Chapter & Division News
South Carolina Chapter Celebrates Fifteenth Anniversary
The South Carolina Chapter celebrated its fifteenth anniversary with a special dinner at the historic Faculty Club located on the campus of the University of South Carolina. SLA's 1999-2000 President Susan DiMattia presented the 2000 Dean's Lecture "Synergies for Your Professional Future" at the USC College of Library and Information Science.
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The 2000 R.V. Williams Founders Award was presented to David McQuillan, a map librarian at Thomas Coopet Library at USC. This award is the higest chapter honor given in recognition of distinguishing service to SLA and special librarianship. McQuillan has functioned as the director and international relations chair for the SC Chapter. He has fulfilled the role as chair and program planner for the SLA Geography and Map Division, and served multiple terms as chair of the Geography and Maps Section of IFLA.
Other 2000 awards include the President's Award to Thomas Hill of Upper Savannah AHEC Library in Greenwood. The Certificate of Service to Sherry Davis of Cryovac Sealed Air Corporation Library in Duncan, SC. Lastly, the Student Awards were presented to Jill Hausler and Valerie LaMotte.
Pharmaceutical & Health Technology Division Present Awards at Annual Conference
For the first time in history, two awards were presented to outstanding members of the Pharmaceutical and Health Technology Division at the Special Libraries Association annual meeting held in Philadelphia. The first award honored a division member for significant and lasting contributions and service to the division and the profession. Karen Kreizman-Reczeck of ACTS Testing Laboratories exhibited outstanding leadership qualities in the division, at meetings, and in committee work. She has held numerous positions in the Pharmaceutical & Health Technology Division including bulletin editor, chair, archivist, and a member of the Strategic Planning Committee.
She has been an active member in the Upstate New York chapter, Engineering Division, and the Biomedical and Life Sciences Division. She has also spoken at the recent SLA annual conferences and formulated such publication as a book titled Establishing an Information Center: A Practical Guide and an article "Using the Web to Find International Standards Information."
The Horizon award was bestowed to Eileen Moyer of Tufts University. This award honors a Pharmaceutical and Health Technology Division member of five years or fewer who has demonstrated promise of becoming an exceptional member of the profession. Moyer has serviced the Pharmaceutical & Health Technology Division significantly by participating in special projects since 1996. Originally, she acted as networking chair of the division in 1996 and then moved into the role as the owner of the divisional electronic discussion list.
Both of the award recipients accepted a certificate and a monetary gift in appreciation of their contributions.
C. Berger Group, Inc. Sponsors SLA, LMD Management Leadership Award
On June 12, 2000, during the SLA Annual Conference held in Philadelphia, C. Berger Group, Inc. (CBG), sponsored the Special Libraries Association's Library Management Division Management Leadership Award for the tenth year.
This award, instituted in 1988, recognizes a member's significant contributions to leadership in the profession of information management over a five-year period. CBG was honored to present the award to Marsha L. Fulton, director of the AskNetwork at Arthur Andersen LLP, in recognition of her outstanding achievements in leadership.
Unit Highlights from SLA's 91st Annual Conference
Library Management Division
by Renee Massoud
Library Management Division programming this year followed one idea--how to take a concept of a research deliverable into reality and implementation. A combination of lecture style presentations and case studies brought attendees a mix of experience and food for thought. Kicking off the sessions with Assessing Your Market and ending with Career Challenges for the twenty-first century gave a full view of the professional and research product life cycle.
R-Technologies as discussed by Stephen Arnold of Arnold Information Technology explored the next-generation of preferred and enabling technologies centered around "relationship" building.
Product Ideas to Deliverables by Marsha Fulton of Arthur Andersen walked attendees through how to take concepts and build them into real business. By using Andersen's own case study of KnowledgeSpace and their ASK Network, attendees could see the transformation, steps, and success of making skills of information professionals become extremely valuable and rewarding.
Recognizing the importance of negotiating skills in today's market, Library Management Division planned for the world-renowned Karrass instructors to teach the CE course, Effective Negotiating Skills. The full day program gave its student's skills to use in any situation to effectively complete a win-win situation almost every time. Although not specific to content or research negotiating, attendees said they could apply the techniques to all aspects of their careers, including job and salary negotiations.
Military Librarians Division
by Jane C. Butler
For the 2000 Conference in Philadelphia, the Division kicked things off with a member reception on Sunday evening sponsored by SIRSI & PTFS. That reception was crowded, boisterous, and lots of fun.
Networking continued at our three continental breakfasts on Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday, sponsored by Baker & Taylor, The Gale Group and OAG respectively.
Monday's breakfast attracted forty-five people, Tuesdays' breakfast attracted forty-three people, out of the plus division members who registered for the conference. A lot of people chose to sleep in on Wednesday morning after a late night of vendor parties and other division hospitality events.
Members were treated to lunch for the Business Meeting on Tuesday sponsored by ISI.
Cream of broccoli soup, followed by a chicken dish, and a delightful chocolate dessert pleased everyone's palate. Vin Caraher, Vice President of ISI, spoke to us for a few minutes.
Committee Chairs and other members who worked hard for the division this year received MLD logo pins for their efforts. Officers received logo pins and medallion paperweights with either walnut or marble bases.
One hundred sixty-nine persons heard our Tuesday program, "Library Beyond: New Technologies to Enhance Services". Carol Cini, Associate Director of the Institute for Federal Printing and Electronic Publishing, presented current technologies and a look at the future. Patrick Jones, Library Division Director of PTFS, talked about the new digital arena available to libraries today, focusing on the technology that allows libraries to digitize special archival collections into web-based, full-text searchable databases. Jones gave us a checklist of questions to ask digitization vendors. David Pendlebury from the Institute for Scientific Information discussed visualization techniques that allow users to examine information differently and to see new relationships. Handouts for these program sessions will be available on the division web site within a few weeks.
We sponsored two programs on Wednesday. The morning program, "NTIS Update" was co-sponsored with the Petroleum and Energy Resources Division and the Science Technology Division. Speaker Wally Finch from NTIS talked about what NTIS is, why it's getting all the media attention, where it's been and what it's future may be.
The afternoon program, "Copyright and U.S. Government Works," featured speakers Mary Berghaus Levering of the U.S. Copyright Office, National Copyright Program, and Bonnie Klein of the Defense Technical Information Center. This program was co-sponsored by the Information Technology Division. Levering discussed copyright basics as they relate to the public's right to use Government Information published in print or on the web and the common misconception that everything published by the U.S. Government is in the public domain. Klein gave examples of excellent government web sites that included copyright rights on their home page. She also demonstrated a few government web sites that failed to acknowledge copyright use or permissions anywhere on their site.
Social Science Division
by Hetty Barthel
The breadth of social science programming extended from programs such as Census 2000, on the role of information in international conflict management to a well-attended "conversation" with PBS notable Jim Lehrer.
The International Reception and Tea is always one of the highlights for all conference attendees. Held in the Crystal Tearoom of the Wanamaker Building, the elegant affair was capped off by the presentation of the European Librarian of the Year Award to William Hann, managing editor of Freepint.com, "a community of 30,000 business information searchers around the world."
Among the fourteen programs offered at the Philadelphia conference were Meet the Social Science Division – member/panelists Linda Richer, Cybele Merrick, Suzanne Cole; Census 2000--New Information for the New Millennium; Archives in the twenty-first century--not just a time capsule; From Dependence to Independence--Meeting the needs of the disabled; How Congress Really Works; International Conflict Resolution--Challenges and strategies; Making Connections--Information providers and community economic development. Evening open houses were enjoyed with Education Division
Social Science Division sponsored three well-known authors. Kathleen Hall Jamieson, author of Everything You Think You Know About Politics…And Why You're Wrong, spoke on this timely topic at a lunch eon. A search-able CD-ROM of Presidential campaign speeches, ads and debates (1952-1966), compiled by The Annenberg School for Communication, is available for $10 (check to Social Science Division) from Mike Kolakowski, Congressional Research Service, Library of Congress, Washington, DC 20540-7470.
Jim Kunstler, author of Geography from Nowhere and other books, prominent lecturer on the New Urbanism, enthralled a large enthusiastic crowd. Jim Lehrer struck just the right balance between personal reminiscences, political commentary and life as a writer.
Two tours extended the scope of programs offered by Social Science Division. Jamie Pearlstein, coordinator of the public art program in Philadelphia, led a walking tour of the inner city public art sites. On Thursday, a bus full of librarians visited libraries at Winterhur and Brandywine River Museum.
Sports Caucus
by Peter Moon
There was an excellent turnout of more than thirty for this Tuesday event--although Tim Green was unable to present the "Football Is Murder" session as we originally planned; we had enough lead time to successfully invite Pat Walker, executive editor of the Bucks County Courier Times, one of the local newspaper to speak to us about newspaper reporting of sports. She rose through the journalism ranks from a cub reporter, and spent some time doing sports reporting. She shared with us some of the issues involved with newspaper reporting and editing. She mentioned how a sports reporter often becomes so tied to the team being reported on, one can lose objectivity about the team. She also mentioned the "two-faced kitten" that was all the news sensation recently. That story began with their paper!
The door prizes were a big hit, again--four books authored by Tim Green, including his New York Times bestseller, The Dark Side of the Game: My life in the NFL. The beneficiaries of these door prizes were: Michael McCay; Michael Yared; Ellen Summers; and Patricia Bowron. Mary Johnson was the winner of the final grand door prize, offered by Marydee Ojala--a three medal set of the 2002 Winter Olympics to be held in her backyard--Utah! My thanks also go to Larry Guthrie, Chair of the Legal Division for sponsoring our event; Buzzy Basch, Basch Subscriptions for his financial support; and especially to Gloria Dinerman who has convened this caucus for the past three years!
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