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Information Today
December 14, 2009 |
SLA Is Still SLA; Membership Votes No on Name Change Special Libraries Association members failed to approve a proposal to change the organization's name to the Association for Strategic Knowledge Professionals.   |
Information Today
October 26, 2009
Cindy Shamel |
SLA Name Change: Can the Name Convey the Value? Last week, Special Libraries Association leadership announced that members will soon vote on a new name. |
Searcher
Jul/Aug 2010 |
Correspondence Letters from SLA's CEO and a Searcher-reading SLA member about a recent article and Searcher's Voice column, respectively, on matters concerning the Special Libraries Association. |
Information Today
July 21, 2015
Marydee Ojala |
Voting on the Future of SLA At a special meeting on July 14, 2015, the Special Libraries Association board of directors voted to receive the revised version of the consultants' "Recommendations Report" |
Information Today
June 16, 2003
Paula J. Hane |
Special Libraries Association Keeps Its Name Following 3 years of research, heated discussions, and brand name debates, the members of the Special Libraries Association voted to retain the organization's nearly 100-year-old name. |
Information Today
May 31, 2005
Maydee Ojala |
If SLA is in Toronto, Can the Bloggers Be Far Behind? The Live from Toronto blog will cover as many aspects of the SLA (Special Libraries Association) conference as the bloggers can handle, including association business meetings, conference sessions, the exhibit floor, and social events. |
ONLINE
Sep/Oct 2003
Marydee Ojala |
What's in a Name? The vote was to remain as Special Libraries Association. For some, this was nothing less than an identity crisis. Was this an association for librarians or not? |
Information Today
November 8, 2004
Marydee Ojala |
SLA Drops Two Organizational Memberships The SLA's (Special Libraries Association) decision to stop paying dues to NISO (National Information Standards Organization) and to CNI (Coalition for Networked Information) has members outraged. |
Information Today
April 2, 2007 |
SLA's Click University Offers Free ebrary Titles to Members SLA members can now have free unrestricted access to nearly 1,000 electronic business titles through ebrary. |
Information Today
June 30, 2015
Marydee Ojala |
The Future of SLA: A Strategic Framework and Recommendations for Moving Forward This is a crucial time for the Special Libraries Association. Founded in 1909 by John Cotton Dana, SLA is in the midst of an identity crisis. |
Searcher
February 2010
Barbara Quint |
Searcher's Voice - Homecoming What drove me into severing my long membership with the Special Libraries Association was its decision to launch its second century by joining the opposition to Google Books. |
Information Today
August 27, 2009 |
SLA Forms New Professional Interest Group for Taxonomy Professionals The Taxonomy Division of the Special Libraries Association will provide information professionals interested in these topics a focused professional home base within SLA. |
ONLINE
Nov./Dec. 2006
Marydee Ojala |
The HomePage - Perspectives, Perceptions, and Periscopes Librarians share the same perspective when naming their type of library. Perceptions of libraries, however, differ, depending on perspective. |
Searcher
March 2011
Matarazzo & Pearlstein |
Survival Lessons for Libraries: Educating Special Librarians -- "The Past Is Prologue" When we began writing this series of articles addressing survival lessons for special libraries, we had more questions than answers; this is still the case. |
D-Lib
December 1999 |
Editorial As publications become available both online and in print, some groups of users find that they prefer the online versions. But in relinquishing the tradition of print journals, libraries require more than a few assurances from the publisher on whom they must depend... |
Searcher
August 2002
Rebecca T. Lenzini |
The Graying of the Library Profession A survey of our professional association and their responses. |
Information Today
June 16, 2008
Paula J. Hane |
SLA Meets in the Emerald City Special Libraries Association Conference theme, Breaking Rules, Building Bridges. describes what info pros must do to be successful in the rapidly changing world of information -- embrace change and build networks. |
Information Today
July 21, 2008
Barbara Quint |
Voters and Public Library Funding: An OCLC Market Research Report Public libraries are in trouble. Costs and demands for their services continue to rise, while revenue and support for maintaining, much less increasing, financial support continue to sink. |
D-Lib
January 2000
Bonita Wilson |
Editorial Stepping back to look at the purpose of digital libraries. |
Searcher
August 2002
Cynthia L. Shamel |
Building a Brand: Got Librarian? Librarians need to do a better job of getting their message out (and conveying a sense of their usefulness) to the business community at large. |
Information Today
April 17, 2008 |
ALA Releases `The State of America's Libraries' Report Libraries of all kinds continue to be "engines of learning, literacy, and economic development in communities nationwide." |
Information Today
November 5, 2012
Cindy Shamel |
Internet Librarians--The Power to Transform Libraries The 16th annual Internet Librarian conference recently concluded in Monterey, California. More than 1,000 registrants and 215 speakers tackled the topic of the Transformational Power of Internet Librarians |
Searcher
December 2009
Barbara Quint |
Searcher's Voice - Too Close for Comfort It's not just tough times that imperil traditional libraries. The economic crisis is speeding up the cascade of technological and societal tipping points, but those tipping points would happen regardless of the economy. |
ONLINE
Nov/Dec 2003
George R. Plosker |
The Information Industry Revolution: Implications for Librarians Does the word "library" adequately convey the utility and value of what librarians, and in this case, corporate or special librarians, contribute to their organizations? |
Searcher
October 2003
Marylaine Block |
How Librarians Can Manage the Unintended Consequences of the Internet The unrestrained freedom of the Net has caused conservative organizations and staid, sober lawmakers to view libraries as pornography parlors and librarians as corrupters of youth. As a result, librarians have borne the brunt of an astonishing amount of ill-advised and unconstitutional legislation. |
Information Today
Marydee Ojala |
Live From Nashville: Blogging SLA The Live from Nashville Special Libraries Association blog will cover as many aspects of the conference as the bloggers can handle. That would include association business meetings, conference sessions, the exhibit floor, and social events. |
D-Lib
September 2000 |
To the Editor Letters received in response to the story, Automated Digital Libraries: How Effectively Can Computers Be Used for the Skilled Tasks of Professional Librarianship? |
Searcher
February 2004
Barbara Quint |
The Great Divide A combination of forces is putting pressure on the information profession. Oddly enough, one of the pressure points is librarians themselves. |
Information Today
October 2, 2008 |
EPA Reopens Regional and Headquarters Libraries The re-opening of regional libraries in Chicago, Dallas and Kansas City and the library at Headquarters will help the Agency better share information. |
D-Lib
September 2006
Choi & Rasmussen |
What Is Needed to Educate Future Digital Librarians: A Study of Current Practice and Staffing Patterns in Academic and Research Libraries Digital libraries are the future of academic and research institutions, and digital professionals will be required to have more breadth and depth of knowledge and skills across the dimensions of traditional library knowledge, technology, and human relations. |
Information Today
June 2009
Dick Kaser |
Editorial: Bridging the Past The Special Libraries Association is "celebrating 100 years of learning, sharing and promoting the value of information" this month. |
Searcher
August 2001 |
Searcher Correspondence Multiple reactions to the denunciation of Double-Fold... more free magazines online at MagPortal... linking to SLA and Carol Tenopir... |
Information Today
November 14, 2005
Forest Woody Horton, Jr. |
Libraries--The Information Society in Action Several hot-button issues emerged from the WSIS pre-conference. |
Information Today
April 15, 2014
Barbie E. Keiser |
National Library Week 2014: Lives Change @ Your Library The United States has celebrated National Library Week during the second week of April (aka School Library Month) since 1958. This year, it's being celebrated April 13-19, with author Judy Blume serving as honorary chair. |
ONLINE
May/Jun 2009
Cybele Elaine Werts |
Conference Swag, Goodies, Tchotchkes, and Collateral Materials: Marketing Information, Services, and Products Companies exhibiting at SLA invest in giveaways to effectively market their products. Does it work? |
Information Today
December 22, 2003
Susanne Bjorner |
Lights Come Down on the Longest Running Online Show in New York Information Today, Inc. (ITI), producer for the past 24 years of the National Online Meeting in New York City each May, announced that it is skipping the industry-wide conference in 2004 and will return in 2005 with a "reinvented" event that will bring in "the new breed of information buyers." |
D-Lib
January 2000
David M. Levy |
Digital Libraries and the Problem of Purpose Which way ought we to go in digital library research and development?...I'll start by reviewing the problem of purpose in American public libraries and American academic/research libraries before turning to digital libraries... |
Information Today
April 4, 2011
Paula J. Hane |
Library Ebook Lending Under Attack The options libraries have are poor and our customers are frustrated. There are numerous restrictions on lending, device incompatibilities, proprietary systems, interface issues, privacy issues, and more. |
Information Today
January 10, 2005 |
Weekly News Digest Info Pros Join Tsunami Relief Effort... Tsunami Lecture Available Through Supercourse... PLoS Announces New Community OA Journals... |
D-Lib
June 2000
Diane Nester Kresh |
Offering High Quality Reference Service on the Web Today's researchers need to find quickly information that is usable, relevant, authoritative and verifiable. To meet that need, libraries must adapt our traditional strengths of acquiring, describing, and serving information to an environment that is not bound by time or physical place... |
Searcher
August 2008
Barbara Quint |
Searcher's Voice - The Winds of Change New technological innovations make it easier for librarians to take charge of data dissemination, but first they need to learn a few computing skills. |
Searcher
June 2010 |
The Care and Feeding of Vendors How can we info pros working for clients, especially those of us working in libraries with still influential budgets, push, prod, coax, urge, nudge, nag, coerce, lure, whatever, our vendor partners toward the light? |
InternetNews
January 14, 2011 |
Google Looks to Prove It's Rock-Solid on the Cloud Google claims its Service Level Agreement for Google Apps is an 'Industry First. |
Searcher
April 2006
Barbara Quint |
Searcher's Voice - What's Happening?!? Librarians need to make sure that everyone knows, wherever they live or work, that if you need to know anything, anything at all, you start with your librarian. |
T.H.E. Journal
March 25, 2010
Natasha Wanchek |
Library 2.0: Enter the Teacher Librarian Enthusiast Technology is changing the role of libraries - and the responsibilities of librarians - at schools internationally. |
Searcher
March 2008
Barbara Quint |
Searcher's Voice - Hey, OCLC! Got a Minute? The greatest reaction to the Working Group's report on bibliographic control is that the Library of Congress might have better things to do with its resources than serve as the primary cataloger for the libraries of the world. |
Information Today
September 2000
Barbara Quint |
Qunit's Online: Recruiting a Corporate Dream Team The advantages of hiring a librarian and how to go about it. |
