December 11th
You are invited to The SLA, MALL and SCIP Holiday Party. Join us at the James J Hill Reference Library on Thursday, December 11th, 2008. Celebrate the year and the holidays with your friends and colleagues.
October 28th
You are invited to The Annual Membership Meeting and Night of Honors. Learn what your board accomplished in 2008, meet the new officers, honor the Award Winners, and celebrate the Chapter’s 65th Anniversary.
Virtual Seminar
Calendar for 2008
To register
for a seminar, watch the MN Chapter discussion list for a registration
announcement that will be posted about 10-14 days before a scheduled
seminar. For questions about the seminars, contact Jim Tchobanoff
at jtchobanoff@bigfoot.com or 651 636-3738.More information about any of these seminars is available on the SLA website at: http://sla.learn.com/learncenter.asp?page=277
January 9
- Topic: Patent information – innovation & discovery Speaker: Michael White Location: Donaldson Company
- Hosts: Julie Eskritt & Karen Woods
January 23
- Topic: Trademark information – what’s in a name? Speaker: Michael White Location: Donaldson Company
- Hosts: Julie Eskritt & Karen Woods
February 20
- Topic: Introduction to institutional data repositories Speaker: Michael Whitt Location: Northwest Area Foundation
- Host: Melissa Yauk
March 19
- Topic: Preparing to make a business case Speaker: Maggie Weaver Location: Northwest Area Foundation
- Host: Melissa Yauk
April 9
- Topic: Electronic collection development: part 1 – E-library collection planning Speaker: Diane Kovacs Location: Ecolab R&D
- Host: Eileen Stanley
April 23
- Topic: Electronic collection development: part 2 – E-library collection strategies, organization & maintenanceSpeaker: Diane Kovacs Location: Ecolab R&D
- Host: Eileen Stanley
May 21
- Topic: Social networking tools inside the organization Speaker: Connie Crosby Location: HGA
- Hosts: Julie Weston & Elizabeth Meylor
August 13
- Topic: Dealing with difficult people: part 1 – Don’t let other people decide how you will behave Speaker: Goldie Newman Location: Fredrickson & Byron
- Host: Becky Anderson
August 20
- Topic: Dealing with difficult people: part 2 – What was I thinking! Speaker: Goldie Newman Location: Fredrickson & Byron
- Host: Becky Anderson
October 22
- Topic: Web 2.0 Software and the Embeddable Web
- Speaker: Greg Notess
- Location:
- Host:
Please
note that details for non-SLA events are not guaranteed.
Contact the sponsoring organization for details.