Minutes for the Oregon SCALA Officers Meeting – September 15, 2007

Hello All – If you want to know what your officers are talking about, minutes from the last meeting are up here. Comments are welcome.

SCALA Potluck! Bring banned books to celebrate Banned Books week.

Party!

We’re Organizing a SCALA Party for everyone to get to know each other.

Sunday, September 30, 2007
1:00 PM

Norma Leistiko’s House
4910 SW Nevada Ct
Portland, Oregon 97219
45.4728, -122.727

To get there:
Take Highway 5 south away from the Portland State University parking garage. Take the Multnomah exit (you are still in Portland and this is the last exit in Portland, going south). You will be on Multnomah. Drive to 45th and Multnomah and then turn a “mild” right into Maplewood neighborhood (this is a 5 way stop). Drive on Maplewood past Maplewood Elementary School to SW 52nd and Nevada. Turn right down Nevada for about 2 blocks and park. The address is on the door going into the garage. Parking is on the street or in my driveway…double up and more people can park in the driveway.

We’ll try to organize carpools from PSU.

It’s a Potluck – Bring food and Drink. Laurisa Stubblefield is organizing food – email her (lls [at] lclark [dot] edu) to coordinate or leave a comment on this blog post).

Publishing Opportunity for ALA Members

The 2007-2008 New Members Round Table Scholarship, Research, and Writing Committee encourages you to submit an article to be considered for publication in the Spring 2008 Footnotes print issue. Selected articles will appear in the new Scholarship and research for new librarians ( supplemental section of Footnotes).

The Scholarship and research for new librarians supplemental section is dedicated to provide an ideal opportunity for new librarians to get published and make an impact as a new library professional. New librarians from all types of libraries are encouraged to submit proposals.
While articles on a variety of topics will be considered, authors are encouraged to explore topics related to their experiences as new librarians or topics scarcely covered in the library literature or in library education.

Proposals should be submitted electronically for consideration by October 1, 2007 to:

Maureen Barry
Librarian for First-Year and Distance Learning Services
Wright State University
(937)775-2533 (ph)
maureen.barry@wright.edu

Proposal guidelines:
Please submit a proposal describing the article topic in less than 250 words. Remember to include your name, job title, contact information and ALA member number.
*Authors are required to be NMRT members at the time of proposal submission.

Tentative deadline for article submissions: January 10, 2008

NW ILL conference 2007

April and Norma, SLIMOR-7, attend InterLibrary Loan Northwest Conference on PCC campus September 20, 21, 2007

Free Access to The New York Times

The New York Times’s Op-Ed and news columns are now available to everyone free of charge, along with Times File and News Tracker. In addition, The New York Times online Archive is now free back to 1987.

This is the reason that the editors gave for implementing this change.

Readers find more news in a greater number of places and interact with it in more meaningful ways. This decision enhances the free flow of New York Times reporting and analysis around the world. It will enable everyone, everywhere to read our news and opinion – as well as to share it, link to it and comment on it.

Open Library or Information Wants to be Free

Open Library is an online tool for finding information about books. The basic framework is being done by Aaron Swartz, who helped create RSS in his early teens and developed Infogami, a tool designed especially for the clueless to set up their own websites.

Open Library, funded by the Internet Archive, is especially useful for finding titles that are on obscure topics or which are out-of-print. If the text is available digitally, there is a link to it. It also includes citations, excerpts from reviews, and cross-references to other titles on related topics.

The Future of Library Science

The new president of the ALA, Loriene Roy, describes herself as a professor of library information, not library science.

She discusses the direction of the library information field and its training programs, the role of technology, core curriculum, life long learning, the importance of evaluating information, the necessity of teaching skills, the role of paraprofessionals, chat reference service, as well as her opinion on the uses of Wikipedia in this podcast.