2001An Information Odyssey:
Seizing the Competitive Advantage
2001 Conference Program Planning Committee:
Denise Chochrek, Chair
Carol Jacobson
Hollace Ann Rutkowski
Charles Shellabarger
Samantha Whitney-Ulane
Conference Stars
92nd SLA Annual Conference
San Antonio, TX, USA
June 9-14, 2001
Molly Ivins
Dave Barry
Seizing The Competitive Advantage
As we embrace the twenty-first century, we do so in an environment of uncertainty. We stand at a crossroad with true leadership within our grasp and oblivion dogging our heels. Now is the time to create our place in the information age. With the proper tools we can still carve an important niche for information specialists across the globe.
Join SLA in San Antonio!
The SLA 92nd Annual Conference will be held in San Antonio, Texas, USA, June 9-14, 2001. Our theme, 2001 An Information Odyssey: Seizing the Competitive Advantage, clearly points us to the issues that face us today. This conference will provide the tools to change our own image, help us create a leadership role in the information world, and ensure that our companies and schools will survive in a very competitive atmosphere. It is in continuing education and networking that we have the greatest advantage. Together in one location will be some of the most innovative minds in our field, sharing their wisdom, and propelling us forward in our own career odysseys.
This conference will give you the opportunity to face real issues. We are in a mad race to demonstrate our ability to not only grasp new technology and information concepts, but to be the leading edge. If we are not careful, others will step in and take our place. Marketing specialists now tout their expertise in research and analytical techniques. Information technologists are moving away from database management and declaring themselves the kings of content. Now is not the time to stand idly by and go over our collection development policies. It is time for us to learn the latest developments in portal management, fundamental company analysis, and worldwide issues and trends. We can no longer wait for the world to see our value. We must become fluent in marketing skills. We must develop our leadership skills so we can breach the glass ceiling that keeps us in our libraries. Providing data is no longer a means of survival. To become indispensable, we must move beyond the limited definitions that we have carried with us through time.
Come to San Antonio with an open mind and a desire to learn. For one week you will have the opportunity to come away with information that will change the course of your career and perhaps your life. Together we can seize the information age. At the end of the movie 2001: A Space Odyssey, we witnessed a new birth. Let this conference be our incubator. Let us spring from this conference with new life, new goals and a dream that will propel us through an exciting information odyssey. The adventure now begins.
San Antonio Conference Session Tracks
To help guide you through the many offerings at the 2001 San Antonio Annual Conference, and to help you expand your competencies, the conference committee and division program planners have developed five general tracks that you may consider when developing your conference activities:
Management: The Management track covers the tools and theory necessary to make your management team effective, efficient, and ready to take on upper management.
Information TechnologyThe Information Technology track covers a variety of technology topics to ensure that you are current in the ever-changing information world.
PositioningIn the battle for survival, the Positioning track will assist you in your continuing climb to position yourself advantageously in your company. This track will also advance the status of the information professional in general as we jockey for a position in a competitive world.
Future Directions This wide-open track propels us into the future of our profession and our technology, as we enter the twenty-first century.
Practitioner's Toolkit This is the nitty gritty of how we do our work.
NetworkingThe Networking track will allow attendees to conduct SLA business, meet similar-minded information professionals, and provide the useful contacts needed to be truly competitive.
Special Events at the Conference
Carnavale de San Antonio
Sunday, June 10, 2001
4:00 pm -6:00 pm
Come Celebrate with the Texas Chapter Hosts and our friends at Factiva, a Dow Jones & Reuters Company!
The gracious hosts of the Texas Chapter of SLA and Factiva, a Dow Jones & Reuters Company most cordially invite you to Carnavale de San Antonio! Make sure you start off your 2001 Annual Conference experience with your best foot forward. Meet your friends, greet your colleagues and get a sneak preview of the 2001 INFO-EXPO: SLA Information Partnersthe SLA exhibit hall. Join us for this colorful and festive occasion, complete with great Southwestern specialties to tempt your palate and be entertained by San Antonio's beautifully costumed carnaval dancers to set your toes tapping and swaying through the exhibit aisles! Come and enjoy the rich, multi-cultural beauty of San Antonio in a carnavale atmosphere.
SLA is proud to introduce our new exhibit hallINFO-EXPO: SLA Information Partners! This is your first opportunity to view the dazzling array of exhibits featuring products and services that are sure to captivate your interest and fit your budget.
Where: Park View and Tower View Concourses
Convention Center
When: 4:00-6:00pm
Sunday, June 10, 2001
RSVP: Tickets are free but you must let us know that you are coming. All registered conference attendees are invited. Register for this event by checking the appropriate box on the SLA registration form to reserve your place at Carnavale! Don't miss it!
President's Reception
Sunday, June 10, 2001
7:00 pm -9:00 pm
A Little Bit of Texas...A Little Bit of Mexico...A Whole Lot of Fun...
You are cordially invited to join Special Libraries Association President Donna Scheeder at SLA's Sixth President's Reception at historic La Villita, located on the Riverwalk. You will be transported south to enjoy an evening presenting both sides of the border, a night destined to become a fond memory of San Antonio. The strumming guitars of an authentic mariachi troupe and the boot-scootin' beat of the Jody Jenkins country and western band will take you there. Pinatas, bright colors, rebozos, tamale carts, the aroma of food grilled over an open pit, a gentle evening breeze and the plazas of picturesque La Villita invite you to enjoy a Mexican-style fiesta and real Texas barbecue. Don't miss this opportunity to have fun in high San Antonio style, hobnob with SLA leaders, network with your fellow members, and help to raise funds for SLA's international development projects. $75.00 per person.
General Session
Monday, June 11, 2001
9:00 am -10:15 am
Molly Ivins, Columnist, Writer
Oh, Yes, She Can Say That and She Will!
"Molly Ivins can't say that, can she?" typifies the reader response to the strong and down-to-earth columns of Molly Ivins. A political columnist for the Fort Worth Star Telegram, Ivins has been syndicated in over 200 newspapers from Alaska to Florida. Born in Monterey, California, as Mary Tyler Ivins but raised Texan, Ivins takes the political scene and delivers it to the masses southern fried.
Ivins ventured into the world of journalism when she took a job in the complaint department at the Houston Chronicle. From there, Ivins moved on to the Minneapolis Tribune, where she received one of her two greatest honors in having the police force mascot pig named after her. After working on the police beat, Ivins moved to a section of the Tribune called "Movements for Social Change."
Molly Ivins began her journey into the political commentator arena when she decided to combine her two main interests: writing and politics. In 1970, Ivins returned to Texas as co-editor of The Texas Observer, a magazine examining the dynamic politics of the "Lone Star State." She moved on to the The New York Times in 1976, dishing out political commentary. She eventually became the Rocky Mountain Bureau Chief covering nine mountain states for
the Times. By the early '80s it was time for her to return to her native state, where she worked for the Dallas Times Herald and later the Fort Worth Star Telegram.
Always having a flare for digging down to the bone of the matter, Ivins began to publish books as well as her weekly columns in the 1990s. Molly Ivins Can't Say That, Can She? (1992) ran more than 12 months on the New York Times Bestseller list. She followed that success with Nothin' but Good Times Ahead in 1994. The Clinton Administration and President George W. Bush have been topics of her latest novels, You got to Dance with Them What Brung You: Politics in the Clinton Years and Shrub: The Short but Happy Political Life of George W. Bush.
A three-time Pulitzer Prize nominee and Outstanding Alumna of Columbia University, where she received her Masters in Journalism, Molly Ivins shares her political passion and analysis with the zesty spice of humor. Was it that spicy humor that got her the second of her two greatest honorsbanned from the Texas A&M campus? Perhaps, but it makes for a very flavorful dish.
Boot Scootin' Through the Exhibit Hall
No-Conflict Time
Tuesday, June 12, 2001
10:15 am -12:00 pm
Come join us for a good time! Tap your foot, sway through the aisles and do-si-do with the exhibitors. The 2001 San Antonio no-conflict time to visit the exhibitors is brought to you by SilverPlatter. All program activity has been suspended for this special time period. Come to the exhibit hall, enjoy an energy break provided by SilverPlatter and visit the new INFO-EXPO and learn what is new from our information partners.
SLAs Annual Business Meeting
and Closing General Session
Wednesday, June 13, 2001
9:00 am - 11:00 am
This is your opportunity to experience SLA in action and to be a part of it! SLA President Donna Scheeder will preside over the meeting, where a report of the previous years activities will take place and the newlyelected members of the SLA Board of Directors will be installed.
Keynote Address by Dave Barry
The meeting continues with the Closing General Session Keynote Address by Dave Barry, the wellknown American writer and Pulitzer Prizewinning columnist for the Miami Herald. Barry is an accomplished author, whose books were the basis for the CBS Television show, Daves World. His unique wit and ability to capture the humor in just about everything are sure to make this event a wonderful ending to the Annual Conferences major sessions.
Closing Gala
Wednesday, June 13, 2001
7:00 pm -10:00 pm
"A Wonderful Night"
An information professional as wonderful as you deserves a night like this! After a conference chock-full of learning, debate, discussion, and collaboration, you deserve to celebrate. After all, we'll be in San Antonio, a festive city full of great fun and beautiful scenery.
Join SLA dignitaries, award winners, and supporters in the heart of San Antoniothe Riverwalkfor an evening of dinner and music to celebrate the spirit of the information profession. Outgoing SLA President Donna Scheeder will be your host for the event, where the leaders of the profession will be honored and SLA will celebrate the ties that bind us. The Closing Gala will be held in the at the Marriott Riverwalk Hotel, one of the host hotels for the Annual Conference. A cash bar reception will take place, followed by dinner.
SLA's Hot Topic Program
SLA is pleased to announce the third year of this program concept for the 2001 San Antonio Annual Conference. SLA will conduct a series of conference wide programs that address issues and concerns of major importance to the information profession, or segment(s) thereof. Topics covered in these sessions will be current issues not addressed by traditional division programming. Please check the SLA web site, 2001 San Antonio Annual Conference for more details. Sponsored by INMAGIC, Inc.
What's New this Year?
SLA Association Series
This is a second year of this concept at the SLA annual conference. SLA, in cooperation with individual SLA units, will conduct a series of conference-wide programs that address issues and concerns of major importance to the association, or segment(s) thereof.
Strategic Technology Alliance Series
The Strategic Technology Alliance series is a joint effort of SLA and the meeting exhibitors, aimed at helping association members and meeting attendees better understand technology and its beneficial impact on their profession and places of employment. Meeting attendees will learn from technology experts as they demonstrate a strategic and interactive look at trends and technologies designed to make information professionals the knowledge leaders for the new millennium. The object of this series is to present a selection of programming sessions during conference week that focus on current as well as advanced uses of technology in the information community. These sessions will focus on not just what is available in state-of-the-art practices used by information professionals in current day-to-day operations, but what the future may hold. All sessions are designed to be informative and not sales presentations.
The Personal Scheduler
Get up-to-date information on the 2001 San Antonio Annual Conference with our online, user-friendly database!
Search the online conference database (www.sla.org, Events and Conferences Section):
· By event use an alphabetical list or the new full text search feature
· By track Search by the suggested audience for each event
· By times Select times and choose from a grid of times and dates
· By SLA Units Search by SLA Units
· By Presenter, Sponsor, or Ticketed Event
· Or, select all to display a list of all events
Other features include:
· Creating a personal itinerary
· Adding and removing events
· Choosing from events with conflicting times
· Scheduling personal time
· Printing your schedule
SLA's Virtual Exhibit Hall
The SLA Virtual Exhibit Hall is our recent addition to the products and services available in our virtual association. The Virtual Exhibit Hall is a virtual association service by the SLA that allows attendees to view products and services of annual conference exhibiting companies all day long and year around. Conference attendees are urged to use the site to pre-plan their activities, browse through the events, and catch up on exhibitor information.
New Features
* Print your own map of exhibit floor
* Make your own personal exhibitor list
CE Courses and Workshops
SLA's Strategic Learning and Development Center is pleased to be able to present more than forty CE courses and workshops during SLA's 92nd Annual Conference in San Antonio, TX. On June 9, 10 and 14, beat the heat and stay indoors to experience a specialized course/workshop sponsored by a division or one of SLA's CE course offerings.
Here's a little peak at some of the course/workshop titles:
· DBF CE Course: Skills for the Knowledge Economy
· DLMD CE Course: Positioning for Success: Building Business Plans
· DMRM CE Workshop: Valuing and Justifying Information Services
· SLA CE Course: Making Successful ChangeRx for Success
· SLA CE Course: The Information Audit as a First Step Toward Effective Knowledge Management
· SLA CE Workshop: Not Just Search Engines: Searching Faster and Smarter on the Web
A complete list of the Division sponsored and SLA sponsored CE course offerings can be found in the 2001 Strategic Learning Guide or on our website. Be sure to get your copy of the Guide!
Management Development Institute (MDI)
If you're ready to embrace your future, then perhaps you'll want to consider attending SLA's Management Development Institute (MDI). This executive level learning experience will run concurrently with SLA's 2001 Annual Conference from June 9-14, 2001 at the Plaza San Antonio Hotel. The learning experience is sponsored by The Dialog Corporation.
Successfully managing the future of the corporate library or information center depends on an ingenious blend of insight and foresight. While the challenges are deep, the opportunities for growth are rich. Still, the big issues remain: identifying, meeting and exceeding needs, creating value and building loyalty. How do youthe library or information center managerchart a course to the future that, at once, is consistent with the strategic direction of the organization and yet able to drive you to new heights of innovation and value creation?
Join SLA's Strategic Learning and Development Center for a truly unparalleled learning experience, offering you the rare opportunity to broaden your thinking about your information center's place in the organization and to connect new ideas and concepts to a real-world situation. Intrigued? Good. Maybe you should be a part of MDI 2001...To learn more about MDI 2001, please visit our website at www.sla-learning.org/mdi2001.
Don't Miss the Exciting Exhibit Hall
SLA now has a new name and a new identity for the exhibitors at the Annual Meeting 2001 in San Antonio: INFO-EXPO: SLA Information Partners! Starting this year, the name INFO-EXPO: SLA Information Partners will be the new way to refer to the exhibitors and their exhibits participating in the Annual Conference. Please help us to usher in a new era of exhibiting. Use this new name when referring to SLA's exhibitors and exhibits and look for this brand name on future exhibitor information. INFO-EXPO: SLA Information Partners is an exciting new concept and identity for the exhibitors. Join us in incorporating the name INFOEXPO: Information Partners in your minds and rolodexes as a new tradition in exhibiting.
This year at SLA's annual conference in San Antonio, more than 300 companies and organizations will be exhibiting, representing 500 booths. These exhibits feature the latest and most up-to-date resources available on the market today. Join SLA President Donna Scheeder and SLA Executive Director David R. Bender and a representative from Factiva, a Dow Jones & Reuters Company on Sunday, June 10 for the Carnavale de San Antonio, a "sneak preview" of the exhibit hall.
Exhibit hall hours are as follows:
Sunday, June 10, 4:00 pm6:00 pm
(Carnavale de San Antonio)
Monday, June 11, 10:30 am6:00 pm
Tuesday, June 12, 10:00 am6:00 pm
Wednesday, June 13, 11:00 am2:00 pm
Don't Forget the SLA Marketplace
The Marketplace is your one-stop location for SLA merchandise, products, event information, and conference assistance. You can learn more about SLA's "Members Only" web services, update your member records, or share your thoughts with our staff. Sponsored by Dialog. Hours for the SLA Marketplace are as follows:
SLA Marketplace hours:
Friday, June 8, 1:00 pm 5:00 pm
Saturday, June 9, 7:30 am 5:30 pm
Sunday, June 10, 7:30 am6:00 pm
Monday, June 11, 7:00 am6:00 pm
Tuesday, June 12, 7:30 am6:00 pm
Wednesday, June 13, 7:30 am5:00 pm
About San Antonio, Your Host City
Now the eighth largest city in the United States, San Antonio has retained its sense of history and tradition while carefully blending in cosmopolitan progress. The city has always been a crossroads and a meeting place. Flavors and sounds of Native Americans, Old Mexico, The Republic of Texas, Germans, the Wild West, African Americans and the Deep South mingle and merge.
Native Americans first lived along the San Antonio River, calling the area "Yanaguana," which means "refreshing waters" or "clear waters." A band of Spanish explorers and missionaries came upon the river in 1691, and because it was the feast day of St. Anthony, they named the river "San Antonio." The actual founding of the city came in 1718 by Father Antonio Olivares when he established Mission San Antonio de Valero, which became permanently etched in the annals of history in 1836 as The Alamo, where 189 defenders held the old mission against some 4,000 Mexican troops for 13 days. The cry "Remember the Alamo" became the rallying point of the Texan revolution against México. Located in the heart of downtown, today The Alamo is a shrine and museum.
With more than 300 days of sunshine annually and an average temperature of 68.8 degrees Fahrenheit, visitors to San Antonio will find an abundance of outdoor sports and recreation to challenge them.
Attractions in Downtown San Antonio
A tour of downtown San Antonio will uncover literally centuries of history.
La Villita, one of the original settlements which was composed of Spanish soldiers and their families; the Spanish Governor's Palace, which was the seat of government when San Antonio was the capital of the Spanish Province of Texas; San Fernando Cathedral, whose construction was started in 1731 by Canary Islanders; the Jose Antonio Navarro State Historical Park, home of Navarro, a central figure in the formation of Texas; Market Square, the largest Mexican marketplace outside of México; and the Steves Homestead, a mansion open to the public in the King William Historic District, a gracious residential section settled by prosperous German businessmen in the late 1800's.
The River Walk
For many visitors, Pure San Antonio is the Paseo del Río, an urban masterpiece. Better known as the "River Walk," these cobblestone and flagstone paths border both sides of the San Antonio River, 20 feet below street level, as it winds its way through the middle of the business district. The River Walk has multiple personalitiesquiet and park-like in some stretches, while other areas are full of activity with European-style sidewalk cafes, specialty boutiques, art galleries, nightclubs, and gleaming high-rise hotels. Stretching for approximately 2 miles from the Municipal Auditorium and Conference Center on the north end to the King William Historic District on the south, the River Walk designs were mainly the work of the late Robert H. H. Hugman, a landscape architect.
Tours
Yanaguana Cruises, the river's floating transportation system, provides a novel method of sightseeing and people-watching in downtown San Antonio. Groups can also dine aboard open-air, candle lit cruisers as they wind their way along the scenic waterway. River taxis deliver visitors to Rivercenter, a dazzling three-level, glass shopping, dining and entertainment complex, and to the Henry B. Gonzalez Convention Center.
Shopping
No matter what country visitors originate from, shopping is an international favorite. And San Antonio is truly a shopper's paradise. Antique shops abound in the central city and in charming towns on the outskirts of the city. Art galleries cover a wide spectrum of artistic achievement from contemporary to western to Latin American folk art. Ten major shopping malls dot the city, and three major outlet malls are within an hour's drive of downtown. And no serious shopper would miss La Villita, Market Square, and the River Walk in the historic heart of the city!
Dining
Dining options in San Antonio run the gamut from fine French cuisine to Chinese to Texas steaks and barbecue to soul food and Cajun, but Pure San Antonio is Tex-Mex. Tex-Mex is a passion with local residents of all ethnic backgrounds, and numerous restaurants are open 24 hours in case a craving for guacamole or fajitas develops at 3:00 a.m. A glossary of terms to familiarize yourself with before hitting the San Antonio dining scene: queso flameado, carne asada, chili relleno, menudo, enchiladas, chalupas and sopapillas. Did you know that chili was first sold in the open-air markets of San Antonio by women known as 'chili queens '?
Entertainment
When the sun sets in the west and the stars come out over the South Texas plains, it's time to head to the nightclubs and dance halls. Pure San Antonio is two-stepping to a country-western tune or swaying to a Tejano super group or a local conjunto band. Or maybe it's traditional jazz or a sing-along at an Irish pub or piano bar? What about Hard Rock Café or Planet Hollywood on the River Walk? San Antonio offers a wide range of entertainment options when the sun goes down.
Sports
Visitors to San Antonio also have a wide variety of spectator sports to choose from. The San Antonio Spurs of the NBA call the Alamodome home. The San Antonio Iguanas of the Central Hockey League play at the Joe and Harry Freeman Coliseum, while the San Antonio Missions play at Nelson W. Wolff Municipal Baseball Stadium. Live action-packed thoroughbred and quarter horse racing seasons are presented at Retama Park from May through November, with televised simulcast races from the best tracks in the country every day of the year.
Want to Know More?
Visit the SLA web site at: http://www.sla.org Click on Annual Conference Texas Site. Our hosts have put together a great portal to the city of San Antonio, Texas, USA, for conference attendees. There, one will learn more about the city and its many attractions. You will also find instructions to subscribe to the discussion list set up by our hosts to help everyone anser those questions not available elsewhere. So join us on the discussion list, make your plans, and pack your bags. THE place to be is San Antonio, Texas. USA from June 9-14, 2001. Don't miss out! 
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