Potluck to Kick Off Fall Term

Where: At Matt Stefanik’s house in Portland. For address and directions, email rblackmo (at) emporia (dot) edu.

When: Saturday 08-29-09 after class, beginning 6:30-7:00ish.

Why: Find out what your cohort did for their summer vacation! Meet the other cohort members in a non-bar setting! Sit, relax and enjoy Matt and SCALA’s hospitality.

What do I need to do?: Bring some food! Everyone should bring a main or side dish and whatever meaty or non-meaty thing they want on the grill. This is also a BYOB party, so bring what you like and be merry.

Field trip reminder!

What? SCALA is visiting the Washington Talking Book & Braille Library!

Where? 2021 9th Avenue, Seattle WA.

When? This Saturday, February 21st 12 Noon!

Next Lunchtime Speaker – Jennifer Railsback Klump (Northwest Regional Education Laboratory)

January 31st, 2009, 12:15 PM (grab lunch quick and bring it)
Cramer Hall, room 171 (or whatever PSU classroom LI804 is in)

SLIM-OR SCALA is proud to announce Jennifer Railsback Klump as our next lunchtime speaker. Jennifer (an Emporia grad) is the “Education Resource Advisor” at the Northwest Regional Education Laboratory (NWREL). NWREL is one of a network of regional education laboratories created in the early 1960s as a federally funded link between research and development efforts in education and school districts. Jennifer’s job is to provide reference service to educators, researchers and the general public on current educational issues, research, policy, or practice.

I hope people will be able to make it to talk to Jennifer. She has an fascinating job (once again demonstrating the wide range of contexts that librarians work in) and will be able to provide an interesting perspective on both reference work and our educational system.

Upcoming Events & Noontime Speaker

SLIM-Oregon SCALA’s Newsletter offers information on upcoming events here and here. Join us! And don’t forget to vote in the SCALA t-shirt contest.

BOWLING NIGHT!

Come one, come all to BOWLING NIGHT at the Hollywood Bowl — Saturday, November 22, after class!

Click HERE for a PDF file of the flyer.

Join SCALA-Oregon for a fun-filled evening of gutter balls and turkeys. It’ll be groovilicious!

We Need Your Haiku!

We are publishing a haiku page on the SLIM-Oregon SCALA Blog, and we want your haiku! Think of a favorite book, write your response to it in a three-line haiku, and share it with the rest of the SLIM haiku enthusiasts. Multiple submissions are welcome. Click on the PDF file link below for more info.

scala-haiku

Updating the Blog Calendar

By Laureen Burger (OR9), Web Manager

I am currently in the process of adding events and SLIM-Oregon classes to our blog calender. If you have a library or information science event you would like posted to the blog calendar, please e-mail me at vintageredhead22[at]gmail[dot]com. I haven’t yet added all the Fall, 2008, SLIM classes, so if you would like to see a Fall SLIM-OR schedule, there is one available here.

Infocamp Seattle

A cool upcoming “unconference”:

InfoCamp Seattle 2008 – an “unconference” for anyone interested in user-centered information and design issues.

Infocamp Seattle had almost 100 people participate last year, including students from all over the Pacific Northwest, librarians from universities and public libraries, entrepreneurs, professors, information architects, user experience designers, leaders of local non-profits and businesses, government employees, and more.

The cost for students is only $10 ($50 for professionals; free for volunteers), and the dates/times are September 27-28, 2008 (9am to 5pm on both days, plus an optional social event on Saturday night).  The main web site is http://www.infocamp.info

The event was covered by the Silverfish, the UW iSchool’s student newsletter:
http://students.washington.edu/aliss/silverfish/archive/winter2008/feat_infocamp.html

And, the ASIS&T Bulletin published a story about InfoCamp too:
http://www.asis.org/Bulletin/Jun-08/JunJul08_Louie.html

Thanks to Emily Ford

Emily Ford, OHSU Oregon Health Go Local Project Manager (an MLS librarian), visited SLIM-OR students this past weekend. Oregon Health Go Local (http://www.ohsu.edu/library/golocal/) will be an on-line directory of health related services for the entire state of Oregon. It will be searchable by health condition and integrated with the Medline Plus database. This unique project requires Emily Ford to take on many roles. She has successfully synthesized her outreach, management and technical skills to land as the project manager. It was interesting and informative to hear about Emily’s path to this position and how she hopes to grow this project into a vital community resource. For more information on the project and how to get involved please review the brochure and volunteer job description.

Also a SLIM-OR alumni, Todd Hannon, is the principle investigator of this project. It will be exciting to see this project go live!

Bike-In Movie Night!

SCALA will be holding an outdoor movie night and pot luck this Sat, June 14, at 6 pm. Stacey Kobe from OR-7 has been awesome enough to host the party! She will be providing hot grills, a sweet backyard, and a projector to show a movie outside! We still haven’t decided what movie we will be screening, but it will be something library related.

Who: Emporia students, friends, loved ones, and pooches
What: SCALA social event – bike in movie and pot luck BBQ
When: Sat, June 14th at 6 pm – movie will screen at sun down
Where: Stacey Kobe’s house
549 N Jarrett St.
(right next to PCC Cascade)

If anyone has questions, please contact Annica Stivers – annicalara[AT]yahoo[DOT]com