Management Guru and Pulitzer Prize Winner to be Featured At SLA's Conference
The Special Libraries Association (SLA) has confirmed that Peter Drucker and Doris Kearns Goodwin will be the featured speakers at SLA's 93rd Annual Conference, June 8-13, 2002 in Los Angeles, California, USA. Known as the father of management science, Drucker is a global management guru whose advice and expertise is sought out by CEO's from around the world, including Jack Welch and Andy Grove. At age 91, he maintains a busy schedule by teaching, consulting, writing, and doing speaking engagements. Kearns Goodwin is a Pulitzer Prize winner and best-selling author who has written numerous books and articles on everything from politics to baseball for leading national publications. She is also a regular panelist on PBS's The News Hour with Jim Lehrer and a frequent commentator on NBC and MSNBC.
Shaffer Joins GPO Council
Roberta Shaffer, SLA's executive director, recently joined the Depository Library Council to the public printer. Shaffer, who is one of 14 council members, began her three-year term in October.
The Council advises the Government Printing Office (GPO) on issues related to public access to Government Information products through the Federal Depository Library Program (FDLP). The FDLP is a nationwide system comprising more than 1,300 libraries acting in partnership with the GPO to provide the general public with local access to federal government information products at no cost.
Administered by GPO, the FDLP is a nationwide geographically dispersed system comprising more than 1,300 libraries acting in partnership with the GPO to provide the general public with local access to federal government information products at no cost.
Shaffer Appears in Los Angeles Times Article
SLA Executive Director Roberta Shaffer was featured prominently in a recent Los Angeles Times article about the diversity of objects people can find in libraries.
The article was spawned by an exhibit called The World From Here: Treasures of the Great Los Angeles Libraries by Bruce Whiteman, the head librarian at UCLA's William Andrews Clark Memorial Library.
In the article, Shaffer comments about the transition of artifacts from private libraries to public libraries and the number of special libraries in the United States.
Founding Member of PAM Passes Away
Joyce Watson, a member of the Physics-Astronomy-Math Division, recently died of cancer.
Watson worked at the Center for Astrophysics, a joint project between Harvard University and the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory, from 1969 until 1991. After this, she worked with SIMBAD and the Astrophysics Data System until her retirement in January 1997.
Watson was trained in library science in England, where she started in government documents control and became head librarian for two engineering companies. After coming to the United States and taking a child-raising break, she started and operated a small research library at Lowell Technological Institute. She joined SAO in December 1969. In 1976 she took her first course in online database searching at the University of
Pittsburgh and was hooked. Soon thereafter, she brought online literature searching to the Observatory. In 1986 she learned about SIMBAD just when the Centre de Données Astronomiques de Strasbourg in France was eager to expand the usage of their object- based database. In the earliest days of SIMBAD, Watson did all the searching with a 300-1200 baud modem, a telephone with an overseas service contract, and a line printer. Watson was also involved in the early days of the Astrophysics Data System.
Joyce was also a member of the AAS and the Astronomical Society of the Pacific.
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