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Solo Sessions at SLA 2011 in Philadelphia

Solo Sessions at SLA 2011 in Philadelphia

Not all details are final, but here is the lineup as of today.

Sunday June 12 2011

12:00 p.m. – 1:30 p.m.

Solo Librarians Division Annual Board Meeting

PRESENTED BY: Solo Librarians Division

Monday June 13 2011

10:00 a.m. – 11:30 a.m.

Creating Client Luv: what phenomenal results look like

PRESENTED BY: Leadership and Management Division; Knowledge Management Division; Solo Librarians Division

SPEAKERS: Mary Ellen Bates, Bates Information Services

4:00 p.m. – 5:30 p.m.

Success Stories of Solos

PRESENTED BY: Solo Librarians Division; Transportation Division

8:00 p.m. – 10:30 p.m.

Solo Librarians Open House

PRESENTED BY: Solo Librarians Division

Tuesday June 14 2011

10:00 a.m. – 11:30 a.m.

Leading From the Middle

PRESENTED BY: Solo Librarians Division

SPEAKERS: Julie Glosband–Mendez, Performance Strategies International; Joseph A. Gidjunis, Productive Solutions, Inc.

12:00 p.m. – 1:30 p.m.

Solo Librarians Division Annual Business Meeting and Luncheon

PRICE: $30.00 Member/ $55.00 Non–Member

PRESENTED BY: Solo Librarians Division

SPEAKERS: Hildy Dworkin

2:00 p.m. – 3:30 p.m.

Look What You Can Do!

PRESENTED BY: Solo Librarians Division

SPEAKERS: Patrick Clapp, Qiagen

7:00 p.m. – 10:00 p.m.

Solo Librarians, Petroleum & Energy Resources and Government Information Divisions Reception

PRESENTED BY: Solo Librarians Division; Government Information Division; Petroleum & Energy Resources Division

Wednesday June 15 2011

12:00 p.m. – 1:30 p.m.

Learn Six Sigma (LSS) – Coming Soon to a Library Near You

PRESENTED BY: Solo Librarians Division; Leadership and Management Division

SPEAKERS: Carolyne Darimont, ArcelorMittal Dofasco; Melanie Browne, Maple Leaf Foods

Introducing the Future Ready 365 Blog

Introducing the Future Ready 365 Blog

You’ve all undoubtedly heard about incoming president Cindy Romaine’s Future Ready initiative. But how do we turn the initiative into action?

One of the many answers is the Future Ready 365 blog. The idea behind the project is captured in the title: a daily blog post throughout the year of 2011 about how we are an adaptable, resilient, future ready force of information professionals. For a sneak peak visit: futureready365.sla.org.

To make Future Ready 365 a success, we need your collaboration. Your perspective is unique and valuable. We’d like to hear from every corner of the SLA community and beyond. As leaders of SLA, Future Ready 365 needs your contribution for a strong beginning.

How do you contribute? It’s simple.

We need you to provide answers to any of the following questions:

How are you Future Ready? What are you doing to provide just what your client needs, now and in the future?

If you are not ready for the future, what is getting in the way of you being Future Ready? If you feel stuck, and can identify the issue, we’d like to hear about it. It’s probably something that’s tripping up other members.

Do you have an idea or example from your job of how you’ve become Future Ready? Give yourself a shout out!

We will officially launch the blog on January 1st.
So far, we have commitments to post for almost every day of January. Your leadership and participation will push us over the top. By committing to one 250-word post, you’re making a world of difference and turning an idea into something tangible. Maybe you’ve got a few blog posts’ worth of ideas? Maybe you’ve got some other forms of media—videos, podcasts, links to articles you’re referring to? Even better!

For now:
1. Think of ideas that might warrant a Future Ready 365 post.
2. Ask members to offer their perspectives on becoming future ready information professionals.

If you’d like to sign up for a certain date, please e-mail your suggested post to [email protected] at least one week in advance of the day you’ve chosen. Don’t wait, reserve your blog spot for 2011, and start thinking about what you’ll post to Future Ready 365. Join the “Future Ready Begins Today” subgroup of SLA on LinkedIn, and look out for the blog to appear on the SLA homepage on January 1st.

Collaboration means success!

SLA 2010 Solo Photos

Photos taken at SLA 2010 of Solo Division activities and members.

If you have more photos of solos, upload them to flicker and tag them ‘slasolo2010’ and they will be in this list automatically.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/carolyne/tags/slasolo2010/

 

SLA 2010 – New Orleans - Day 2 – Sunday June 13

By Carolyne Sidey Darimont, Solo Librarians Division Secretary

The temperature has gone down a little – only about 101 today. Breakfast buffet in hotel was much better today as there were not 100 teens in the line-up.

Solo Division Board Meeting

The Solo Librarians Division Board Meeting was at noon today. We had a great discussion on the future planning for conferences and conference sessions. We hope to see a lot more people at the luncheon tomorrow. I think I volunteered to be a speaker on a panel session :0

Exhibits

I spent all afternoon at the exhibit hall. I had not intended to do so, but there were a lot of people to talk to. Swag is pretty good this year.

Keynote

Mary Matalin and James Carville were the keynote speakers. She was very interesting and articulate, he was very funny and very driven to improve New Orleans. I could have listened to them much longer.

 

Solo Librarians Division No Host Dinner

Nine solo’s went to dinner at “The Gumbo Shop” in the French Quarter.

 

The food was very good. I had Shrimp Gumbo, Crayfish Ettouffee, Macque Choux Corn, and a Praline Sundae. YUM!!

SLA2010 – New Orleans – Day 1 – Saturday June 12

By Carolyne Sidey Darimont, Solo Librarians Division Secretary

Hot Hot Damn Hot

104 F – glasses fog up every time I leave a building!

2011 Philadelphia Planning Session

• Four Solo Division participants
• Still on track for a Lean Six Sigma session with yours truly organizing it.
• SOLO is the host for the Joint Reception in 2011 – must find a local solo to help
• Keynote speakers announced - Thomas Friedman (opening), James Kane (closing)
• Variety of room layouts planned. Some good, some not so good.
• Planning on inviting community leaders and managers to conference for a Forum designed for non-members – interesting concept
• Will post SOLO plans when they are clearer

Lunch with Solos

Here we are right this minute eating lunch waiting for Hildy to sit down to start the business meeting.

New Orleans is great. The weather is cooling down and is almost bearable.

Strawberry shortcake for desert.

I will post my daily blog post from http://carolyne-stuff.blogspot.com to this blog since Hildy told me to.

Carolyne Sidey Darimont
Solo Librarians Division Secretary

SLA2010 – New Orleans – Day 3 – Monday June 14

posted by Carolyne Sidey Darimont, Solo Librarians

Division Secretary

Business Research

• All US sources
• All US everything
• Slides online – note to self – look for them

Left and went to another session…

Knowledge continuity and Opportunities – Future of knowledge Managers

Speaker Patrick Lambe, Straits Knowledge

• Interstitial library -  books that fall through the gaps
• KM needs to work in the gaps and help close them
• His study is available for purchase
• 15 roles for Knowledge Managers – many are or should be general management competencies
• He has written articles on this
• beware success stories- concentrate on daily experiences and patterns
• quick wins are temporary
• easy wins are not scalable

Embedded Librarianship in the Field

Reese Dano and Gretchen McNeely

• not really relevant

Left and went to exhibit hall …

Success Stories of Solos

Patrick Clapp moderated and organized this session. His speakers all had to cancel out on him, so he asked me if I could talk about my success at negotiating my termination and my new job. So, I did.  Calling my part “everything is negotiable” I quickly reviewed

asking Xerox for more than the offered severance package and asking ArcelorMittal Dofasco for more than what was offered when I got my new job there.

And then the rains came down. View from my hotel room.

 

Preconference issue of “Flying Solo” published

The preconference issue of “Flying Solo” has been published at

http://units.sla.org/division/dsol/FlyingSolo/flyingsolopreconf-2010.pdf

Solo Sessions for SLA 2010

 

 

Sunday, 06/13/10

12:00-1:30pm

Solo Librarians Division Board of Directors Meeting
Location: New Orleans Marriott Hotel, Bacchus
Speaking: Hildy Dworkin, NYC Human Resources Administration, Chair Solo Librarians Division

Monday, 06/14/10

10:00-11:30am

User-Focused Digital Library: A Practical Guide
Location: Convention Center, Room 219
This session elaborates on the various aspects of building, managing and promoting a digital library including tools to build and evaluate a digital library, digital content licensing and tips on how to promote the use of this content.  So if you are looking to come away with a better understanding of the essential practices, tools and tips that are important in user-focused digital libraries, this is a session you must attend.
Speaking: Sophia Guevara, W.K. Kellogg Foundation; Qin Zhu, HP Labs Research Library
Presented by: Solo Librarians Division; Information Technology Division

Spotlight Session

2:00-3:30pm

Brand You and Web 2.0
Location: Convention Center, La Louisiane Ballroom
How do you manage your online profiles, establish your expertise and express yourself on the web, without compromising you reputation?  This session looks at how info pros can make use of the social web to build their professional networks, establish their credibility and share their expertise, without compromising their professional reputation. This is another do not miss session with Mary Ellen Bates!
Speaking: Mary Ellen Bates, Bates Information Services, Inc.
Presented by: Solo Librarians Division

4:00-5:30pm

Success Stories of Solos
Location: Convention Center, Room 223
Original session format back by popular demand! Success is measured in a variety of ways. In this roundtable discussion panelists share their success stories in solo librarianship.  Come find out how others have broken down walls, created innovative services and more! Share your own story! Attendee discussion and participation encouraged.
Speaking: Patrick Clapp, QIAGEN
Presented by: Solo Librarians Division

8:00-10:00pm

Solo Librarians Division Open House
Location: Sheraton Hotel, Rhythms Ballroom 2
Did you ever find yourself asking, "am I a Solo Librarian?" Or, "I have some staff, am I still a Solo?" To answer these questions and more join the Solo Librarians Division to unravel the mysteries of the Solo Librarian.

Tuesday, 06/15/10

10:00-11:30am

Leadership and Influence: Building Capacity for Change
Location: Convention Center, Room 205
Solo Librarians 3rd Annual Gerry Hurley Memorial Leadership Session. Most researchers agree that "leadership is a process of social influence in which one person is able to enlist the aid and support of others in the accomplishment of a common task." But how does one lead from the middle? How does one lead as a solo librarian? Weaving together research from advocacy, collaboration, influence and leadership, Ken Haycock will provide a practical yet evidence-based approach to building capacity for change and improvement in your organization. Whether you lead a large work team or only yourself, his presentation will address the gaps between common practice and best practices.
Speaking: Ken Haycock, San Jose School of Library and Information Science; Nicole Snyder, Connolly Bove Lodge & Hutz LLP
Presented by: Solo Librarians Division

12:00-1:30pm

Solo Librarians Division Business Meeting Luncheon
Location: Convention Center, Room 206
Ticketed Event #590
Price: Member/ Student $30, Non-Member $55
Speaking: Hildy Dworkin, NYC Human Resources Administration

8:00-10:00pm

Reception: Petroleum & Energy Resources, Government Information, Solo Librarians, and Transportation Divisions
Location: Mulates Cajun Restaurant, 201 Julia Street
Presented by: Petroleum & Energy Resources Division; Government Information Division; Solo Librarians Division; Transportation Division

Wednesday, 06/16/10

10:00-11:30am

Taxonomy Made Easy: An Introduction to Taxonomies for the Accidental Taxonomist
Location: Convention Center, Room 222
The growing interest in taxonomies may result in librarians, especially solo corporate librarians, being asked to create or manage taxonomies, even if they had not done that work before. Thus we have the accidental taxonomist. This presentation gives an introduction to taxonomies, controlled vocabularies and thesauri, for those who are new to the field. Different types and applications of taxonomies, the basic structure of how to create a taxonomy, best practices for creating terms and relationships, and available taxonomy tools will be covered.
Speaking: Heather Hedden
Presented by: Solo Librarians Division; Taxonomy Division

Solos support diversity leadership development

Get your tickets to the Diversity Leadership Development Program (DLDP) Breakfast, one of the events co-sponsored by the Solo Division!  The breakfast takes place on June 15 from 8am-9:30am, and requires the purchase of Ticket #543. Member ticket price is $25, non-members pay $35, and students pay $15.

Breakfast will include a presentation by Art Munin that examines white privilege in history, and the opportunity to meet Nancy Snell, the recipient of the 2010 DLDP Award.

The first 75 people to register will receive a free copy of "The Other Wes Moore," courtesy of Random House Publishers!

--Julie