CI Expert to Address SLA's Global 2000
The Special Libraries Association has confirmed that Yves-Michel Marti, a world-renowned authority on competitive intelligence, will be the general session speaker at Global 2000, the Worldwide Conference on Special Librarianship, October 16-19, 2000, in Brighton, UK. Marti will address an audience of more than 1,000 delegates from around the world at the Stakis Brighton Metropole Hotel, Wednesday, October 18 at 9:00 A.M.
Marti is the founder and president of EGIDERA, a leading business intelligence company in Europe. He has co-authored "L intelligence economique et concurrentielle: les yeux at les oreilles de l'entreprise," which won the award for Best European Book of the Year from the Financial Times and Booz, Allen & Hamilton and "The Art and Science of Business Intelligence Analysis," a collective work written by the world's top ten experts in the field of business intelligence. In 1992, he co-founded the French branch of the Society of Competitive Intelligence Professionals (SCIP). In 1995 he founded EGIDERIA.
Information Professionals Seek Fellowships to Global 2000
Nearly 400 information professionals from around the globe have submitted applications for fellowships to Global 2000, the Worldwide Conference on Special Librarianship, which will be held October 16-19, 2000, in Brighton, UK. Over 1,000 people are expected to attend the Global 2000 Conference to discuss the future of global information management in the digital age. SLA, through its Washington, DC Chapter, has raised over US$50,000 to provide transportation, lodging, and conference expenses for a select group of Global 2000 Fellowship applicants from developing nations. SLA reports that information professionals from over fifty nations applied before the January 31st deadline. The recipients for the Global 2000 Fellowship will be notified in early April, and will be announced publicly at SLA's 91st Annual Conference in Philadelphia, June 10-15, 2000.
ISLD 2000
Special librarians and information professionals will ask the world to honor their pivotal roles in the information economy on International Special Librarians Day (ISLD), which takes place on April 13, 2000, the Thursday of National Library Week. The theme for ISLD 2000 is "Navigating the World's Knowledge," a moniker selected by SLA member Jerry Baldwin. Baldwin is a nine-year member of SLA and is library director for the Minnesota Department of Transportation. Jerry's winning theme captures the adventurous nature of information professionals in the new millennium, tackling the overload of information and managing it for the benefit of their clients. The Special Libraries Association (SLA) is also pleased to announce that Factiva, a Dow Jones Reuters company, and the Freedom Forum will serve as co-sponsors of ISLD 2000. A special event is planned for Tuesday, April 11, 2000, at the Freedom Forum in Washington, DC, self-guided tours of the Newseum (an interactive news museum in Rosslyn, VA).
Created in 1991 by SLA, International Special Librarians Day provides an opportunity for information professionals to promote their libraries' services and accomplishments within their organizations with promotional materials provided by SLA. For more information on ISLD, the ISLD Award, or promotional materials, please visit the public relations section of the SLA website at www.sla.org, or contact the public communications office at 1-202-939-3633.
Swap & Shop in Philadelphia
The Swap & Shop Competition has taken place at the SLA Annual Conference for over ten years, but many SLA members are still either unaware of this fun event or are not quite sure what it means to them. The annual provides an opportunity for SLA members to share their marketing know-how with their peers as well as compete for cash prizes. Originally a relatively casual event at the SLA annual conference with only a few participants, this event has evolved into a serious competition with over seventy members from the US, Canada and Europe competing last year and attended by more than 300 SLA members.
The Swap & Shop provides a forum for attendees to exchange different marketing ideas across varied media : Print Materials (such as newsletters, brochures, posters, and fact sheets), Non-Print Materials (past entries have included customized pens, mugs, notepads, candy, stress-busters, videos, and the like) and content/layout samples from Library/Information Center Intranets.
How you can participate? Any SLA member is welcome to submit his/her work to the event. To enter, just visit the Marketing Section page on the Library Management Division's (LMD) web site at http://www.sla.org/membership/divisions/market.html, where the entry form and additional information is provided. Send it along with your entry--it's that simple! In addition, due to generous sponsorship from Lexis-Nexis, we will be able to award each First Place winner with a cash award and a plaque.
Member News
Kitt & NAACP Image Award
An anthology named GIRLFRIENDS, that includes Sandra Kitt's story "The Heart of the Matter" has been nominated for the prestigious NAACP Image Awards. Besides being a librarian at the American Museum of Natural History in New York, Kitt is also a published author of twenty novels, and five novellas. The anthology has three novellas, which tells a story about the relationship between women friends. The concept is a follow up to a very successful earlier anthology, SISTERS (Signet, 1996). Kitt will be attending the awards presentation and dinner in Los Angeles on February 11 and the taping for FOX TV on February 12. (It will be aired on April 8, 2000). Kitt is president of the New York Chapter of SLA.
Miriam Drake to Retire
After seventeen years of dedicated service, Miriam A. Drake, Dean and Director of the Library & Information Center at the Georgia Institute of Technology, will retire on January 1, 2001.
In addition to handling the operation and management of library and information services, Drake currently serves as the Institute's archivist and records manager. She is responsible for the Georgia Tech Electronic Library (GTEL), full text information systems, digital libraries and multimedia products, information training and consulting services for faculty and students. After receiving a BS degree in economic analysis and an MLS from Simmons College, Drake completed graduate work at Harvard University. She spent fourteen years in the private sector as a management consultant, transportation economist and marketing research analyst before becoming Assistant Director for Library Support Services at Purdue University. She signed on with Georgia Tech in 1984.
Drake is the author of more than one-hundred journal articles and conference presentations and serves on several editorial and advisory boards for publications and universities throughout the nation. Upon retirement, Drake will continue to serve as the editor of the second edition of the Dekker Encyclopedia of Library and Information Science. Drake is past president of the Special Libraries Association, she received the American Library Association/Hugh Atkinson Award for innovation and risk taking in 1992 and she received the first Allen Kent/Mecklermedia Award for lifetime achievement. She also holds an honorary doctorate of human letters from Indiana University and an honorary doctorate of library science from Simmons College.
In Memoriam
Sallie Ellison
Sallie Ellison, director of the Purdy/Kresge Library at Wayne State University, died December 26. She was 55 years old. Ellison joined Wayne State University in 1989 as assistant director of Purdy/Kresge Library. Robert Holley, interim dean of University Libraries, took part in her screening interview with former Dean Peter Spyers-Duran. Ellison was named director of the Purdy/Kresge Library in 1991 and also served as Director of Media Services from 1991 to 1996. She was a member in the American Library Association where she served on the International
Relations Committee of the Association of College and Research Libraries and was deeply committed to the Black Caucus. She was also active in the Special Libraries Association, the Michigan Library Association, the Michigan Libraries Research Triangle, and the Michigan Library Consortium. Beyond her active professional life, she found time to support several community groups and her church. A graduate of Fisk University and Drexel University, Ellison worked at the General Motors Technical Center and the Industrial Technology Institutein Ann Arbor before joining Wayne State.
A scholarship is being established in the Library and Information Science Program in honor of Sallie Ellison. Donations may be sent to the University Libraries, attention Nancy Galster, 3100 Undergraduate Library, Wayne State University, Detroit, MI 48202.
Chapter & Division News
Engineering Division Announces Award
The Engineering Division of SLA and INSPEC are offering library school students a $500.00 travel stipend toward payment of expenses incurred while attending the annual Special Libraries Association conference, June 10-15, 2000, in Philadelphia, PA. The INSPEC Award will be given to the qualified student who submits an essay of three or less double spaced typed pages that is judged to be the best essay submitted describing "How Library Education Should Change to Meet the Challenge of New or Emerging Technologies". Qualifications for Entering Award Competition:
1. Be a student member of the Special Libraries Association.
2. Be attending his or her first SLA Conference.
Deadline for Submission: March 31, 2000. The recipient of the INSPEC Award will be notified by the first week of May, 2000.
Submit Entries for the award to: Bette Finn (Chair, SLA Eng. Div. Scholarship Committee)Georgia Tech Library and Information Center, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, Georgia 30332-0900
For more information, send e-mail to: bette.finn@library.gatech.edu
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