CALL FOR SPEAKERS - CUBL Breakfast @ SLA 2010 in New Orleans

CALL FOR SPEAKERS - CUBL Breakfast @ SLA 2010 in New Orleans

We are currently planning the annual College and University Business Libraries (CUBL) Section breakfast for next year's SLA Annual Conference in New Orleans and are looking for three (3) people interested in sharing their experiences or research with their colleagues. We had an
incredible turnout for our breakfast in Washington, D.C. last year and expect even more people to attend in New Orleans. Do you want to share your ideas and experiences? If so, then read on.

This year's breakfast theme will be "Advancing within the Academy: Moving on Up."

The CUBL breakfast will feature a panel discussion on advancement and promotion issues within college and university libraries, including scholarly publishing by academic librarians, tenure versus non-tenure positions and a wide range of other promotion and advancement topics.

If you are interested in speaking (15 minutes or so) on any of these topics, or if there other topics you think may be of interest to CUBL members, please let me know. You'll have to come up with your own clever presentation title, though! Please contact me no later than next
Friday, November 6, 2009 if you are interested.

I look forward to hearing from you.

Regards,

Jeff Graveline
Chair, College and University Business Libraries Section

Jeffrey D. Graveline, J.D., M.L.I.S.
Reference Librarian for Business & Government Documents
Mervyn H. Sterne Library, University of Alabama at Birmingham
(205) 934-6364
Email: jgraveli@uab.edu
Blog: http://blogs.mhsl.uab.edu/business

Call for Poster Sessions: SLA Annual Conference, Business and Finance Division

Call for Poster Sessions: SLA Annual Conference, Business and Finance Division

Location: SLA Annual Conference – Washington, 2009
Date/Time: Monday, June 15, 2009 – 3:30 pm – 5:00 pm

Business is everywhere. As a result, business information literacy is crucial to success in almost every aspect of daily life in academic, corporate or public library environments. In this call for posters, the Business and Finance Division of SLA is providing an opportunity for business librarians to share ideas on this important topic. We are looking for case studies or practical applications on a wide range of issues including:

• Standards and competencies for business information literacy
• Pedagogic approaches to business information literacy education
• Assessment of learning outcomes
• Integrating business information literacy in the curriculum
• Librarian / faculty collaboration
• New technologies for teaching business information literacy
• Business information literacy in multi-disciplinary contexts
• Professional development for business information literacy
• Promoting business information literacy in the corporate environment

Help your colleagues learn from your work, both successful and unsuccessful. Share the results of your efforts at the upcoming poster session at SLA in Washington, June 2009. This session is sponsored by the Business & Finance Division. Guidelines for materials and layout of poster presentations are available on the SLA Business & Finance Division website at
http://units.sla.org/division/dbf/conferences/2009conference_posters.html

The deadline for abstract submissions is March 1, 2009. Please submit your name, institution, fax, email address, poster title, and description (250 words or less) by email, fax, or surface mail to Karen MacDonald at the address given below. Any SLA Member is welcome to submit an abstract for consideration. In the event that a greater number of submissions are received than can be accommodated, members of the Business & Finance Division will be given preference. Not a member of the SLA Business & Finance Division? Click here to join: http://www.sla.org/

All applicants will be notified no later than April 1, 2009 as to whether or not their proposal has been accepted. If you have any questions about this session, contactKaren I. MacDonald, MBA, MLISAssistant Professor / Business Liaison LibrarianPO Box 3967University LibraryGeorgia State University Atlanta, GA 30303 USAPh. (404) 413-2856Fax: (404) 413-2851Email: kimacdonald@gsu.edu

SLA 2010 Call for Presentations

SLA 2010 Call for Presentations
Call for Participation: SLA 2010 Annual Conference

The Special Libraries Association is pleased to announce its 2010 Annual Conference and INFO-EXPO, to be held 13-16 June in New Orleans, Louisiana, USA. The theme of the conference is “Entering SLA's Next Century: Let the Good Times Roll."

It's no secret that today's changing technology and more demanding management expectations require information professionals to demonstrate a positive impact on their organizations. You have to be a great researcher and manager, but you also have to help your organization put knowledge to work as a strategic asset -- across the enterprise, day in and day out.

What should I know about the SLA Annual Conference and INFO-EXPO?

The SLA Annual Conference and INFO-EXPO is the premier networking and educational event for information professionals. The conference takes place over four days, with additional days for continuing education and local tourism. For more information, visit the conference Web site:

http://www.sla.org/content/Events/index.cfm

What should I know about conference planning?

The SLA Annual Conference is planned on an 18-month timeline. The Annual Conference Advisory Council sets the parameters of conference programming, including (but not limited to) schedule, keynotes, time blocks, and theme. In addition to this council, divisions and caucuses devise the educational sessions that are put on Monday through Wednesday of the conference. If you are a member of SLA, you should approach your unit chair or unit planner with your conference programming idea before submitting it to SLA headquarters. Proposals submitted directly to SLA headquarters will be forwarded to the appropriate unit(s). Continuing education courses may be organized either through divisions or through SLA headquarters.

What types of submissions are you looking for?

* Presentations *
Educational sessions are held Monday through Wednesday of the conference. Sessions may be 60, 90, or 120 minutes in length. Presentation ideas should be submitted to the unit chair or unit planner. These presentations can be panels, lectures, roundtables or any learning format that you think would be appropriate.

* Contributed Papers *
An opportunity to share your knowledge! Are you using your expert knowledge and talents to shape the future? Do you have a vision of what the future will look like? Are others inspired by your ideas, innovations, and passion? How is your workplace preparing for the future? Do you have valuable insight from lessons learned that could help other information professionals? If so, here is your opportunity to engage in scholarship and share that knowledge with your peers. Accepted papers will also be published on the SLA Web site and in Information Outlook. Proposal forms are located here.

We are still accepting contributed papers for our 2009 conference, so feel free to submit a proposal for consideration for this June.

http://www.sla.org/content/Events/conference/ac2009/Conference/callforpapers/

Continuing Education Courses *
By submitting a CE course proposal, you demonstrate your commitment to helping information professionals become indispensable through learning and help broaden our growing understanding of library and information profession practice in the 21st century. Courses are offered on Saturday and Sunday, 12-13 June. Courses may be half-day or whole-day, and are open to both members and non-members. Continuing education courses may be organized either through divisions or through SLA headquarters. Proposal forms can be found here.


We look forward to hearing your ideas. If you have any questions, please contact Kristin Foldvik, SLA's director of events, at kfoldvik@sla.org.

Call for Posters: “Business Information Literacy” (SLA Annual Conference)

Call for Posters: “Business Information Literacy” (SLA Annual Conference)

Location: SLA Annual Conference – Washington, 2009

Date/Time: Monday, June 15, 2009 – 3:30 pm – 5:00 pm

Business is everywhere. As a result, business information literacy is crucial to success in almost every aspect of daily life in academic, corporate or public library environments.

In this call for posters, the Business and Finance Division of SLA is providing an opportunity for business librarians to share ideas on this important topic. We are looking for case studies or practical applications on a wide range of issues including:

• Standards and competencies for business information literacy
• Pedagogic approaches to business information literacy education
• Assessment of learning outcomes
• Integrating business information literacy in the curriculum
• Librarian / faculty collaboration
• New technologies for teaching business information literacy
• Business information literacy in multi-disciplinary contexts
• Professional development for business information literacy
• Promoting business information literacy in the corporate environment

Help your colleagues learn from your work, both successful and unsuccessful. Share the results of your efforts at the upcoming poster session at SLA in Washington, June 2009.

This session is sponsored by the Business & Finance Division. Guidelines for materials and layout of poster presentations are available on the SLA Business & Finance Division website at http://units.sla.org/division/dbf/conferences/2009conference_posters.html

The deadline for abstract submissions is March 1, 2009. Please submit your name, institution, fax, email address, poster title, and description (250 words or less) by email, fax, or surface mail to Karen MacDonald at the address given below.

Any SLA Member is welcome to submit an abstract for consideration. In the event that a greater number of submissions are received than can be accommodated, members of the Business & Finance Division will be given preference. Not a member of the SLA Business & Finance Division?

Click here to join: http://www.sla.org/

All applicants will be notified no later than April 1, 2009 as to whether or not their proposal has been accepted. If you have any questions about this session, contact

Karen I. MacDonald, MBA, MLIS
Assistant Professor / Business Liaison Librarian
PO Box 3967
University Library
Georgia State University
Atlanta, GA 30303 USA
Ph. (404) 413-2856
Fax: (404) 413-2851
Email: kimacdonald@gsu.edu

Call for Papers: Information to Inspiration: Knowledge & Vision Shaping the Future (SLA Contributed Papers)

Call for Papers: Information to Inspiration: Knowledge & Vision Shaping the Future (SLA Contributed Papers)

**THE DEADLINE IS LESS THAN TWO WEEKS AWAY*

SLA -- Washington, D.C. 2009

*SLA** Contributed Papers: An opportunity to share your knowledge! *

Are you using your expert knowledge and talents to shape the future? Do
you have a vision of what the future will look like? Are others
inspired by your ideas, innovations, and passion? How is your
workplace preparing for the future? Do you have valuable insight from
lessons learned that could help other information professionals? If so,
here is your opportunity to engage in scholarship and share that
knowledge with your peers.

SLA is now accepting proposals for papers to be presented at its Annual
Conference June 14-17, 2009 in Washington, D.C., with the theme
"Information to Inspiration: Knowledge & Vision Shaping the Future."
Accepted papers will also be published on the SLA website.

Every SLA member is eligible and encouraged to apply. The deadline for
submitting a proposal is December 12, 2008. All proposals should be
sent via email to: jwheeler@ucalgary.ca.

Proposals should be approximately 250-300 words in length. The proposals
will be evaluated by a panel of SLA members in a blind review and the
strongest will be selected for development into full papers due May 1,
2009.

Topics of the papers should be related to library science, information
management, research or other issues related to customer service,
technology, or administration in special libraries. Proposals will be
judged on their relevance to the conference theme "Information to
Inspiration" or the tag "Knowledge and Vision Shaping the Future", as
well on the strength of the idea, quality of writing, and potential
member interest.

For more information contact Justine Wheeler at jwheeler@ucalgary.ca
or visit the SLA webpage:
http://www.sla.org/content/Events/conference/ac2009/Conference/callforpapers/

CFP: Education Libraries (SLA's Education Division)

CFP: Education Libraries (SLA's Education Division)

Please consider this call for articles for the next issue of Education
Libraries, a peer-reviewed journal of SLA's Education Division. To
commemorate SLA's centennial in 2009, and the Education Division's 35th
anniversary, we have chosen the theme Identities: Education Libraries,
Past, Present, and Future. The deadline for submissions is February 1, 2009
.

Instructions for contributors can be found at
http://units.sla.org/division/ded/instructions.html

Previous issues are available at
http://units.sla.org/division/ded/education_libraries.html

Send submissions and questions to Jacqueline Snider at
jacqueline-snider@uiowa.edu

Thank you.
Jacqueline Snider
Education Libraries , Editor

Call for Posters: “Business Information Literacy” (SLA Annual Conference)

Call for Posters: “Business Information Literacy” (SLA Annual Conference)

Location: SLA Annual Conference – Washington, 2009

Date/Time: Monday, June 15, 2009 – 3:30 pm – 5:00 pm

Business is everywhere. As a result, business information literacy is crucial to success in almost every aspect of daily life in academic, corporate or public library environments.

In this call for posters, the Business and Finance Division of SLA is providing an opportunity for business librarians to share ideas on this important topic. We are looking for case studies or practical applications on a wide range of issues including:

• Standards and competencies for business information literacy
• Pedagogic approaches to business information literacy education
• Assessment of learning outcomes
• Integrating business information literacy in the curriculum
• Librarian / faculty collaboration
• New technologies for teaching business information literacy
• Business information literacy in multi-disciplinary contexts
• Professional development for business information literacy
• Promoting business information literacy in the corporate environment

Help your colleagues learn from your work, both successful and unsuccessful.
Share the results of your efforts at the upcoming poster session at SLA in Washington, June 2009.

This session is sponsored by the Business & Finance Division.
Guidelines for materials and layout of poster presentations are available on the SLA Business & Finance Division website at
http://units.sla.org/division/dbf/conferences/2009conference_posters.html

The deadline for abstract submissions is March 1, 2009. Please submit your name, institution, fax, email address, poster title, and description (250 words or less) by email, fax, or surface mail to Karen MacDonald at the address given below.

Any SLA Member is welcome to submit an abstract for consideration. In the event that a greater number of submissions are received than can be accommodated, members of the Business & Finance Division will be given preference. Not a member of the SLA Business & Finance Division?
Click here to join: http://www.sla.org/

All applicants will be notified no later than April 1, 2009 as to whether or not their proposal has been accepted.
If you have any questions about this session, contact

Karen I. MacDonald, MBA, MLIS
Assistant Professor / Business Liaison Librarian
PO Box 3967
University Library
Georgia State University
Atlanta, GA 30303 USA
Ph. (404) 413-2856
Fax: (404) 413-2851
Email: kimacdonald@gsu.edu

CALL FOR SPEAKERS: CUBL Breakfast, SLA 2009 in Washington, D.C.

CALL FOR SPEAKERS: CUBL Breakfast, SLA 2009 in Washington, D.C.

I am currently planning the CUBL breakfast for next year’s SLA Conference in Washington, D.C. and am looking for people interested in sharing their experiences or research with their colleagues. Attending the Annual Conference is always energizing. We should capitalize on that energy by sharing ideas that can be implemented when we all return to our own libraries. Do you want to share your ideas? If so, then read on.

This year’s theme will be “Trends in Business School Outreach: Connecting to Faculty and Students” Some proposed topics include:

Embedded librarianship. Although this topic has been covered at SLA in the past, it continues to evolve and grow as more and more classes are being offered through distance programs. Have you had a good experience with it. Would you like to offer advice for those who have not yet become embedded librarian?

Outreach to business school faculty. Have you been successful in reaching out to your business faculty? Have you increased library instruction requests? How have you been creative in getting them to use and promote the library’s resources? Who are key people to have on your side?

Connecting with business students. How have you marketed yourself and your services to business school students? Do you provide handouts, workshops or individual research sessions? Have you created a “library buzz,” or are you known as “library-guy (or gal)”?

Perceptions and use of library resources after library instruction. What are students saying after your library instruction sessions? What works and what does not? Can professors see a difference in the quality of student work after a library session?

If you are interested in speaking (15 minutes or so) on any of these topics, or if there other topics you think may be of interest to CUBL members, please let me know. We have spots for three (3) speakers. You’ll have to come up with your own clever presentation title, though!

Regards,

Jeff Graveline
CUBL Membership Chair

____________

Jeffrey D. Graveline, J.D., M.L.I.S.
Reference Librarian for Business & Government Documents
Mervyn H. Sterne Library, University of Alabama at Birmingham
(205) 934-6364
Email: jgraveli@uab.edu

CFP: Special Libraries Association- Asian Chapter

CFP: Special Libraries Association- Asian Chapter
New Delhi, India
November 26-28, 2008

SLA (Special Library Association, USA) - Asian Chapter 2008 in association with Society for Library Professionals and Indian Association of Special Libraries and Information Centres (IASLIC) is organizing an "International conference of Asian Special Libraries on Shaping the future of special libraries: beyond boundaries" to be held at India Islamic Cultural Centre,
Lodhi Road, New Delhi, India from 26-28 November 2008.

Some of the objectives of the Conference are to bring together special library professionals to a common platform, to promote special libraries, and facilitate the exchange of ideas and help to bridge the knowledge gap amongst the professionals associated with special libraries and to develop the professional competent. This seminar is expected to attract more than 1000
participants from India, Asia and the globe. You are invited to attend the same. For details please visit:
http://units.sla.org/chapter/cas/ICoASL2008.html

Submission of Papers

Participants are welcome to contribute papers for presentation on the above
themes and related themes. The Papers should be based on research surveys; case
studies or action plans rather than theoretical explanations and should not
publish earlier. Papers should be sent to asiansla@gmail.com

Dates to Remember
Last Date for Submission of Abstract/ Proposal - July 15, 2008
Last Date for Submission of Final Papers - September 15, 2008
Early Bird Registration - September 30, 2008
Last Date for Registration - November 15, 2008

For further information, please contact to:
P.K.Jain, Organising Secretary, ICoASL 2008. C/o. Institute of Economic
Growth, University of Delhi Enclave, DELHI- 110007. India Ph. 91-11-27667463;
27666364; 27666367. Fax: 91-11-27667463; 91-11-
27667410. Cell: 09899110787 Email: asiansla@gmail.com;
asianchaptersla@yahoo.com

Regards
Parveen Babbar
Member, SLA & Webmaster, SLA Asian Chapter,
Treasurer, ICoASL 2008
Assistant Librarian,
L&DD, IGNOU
New Delhi-110068
Email: parveenbabbar@yahoo.com

Blogging in Seattle: "sla2008" Official Tag for Posts

Blogging in Seattle: "sla2008" Official Tag for Posts

Attending the SLA Annual Conference and want to blog for SLA?
Contact Carolyn Sosnowski, SLA's Information Specialist, at resources@sla.org to get more information and to sign up!

Blogging on the SLA Blog is not a full-time commitment...we're looking for a few posts from the member's perpective about the sessions, CE courses, the INFO-EXPO, Seattle itself, and tips for getting the most out of the experience...anything your fellow attendees and colleagues at home would want to hear about.

If you're already blogging about the conference, on SLA Blog or elsewhere, don't forget the sla2008 tag!

For those not attending the conference- use the tag to find blog posts and keep up on all the great things happening out in Seattle!

CFP: Special Libraries Association-Asian Chapter (New Delhi, India)

CFP: Special Libraries Association-Asian Chapter (New Delhi, India)

SLA (Special Library Association, USA) - Asian Chapter 2008 in association with Society for Library Professionals and Indian Association of Special Libraries and Information Centres (IASLIC) is organizing an “International conference of Asian Special Libraries on Shaping the future of special libraries: beyond boundaries” to be held at India Islamic Cultural Centre, Lodhi Road, New Delhi, India from 26-28 November 2008.

Some of the objectives of the Conference are to bring together special library professionals to a common platform, to promote special libraries, and facilitate the exchange of ideas and help to bridge the knowledge gap amongst the professionals associated with special libraries and to develop the professional competent.

This seminar is expected to attract more than 1000 participants from India, Asia and the globe. You are invited to attend the same. For details please visit:
http://units.sla.org/chapter/cas/ICoASL2008.html

Thematic areas
The conference will discuss all aspects of special libraries. Each theme is divided into several sub-themes as detailed below, but not necessarily limited to:
Information Resources and Services
•Managing Information overload
•Customizing Information Services
•E-Referencing and New Referencing Techniques.
•Benchmarking Techniques
•Measuring Service Quality
•Sustainable Information Resources
•Offshoring and Outsourcing
•Key reference tools for Asian source
•Content Creation and Management Information Society: Emerging Paradigm
•Information Society: An Asian Perspective
•Information Society: Sustainable Models
•Community Information Systems
•The Design and Role of Information Centres
•Delivery of Information Services
•Information Systems: Case Studies
•E-Governance and Public Information
•Information Literacy and Competency: Capacity Building
•Mapping Community Participation Patterns
•Information Divide and Deprivation
•Private and Public Participation
•Funding Opportunities Information Communication and Technologies
•Delivery Methods and Mechanisms
•Information Generation and Cultivation
•Information Warehousing and Storage
•Information Harvesting and Dissemination
•Retrieval and Access Mechanisms
•Information Tools/Technology: State of the Art
•Development of Information Portals and Information Gateways
•Applications of Web 2.0 in Asia Information Objects, and Products
•Information Portals
•Digital Libraries/Repositories
•E-journals Management
•Information Sharing Models/Consortia
•Information Networks and Protocols
•Standards, Copyright, licensing and IPR Issues
•Publisher/Vendor/Library Relations

Information and Business
•Information Entrepreneurship : Scope and Prospects
•Information Marketing
•Employment opportunities
•Skill Upgradation and Career Advancement
•Recruitment and Hiring Techniques
•Creating Lobbies and Pressure Groups
•Role of library Associations
•Special libraries after 20 years

LIS Education, Training & Research
•Course material and Content Contemporarising
•Continuing and Life Long Learning and role of SLA
•E-learning Modules
•Skills and Competency Development
•Incubation and Training Centres
•Research Relevance LIS
•LIS Education, Research and LIS School

Submission of Papers
Participants are welcome to contribute papers for presentation on the above themes and related themes. The Papers should be based on research surveys; case studies or action plans rather than theoretical explanations and should not publish earlier. Papers should be sent to to asiansla@gmail.com

Dates to Remember
Last Date for Submission of Abstract/ Proposal July 15, 2008
Last Date for Submission of Final Papers September 15, 2008
Early Bird Registration September 30, 2008
Last Date for Registration November 15, 2008

For further information, please contact to:
P.K.Jain, Organising Secretary, ICoASL 2008. C/o. Institute of Economic Growth, University of Delhi Enclave, DELHI- 110007. India Ph. 91-11-27667463; 27666364; 27666367. Fax: 91-11-27667463; 91-11-27667410. Cell: 09899110787 Email: asiansla@gmail.com ; asianchaptersla@yahoo.com

CFP: Upcoming issues of Education Libraries (peer reviewed journal)

CFP: Upcoming issues of Education Libraries (peer reviewed journal)

We are accepting papers for the next two issues of Education Libraries, a peer-reviewed journal published by SLA's Education Division. This journal is indexed in ERIC, and Wilson Library Literature and Information Science. For information about the journal, instructions for authors, and full-text copies of selected back issues, please go to http://units.sla.org/division/ded/education_libraries.html. You do not have to be a member of SLA or the Education Division to publish in Education Libraries. We welcome additional book reviewers.

Call for papers, Spring 2008:
The next issue will focus on children's resources.
Deadline: February 1, 2008

Call for papers, Fall 2008:
Topics could include archives and digitization; historical collections; digital libraries.
Deadline: August 1, 2008

Email queries and manuscripts to co-editor, Jacqueline Snider at
jacqueline-snider@uiowa.edu.

Thank you.

Jacqueline Snider

Call for Contributed Papers: Special Libraries Association Annual Meeting (Seattle, June 2008)

Call for Contributed Papers: Special Libraries Association Annual Meeting (Seattle, June 2008)
URL: http://www.sla.org/content/Events/conference/ac2008/index.cfm

Have you broken the rules of the status quo in order to make improvements in your workplace? Have you reached out and "built bridges" to another organization to improve your service? Have you learned valuable lessons that could help other information professionals? If so,
here is your opportunity to engage in scholarship and share that knowledge with your peers.

SLA is now accepting proposals for papers to be presented at its Annual Conference June 15-18, 2008 in Seattle, with the theme "Breaking Rules - Building Bridges." Proposals are due December 15, 2007.

Learn more about submitting a proposal.
http://www.sla.org/content/Events/conference/ac2008/Conference/callforpapers/index.cfm

Call for abstracts - Announcements will begin appearing in the September
Information Outlook and other SLA media.

15 December - Abstracts due

31 January 2008 - Notification of selected authors

1 May 2008 - Final papers due

15-18 June 2008 in Seattle - Presentation of papers

2007 Papers: http://www.sla.org/content/Events/conference/ac2007/conference/papers.cfm

Call for Bloggers: SLA Blog (Special Libraries Association)

Call for Bloggers: SLA Blog (Special Libraries Association)

Wanted--Bloggers
We're looking for members to contribute their thoughts, expertise, and opinions to the SLA Blog. Started at the conference in Denver, our plan is to make this blog a year-round source of information about the organization and the profession. If you want to participate, write to John Adams at jadams@sla.org. Write "Blogger Invite" in the subject line.

Call for Speaker: Professional Development Seminar-San Diego Chapter of SLA

Call for Speaker: Professional Development Seminar-San Diego Chapter of SLA

The San Diego Chapter of the Special Libraries Association is seeking speakers for our annual full day professional development seminar to be held October 12, 2007 at QUALCOMM in San Diego, CA.

Our theme is: "The Library as Velcro: Embedding the Library Into the Larger Organization"

Topics may include but are not limited to:

* Getting Library resources onto multiple departmental, team, or project resource intranet pages
* Getting Librarians included on client departmental project teams or work groups.
* Getting invited to and attending regular client departmental & strategic planning meetings
* Holding "office hours" or operating satellite "libraries" in client locations
* Selling the Library to upper management

We are looking for case studies from those who have done it, not just theory. You will want to cover things like how the arrangement came about, how it was implemented, what daily functioning looked like, benefits to all parties, and lessons learned. Success is not required
as we often learn more from what went wrong.

At this time, we are figuring approximately 45 minutes for each speaker, covering both presentation and Q&A.

Please submit your proposal to Elizabeth Grossman at egrossma@qualcomm.com by Aug. 20, 2007. We will notify you of the planners' decisions by August 31. We encourage submissions from librarians working in all types of libraries and SLA membership is not required.

We hope you will send us your presentation proposal today.

Sincerely,

Elizabeth Grossman & Carol Hyne
Directors, SLA San Diego Chapter

Elizabeth Grossman
Senior Librarian
QUALCOMM, Incorporated
5775 Morehouse Drive
San Diego, CA 92121
(858) 651-4341
egrossma@qualcomm.com

General Information: Information Outlook (Special Libraries)

General Information: Information Outlook (Special Libraries)
URL: http://www.sla.org/content/Shop/Information/writingforio/index.cfm

Information Outlook is SLA's monthly professional magazine. It is written primarily by and for information professionals. The editorial objective is to provide timely coverage of information management issues relevant to special librarians in a global environment. Information Outlook interprets the news and covers trends and issues that affect information professionals.

If you know of something interesting that has been done to improve a special library, solve a problem, prevent trouble? If you or a colleague have done something out of the ordinary that you'd like to share with SLA's members? If you want to give something back to the profession by sharing your experiences with others? We want to hear from you.

For more information, follow the above link.

CFP: SOUTH ATLANTIC REGIONAL CONFERENCE (SARC) IV - Special Libraries Association

CFP: SOUTH ATLANTIC REGIONAL CONFERENCE (SARC) IV - Special Libraries Association
February 27-29, 2008
St. Petersburg, Florida
URL: http://units.sla.org/regconf/sarc4/

CALL FOR PARTICIPATION

CONFERENCE THEME: “The Surreal Landscape: Information professionals mastering the challenges of time and space”

Participate in the South Atlantic Regional Conference (SARC IV), a division of SLA, by proposing a presentation for the Conference. In addition to topics generated by the conference theme, we are interested in receiving presentation proposals in the following areas:

-Emerging technologies
-Interdisciplinary research between information centers of varying types
-Unstructured data and the digital universe
-Scholarly research and publication alternatives and solutions
-Collaboration between business, science, profit/non-profit and information professionals-breaking the barriers
-Emerging special libraries and information centers-where are they needed or disappearing to, what’s needed in the future.
-Digital only “libraries” and the services to support them

Please send an abstract (not exceeding 250 words) of your proposed presentation by August 1, 2007 to the Program Chair. All accepted presentations will receive a speaker’s honorarium of $350. We will notify you by September 1, 2007 if your presentation has been accepted. Send all proposal abstracts via email to: Pam Doffek, Program Chair doffek@ci.fsu.edu Please put “SARC Proposal” in your subject line.

The SARC IV Conference will be attended by approximately 300 special librarians from the South Atlantic Region (VA, NC, SC, GA, FL).

Write for Information Outlook (Special Libraries Association)

Write for Information Outlook (Special Libraries Association)

http://www.sla.org/content/Shop/Information/writingforio/index.cfm

We're always looking for new authors and new topics for SLA's monthly magazine. If you, or a colleague, have done something out of the ordinary that you'd like to share with our members, or if you want to give something back to the profession by sharing your experiences with others…we want to hear from you.

Information Outlook is SLA?s monthly professional magazine. It is written primarily by and for information professionals. The editorial objective is to provide timely coverage of information management issues relevant to special librarians in a global environment. Information Outlook interprets the news and covers trends and issues that affect information professionals.

If you know of something interesting that has been done to improve a special library, solve a problem, prevent trouble? If you or a colleague have done something out of the ordinary that you?d like to share with SLA?s members? If you want to give something back to the profession by sharing your experiences with others? We want to hear from you.

NOTE: Please visit the page above for guidelines and contact information.