At the beginning of this year, I was honored to be asked to run as a candidate for a position on the SLA Board of Directors. I’ve been active in SLA since 2000 and I greatly look forward the opportunity to serve on the national level. The elections start today, September 7th, 12:00 a.m. EDT. [...]

Candidates for the SLA Board of Directors will be asked to answer questions on the SLA Blog until election time. I’ve published my answer to Question #5 today. I’m copying it below. Catherine Lavallée-Welch- Candidate, Division Cabinet Chair-Elect Question #5 SLA is an international organization. How can SLA involve and reach out more to members outside of North [...]

This past June, I attended the Special Libraries Association (SLA) Annual Conference in Philly. SLA, if you are unfamiliar, is an international association for librarians and information professionals from the corporate, government, association, non-for-profit and academic sectors. I attended the conference as the Chair of the Awards Committee for the Academic Division – this was [...]

At the SLA Annual Conference, candidates for the SLA Board of Directors were asked to answer two questions. The Division and Chapter Cabinet candidates presented their answers at the Joint Cabinet meeting. I’ve published my answers on the SLA Blog today. I’m copying them below. Catherine Lavallée-Welch- Candidate, Division Cabinet Chair-Elect Question #1 Tell us [...]

Candidates for the SLA Board of Directors will be asked to answer questions on the SLA Blog until election time. I’ve published my answer to Question #4 today. I’m copying it below. Catherine Lavallée-Welch – Candidate, Division Cabinet Chair-Elect Question #4 How has your work with SLA over the years helped you grow in the [...]

Candidates for the SLA Board of Directors will be asked to answer questions on the SLA Blog until election time. I’ve published my answer to Question #3 today. I’m copying it below. Catherine Lavallée-Welch- Candidate, Division Cabinet Chair-Elect – Question #3 What is the newest “techie” gadget that you have/would like to have, and how [...]

Candidates for the SLA Board of Directors will be asked to answer questions on the SLA Blog until election time. I’ve published my answer to Question #2 today. I’m copying it below. Catherine Lavallée-Welch- Candidate, Division Cabinet Chair-Elect – Question #2 When did you first join SLA? What made you decide to join then, and [...]

If you are, like me, attending the SLA Annual Conference in Philadelphia in June, you can use this button to let the world know:

Candidates for the SLA Board of Directors will be asked to answer questions on the SLA Blog until election time. I’ve published my answer to Question #1 today. I’m copying it below. Catherine Lavallée-Welch- Candidate, Division Cabinet Chair-Elect – Question #1 What sort of advice would you give to professionals in their first library-related position [...]

Note, this is kind of biased, as I currently serve as Chair of the Awards Committee for the SLA Academic Division, but what can I say, it’s an exciting new award for academic libraries! The SLA Academic Division has announced the Springshare Innovation in Academic Libraries Award. It recognizes a new program or service that [...]

To get a grand picture of what good things libraries do every day, the Florida Library Association is asking all Florida libraries to collect usage statistics and take photos of what they do on January 25, 2011 (or another day of that week). Many public libraries will be participating (see the list) as well as [...]

The ACRL announced the recipients of the 2011 Excellence in Academic Libraries Award: The Luria Library at Santa Barbara City College, Santa Barbara, Ca.; the Grinnell College Libraries, Grinnell, Iowa; and the Z. Smith Reynolds Library at Wake Forest University, Winston-Salem, N.C. The Z. Smith Reynolds Library was noted for its strong institutional focus and [...]

SLA just launched a new blog called Future Ready 365. It will contain daily blog posts throughout 2011 to show how SLA members are “an adaptable, resilient, future ready force of information professionals.” The blog is part of SLA president Cindy Romaine’s Future Ready initiative. The posts already published are thought-provoking while having the distinct [...]

Admission: I am an ALA member but have never attended the Annual Conference nor the Midwinter meetings. The ALA offices have submitted a white paper on the future on the Midwinter Meeting. It’s interesting to see how this meeting has greatly developed over the years, reaching up to 13,000 in attendance in recent years. That’s [...]

From Andrea Duda, ISTL Editor Issues in Science and Technology Librarianship (www.istl.org) is an open access journal published by the Science and Technology Section of ACRL.  We are recruiting new members for our panel of referees. ISTL publishes substantive material of interest to science and technology librarians. It serves as a vehicle for sci-tech librarians [...]