The SLA and ORSLA talk will take place at approximately 12:25 pm at Portland State University in Cramer Hall, Room 401.
See this post for more details.
Tag: SLA
Sweet, Sweet Ethics
This promises to be an interesting event hosted by the Oregon chapter of SLA.
SWEET, SWEET ETHICS
It’s time to talk ethics! To make this seemingly dry topic a bit sweeter, we’re serving it up with wine, chocolate, and baked treats. Light refreshments will be served, but do your mother a favor and have some dinner before you dig into dessert with us.
In between sips and nibbles, we’ll talk about the SLA Professional Ethics Guidelines that were finalized in November 2010 and how they apply to our lives as librarians/information professionals/humans.
Please RSVP no later than Monday, April 11 at 5pm. The details–
Date: Wednesday, April 13
Time: 6pm-7:30
Location: Schwabe, Williamson & Wyatt
1211 SW Fifth Avenue, Suite 1900
Portland, OR
Cost: $12 for students, $15 for members, $18 for non-members/at the door
This event is generously sponsored by
Schwabe, Williamson & Wyatt
Davis Wright Tremaine
Rose City Sweets
SCALA’s Brown Bag Talk – April 16, 2011
SCALA is proud to announce the brown bag talk for spring semester on April 16, 2011. We have scheduled a panel discussion titled Being Future Ready with ORSLA and SLA. This will be a panel discussion about the benefits and value of joining a professional association. The panel will talk about why it is important to be a member and get involved with ORSLA and SLA as a student. It promises to be a lively event and great exposure to some of the leaders in the Oregon and national library community. The panel will include:
- Cindy Romaine, SLA President, Romainiacs Intelligent Research;
- Amy Maule, ORSLA President-elect, CH2M Hill
- Mecklem, Davis Wright Tremaine
- Phoebe Owens, Wieden + Kennedy.
Former SCALA president Zoe Fisher had this to say about the event:
I just wanted to add that Cindy, Amy, Sue, and Phoebe are all very excited to meet with students! They’re funny, interesting ladies, so I really recommend you spend your lunch time with them – you won’t regret it.
As per usual, it will take place during a class lunch break. While we do not have specific time and place details yet, they will be forthcoming. Hope to see you there!
SLA Conference report from April
April Younglove reports from SLA:
On Tuesday night I returned from the Special Libraries Association convention in Seattle. I had two simple goals:
- To accept my scholarship award.
- To get through the entire conference without paying for any of my own food.
I am happy to report that I was wildly successful in both ventures. I did not need to purchase so much as a soda at the convention. There were plenty of opportunities to stop by division breakfasts, attend vendor lunches and hit the many nightly receptions. Before I left, I told my husband about my aspirations. He said with concern, “But what about networking? What about professional development? Shouldn’t you focus on those goals?”
The secret genius of my original goals, I later discovered at the convention, is that they actually caused me to do far more networking and professional development than I might have otherwise. Getting an award became a natural conversation starter, and by forcing myself to find out where the food was, I had to sit at tables with strangers and meet them. I had to attend events sponsored by divisions like the agricultural division and the military division that I never would even have dreamed of attending otherwise, had it not been for my personal scavenger hunt.
I met and talked with librarians and information professionals from all over the world and from many different organizations. A few of the organizations represented by those I met personally included:
- Liblime
- Rolls Royce
- UNESCO
- The Getty
- Kraft Foods
- The ARMY
- IEEE
- The Presidio of San Francisco
- The International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda
- NBC
Many other information professionals simply worked for themselves. I was so busy going from event to event and seeking the holy grail of a completely gratis convention that I didn’t even have time attend a reception at the Pacific Science Center and the Space Needle. There was so much networking and professional development going on that I even missed out on a behind the scenes trip to the Seattle Art Museum.
What I learned as a first timer at an SLA convention:
- SLA is truly international and is strongly represented in the UK, India and much of Asia.
- SLA Chapters are regional groups. SLA Divisions are groups with a common interest.
- My SLA membership includes access to dozens of free professional tutorials via the Innovation Lab (http://www.sla.org/innovate/) and will soon grant me free access to Adobe software. You should take advantage of these benefits if you are a member!
- SLA is hungry for Gen Xers and Millennials and spends a lot of time, effort, and money trying to attract students and young professionals. I got three separate job offers at the convention!
- Vendors don’t actually know how to answer any of your questions, so you should just take a flier and enjoy the free ice cream/blinky pen/stuffed flying monkey.
Valuable tips that I learned from the sessions I attended:
- Find a person with a job you aspire to have. Ask that person to email you his or her resume. This way you get to see what a successful resume for the job you want looks like.
- On a similar note, ask to job shadow a professional for a day. Most people are flattered and very few people say no.
- The traditional corporate librarian title and job is disappearing. Apply for positions that include the phrase “knowledge management” in the job description.
- Law librarians are increasingly being called upon to do business research, so if you want to do business research consider getting a job in a law library.
- Visual literacy skills are transferable to many areas outside of art museums. For instance: training doctors to read medical images.
- Attitude and aptitude are more important than experience and subject matter mastery.
- Vinton G. Cerf, one of the creators of the Internet and the acting vice president of Google feels awkward on Second Life too.
I posted a Flickr set with some pictures of my SLA 2008 adventure: http://www.flickr.com/photos/aprily/sets/72157605686742697/
