SLA San Diego Chapter

Thinking of Joining SLA?

Don’t forget to select “San Diego Chapter” when you’re completing your registration.  There’s no extra charge to select SLA-SD as your chapter.  We look forward to welcoming you to our group!

We're LinkedIn! (Please come join our LinkedIn group)

Thanks to the kind efforts of SLA publicity director Cara Schatz and SLA-SD colleague Sabrina Nespeca, SLA-SD now has a LinkedIn group.

Our chapter's LinkedIn group is a subgroup of the SLA LinkedIn group.

Join SLA-SD on LinkedIn by:

• Finding "SLA-SD: Special Libraries Association, San Diego Chapter"
  in the group directory at www.linkedin.com [OR]
• Visiting www.linkedin.com/groups?home=&gid=2875375&trk=anet_ug_hm

Regards, Daria DeCooman, SLA-SD Communications Chair, [email protected]

We came, we saw, we sorted: Volunteer work party at Central Library brought out the best

On Saturday, November 14, two dozen SLA-SD members and friends descended on the San Diego Public Library's Central Library. There, we helped with two projects owned by the library's California Room, whose collection pertains to California history.

Info pros Bee Bornheimer, Robin Dodds, Melinda Hansen, Vani Inampudi (pushing the cart in the photo here), Marita Johnson, Peggy Makie, Sabrina Nespeca, Camerin Poulson, Melanie Quinn, Jennifer Snapp-Cook and Kate Vigderson all pitched in and gave the effort their all.

These intrepid volunteers helped sort and sleeve several boxes of historic photographs and helped box and sleeve several drawers of San Diego postcards. SLA-SD President Cindy Shamel also participated.

Prior to getting started on our work, we all enjoyed a tour of the California Room and the library's Wangenheim Room, which contains a collection of rare books, manuscripts and artifacts illustrating the development of the book through the ages.

Special Collections Supervisor Rick Crawford, a member of the California Room staff, provided an orientation to the California Room. Also he kindly made the volunteer opportunity possible and guided participants through the work needing doing.

The volunteer work party was staged as a way to give back to the California Room, whose staff help provide access to the SLA-SD chapter archives which are housed in the Central Library.

At the end of day, when the working and networking came to a close, all agreed that the event had been productive and lots of fun. Most importantly, Rick expressed appreciation for the group having put in place the first steps toward making the postcard and photo collections accessible to the public.

Anyone interested in volunteering for the California Room can contact Rick at rcrawford[AT]sandiego.gov.

Anyone interested in participating in future SLA-SD volunteer work parties just needs to stay tuned to this blog. Given the good results from this year's work party at the downtown San Diego Public Library, another work party on behalf of the California Room may be in the works for 2010.

See photos taken by SLA-SD President Cindy Shamel.

See photos taken by SLA-SD Archivist Daria DeCooman.

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Article written by Daria DeCooman

Are you a member of Beta Phi Mu's Omega Chapter?

The SJSU SLIS Omega Chapter of Beta Phi Mu is looking to update its membership list. We are particularly interested in finding emails for members, so we can communicate more easily.

If you are a member of the Omega Chapter, please email your contact information to Daria DeCooman at [email protected].

For more information on the Omega Chapter, see http://slisweb.sjsu.edu/resources/betaphimu.htm.

For more information on Beta Phi Mu, see:

• www.beta-phi-mu.org/index.php
• www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=44420139194&ref=mf

Kind regards,
Daria DeCooman

Beta Phi Mu Omega Chapter Member

SLA-SD donation helps support shelter library in Tijuana

Thanks to an SLA-SD donation of $200, the La Roca Library in Tijuana is outfitted with needed supplies to help make it through the rest of this academic year.

The library serves impoverished youngsters attending the La Roca Primary School as well as young people and their moms living at the La Roca shelter for homeless and abandoned single-parent families.

Through an RE Cares grant, librarian Maria Luisa Mendez Lozada (standing at the left in the photo) is staffing the La Roca Library this academic year and delivering library services to La Roca young people and adults. Generous donations, such as the one from SLA-SD, have helped stretch the grant dollars and are much appreciated.

The SLA-SD donation has purchased supplies needed to help keep the library in good shape. This photo shows Maria Luisa and La Roca kids happily receiving the supplies. (Photo courtesy of George Perez, a Corazon de Vida staff member.)

Maria Luisa and youngsters who rely on the library have sent a big "Thank you!" to SLA-SD.

For more on La Roca, visit the Corazon de Vida website. A nonprofit, CDV supports La Roca, along with 13 other Baja orphanages and shelters.

Or visit Elsevier's La Roca blog at www.projectlaroca.blogspot.com/ or Library Connect News blog at http://libraryconnect.blogspot.com/

La Roca Library Update: Donations Needed!

PLEASE COULD YOU DONATE MATERIALS NEEDED AT LA ROCA LIBRARY?

This is an update on the La Roca Library project, an international librarianship project supported by southern California librarians including SLA-SD member Daria DeCooman.

 

La Roca Librarian Maria Luisa Mendez Lozada, on board at La Roca since October 2008, reports the library needs the below items. The Reed Elsevier Cares grant, received in spring 2008, has already funded the library's physical upgrade and continues to pay Maria Luisa's salary as well as
that of Isidro Santiago, who manages the La Roca Library's computers. However, the RE Cares grant doesn't comprise sufficient funds to cover the cost of additional items needed for the library at this time.

Please, if you have any of the below items, won't you donate them to the La Roca Library? New or used items will be gladly accepted. (For any specific donation, US-based nonprofit Corazon de Vida (www.corazondevida.org), which is helping administer the library's RE Cares grant, can provide a letter for tax purposes.)

If you have any of the below-listed items to donate, please contact me. I'll get the items delivered to La Roca.

Happy holidays,
Daria DeCooman
La Roca/Corazon de Vida/RE Cares Volunteer

SLA-SD Archivist

[email protected]

MATERIALS NOW NEEDED BY LA ROCA LIBRARY

The following list is from La Roca Librarian Maria Luisa Mendez Lozada
([email protected]).

CLEANING MATERIAL:
Windex to clean windows
Pinol
Paper towels, toilet paper, newspaper to clean windows Trash bags Spray
or liquid cleaner for computers

CRAFT MATERIAL:
Plastina or play dough
Spatulas
Flannel
Brushes of different lengths & thicknesses Tempura paint

FURNITURE AND OFFICE SUPPLIES:
2 tables, each for 10 children
20 children's stackable chairs
Clear 3M tape to protect library labels on book spines Typewriter or
laser printer

AUDIOVISUAL:
6 headsets
6 microphones
Digital camera with USB

EDUCATIONAL MATERIALS:
Wood puzzles (with all the pieces please) Jigsaw puzzles of about 100
pieces Concentration games for preschool to grade 6 Games to encourage
learning to read (in Spanish, or in Spanish and English) Scrabble in
Spanish

BOOKS (all in Spanish):
Riddles
Children's fables
Picture books about animals
Books by Anthony Browne
World almanac
Stories about Mexican culture
Title: "Oink"
Title: The happy Trapito Book on dinosaurs with illustrations
Title: "Zoom lens" and "Rezoom"
Book of events
Atlases of the human body, the world, Mexico
Subject: First aid
Dictionary of computation
Dictionary of computer science for dummies Encyclopedias about Mexico
Animal encyclopedias
 
CDs & DVDs (all in Spanish):
Encarta reference library
The Reading Rabbit: First steps, the Way of the reading, Pre-school,
First...
Pingu and its friendly
Dr. Seuss's ABC
Tortoise and the Hare
To add and to subtract (a program of Z multimedia) Incredible animals (a
program of Z multimedia)