Posted by SLA-Divisions on July 15, 2013 at 04:01 AM | Permalink | Comments (1) | TrackBack (0)
Ben Hoganson is the recipient of the SLA-MN Spring 2013 Professional Development Grant.
Ben, an independent information professional who owns Autumn Elm Information, will use the $250 award to attend the June 9-11 Annual Conference in San Diego, where he hopes to learn more about text mining, taxonomies, big data and CI.
Ben joined the Minnesota Chapter in 2012 and has been busy this year identifying and sharing job openings with us as part of his work with the Communications & Technology Committee.
A big thank you goes to Awards Committee members Brenda Carriere, Pamela Enrici and Noelle Lowrie for their work selecting a winner.
Please consider applying for the chapter’s $250 Fall 2013 Professional Development Grant that will be announced in time for the Oct. 28-30 Internet Librarian Conference in Monterey, Calif., and the Oct. 10-11 Minnesota Library Association Annual Conference in St. Cloud!
Posted by Dru Frykberg on May 11, 2013 at 02:59 PM in Awards, Chapter, Conference | Permalink | Comments (2) | TrackBack (0)
Jill Strand continues to make SLA-MN proud!
Today SLA announced Jill has won the ProQuest Dialog Member Achievement Award. She’ll be recognized during the General Session & Awards Presentation that kicks off the Annual Conference June 9 in San Diego.
The honor is presented to an SLA member for raising the visibility, awareness, and appreciation of the information profession, an SLA unit, or the association at large. Learn more about SLA awards at www.sla.org/get-involved/awards.
Jill is also currently a candidate for president-elect of SLA, which means if she wins she’ll be the organization’s president in 2015! The election will take place electronically in September. More at www.sla.org/governance/board-of-directors/board-candidate-election.
Jill, who is the 2008-09 Minnesota Chapter president, is the director of the Knowledge Management Library at Maslon Edelman Borman Brand, LLP in Minneapolis.
Congratulations, Jill! Let’s celebrate in San Diego!
Posted by Dru Frykberg on April 16, 2013 at 02:56 PM in Association, Awards, Chapter, Events | Permalink | Comments (1) | TrackBack (0)
SLA-Minnesota invites you to attend:
A Bring-Your-Boss Event!
PROGRAM DESCRIPTION
Join us for a “double-feature” learning lunch with presentations on data tools from both the Wilder Foundation and East View Geospatial. SLA members may bring their boss for free!
Jane Tigan from the Amherst H. Wilder Foundation will present Minnesota Compass, a social indicators project that measures progress statewide. Compass provides data and tracks trends in topic areas such as education, economy, workforce, health and immigration. Tigan will discuss the trends impacting our state, introduce the data and resources available on Minnesota Compass and explore ways this free tool can help you in your work.
Rodney Buhrsmith and Tony Monsour from East View Geospatial will focus on visualizing and using data in a geospatial framework. Tabular and unstructured data are being exploited by GIS (Geographic Information Systems) and increasingly, non-GIS professionals, thanks to the explosion of the Geospatial Industry. Buhrsmith and Monsour will demonstrate how to visualize and manipulate data on a common GIS platform, ArcGIS, as well as on their web-based EVGeoCloud platform built for non-GIS professionals.
WHEN
Friday, May 3, 2013
11:30 am – 1:30 pm (Presentations begin at noon)
WHERE
Amherst H. Wilder Foundation
Auditorium A
451 Lexington Parkway North
Saint Paul, MN 55104
Directions: https://www.wilder.org/AboutUs/Locations/Pages/Directions.aspx
Free parking is available in the ramp immediately outside the building
COST
$25 for SLA members (may bring your boss at no charge – be sure to include details in your registration)
$20 for students, unemployed & retired
$35 for guests
$40 for anyone registering after April 26 deadline
REGISTRATION
Register and send payment no later than Friday, April 26.
Please Note: Late registration for ANY attendee is $40. If you register, you are expected to pay, even if you’re unable to attend.
STEP ONE: Register
Email the following to minnesota.sla@gmail.com:
Name:
Employer or School:
Boss’ name, if he or she is accompanying you:
Phone number:
Are you an SLA member?
Is this your first SLA event?
Are you a past president?
Payment: PayPal or check?
Do you need a receipt?
Please include a sandwich choice for EACH attendee (Box lunches from Cossetta Eventi):
___ Tom Turkey
___ Smoked Ham
___ Grilled Vegetable
___ Beef Brisket
STEP TWO: Make Payment
Make payment through PayPal, or mail check payment to Kerry Walsh.
Mail checks payable to SLA-Minnesota Chapter to:
Kerry Walsh
Amherst H. Wilder Foundation
451 Lexington Parkway North
Saint Paul, MN 55104
(Please include a copy of your registration email if possible.)
CONTACT WITH QUESTIONS
Karen Mackey, Chapter President: karen.mackey@donaldson.com / 952.887.3018
Renee Weddle, Chapter President-Elect: renee_weddle@cargill.com / 952.742.0195
THANK YOU
Thank you to the Wilder Foundation, our host, and to East View, our generous sponsor, and to both organizations for sharing their knowledge with us!
The Amherst H. Wilder Foundation is a nonprofit organization that helps children, families and older adults in the greater Saint Paul area through direct service programs, research, leadership development and community building. Wilder Research, part of the Wilder Foundation, gathers and interprets facts and trends in order to help families and communities thrive, get at the core of community concerns, and uncover issues that are overlooked or poorly understood. For more information, visit www.wilder.org.
East View was founded in 1989 and is headquartered in Minneapolis. East View is comprised of East View Information Services (www.eastview.com), East View Geospatial (www.geospatial.com) and East View Map Link (www.maplink.com). East View manages a data center, library and warehouse where it hosts and stores dozens of foreign language databases, hundreds of thousands of maps and atlases and millions of geospatial, Russian, Chinese and Arabic metadata records.
Posted by Karen Mackey on April 03, 2013 at 08:54 AM in Chapter, Events, Food and Drink | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)
So many conferences, so little money …
SLA-MN wants to help! Please apply for the chapter’s Spring Professional Development Grant.
The winner will receive up to $250 to attend a spring/summer event of his or her choice.
To apply, select an educational opportunity and make a case in 300 words or less how your participation will benefit you, the chapter and/or the profession. Please send your application to me, awards committee chair, at dru.frykberg@state.mn.us on or before Monday, April 22. The recipient will be announced Monday, April 29.
Events to consider:
More about the award:
To encourage and enable professionals in the SLA Minnesota Chapter to participate in continuing education/professional events by awarding grants to be used for event registration, class fees, required materials and necessary travel expenses. The grant can be used for Greater Minnesota members to attend a Twin Cities event.
Grant winners must submit receipts to the chapter treasurer for reimbursement. In cases of financial hardship, a request can be made for disbursement of funds prior to the event.This would be an exception and handled by the past president on a case-by-case basis.
Award amount
$250 limit
Eligibility
Judging criteria
Please submit the following to the awards committee:
Posted by Dru Frykberg on April 02, 2013 at 10:17 AM | Permalink | Comments (10) | TrackBack (0)
Beth Northcutt is the winner of the 2013 SLA-MN Annual Conference Grant, which will provide her up to $1,000 to attend the June 9-11 conference in San Diego.
Beth joined SLA and the Minnesota Chapter in 2012. This year she is a member of the Communications & Technology Committee, managing the discussion list and helping to update the website. Beth completed her MLIS in December and works as a library specialist for the law firm Maslon Edelman Borman Brand, LLP.
She wrote in her application, “I fear that because of my current salary and the student loans I am paying, that I would be unable to attend the conference without being awarded this grant. The benefits of attending the SLA conference are many. This is an opportunity to show to my new employer my commitment to this career and to my personal development. My position was recently added to the library so it is important that not only I, but also the library team can quantify our value to the company. This conference will allow me to learn new ideas and solutions which I can bring back to the workplace, which will hopefully enhance the library’s value to the company.”
Please join me in congratulating Beth, and I hope many of us will join her in San Diego! Also, a BIG THANK YOU to our Awards Committee members Brenda Carriere, Pam Enrici, Noelle Lowrie and Carol Lynn O’Gara.
The committee will soon seek applications for the $250 Spring Professional Development Grant. Stay tuned!
Posted by Dru Frykberg on April 01, 2013 at 03:49 PM in Association, Awards, Chapter, Conference, Discussion List, Membership | Permalink | Comments (3) | TrackBack (0)
Molly Dinneen received SLA-MN’s 2012 President’s Award for Lifetime Achievement during last week’s Night of Honors.
Molly, who serves as the chapter’s loyalty adviser, is a senior scientist at General Mills Inc. where she has worked 14 years.
Conceived in 2007, the award has only been given to three other esteemed members: Jerry Baldwin in 2007, Virginia Ferestad in 2008 and Jim Tchobanoff in 2010. The President’s Award honors a member for their significant achievement over the course of a career that includes being:
Molly joined SLA and the Minnesota Chapter in 1997. She has chaired international relations, membership, professional development and most recently she’s been our strategic planning director from 2010-2012. In addition, Molly was awarded the chapter’s 2006 Innovation in Action Award.
Molly went beyond the call of duty as our strategic planning director. It’s because of Molly the chapter was among a handful of units selected to participate in SLA’s Loyalty Project. As a result, the chapter’s leadership and board structure was evaluated, re-envisioned and realigned. Molly led these efforts, representing the chapter at the national level, designing and making presentations, conducting interviews, providing analysis, offering recommendations and working towards a consensus.
Molly’s manager Fred Hulting, knowledge services leader and statistician, attended the Feb. 21 ceremony where he also saw coworker Noelle Lowrie win the Innovation in Action Award.
Congratulations to our 2012 award winners! Learn more about the chapter’s awards at http://units.sla.org/chapter/cmn/awards/PALA.htm.
Posted by Dru Frykberg on February 27, 2013 at 12:53 PM in Awards, Chapter | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)
Congratulations to Noelle Lowrie, our 2012 SLA Minnesota Innovation in Action award winner! Noelle works as a Global Patent Research Leader at General Mills. In her work with the vendor Innova Market Insights, she identified a major need brought about by the lack of ability to truly and effectively be able to link a patent to a commercialized product. Innova Market Insights is a Netherland’s-based company that produces a proprietary food database which is primarily an online new product development tracking tool, using a network of international field research to report on new food and drink launches from around the world.
Through Noelle’s work with the Innova and her close relationship with the owner, Luann Williams, she recommended a major change to the product to allow it to link commercialized products to patents. Innova took this recommendation and has since begun to add this capability to their resource. This project was the result of clear communication and collaboration between vendor and customer and now helps to empower researchers in the food industry to make powerful connections with data to assist them in their daily work.
Congratulations Noelle!
Posted by Rachel Wangerin on February 26, 2013 at 07:18 AM | Permalink | Comments (6) | TrackBack (0)
Early-bird registration is open for the SLA Annual Conference and applications are being accepted for the SLA-MN conference grant through Monday, March 11.
This is your chance to get a lot of bang from your Minnesota Chapter affiliation. The grant provides a nonstudent chapter member with financial need up to $1,000 to attend the June 9-11 conference and Info-Expo in San Diego.
A winner will be announced Monday, March 25, in time to take advantage of early-bird registration that ends Friday, April 12. Conference information and registration is at http://bit.ly/XQlFIj.
Eligibility:
Judging criteria:
Application process:
Applications should be emailed to Dru Frykberg (dru.frykberg@state.mn.us) on or by Monday, March 11. In 500 words or less, please describe how you would benefit from the conference and demonstrate your financial need.
Posted by Dru Frykberg on February 14, 2013 at 04:18 PM in Association, Awards, Chapter, Travel | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)
PROGRAM DESCRIPTION
Join us as we honor recent award winners and retirees! Following a social hour and the presentation of awards, we’ll convene our first board meeting of 2013 with time for committees to get acquainted and share information. All are welcome to attend this interactive evening.
WHEN
Thursday, Feb. 21, 2013
5-5:30 p.m. Registration
5:30-6 p.m. Heavy hors d’oeuvres and cash bar
6-7:30 p.m. Awards & Honors followed by Board and Committee Meetings
WHERE
Upstairs at Stanley’s Northeast Bar Room
2500 University Ave. NE (at Lowry)
Minneapolis, MN 55418
612.788.2529
Directions: http://www.stanleysbarroom.com/about/location/
Parking: Small parking lot onsite and ample free street parking available
COST
REGISTRATION
Register and send payment no later than Tuesday, Feb. 12.
STEP ONE: Register
Email the following to minnesota.sla@gmail.com:
Name:
Phone number:
Are you an SLA member?
Is this your first SLA event?
Are you a past president?
Payment: Paypal or check?
Do you need a receipt?
STEP TWO: Make Payment
Make payment through PayPal
Or send a check payable to SLA-Minnesota Chapter to:
Kerry Walsh
Amherst H. Wilder Foundation
451 Lexington Parkway North
Saint Paul, MN 55104
(Please include a copy of your registration email if possible.)
Please Note: Late registration for any attendee is $35. If you register, you are expected to pay, even if you’re unable to attend. Registration deadline is Tuesday, Feb. 12.
CONTACT WITH QUESTIONS
Karen Mackey: karen.mackey@donaldson.com 952.887.3018
Dru Frykberg: dru.frykberg@state.mn.us 651.259.7177
Posted by Karen Mackey on January 29, 2013 at 08:46 PM | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)