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International Relations Committee Celebrated Special Librarian First time at the SLA Conference? DC/SLA is Offering a Conference Buddy Program, and More Tips Below! It Retooling Your Skills For Today SLA/DC Members Help Deliver Literacy Program for Children in Zambia REGISTER NOW! Finding Your Inner Nancy Drew……Public Records Research Online REGISTER TODAY! Importance of Communities: Influencing Change by Working Together with Karen Huffman
 
International Relations Committee Celebrated Special Librarian’s Day on April 12

International Relations Committee Celebrated Special Librarian’s Day on April 12

By: Aileen Marshall What a great evening! The International Relations Committee put together a great event in celebration of International Special Librarian’s Day. A group of 20 librarians met at the Georgetown University Law Center to exchange ideas, network, snack, and (of course) honor special librarians and our work. We had two great speakers who [...]

First time at the SLA Conference? DC/SLA is Offering a Conference Buddy Program, and More Tips Below!

First time at the SLA Conference? DC/SLA is Offering a Conference Buddy Program, and More Tips Below!

With the interest in this question, we’ve decided to try a conference buddy program for DC/SLA chapter members.  This is a one-time commitment, just for the 2012 Chicago conference.  If this works, who knows?  We may do it again next year. We’ll pair first-timers or less-experienced conference attendees with conference pros (you know who you [...]

It’s not too late! Submission Deadline Extended for the 2012 Best Practices for Government Libraries

It’s not too late! Submission Deadline Extended for the 2012 Best Practices for Government Libraries

By Marie Kaddell Re-posting from Lexis Nexis Government Info Pro You asked for it. You got it! A number of people have asked for a little more time to write for this year’s Best Practices and so the deadline for submissions has been extended to June 8, 2012. If you haven’t started writing yet, jump [...]

Retooling Your Skills For Today’s Job Market: Members In Transition Meeting and Discussion

Retooling Your Skills For Today’s Job Market: Members In Transition Meeting and Discussion

How do you sharpen your skills when you’re in between jobs? Where can you go to learn new skills? These are questions DC/SLA members are asking more and more frequently. Now, the Members In Transition Group has some answers. Join us Thursday evening, May 24 to learn about some of our favorite sources (many free) for retooling our skills. Bring some [...]

SLA/DC Members Help Deliver Literacy Program for Children in Zambia

SLA/DC Members Help Deliver Literacy Program for Children in Zambia

SLA Press Release – 20 April 2012 Alexandria, Virginia - Information professionals of the Special Libraries Association (SLA) have collaborated with their colleagues at the Lubuto Library Project (LLP) to finalize computer-based reading lessons for underprivileged children in Zambia. The collaboration, which began in Zambia with the young programmers and artists who created the reading lessons, resulted in [...]

REGISTER NOW! Finding Your Inner Nancy Drew……Public Records Research Online

REGISTER NOW! Finding Your Inner Nancy Drew……Public Records Research Online

Mark your calendars for Monday June 4, 2012! Seating is limited! Looking for information on a person or company? This program will cover sites and strategies useful in public records research. Bridget Gilhool and Jennifer McMahan will demonstrate creative ways to use (mostly) free sites on the web to find location and real property data, [...]

REGISTER TODAY! Importance of Communities: Influencing Change by Working Together with Karen Huffman

REGISTER TODAY! Importance of Communities: Influencing Change by Working Together with Karen Huffman

Do you want to know what’s new with Google Apps?  Are you interested in learning how to take the communication, networking, and leadership skills you learn through your membership in SLA and pursue a non-traditional career path?  Join Karen Huffman, IS&T Manager, Applications & Collaboration Team, National Geographic Society, and SLA Fellow for what is sure to be an [...]

REGISTER TODAY! Importance of Communities: Influencing Change by Working Together with Karen Huffman

REGISTER TODAY! Importance of Communities: Influencing Change by Working Together with Karen Huffman

Posted on April 19, 2012. Tags:

Do you want to know what’s new with Google Apps?  Are you interested in learning how to take the communication, networking, and leadership skills you learn through your membership in SLA and pursue a non-traditional career path?  Join Karen Huffman, IS&T Manager, Applications & Collaboration Team, National Geographic Society, and SLA Fellow for what is sure to be an [...]

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EVENT: Tour Dodana Manor, home of George Marshall, Soldier and Statesman with Military Libraries Group of DC/SLA and DCLA

EVENT: Tour Dodana Manor, home of George Marshall, Soldier and Statesman with Military Libraries Group of DC/SLA and DCLA

Posted on May 16, 2012.

Join the Military Libraries Group of DC/SLA and DCLA for a tour of Dodana Manor, home of George Marshall, soldier and statesman on Saturday, Aug 18, 2012. DATE:  August 18, 2012 TIME:  10:45 a.m. at Dodana for 11 a.m. Tour  http://www.georgecmarshall.org/   (Tour is about 1 hour/l hour 15 minutes)  COST:  $8.00 per person.  (Have Cash [...]

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DC SLA Military Librarians Program: Disaster Response – How Information Professionals CAN Help

Posted on May 10, 2012.

Disasters…..They happen to other people and anyway, how can I help?   DC/SLA Military Libraries Group is sponsoring a special program aimed at all libraries in this area — corporate, law, education, K-12 schools, media centers, all Federal Libraries…..everyone needs to know  about some special tools already in place, and to think about other possibilities [...]

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REGISTER NOW! Rebooting Your Career: Networking, Motivation and Partnering

Posted on May 1, 2012.

Mark your calendars for the evening of Thursday June 14, 2012! Do you have the skills needed in today’s job market?  Not sure?  Come to the DC/SLA Chapter’s “Rebooting Your Career:  Networking, Motivation and Partnering” program.  Listen to panelists who will talk about a successful internship program for the unemployed, the latest job skills in [...]

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Get a Stipend to attend SLA 2012!

Get a Stipend to attend SLA 2012!

Posted on April 26, 2012.

REMINDER —->  Just one (1) week left to submit your application! DC/SLA Chapter Members -Interested in attending the SLA Annual Conference in Chicago? The Washington, D.C. Chapter has established the Annual Conference Stipend Award (http://dc.sla.org/awards/annual-conference-stipend/) to enable a Chapter member to attend the SLA Annual Conference. The award for 2012 will reimburse the recipient for expenses [...]

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Networking: Cure the Under-developed Network Syndrome

Networking: Cure the Under-developed Network Syndrome

Posted on April 15, 2012.

By Anne Baber & Lynne Waymon What ails your network? Most people’s networks are under-developed. People assume that by joining a group that automatically gives them relationships with the other members.  Not so!  And many people make the mistake of asking for too much too soon . . . or too little too late. Here’s [...]

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