Opportunity for attendees to share experiences, collaborate, and make new contacts at the beginning of the conference day.
James O'Shea of the Chicago News Cooperative will be the keynote speaker for the News Division in this session on the current state of journalism. O'Shea is past editor-in-chief of the Los Angeles Times, former managing editor of the Chicago Tribune, and author of "The Deal from Hell," a recent book that examined real estate investor Sam Zell's newspaper acquisitions.
MODERATING:
Debra Bade
SPEAKING:
James O'Shea, Chicago News Cooperative
Change management and focused attention on the bottom line are key drivers for successful information centers. In this way, validated and verifiable results are articulated as milestones and benchmarks for success. More importantly, strategic vision grounded in stakeholder buy-in informs our decisions and leads the change. Therefore, it is incumbent upon us to provide relevant and meaningful metrics as the evidentiary support for our strategic initiatives. But what, exactly, should we measure? Why is it important for us to measure these outcomes? Is it important to delineate the results not only in quantitative but also qualitative form? Join us for this exciting inquiry.
MODERATING:
Marianne Giltrud, The Catholic University of America
SPEAKING:
James King, National Institutes of Health; Rebecca Jones, Dysart & Jones Associates; Juanita Richardson, Dysart & Jones
PRESENTATION HANDOUTS:
http://www.sla.org/pdfs/sla2012/MetricsPerfROI PanelKMCafeJamesKing.pdf
Take the plunge into the world of intellectual property. Find out how to do patentability searches, litigation research, and state-of-the-art-searches.
SPEAKING:
Chris Vestal, LexisNexis; Kristin Whitman, Landon IP
PRESENTATION HANDOUTS:
http://www.sla.org/pdfs/sla2012/PatentResearching101CVKW.pdf
PRICE: $55.00 Member/ $55.00 Student Member/ $55.00 Non-Member
The News Division's annual Awards Reception and Banquet will honor our award recipients for 2012. Location TBA via the DNWS listserv and on the web site.
Information professionals are critical to any organizations knowledge value-chain; LexisNexis is pleased to have an opportunity to discuss the present and future of enterprise information services with the exceptional librarian and author Kee Malesky of NPR on Tuesday, July 17th at 10am. This conversation centers on the radical transformation of our profession from providing of answers to collaborating to spur innovation and new ideas. Our conversation with Kee begins with the question of how traditional skills are the foundation for refocusing our jobs; creating a mantle of innovation turning our libraries into idea incubators. It’s an exciting time for info-pros and we are lucky to draw on Kee’s unique experiences researching across disciplines and subjects, the innovative culture of NPR combined with her great success as an author. This session is an open conversation, LexisNexis encourages you to bring questions for Kee and to participate with your own examples and experiences. Kee is the author of, All Facts Considered: The Essential Library of Inessential Knowledge. By the way…Scott Simon has called Kee "source of all human knowledge" Look forward to seeing you in Chicago!
SPEAKING: Bobby Schrott, LexisNexis
Annual business meeting followed by an exciting and thought-provoking discussion on career agility in the government information sector.
SPEAKING:
Leia Dickerson, U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO); Richard Huffine, U.S. Geological Survey; Tanya Whippie, U.S. Dept. of Housing and Urban Development
PRICE: $20.00 Member/ $5.00 Student Member/ $20.00 Non-Member
The Kentucky Chapter invites all conference attendees to join us in putting the icing on the cake of another successful conference. We hope you will take this chance to bid adieu to your friends and colleagues before you travel back to your place of origin. We also hope to ease your parting tears by including a drink ticket and a chance to win a little taste of Kentucky.
