library conducted by senior librarian Jack Black.  The new Library opened with the new hospital in November 2009.  The library supports the physicians and nurses at the hospital and is also open to the public free of charge.  In addition to showing us the library, Jack will discuss the planning and building of the new library.

 

Those who are planning to attend need to contact Sonia Dorfman by April 2, 2010 at [email protected] or (650) 237-2784.  If you have already contacted Sonia, there is no need to do so again.

 

Sonia Dorfman

Eric Kristofferson

 

San Andreas Solo Librarians

 

Directions and Parking: http://www.elcaminohospital.org/Patient_Services/Maps_Directions/

 

Jack suggests parking in the North Drive Garage and using the Main Entrance or the New Main West Entrance to the Hospital.

Silicon Valley Announces “Design A Program Challenge” Winners

Abby Dansiger, Gayle Pellizzer, Susie Quinn, Rowena Weger and Mia Jaeggli are the winners of the San Andreas Chapter SLA Design A Program Challenge.  The award is sponsored by the local San Andreas chapter of the SLA.

The winning submission, "Creating Digital Exhibitions Using Open Source Solutions",  was judged on creativity, feasibility of production, cost effectiveness, relevancy to the profession and level of interest to information professionals.

Winners receive free admission to the program of their design and two additional chapter events during the 2010 programming year.  In addition, the chapter is sponsoring them for a full year SLA membership, including extra dues to cover one extra chapter in addition to San Andreas chapter membership.  This will enable winners who don’t live in the Bay Area to also join a chapter closer to their home base.

Please watch the San Andreas SLA blog for date and time of the award winning event presentation.

Event: Tools and Technologies for Distance Education at SJSU - Friday, February 26, 2010

 

Steven Kaye, Senior Researcher, Novarica and Cliff Mills

Debbie Faires, Assistant Director for Distance Learning at San Jose State University (SLIS '91) and Scott McCord, a current student, took twelve people through the distance learning tools available to SJSU's School of Library and Information Science (SLIS) students using Elluminate Live on February 26th, 2010. The Elluminate tool has a broad range of functionality including audio chat (without the need for dialing into a phone conference), file transfer, real-time polling and display of poll results, text chats, video and a whiteboard. Jean Bedord, San Andreas Chapter member and part-time instructor acted as host and began with an introduction to the SLIS program, almost 3000 students participating entirely through distance learning.

Debbie took over and talked about distance learning generally and the various tools available with their uses. In general attendees were interested in the experience of younger students and how they could use the Elluminate technology in other settings. She asked participants when they received their MLS degrees and what kind of experience they had with the Internet in their schooling. The SJSU MLIS program is ALA-accredited and ranked by U.S. News and World Report, and includes a Master of Archives and Records Administration and Gateway Ph.D. programs.

Tools used by students include ANGEL, Elluminate, and SLISLife (a closed social networking setup). Students are predominantly located in North America, but there are students in Europe, Asia and Oceania as well. People enjoy the flexibility of distance learning programs and Debbie cited a U.S. Department of Education meta-analysis study indicating that online teaching is more effective than purely face-to-face learning in terms of improving student results as well as several other studies pointing to widespread use of online learning.

Event: SJSU Distance Education Tools and Technologies on February 26 - Webinar, Friday, February 26, 2010

Jean Bedord and Vicki Garlow

Interested in the technologies behind the very successful distance education program at San Jose State University? Join us for a noon-time event on February 26, at lunchtime, so you can experience the learning environment for students in the School of Library and Information Science (SLIS) program.

 

 

 
Tools and Technologies for Distance Education at SJSU 

Friday, February 26, 12 - 1

Speaker:  Debbie Faires

REGISTRATION URL: http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/JDTPTCZ

Our speaker will be Debbie Faires, Assistant Director for Distance Learning, who is responsible for ensuring faculty and staff have the tools and environment to be effective in this totally distance graduate program. Debbie was honored as Outstanding Lecturer in the College of Applied Sciences and Arts (not just the library school!) for 2007-2008. Debbie got her MLIS degree at SJSU in 2001, as the migration to online instruction was occurring. She was also librarian and instructor at Diablo Valley College in the Library and Information Technology program. You can see her profile at http://slisweb.sjsu.edu/people/faculty/fairesd/fairesd.php

We'll be exploring the ANGEL learning management system for instruction, as well as "attending" using the Elluminate web conferencing system for higher education. Debbie will show us some of the tools instructors utilize in communicating online without face-to-face interaction. New graduates will be familiar with these technologies, and through the SJSU intern program, students are available to do projects.
 
There will be no charge for this webinar, but you will need to register to receive detailed instructions and the login information. 

WHEN:  Friday, February 26, 12-1  Noontime
LOCATION: Online, at your computer

REGISTRATION URL: http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/JDTPTCZ
DEADLINE:  February 24, Wednesday

Get your headphones/speakers and microphone ready......looking forward to "meeting" you online.
 
Jean Bedord
Vicki Garlow
Program Directors, San Andreas SLA

 

 

Event: Beethoven Center Solo Librarians Event Report - Monday, January 27, 2010

Cliff Mills

On Monday, January 27, the Solo Librarians group of the San Andreas Chapter were treated to a unique event at the Ira F. Brilliant Center for Beethoven Studies at the Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. library in San Jose.  Librarian and curator, Patricia Stroh, who has been with the Center since 1986, and gave an overview of the history of this special collection, its mission and how it came to be placed at San Jose State University.  Ludwig von Beethoven lived from 1770-1827and the Center focuses on the research, performance and education of his work.

 

The Center is truly a special library within the City/University library. The Beethoven Gateway gives access to over 350 first editions of Beethoven's works, manuscripts, over 4,000 books related to his life and times, comprehensive musical media and Beethoven realia. The Center also produces the Beethoven Journal (ISBN 1087-8262) which is distributed to an international audience of research libraries, performing arts centers and the American Beethoven Society.

The high point of the event was the demonstration by Ms. Stroh, and her assistant, of various types of keyboards that would have been available during the life of Beethoven.  The evolution of the harpsichord to the modern forte piano helped propel creative innovations in music. The Center is open to the public without charge and their website is available at www.sjsu.edu/beethoven.

A special "thanks" to Chapter members Sonia Dorfman and Eric Kristofferson for organizing this program.

Event: Information Pros as Enterprise Content (ECM) Consultants with Deb Hunt - Thursday, January 14, 2010

 Jean Bedord and Vicki Garlow

Deb Hunt, principal of Information Edge, kicked off 2010 for the San Andreas SLA chapter with a Career Agility presentation entitled “Mining Enterprise Business Intelligence – All the World’s a Stage:  Another Role for Info Pros” on January 14. 

  

 Information Edge has been in business for twenty years, as Deb has juggled consulting and traditional librarian roles. She has been very active in SLA (both the San Andreas AND San Francisco chapters!) and AIIP (Association of Independent Information Professionals), and is currently a Director of SLA. She was recognized by Information World Review’s as “Information Professional of the Year (2009)” for her work on behalf of SLA to spearhead and implement 23 Things, a membership program to update technical skills.   

 

Business intelligence for the enterprise  is more than just the traditional library and information sources, extending to internal assets which include Enterprise Content Management (ECM) and