Lunch for those who are new to the division or first-time conference attendees. Meet each other and the Sci-Tech Division leadership. RSVP to Sarah Oelker at soelker@mtholyoke.edu by 6 July 2012.
PRICE: $20.00 Member/ $5.00 Student Member/ $25.00 Non-Member
Annual business and breakfast meeting of the Sci-Tech Division. Come have some breakfast, network with your colleagues old and new, and find out what the division is doing.
MODERATING:
Cheryl Hansen, Engineering Systems Inc.
PRICE: $25.00 Member/ $10.00 Student Member/ $35.00 Non-Member
Join your colleagues to celebrate another year of the Engineering Division. Enjoy a sitdown lunch and network with others. We will have our annual business meeting during lunch, there will be a special speaker, and you can take part in our annual raffle for charity. Don't forget to congratulate the winners of the Engineering Division's awards. A good time will be had by all!
MODERATING:
Pam Enrici, University of Minnesota, Duluth
A hosted reception for members of SLA’s "western" chapters, their colleagues and friends. Please meet at the Newberry Library and contact Philip Gust (cell: 650.367.-7652; e-mail: pgust@stanford.edu) with any questions you may have.
Learn about the latest product innovations from many of our technical standards publishers and vendors.
MODERATING:
Susan Morley, CSA Group
SPEAKING:
Stuart Bowyer, SAI Global; Rodney Buhrsmith, Eastview; Patti Ensor, CSA Group; Todd Fegan, Techstreet; Andrew Knopes, SAE International; Betsy Kulamer, American Society of Civil Engineers; Leanne Lowry, ANSI; Sohel Shaikh, British Standards Institution; John Pace, ASTM International; Michael Spada, IEEE
Assessment is everywhere, it seems, and in every type of library. Whether you use terms and practices from ROI or other assessment experts, you'll always do a better job if you make room for self-reflection. This panel session focuses on best practices in self-reflective assessment to better communicate your achievements to your clients and supervisors.
SPEAKING:
Elizabeth Beers, University of Chicago; Christine Stamison, Swets; Devin Savage, Northwestern University Library
SPEAKER HANDOUTS:
http://www.sla.org/pdfs/sla2012/BestPracticesSelfAssessmentDSavage.PDF
Standards are part of our daily lives. When embarking on a vocabulary or metadata project, we often turn to standards to guide our decisions to structure items a certain way or determine how detailed to be with different metadata types. Panelists will discuss how technical standards played a part in developing features based on user requirements, accessing vendors and implementing their vocabulary and metadata projects. They will also provide tips on how to traverse technical standards documentation.
MODERATING:
Janel Kinlaw, NPR
SPEAKING:
Paulette Hasier, ARTI; Hannah Sommers, NPR; Marcie Zaharee, The MITRE Corporation
PRESENTATION HANDOUTS:
http://www.sla.org/pdfs/sla2012/ImpactTechStandMetaContVocabProjPHasier.pdf
http://www.sla.org/pdfs/sla2012/ImpactTechStandMetaContVocabProjZaharee.pdf
This session was developed in response to a study commissioned by Intel Corporation which revealed that the role of engineers in our society is not widely understood by teenagers. We will focus on ways that information professionals can publicize what engineers do.
MODERATING:
Barbara Williams, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
SPEAKING:
Jeffrey Hoffman, Massachusetts Institute of Technology; Gail Dundas, Intel Corporation
PRESENTATION HANDOUTS:
http://www.sla.org/pdfs/sla2012/MobilizingtheMessageGDundas.pdf
PRICE: $5.00 Member/ $5.00 Student Member/ $5.00 Non-Member
Take a private tour of the Pritzker Military Library with the Military Libraries Division. Enjoy a gourmet continental breakfast, tour the library, and enjoy a talk by Cyndee Schaffer, the author of "Mollie's War: the Letters of a WWII WAC in Europe."
