Centennial Celebration - 100 List (V)
Centennial Celebration - 100 List (V)

Top Reasons For Belonging to SLA

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  1. Value of membership to me? Priceless!
  2. Keeping on top of current trends in field
  3. Best professional library organization around
  4. Helps my non-library colleagues see that I am a professional if I belong to a professional organization
  5. Exhibit Hall at the annual conference is the most convenient place and venue to meet with vendors and to encounter new products
  6. SLA has been quick to adopt new technologies and ideas
  7. Belonging to a community of librarians and information professionals--each person does her own part to keep the whole together
  8. Professional resources and professional development opportunities
  9. Friendships and met colleagues that I would consider to be priceless additions to my professional and personal life
  10. Supportive and nurturing opportunities to learn, network and grow in one's career
  11. Serves as a voice for the profession in national and international legal and policy issues
  12. Being able to benefit from the knowledge and experience of all the members
  13. I value being part of a professional organization that is international in scope and vision
  14. Essential to tenure and promotion success
  15. SLA recognizes the economic bind many in the profession finds itself in, and has stepped up to the plate offering resources many of us could not afford to stay current.
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