President's Corner: Off to a Delicious Start Submitted by Shirley Loo, sloo@crs.loc.org
August/September 2005 Volume 65 No. 1
Planning Meeting: On a Saturday morning in late July, a number of the DC/SLA leaders assembled to plan for 2005-2006 at Anne Caputo's lovely home. After partaking of Anne's egg and cheese casserole, Sheryl Rosenthal's spinach pies, Eileen Deegan's blueberry muffins, Kris Sasala's mango mousse, and other delectables, we focused on plans for the year. Vice President Susan Fournier announced a two-part program on taking the sting out of statistics with Dr. Elana Broch of Princeton University in late August. Other informative and stimulating programs will be listed in the events calendar and publicized via the chapter discussion list and the newsletter.
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Volunteers: Shelia Jackson is continuing with the monthly printed calendar and will add keeping track of metrics measuring participation in programs. Corresponding Secretary Jenny Woods is continuing to do the timely calendar on our website while Cassandra Shieh continues as our expert Chapter Webmaster. Allegra Moothart has taken over responsibility for the chapter discussion list. Barbara Ferry continues as newsletter editor while Ana Echerman is the new business manager. We have experienced volunteers and some new faces behind the scenes. Future columns will note other volunteers. New Governance Year: The new governance year of January to December instead of July to June was approved at the annual conference in Toronto. All chapters were then tasked with how they would implement the change to align the governance year with the SLA fiscal year. At the June 22nd Board meeting, we voted to extend the term of board members by six months to December 2006. Thanks to the board members who agreed to this extension. It will be easier to implement the transition with the current board and it would avoid having a second election this year. The next chapter elections will be later in 2006 so that new officers will begin in January 2007. Immediate Past President Sheryl Rosenthal will be in charge of working out the details for our transition to the new governance year. In addition to chapter elections, the Volunteer Appreciation Reception in April, the annual banquet and business meeting in May, and the fall reception may be scheduled for other times. Stay tuned. The June 7 membership meeting in Toronto also approved electronic voting for the Association. Our successful electronic voting in chapter elections earlier this year was reported to SLA by Elections Committee Chair Ellie Briscoe in the April 2005 SLA Leadership Connections. With electronic voting (and the "Get Out the Vote" campaign), our chapter nearly doubled the previous year's voter turnout, reduced election expenses, and made vote counting easier. There were a few minor problems, but on the whole the process worked well. Ellie has agreed to manage the next chapter elections in 2006. Member support is vital to our chapter. Thanks to volunteers like Ellie our chapter maintains a high level of activity and vitality. If you'd like to volunteer for some event or committee, let me or the committee chair know. You'll also see email requests for specific assistance from time to time. Please lend a hand and volunteer. We are off to a great start!
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Inside this issue: President’s Corner
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Dine-Around Volunteers
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“Cataloger Cornered”
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Paypal and Phishing Emails
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Military Librarians Dinner; Meet the Author
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DC/SLA Book Club
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September Virtual Seminars
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Lubuto Library Project
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Take the Sting Out of Statistics 9
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Dine-Arounds Volunteers Needed to Host! Submitted by Victor Monti, victor@monti.org A Dine Around is a DC/SLA-sponsored “payyour-own” dinner that provides a friendly environment for networking. A DC/SLA member hosts an informal gathering in a good restaurant somewhere in the DC area. A variety of locations, many near METRO stops, are selected to create more opportunities to network. DC/SLA holds these dinner events twice a year in the spring and fall with up to ten different locations each season. This season the Dine Arounds will occur in late September and in October. This will also be the first time that the host will give a prize at each restaurant event. Prior Dine Around restaurants visited have served French, Thai, Mexican, American, Ethiopian, Italian and Chinese cuisine. Please check the web calendar frequently for more information and the location that you would like to attend. As coordinator of the Dine Arounds, I need volunteers who would enjoy hosting about 5-10 well-behaved librarians. I will work with you to choose a location and date, to avoid duplicating neighborhoods or other dinner dates. To host, please contact me, Victor Monti, at victor@monti,.org and 703-624-8272. I will also answer any question about this worthy and entertaining DC/SLA program. See you at a Dine Around!
SLA Member Edits Security Career Publication In conjuction with the ASIS Council on Academic Programs in Security, SLA member Eva Giercuszkiewicz has edited a revised version of the ASIS International's booklet, “Career Opportunities in Security.” This 32-page guide suggests academic coursework and experience that is useful to those contemplating a first- or second-career in the many areas and industries in the security field. It is available at http://www.asisonline.org/careercenter/careers2005, or you may contact evag@asisonline.org for a print copy. DC/SLA Chapter Notes | August/September 2005
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Cataloger Cornered Submitted by Suzanne C. Pilsk, PilskS@si.edu Have you ever been excited to find an old movie that you had forgotten existed and when you got it home realized it was Beta and not VHS? Okay so that analogy might date me a bit. How about asking for a movie at the rent-a-place and they hand you that little tiny box and you haven't upgraded your house to DVD? Or have you ever gone to a web site to see some humorous international commercial that won some award to find that you have to download yet ANOTHER new, different media player? Access access access - that is what cataloging is all about * at least to me. How can I get information out there and accessible to people so they can find it and use it. The IFLA (http://www.ifla.org/) standard Functional Requirements for Bibliographic Records state that the record is to assist users in FINDING, IDENTIFYING, SELECTING, and OBTAINING a resource. I heard somewhere (a note scrawled from a conference meeting I went to some years ago) that added to the mix should be USING a resource. So, as a cataloger, I need to provide my patrons with ways to be able to find the right information and be able to identify that it is good information. I need to give them enough information in the record to be able to select the right source(s) for their needs. I also record how to get the resource - whether it is the location on the shelf, who to borrow it from through Intra Library Loan, or from a location on the web. But once obtained, my patron also needs to know how to actually USE the resource: Does the researcher need Adobe Acrobat? A CD-ROM player? Macintosh hardware? You get the idea. This is making for some interesting cataloging challenges. Adding to my records are fields in the MARC coding for all kinds of additional bits and bytes of information. I now have fixed-field codes that can record some of this information. I also have note fields that are expanding. Just the other day I had a CD-ROM. It basically was a PDF edition of a book. In comparing the record of the older edition of the book and the new computer version, I had much more data to add for the new edition: 245 additional subfield to record that it was an electronic resource, 006, 007, 856 (for related version), and three 538's to identify system requirements (the CD-ROM could be used on a Mac, Windows, or UNIX). Take a peek at some of the work that goes into describing streaming videos: 007 video recording, 007 computer file, 300 physical description, 500 note identifying it as streaming video, 538's as needed for system requirements (World Wide Web, kind of streaming video player, amount of memory, etc.), and the 856 giving the URL. It now seems simple to describe a book and give it a call number address for the book shelf. A piece of cake to describe a video recording of "Old Yeller". But sometimes I feel I need to go back to school to understand things like "System Requirements: Sun SPARCstation; 32 MB machine; SunOS ver. 2.3, Open Windows 3.0 or Mofit ver. 1.2.3. HP Series 9000 model 700; HP-UX 9.0.3; HP-VUE environment; 32 MB machine." I believe I am doing a service to my patrons. They can see quickly in the record what the resource requires to be used. They can't say I didn't warn them.
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Paypal and Phishing Emails Submitted by Erin Clougherty, eclougherty@casact.org DC/SLA uses Paypal to accept credit card payments for events. The chapter still accepts checks and will continue to do so. Paypal is often a target of fraudulent emails called phishing. Phishing or spoof emails are an attempt by scam artists to have the user surrender personal information and use this information to commit identity theft. Phishing emails appear to be from a well-known company such as Paypal, eBay or any major bank. Scam artists send out millions of emails with the hopes that just a few people will give up some information. Paypal will never ask for personal information in emails. Phishing emails are not sent because you have a Paypal account or because DC/SLA uses Paypal. Anyone who has an email address is at risk of being phished. For more information on phishing and protecting yourself online, see Paypal’s Security Center at www.paypal.com/securitycenter.
2005-2006 DC/SLA Board of Directors: President - Shirley Loo President Elect - Susan Fournier Treasurer - Erin Clougherty Second Vice-President - Suzanne Pilsk Director - Gail Kouril Director - Kristina Lively Recording Secretary - Georgeanne Higgins Corresponding Secretary - Jenny Wood
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"Sister in the Band of Brothers" And You Are There! -- Military Librarians/Dinner with Author Katherine Skiba Submitted by Jennifer Wood, Wood,J@executiveboard.com What: Meet Katherine Skiba, author of “Sister in the Band of Brothers: Embedded with the 101st Airborne in Iraq” When: Thursday, September 15, 2005 Where: Tivoli Restaurant, Rosslyn, 6 p.m. (Registration/Networking; dinner at 6:45 p.m.; speaker at 7:30 p.m.) The Military Librarians Group will have as their guest Katherine Skiba, writer, photo-journalist and Washington correspondent for the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel. The September 15 Dinner is planned for the Tivoli Restaurant, Rosslyn, VA. Ms. Skiba has had an experience few journalist ever experience, and even fewer women reporters. The complete title of her book says it all: “Sister in the Band of Brothers: Embedded with the 101st Airborne in Iraq.” Katherine found herself the only female civilian amid 2,300 soldiers. She worked closely with the 159th Aviation Brigade. Skiba traveled with them in Black Hawk and Chinook helicopters into the thick of battle. Her dispatches provided a lifeline to the families of the troops as the nation read her reports. Book signing: Bring your copy or purchase on site. Please follow this link to learn about the three dinner options, directions and payment procedures. For more information contact Sharon Lenius: 703 601-2710. http://www.sla.org/chapter/cdc/events_files/Sept1505M LG.html
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DC/SLA Book Club and Business Information Finders to “Execute” Discussion / Dinner on October 6th The DC/SLA Book Club is launching its 2005-2006 season with food for both the mind and the body. On Thursday, October 6th, the Book Club and the Business Information Finders (BIF) are co-hosting a Book-Discussion / Dinner at China Garden in Rosslyn from 6:00 p.m. – 8:30 p.m. On the literary menu is the book Execution: The Discipline of Getting Things Done by Larry Bossidy and Ram Charan, which was published in 2002 by Crown Business. In the August 2004 SLA Connections, SLA Executive Director Janice LaChance recommended the book, noting that it lays out the building blocks for assembling an execution-focused organization in plain language. Execution, she observed, “is never dry, is easy to read, flows smoothly in conversational format, and is highly engaging.” On the culinary menu, China Garden, is a restaurant that Washingtonian magazine named one of the 100 Best Bargain Restaurants. Located in an office building at 1100 Wilson Boulevard, it’s about two blocks from the Rosslyn Metro station on the orange and blue lines. All DC/SLA and BIF members are welcome to attend. Please RSVP to Eileen Deegan, deeganeg@state.gov, 202453-8073; or Jennifer Boettcher, boettcher@gunet.georgetown.edu, 202-687-7495. For additional information about the DC/SLA Book Club and Business Information Finders, please visit the Chapter website.
September Virtual Seminars Submitted by Susan Fournier, Susan.Fournier@icba.org Learn something new! Join SLA’s Virtual Seminars in September. For more information, link to: http://www.sla.org/content/learn/learnmore/distance/virtsemspec.cfm Structuring and Delivering Content: Maximizing End-User Satisfaction When: September 15, 2005; 2-3:30 pm ET Who: Roger Beharry Lall, Research in Motion (RIM); Joyce Ward, Executive Consultant for LexisNexis How can you help your end-users get the right information at the right time? Hear case studies of how information professionals have added value within their companies by finding new ways to structure and deliver information through different platforms, including Web sites, intranets, portals, and mobile devices. With the widespread use of mobile devices, this has become a convenient way to deliver and access critical information while on the go. Find out where wireless technology is today and how future advancements could dramatically impact knowledge sharing. Shrink-wrap and Click-wrap Licenses: Why Should Information Professionals Care? When: September 28, 2-3:30 pm ET Who: Jonathan Franklin, Associate Law Librarian, Gallagher Law Library, University of Washington What is a shrink-wrap and click-wrap license agreement, and why should information professionals care about them? Click-on license agreements are included in most off-the-shelf and downloadable digital products that are used by individuals or a company. When you read the small print of the "agreement," you may discover that your rights that you assume apply to traditional goods and services may not apply when you when you purchase digital products. These often unfair terms that are embedded in a product can jeopardize your computer security risk, and put your privacy in jeopardy. This seminar will only address non-negotiated license agreements, and will provide an introductory framework to understand the legal concepts basic to licensing; a walk-through review of a shrink-wrap license, and the implications of key standard form terms that affect libraries.
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SID/DIW Program: The Lubuto Library Project Submitted by Kenlee Ray, KenleeR@aol.com What: SID/DIW Meeting & Program September, 2005 When: Wednesday, September 21, 2005, Noon – 2:00ish Where: DIS Mandela Conference Room, 1001 Pennsylvania Ave., NW, 3rd Floor Who: Jane Kinney Meyers, President, Lubuto Library Project, Inc. will talk about the development, current status and future plans of the Lubuto Project. Lubuto is a new project to provide library buildings, collections and services to street kids, orphans and other vulnerable children (OVC) in African countries, beginning in Zambia. By constructing libraries in cooperation with local host social service agencies – and stocking them initially with books donated by American school children -- the Lubuto Project will provide OVC with the opportunity to participate in informal education, improving literacy, language skills, sense of self-worth and general knowledge of the world. Simultaneously the Project will increase awareness among North American school children of the AIDS crisis in Africa and the impact it has had on their peers. No reservations required. Seating is limited; first come, first seated. Please bring a photo ID. The meeting will be a brown bag lunch held at Development Information Center (DIC), 1001 Pennsylvania Ave., NW, Suite 300 South. The entrance to the building is recessed. Elevators will be on the left shortly after you enter. Go to the third floor and look for the suite. Directions: From Metro Center (Red, Orange & Blue line) Take the 11th and G Streets exit. As you exit Metro turn left (south). Walk south on 11th Street to Pennsylvania Avenue, about 2 or 3 blocks. Turn left on Pennsylvania Ave., and 1001 is in the middle of the block. From "Archives-Navy Memorial" (Yellow line) Exit the Metro station and take the escalator to the street level. As you exit, 7th Street is behind you. Walk along Pennsylvania Avenue (heading west). Cross both 9th Street and 10th Street. On the corner of 10th and Pennsylvania is Ten Penh restaurant. 1001 Pennsylvania is in the middle of the block.
Taking the Sting Out of Statistics: August 25 Brown Bag Submitted by Susan R. Fournier, Susan.Fournier@icba.org Join Dr. Elana Broch, Assistant Population Research Librarian at the Donald E. Stokes Library for Public and International Affairs and the Coale Population Research Collection, Princeton University, for one or both parts of this calculation free introduction to commonly used statistical concepts. When: Thursday, August 25, 2005; Noon - 3:15 pm Where: Mumford Room, Madison Bldg., Library of Congress, 101 Independence Avenue, SE (Use entrance at 1st & C Streets, SE; diagonally across from Capitol South (Blue/Orange line) Metro escalators--disregard Staff entrance sign--you can enter here, but your bags will be inspected.) Part 1: Descriptive Statistics (Noon - 1:30) If you can never remember the difference between the mean and the median or don't know why you should care about the difference between them, this program is for you! We'll also cover graphs and correlation. Part 2: Does She or Doesn't She? Only Her Statistician Knows for Sure. (1:45 - 3:15) If your brain freezes when you hear the term "statistically significant" or "confidence interval," join us for an overview of sampling and these very important concepts. Registration: Free, but advance registration is required to Susan Fournier by email susan.fournier@icba.org or call 202315-2439. Feel free to bring your lunch to Part 1. You can purchase lunch at the Library of Congress cafeteria on the 6th floor of the Madison Building. DC/SLA Chapter Notes | August/September 2005
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