Conference Sessions
Wednesday, June 12, 2002
Wednesday, June 12, 2002
7:00 am - 8:30 am
SLA Unit Business Breakfast Meetings
Please check our Ticketed Events Index, our Conference Planner at http://LosAngeles.sla.org, or the appropriate unit Website for more information on the many business breakfast meetings hosted by our SLA units.
7:00 am - 8:30 am
Invisible, but not Buried...
Buried but not Invisible - Internet Energy
Resources 
The Internet is a vast and dynamic information resource that requires specific techniques and tools to find information. Let's put on our Sherlock Holmes Deerstalker and look beyond the search engines for Internet Energy Information Resources. This interactive session will challenge you to think "outside the librarian's box."
Speaker(s): William Crowley, Competitive Analysis Technologies
7:00 am - 8:30 am
September 11 Roundtable
(The specific focus of this session is not yet determined.)
Moderator: Melinda Carlson, Manager, ABC News Research Center
7:00 am - 5:00 pm
SLA Tech Zone Sessions
Our popular series is back with new opportunities to learn how to use current technologies. Please check the Ticketed Events Index, our conference planner at http://LosAngeles.sla.org, or the appropriate unit Website for more information.
9:00 am - 11:30 am
SLA Closing General Session
and Annual Business Meeting with Doris Kearns Goodwin 
See page 9 for more information.
12:00 pm - 1:30 pm
SLA Unit Business Luncheon Meetings
Please check our Ticketed Events Index, our conference planner at http://LosAngeles.sla.org, or the appropriate unit Website for more information on the many business luncheon meetings hosted by our SLA units.
12:00 pm - 1:30 pm
Astronomy Round Table I
This session will feature a discussion of astronomy-related topics.
12:00 pm - 1:30 pm
Enhancing Your Employment Prospects and Navigating Organizational Change
Building and adapting skills to enhance marketability are crucial in today's uncertain employment market. Learn fresh approaches to cover letters, resume writing, interviewing, cultivating job advancement skills, and how to position yourself and your staff when facing a downsizing or merger.
Speaker(s): Sarah Warner, Wontawk, Inc.; Laura Speer, Swidler Berlin Shereff Friedman, LLP
12:00 pm - 1:30 pm
International Networks -
People and Digital 
As websites proliferate, methods of organizing them for efficient and productive retrieval becomes more important than ever. This session will describe a number of initiatives in website indexing, metadata and terminology development, and how they support forestry and the biological and agriculture sciences.
Speaker(s): Roger Mills
12:00 pm - 1:30 pm
Genomics, Proteomics, and Sequence
Databases
Secrets learned through the study of the genome and proteome are transforming biochemistry, medicine, and related scientific disciplines. Join us as a molecular biologist explores the science of sequences and sequence information. Two librarians will then introduce and discuss the major sequence information resources available for free over the web.
Speaker(s): Michele Tennant, University of Florida; Michael Miyamoto, University of Florida
12:00 pm - 1:30 pm
IFLA in Boston
Come and hear highlights of geography and map sessions at the 2001 IFLA meeting in Boston.
Speaker(s): David McQuillan, University of South Carolina
12:00 pm - 1:30 pm
Information Literacy
The ability to identify information needs, manage, and utilize information is of increasing importance to our clientele. The need for information literacy creates an outreach opportunity for information professionals to become role models for their clients. Participants in this program will learn methods for developing effective client-centered instruction programs.
Speaker(s): Mary Fraser, Michigan State University
12:00 pm - 1:30 pm
Information Services for Strategic Alliances
The State Department's overseas network of information resource centers (IRCs) has a very real impact on how the US is perceived abroad. This session will focus on recent current events and the roles that information professionals have in promoting greater awareness and understanding of US policies.
Speaker(s): Cynthia Borys, Regional Program Office, US Embassy of Vienna, Austria; Jansna Kunic, US Embassy of Belgrade, Yugoslavia
12:00 pm - 1:30 pm
National Library of
Education Update
The Education Division has an ongoing partnership with the National Library of Education. This year, the Director of the NLE, Sheila McGarr, will discuss what's going on with budget, reauthorization, directions from the new assistant secretary, and implications from the Education Bill.
Speaker(s): Arthur Cohen, University of California, Los Angeles; Shannon Loane, ERIC Clearinghouse on Higher Education; Sheila McGarr, National Library of Education; Pauline Lynch Shostack, ERIC Clearinghouse on Information and Technology;
12:00 pm - 1:30 pm
Now Playing: Automating
the Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences Margaret
Herrick Library
Best known for bestowing the Oscars, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS) funds the Margaret Herrick Library. In 2001 the library purchased an integrated library system, which required an examination of it's special collections of posters, clipping files, and as well as library standards, practices, and staff responsibilities.
Speaker(s): Vionnette Dover Sellers, Information Systems Coordinator, Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences; Anne Coco, Graphic Arts Librarian, Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences
12:00 pm - 1:30 pm
Platforms of Access:
Integrating Pipeline Data into Business Processes
Sources of drug pipeline information are available from traditional online vendors as well as via producer-specific platforms. Some pharmaceutical companies have also loaded this data internally. Join us for a discussion regarding the relative merits of different platforms of delivery as well as knowledge management initiatives in this arena.
Speaker(s): Sylvia Savage, Ovid Technologies, Inc.; Ann Wescott, Prous Science; Stephen Highcock, Bristol-Myers Squibb Co.
12:00 pm - 1:30 pm
Real Estate Lending Roundtable: What's Hot and What's Not
Join us for a panel discussion to learn tricks and tools of academe, press, and practioner for spotting and evaluating trends and information sources in the real estate industry.
Moderator: Kit Harahan, America's Community Bankers
12:00 pm - 1:30 pm
Shepherding a Knowledge Initiative through
the Enterprise 
Learn how to successfully guide a knowledge initiative through an internal corporate planning process. This session will provide step-by-step guidance to define the initiative, set project goals, assess technology needs, establish timelines and explore internal and external resources and capabilities.
Speaker(s): Denise Dodd, Competitive Intelligence, Independence Blue Cross
12:00 pm - 1:30 pm
Speech by Barbara Quint 
The incomparable Barbara Quint, editor of Searcher magazine, will speak remotely via teleconference software. Topic to be announced.
Moderator: Carolyn Edds, IRE
12:00 pm - 1:30 pm
What Do You Need Where?
Moderator: John Ganly, New York Public Library
12:00 pm - 1:30 pm
You Can Search What You
Can't See - College and University Libraries
Roundtable
This session features Gary "Yes, I Do Sleep Sometimes" Price's Guide to the Invisible Web Tips, techniques, the latest search engine news, the latest and greatest "invisible" (and visible) websites for business.
Speaker: Gary Price, Information Consultant
2:00 pm - 3:30 pm
Agricultural Update
New initiatives and current issues of the National Agricultural Library, the Canadian Agricultural Library, the Food and Agriculture Organization of the UN, the US Agricultural Information Network, and AgNIC will be featured.
2:00 pm - 3:30 pm
Astronomy Round Table
II
This session continues the discussion of astronomy-related topics.
2:00 pm - 3:30 pm
Building Bridges
This seminar will cover how to foster cooperation among libraries around the globe. The issues to be discussed will range from lending assistance to understanding other perspectives to initiatives underway in different parts of the world.
Speaker(s): Kevin Adams, Institute of Environmental Science and Research; Sue Johnson
2:00 pm - 3:30 pm
Digitization from
Microfilm
Digitization from microfilm is finally becoming a mature technology. We'll look at the ProQuest project for the New York Times and other national papers, and at smaller-scale projects newspapers can do on their own.
Moderator(s): Patti Graziano, Cleveland Plain Dealer
2:00 pm - 3:30 pm
Disaster Mitigation Planning
for Libraries
Disasters can happen anywhere, anytime. Learn techniques for handling culturally significant material in the immediate aftermath of a natural or man-made disaster, including how to persuade your organization to include professional conservation consultants in catastrophe response teams.
Speaker(s): Randy Silverman, University of Utah Marriott Library
2:00 pm - 3:30 pm
Evidence Based Practice: Put
Your Knowledge to Work
Evidence based practice is consistently making professional-level decisions that are based on the strongest evidence of what would work best for our clients. Learn and share the techniques special librarians use to build their knowledge base and make the best decisions.
2:00 pm - 3:30 pm
Government Mapping Update
Recent developments in maps and cartographic materials from the UnitedStates Geological Survey and other government agencies will be presented.
Speaker(s): Vicki Lucas, US Geological Survey
2:00 pm - 3:30 pm
A Guide to Job Finding,
Job Change, and Getting Promoted
The new work environment is a roller-coaster of ever changing demands. The old rules don't apply, so we must invest our new ones. This panel will explore how we deal with constantly redefining ourselves as information professionals and how we redesign information delivery in a chaotic business environment.
2:00 pm - 3:30 pm
Great Work ! Now Change! 
The new work environment is a roller-coaster
of ever changing demands. The old rules don't apply, so we must invent our own new
ones. This panel will explore how we deal with constantly redefining ourselves as information
professionals and how we redesign information delivery in a chaotic business environment.
Speaker(s): Sharon Mosenkis, Information Services Consultant
2:00 pm - 3:30 pm
Innovative Applications for
Digital User Services in Biomedical and Life Sciences
Libraries
With the advent of the web, library users are becoming less tied to the physical library and its traditional hours. Users of information expect digital resources and services to be available at their desktops 24/7. The papers presented at this session will explore how libraries deal with these expectations.
Moderator(s): Laurie Scott, Health Science Information Consortium of Toronto, Michele Tennant, Health Science Center Libraries, University of Florida.
2:00 pm - 3:30 pm
Investment Services Roundtable: Utilizing Washington DC Resources
This presentation will focus on unique data from the US government and other associations in Washington, D.C. Learn what SEC filings contain beyond the basic financials. Hear an SEC representative talk about retention for electronic records. Find out how to use the Freedom of Information Act.
Speaker(s): Jacqueline Lynch, State Street Research
2:00 pm - 3:30 pm
Knowledge Management and
the Power of Storytelling
Using the technique of storytelling to accomplish your library's goals and objectives, get your budget approved and your library noticed. Acclaimed author and speaker, Richard Stone, will explain how to do this. Attendees will leave with practical tips and the knowledge to make this technique work for them.
Speaker(s): Richard Stone
2:00 pm - 3:30 pm
New Paradigms of
Information Access
Panelists will describe new ways of organizing, presenting, and accessing information. Learn how to make technology work for you and your library customers.
Speaker(s): Deanie Snell, The Boeing Company
2:00 pm - 3:30 pm
Outsourcing Services
Review the latest trends and issues.
2:00 pm - 3:30 pm
Patent Research:
Investigation, Prosecution, and Infringement
The patent process begins with investigation on what already exists. Patent prosecution (application) requires prior art research to support the patent documentation. Infringement research is required after the patent has been granted. Discover how to conduct this research in US and international patents databases.
Speaker(s): Bridget MacMillan, LexisNexis; Donald McKenna, Dergosits & Noah LLP
2:00 pm - 3:30 pm
Polymers & Plastics
Roundtable: What Are They? What Do I Need To Know To Find the Information
I Need?
We're surrounded by polymers but what's the best way to find out more information about them? How are they made? What are the different types? How can I find out about their properties? Join us for an opportunity to learn from some specialists and share what you know.
2:00 pm - 3:30 pm
Putting Knowledge to Work:
The Consortium of Foundation
This session will describe the structure of the Consortium of Foundation Libraries (CFL), its geographical evolution, the affiliation process with a non-library professional organization, current CFL projects, and collaborations with other council groups that have developed since the affiliation.
Moderator(s): Suzanne Cole, Pew Charitable Trusts Management
2:00 pm - 3:30 pm
Surviving Systems Migration:
Keep it Simple
Have you struggled with migrating from one library management system to another? Migrating one system to another is inevitable, but libraries must maintain the consistency and integrity of the existing data during migration. Speakers will share practical expertise in systems migration.
Speaker(s): Sandy Spurlock, Lovelace Respiratory Research Institute; Paul Galbraith, Solutia, Inc.; Peter Noerr, Muse Global, Inc.
2:00 pm - 3:30 pm
Sustainable Communities
and Non-motorized Transportation Information
Resources
Sustainable development is increasingly promoted as an antidote to urban sprawl that destroys natural areas and promotes dependence on transportation that depends on fossil fuels. A key component is to create an environment that makes non-motorized transportation viable. Join experts on sustainable development explore information resources that support this trend.
Moderator(s): Mary Ellen Tucker; Linda Vida
2:00 pm - 3:30 pm
The Evolving Global Model: What a Difference a Year Can Make!
AstraZeneca and GlaxoSmithKline are big pharmaceutical players having recently gone through merger mania. At SLA last year we heard about their race to become global players in the information science arena. See how the race is being run as these two companies share their ongoing transformations.
Speaker: Kathleen O'Connell, AstraZeneca R&D
4:00 pm - 5:30 pm
Gumshoe Librarian
The growing power of computers and the expansion of commercial databases have made it quicker, cheaper, and easier to collect information that took their gumshoe predecessors weeks of dogged surveillance and research. Join the experts as they reveal strategies for locating people, public information, and hidden resources on the internet.
Speaker(s): Gary Price; Genie Tyburski, Ballard Spahr Andrews
4:00 pm - 5:30 pm
How to Say No Gracefully
If you're the gal or guy who can't say no, this is the session for you! Learn how to tell people "no" gracefully and with panache. You'll gain control over your time and energy again and people will still like you!
Speaker(s): Amanda Kindall, Deloitte & Touche
4:00 pm - 5:30 pm
LMD Wrap-up Session
Join our distinguished panel of experienced library managers as they share new, exciting, stimulating and useful ideas, products and strategies they have gathered knowledge about at this year's conference. What's hot, what's not, who's predicting what for the future, and more. A most interactive wrap session that is not to be missed!
Speaker(s): Jane Dysart
4:00 pm - 5:30 pm
PDF Archiving
Over the past few years the "Portable Document Format" has become widely used as a way to archive full newspaper pages, potentially as a replacement to microfilm. This session provides a look at the promise, and the pitfalls.
Speaker(s): TBA
4:00 pm - 6:30 pm
Marine and Oceanographic Expedition Collection and Reception at USC Hancock Library
The University of Southern California's Hancock Library houses original documents from early marine expeditions. Speakers will share information about special expeditions sponsored by the Hancock Foundation and the records kept to document the journeys.
Speaker(s): Dorothy Soule, University of Southern CA; Jean Crampon, Hancock Librarian, University of Southern CA
Evening Activities
Join other attendees in celebrating the Los Angeles Conference
at many SLA unit sponsored open houses and receptions. Refer to the Ticketed
Events Index, our Conference Planner at http://losAngeles.sla.org,
or the appropriate unit Website for more details.
Register on-line at http://LosAngeles.sla.org