DC/SLA Chapter Notes - March 2006 by DC/SLA

March 2006 Volume 66 No. 7

President's Corner: Membership Up by 6%

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Submitted by Shirley Loo, sloo@crs.loc.org

Inside this issue: Shirley Loo presents gift from chapter to Janice Lachance. Photo by Michael McCabe.

Membership in the DC Chapter has increased by 6% compared to June 30, 2005. As you read in the February newsletter, we had the highest number of new members among all 59 chapters in the 2005 SLA Member-Get-A-Member campaign. By the end of January 2006, we had 1,040 members. Thanks go to Sheryl Rosenthal, Lorraine Bell, and other members who encouraged individuals to join SLA and to join our active chapter. With help from headquarters after the Leadership Summit in January, we now have a list of unaffiliated chapter members in our area. We began contacting them and inviting them to join our chapter. When this initiative is completed in a few months, we should exceed 7%. You can help by renewing your membership promptly and by continuing to invite your colleagues to join SLA. Tell them about the networking opportunities. Tell them that non-members will pay $200 to $300 more than members when they register for the annual conference. Tell them about the informative and interesting programs the chapter offers including free Click University Live! programs. Tell them that they'll pay the member price for chapter programs including the September Mary Ellen Bates program on Web 2.0. A recent successful DC Chapter program at the National Press Club featured Janice Lachance, SLA Chief Executive Officer. She spoke about her experience as a member of the United States delegation to the United Nation's World Summit on the Information Society. We were pleased to have SLA staff, SLA Board members Lynne McCay and Anne Caputo, and guests such as Judy Russell, the Superintendent of Documents, and Trudi Bellardo Hahn, the Executive Director of NCLIS. The Feb. 22 program was recorded for Click University at the request of SLA leaders and the webcast ( www.clickuniversity.com ) will be available by mid-March. See Eileen Deegan's report in the next newsletter for more on this program.

President’s Corner

Podcasting/Click-U-Live

International Special Librarians Day Program

Spring Dine Arounds

How Congress Works

April Book Club

Beyond Marketing Report

Nominations Gov. Division

Information Society Report

Kurzweil Honorary Member

Member News

Joint Spring Workshop

Read about the new products and services from: • • • • • • •

Dialog InfoCurrent OCLC Capcon Library Associates Trak Legal EOS International Factiva

Congratulations to R. James King, Chief Librarian at the Ruth H. Hooker Research Library of the Naval Research Laboratory. James will receive the Innovations in Technology Award at the SLA Awards Reception aboard the U.S.S. Constellation on June 13 at the Baltimore annual conference.

Check us out on the Web http://www.sla.org/Chapter/cdc/

In my column last month, I omitted mentioning the 15th Chapter member at the SLA Leadership Summit who traveled to Houston on the same plane with me. Terri Brooks, Investment Company Institute, was in Houston as a member of the Baltimore Annual Conference Planning Committee and as treasurer for the Business and Finance Division. Terri is serving her second consecutive two-year term as B&F Division treasurer.

Next Newsletter Deadline For April issue Is March 20 Email bferry@ngs.org

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Spend One-Half Day Learning! Podcasting & Fast Content for Your Website – May 17 starting at noon Join us for two special programs back-to-back on Wednesday, May 17. You can sign up for one or both sessions! Where: National Geographic Society (1146 16th St. N.W., Washington, D.C.) [Note: This entrance has stairs. Disabled access through another entrance—let us know if you need directions.] Session One: Podcasting Potential for Special Libraries When: Noon-1:30pm (brown bag) How: Sign up with Barbara Ferry (bferry@ngs.org) Seating is limited to the first 50 to sign up. Cost: Nothing – bring your own lunch. DC/SLA and the Military Librarian’s group are jointly sponsoring a program to explore podcasting in libraries. The brown bag lunch program on May 17 from noon to 1:30 pm will feature Kathryn Shaughnessy of St. John’s University in New York City as our special guest, who has presented on this topic before. Other panelists will be Barbara Ferry, Karen Huffman, and Leonard Williams of National Geographic Society, which is currently offering a weekly podcast to NGS Staff.

Session Two: Always Fresh! Fast Content for Your Website and Users When: 2:00 pm - 3:30 pm How: Sign up with Barbara Ferry (bferry@ngs.org) Seating is limited to the first 50 to sign up. Cost: Free to SLA members. $10 for non-members. Keeping a library Web site up to date with fresh content is a challenge for busy library staff and the library webmaster. RSS (rich site summary/RDF site summary/really simple syndication) feeds can help you keep your site current. Learn how to publish, merge, and convert RSS feeds into instant Web content. Discover how libraries have made specialized pages featuring article titles of current journal issues, new library acquisitions, book and movie reviews, and much more DC/SLA Chapter Notes | March 2006

INTERNATIONAL SPECIAL LIBRARIANS DAY 2006 ~ Opening Doors Open Minds - The Open Access Movement Thursday - April 6, 2006

WHAT: Join DC/SLA for this exciting event planned for International Special Librarians Day, Thursday, April 6th, "The Open Access Movement" to learn about the movement and its effects on access to scholarly information resources in the U.S. and in Developing Countries. Open-access (OA) literature is digital, online, free of charge, and free of most copyright and licensing restrictions. What makes it possible is the Internet and the consent of the author or copyright-holder. Two primary vehicles deliver open access to research articles: OA journals and OA archives or repositories.

WHO: Speakers include:

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Dr. Leslie Chan, Associate Director of Bioline International, and Program Supervisor for the Joint Program in New Media Studies and the International Studies program at the University of Toronto Melissa Hagemann, Program Manager, Information Program, Open Society Institute of the Soros Foundation

Our "drop-box" will be available for collecting library, information, and computer journals for donation to library schools adopted by the DC/SLA Chapter. So, start TODAY by saving your reading material and bring it with you on April 6th! Please join DC/SLA for this exciting event and learn how the Open Access movement can improve the effectiveness of libraries in the U.S. and in Developing Countries.

DATE:

Thursday, April 6, 2006

TIME:

6:00 – 9:00 pm (Reception 6:00-6:45; Speakers: 6:45-8:15; After hours networking until 9:00 pm)

PLACE:

Kiplinger Washington Editors Building 1729 H Street NW First Floor Washington, DC

METRO:

Farragut West Metro Station (Blue & Orange Lines)

PRICE:

$10.00 for DC/SLA Chapter Members $5.00 for Students/Retirees $15.00 for Non-Chapter Members

PAYMENT:

Payments can be made via PayPal or by check. PayPay links are below. Checks should be made payble DC/SLA and mailed to Salvador Velez, Inter-American Development Bank 1300 New York Avenue, NW - Stop W0102, Washington, DC 20577.

REGISTRATION: Regardless of payment option, all reservations must be made by Tuesday, April 2, 2006 to Salvador Velez at salvadorv@iadb.org, or phone 202-623-3215, or fax 202-623-3183. Paypal signup at: http://www.sla.org/chapter/cdc/events_files/Apr0606SLD.html

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SPRING DINE AROUNDS HAVE ARRIVED! Spring is just around the corner and so is this yearâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s select group of Dine Around dinners. Come and enjoy good conversation, great company, tasty food and fun networking (but, please, no dancing on the tables). Check out the Chapter web site Dine Around page for a special dinner that looks good to you: http://www.sla.org/chapter/cdc/events_files/di nespring06.html Choose from a variety of locations that are close to home and work. The Dine Around hosts look forward to a pleasant time with you. See you soon.

Save the Date! What: How Congress Works Speaker: Judy Schneider, Specialist in American National Government, Congressional Research Service, Library of Congress Date: April 10, 2006 Time: 6:00pm â&#x20AC;&#x201C; 8:00pm Location: TBD Cost: TBD Co-sponsored with Government Information Division

DC/SLA Board members with Janice Lachance. Left to right: Shirley Loo, Janice Lachance, Anna McGowan, Eileen Deegan, Anne Caputo, Erin Clougherty, Susan Fournier (head turned away), Shelia Jackson, Sheryl Rosenthal, and Gail Kouril. Photo by Michael McCabe.

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DC/SLA Book Club Meets April 20 to Explore Unconventional Economics and Pizza For its Spring discussion event, the DC/SLA Book Club has selected a bestseller with a rather curious title – Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything. Such a title augurs that this book will not resemble your Econ 101 text! According to the publisher, co-author and University of Chicago professor Steven Levitt begins with a mountain of data and simple, unasked questions. Some of these questions concern life-and-death issues, while others have an “admittedly freakish quality.” Likewise, a book review in CHOICE commended Freakonomics for helping most readers think differently about the world around them. Join the DC/SLA Book Club on Thursday, April 20, 6:30-8:30, at Ella's Wood Fired Pizza to discuss Freakonomics-style thinking and its relevance to the work of information professionals. All DC/SLA members are welcome to attend. Please RSVP to Eileen Deegan at deeganeg@state.gov or 202-4538073. For restaurant details, please see: h // hi / 2/

Community Outreach Project Coolidge High School Library Needs Help with Data Entry After a series of computer glitches, we are once again entering records in the online catalog at the Coolidge High School Library, the Chapter's Community Outreach Project. Our goal is have all the popular fiction titles and current reference titles entered by the end of April so that Lynn Kauffman, Coolidge's librarian, can demonstrate the online catalog to all the Coolidge teachers. We would love a few more volunteers to help enter records in the database. The Follett software is easy to use; you don't need to be a cataloger to enter records. If you can spare a couple of hours during the week to enter records into the online catalog or to help process new and donated materials for the collection, please contact Lynn Kauffman, Librarian at Coolidge Senior High School: Kauffman@prodigy.net, 202576-6143; or Kenlee Ray, Community Outreach Chair: KenleeR@aol.com, 202-483-2423.

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Beyond Marketing: Consultative Selling Strategies for Information Professionals Submitted by: Jenny Wood, woodj@executiveboard.com

Many of us have negative stereotypes about salespeople. Some of us would suffer a thousand paper cuts before thinking about marketing. On January 26, 2006 Anne Caputo, Director, Knowledge & Learning Programs at Factiva and Chapter Cabinet Chair-Elect of the SLA Board of Directors, reframed the concepts of sales and marketing at this well-attended and interactive program on consultative selling. In broad strokes, consultative selling means understanding clients’ needs, providing solutions to those needs, and focusing your clients’ long-term business objectives needs so you will be viewed as a long-term partner. Do you have an upcoming meeting with a client or potential client? Use these four strategies: 1. Opening Prepare by learning as much as you can about the person. Control the meeting by preparing and distributing an agenda. Maintain control by deferring off-topic issues to another time. 2. Probing Find out about the client’s needs by using open questions such as, “Why do you think …?” or “What do you mean by ….?” Open questions allow the chance for the client to describe her needs as well as a chance for you to discover additional opportunities to provide service and products. Use closed questions to confirm what you hear or to confirm details: “Did I hear you say …?” or “What is the budget for …?” Use active listening to really hear what your client is saying rather than mentally composing your response. 3. Supporting Tell the client how you can provide a solution to his need. Focus on and articulate the benefits you can provide rather than listing the features. For example, “Our product will save your staff 2 hours every day,” describes a benefit to the client, while “Our product can be read on a Blackberry,” describes a feature of the product. Try to anticipate possible objections so you are prepared to handle them. 4. Closing Summarize your client’s needs and link the benefits of your products and services to each need. Ask for a commitment (or sale). Outline specific next steps and, most importantly, deliver on them. Thanks to Barbara Follensbee-Moore for providing stately meeting accommodations at Morgan, Lewis & Bockius, and to Lorraine Bell for arranging delicious refreshments.

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CALL for NOMINATIONS – SLA Government Information Division Submitted by Sheryl Rosenthal, RosenthalS@SEC.GOV

The Nominations Committee for the SLA Government Information Division (DGI) is seeking candidates for three positions on its Executive Board. Terms these positions will begin January 1, 2007, but we would like them to be ready for approval at the annual SLA conference in June 2006. The DEADLINE for nominations is March 30, 2006. Feel free to nominate yourself or another willing member of DGI. We are an exciting new division. Please consider these opportunities to participate as we get off the ground! SEND nominations to: Tom Rink at trink@ci.tulsa.ok.us. Please include: name as registered with SLA, full contact information, desired office, and a brief statement of interest including any information on past SLA activities or offices held. The DGI Nominations Committee consists of Peggy Garvin, Tom Rink, and Sheryl Rosenthal. Please send nominations only to Tom Rink, trink@ci.tulsa.ok.us. Questions may be addressed to Peggy Garvin, pgrvn@yahoo.com . The WANTED: Chair-Elect, one year followed by year as Chair and year as Past Chair • Serves as a member of the Division Executive Board and the SLA Division Cabinet. • Has lead program planning responsibility for the SLA annual conference held in the year that they will be chair. • As a member of the SLA Division Cabinet, attends Division Cabinet meetings at the Association Leadership Summit and at the Annual Conference. Substitutes for the Division Chair in the Chair's absence. • At the request of the Chair, performs other duties required for operation of the Division. • Learns about the operation of the Division for a smooth transition to the chairmanship. Secretary, one-year term • Serves as a member of the Division Executive Board. • Records and distributes minutes of the Division's business meetings, including the annual business meeting. • Signs legal documents jointly with the chair. • Conducts official correspondence and maintains a file of current records as requested by the Division Chair. (At the end of the Association year, archival material should be transferred to the Division archivist.) Director, one-year term • Serves as a member of the Division Executive Board. • Undertakes special projects as directed by the Chair, especially in such things as planning future directions, reviewing aspects of the Division's operation, and other endeavors affecting the overall philosophy of the Division.

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At a DC/SLA Program, CEO Lachance Provides an Exclusive Look at the World Summit on the Information Society and Its Significance for DC/SLA Members Submitted by Eileen Deegan, deeganeg@state.gov In an engaging DC/SLA program held at the National Press Club on February 22 before nearly 70 Chapter members and national library information leaders, SLA Chief Executive Officer Janice Lachance described her participation in the November 16-18 World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS) in Tunis as a “once-in-a-lifetime experience” that represented “a dramatic leap forward for SLA as a player in the global information policy arena.” Janice began her talk by congratulating DC/SLA Chapter and Board members for their exemplary local programming, consistent efforts to nominate peers for SLA awards, and leadership in international relations initiatives. She emphasized that staff at SLA headquarters have likewise adopted the philosophy that “being international” requires investing time, money and personnel in global activities that reflect the Association’s values, and connecting with decisionmakers, influencers and leading thinkers. This philosophy, Janice stated, drove her involvement in WSIS. Janice’s specific role was to represent the U.S. Library Copyright Alliance (which is comprised of SLA, ALA and four other U.S. library associations) and serve as a public member of the State Department’s delegation. She explained that her public-member role was purely consultative, and while she could advise the negotiators, she could not actually negotiate or speak for the U.S. government. Janice confided that given these parameters, she had wondered what she would actually be allowed to do at the Summit, and whether this would end up being a “shopping trip.” She found that the U.S. negotiators were thrilled to have her expertise in Tunis and they cared about, and listened to, what she had to say. Moreover, Janice reported that she had a voice in shaping the language that the U.S. Delegation successfully negotiated for statements on the freedoms of expression and the press, and the free flow of information. Similarly, Janice commended the U.S. Institute for Museum and Library Services’ General Counsel Nancy Weiss and Acting Director Mary Chute for working to keep library and freedom of information issues at the forefront of the delegation’s conversations. She also recognized Joan Challinor of the National Commission on Libraries and Information Science for her “tireless advocacy on behalf of our community.” Janice provided some background about the Summit’s first phase held in Geneva in 2003 and the issues that led to its second phase in Tunis. In particular, she recounted the Internet-governance issue that predominated in the second phase. A few weeks before the Tunis Summit, several nations called for a shift in governance from the U.S.-based Internet

Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) to an institution where all nations could be involved in Internet management. Janice remarked, “My view is that the last thing we need is a political apparatus that could weigh down the most democratic and open communications system ever created.” WSIS delegates resolved this controversy in three days of presummit, Preparatory Committee meetings, which Janice also attended. They agreed to convene an Internet Governance Forum that will facilitate discussion about overarching Internet issues. However, this forum will not be involved in domain naming or day-to-day technological and administrative issues. Janice noted that the U.S. delegation insisted that the new Forum include more than government representation, and involve stakeholders from non-governmental organizations like SLA and the private sector. Digital divide issues also figured prominently at WSIS. Janice said that IFLA (with whom SLA has a strong relationship) has been a key player in the Summit, and has addressed these issues by advocating the utilization of libraries to improve Internet access, and librarians to conduct community training. Such methods would cost less and have a greater impact on narrowing the digital divide. For a more comprehensive look at the range of issues covered at WSIS, Janice recommended reading the outcome documents found on the WSIS website at http://www.itu.int/wsis/. In concluding, Janice raised the question – Where do we go from here? She responded that the creation of the new Internet Governance Forum (IGF) compels SLA to “carefully monitor a multi-headed hydra of organizations that could alter the scope of Internet governance.” These include the IGF, which will meet in Athens in October, the International Telecommunication Union, and UNESCO. Janice added that she and SLA’s Doug Newcomb continue to participate in the post-Tunis meetings sponsored by the State Department. At the individual level, Janice recommended that SLA members keep in tune with the global nature of our profession by being active and engaging our peers via attendance at SLA 2006 in Baltimore, participating in Click University’s learning experiences, and voting in the SLA Board of Directors election. The text of Janice’s remarks is available at: http://www.sla.org/content/SLA/governance/bodsection/edcor ner/022206DCchap.cfm. In mid-March, a free Webcast of Janice’s presentation will be available on Click University (www.clickuniversity.com).

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KURZWEIL ACCEPTS HONORARY SLA MEMBERSHIP Submitted by: Barbara P. Semonche, semonch@metalab.unc.edu

Raymond Kurzweil’s connection with SLA dates from his 1993 keynote address at SLA’s annual conference in Cincinnati. Kitty Scott was SLA president then and remembered his presentation. Fast forward to 2006. Kitty Scott nominates Kurzweil for one of SLA’s prestigious awards, honorary membership in SLA. The Association just received word that Kurzweil has accepted the award. Raymond Kurzweil is a pioneer in the fields of optical character recognition (OCR), text-to-speech synthesis, speech recognition technology, and electronic keyboard instruments. He is the author of several books on health, artificial intelligence, transhumanism, and the technological singularity. Microsoft chairman Bill Gates called Kurzweil "the best at predicting the future of artificial intelligence." Kurzweil was inducted in 2002 into the National Inventors Hall of Fame, established by the United States Patent and Trademark Office. He received the $500,000 Lemelson-MIT Prize, the United States' largest award in invention and innovation, and the 1999 National Medal of Technology, the nation's highest honor in technology. He has also received scores of other awards, including the 1994 Dickson Prize (Carnegie Mellon University's top science prize), Engineer of the Year from Design News, Inventor of the Year from MIT in 1998, the Association of American Publishers' award for the Most Outstanding Computer Science Book of 1990, and the Grace Murray Hopper Award from the Association for Computing Machinery. He has received eleven honorary doctorates, and honors from three U.S. presidents. Kurzweil has been associated with the National Federation of the Blind, many of whose members use his products. After speaking at their convention in 2005, he received a special award, an honor received by few sighted people. Some of Kurzweil’s recent books include: • • • • •

The Age of Intelligent Machines (1990) The 10% Solution for a Healthy Life (1994) The Age of Spiritual Machines: When Computers Exceed Human Intelligence (2000) Fantastic Voyage: Live Long Enough to Live Forever (2004) The Singularity Is Near: When Humans Transcend Biology (2005)

Kurzweil’s official biography can be found at this URL: http://www.kurzweiltech.com/aboutray.html

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Presidentâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Column Contâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;d from page 1. A few week ago, Recording Secretary Georgeann Higgins tendered her resignation. Georgeann will be taking a position as organization change consultant for Booz Allen Hamilton. In accepting her resignation, I acknowledged her conscientious and dedicated service for close to two years. A bouquet to her and to Anna McGowan who accepted my request to serve as Recording Secretary for the remainder of Georgeann's term. Anna has previously served the chapter as Membership Chair, as Recording Secretary and as Director. The Board unanimously approved her appointment at the Feb. 21 Board meeting. In previous years, earlier Presidents mentioned the upcoming elections for DC/SLA in the March newsletter. If you are wondering why I'm not, wonder no more. Due to the change in the SLA year, the terms of selected elected Board members which normally would have ended after the annual conference will end Dec. 31st. For example, I will serve 18 months rather than 12 months. Later this year, be ready to accept when asked to run for office by the Nominating Committee chaired by Susan Fifer Canby. You'll gain from the experience and have fun as well as make a contribution to DC/SLA and to the profession.

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Member News

New Members Galore!

Shirley Loo appeared on ABC World News Tonight on Feb. 7. She was seen in connection with a report on the results of the Women's Health Initiative study of over 48,000 women. The study did not find a lowering of the incidence of cancer, heart disease, and stroke when a low fat diet was followed. The multi-year study ended last year but Shirley agreed to be in the 5 year extension.

Due to issues at SLA headquarters, I've not been receiving a list of new members on a timely basis. Hopefully this has been corrected. Meanwhile, I hereby extend a warm welcome to the following. Some names are new to the Chapter, some are returning from previous membership. Either way, I hope you find our chapter engaging and enjoyable.

++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Diane Schnurrpusch was installed as President at the annual meeting of the Iota Chapter of Beta Phi Mu on Feb. 23. Helen Q. Sherman was elected VicePresident/President-Elect and Joan Taylor was elected Treasurer. Susan Fournier ended her term as Immediate Past President. ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Congratulations to these DC/SLA Beta Phi Mu initiates for 2005: Elizabeth Antonette Allin, Danielle O'Brien Burton, Ginger Richards, Gulnar S. Nagashybayeva, and Stephanie Anne Salmon. Ashley McCall received one of two $1,000 scholarships. ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Brenda Corbin, head librarian at the U.S. Naval Observatory, retired at the beginning of October. She was the gracious hostess when the Military Librarians Group held an evening program there in August 2004. +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Susan Randolph began an internship in the Congressional Research Service Legislative Relations Office onMicrosoft September 6. She is a public affairs Word.lnk coordinator and will focus on program evaluation. Susan is editor of the DCLA newsletter and a DCLA Director.

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Kristina Lively Director, Membership Chair ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ October 2005 Lisa A. Allen, Allison Brochu, Katrina M. Brown, Rebecca A. Cooper, MaShana A. Davis, Elizabeth D. Deahl, Jennifer R. Fick, Ann B. Gonzalez, Michelle D. Melencio, Laverne Page, Britton N. Perry, Jeff R. Prater, Christine Irene Romboletti, Carolyn M. Rudberg, Judith Salter-Davis, Dorothy E. Young November 2005 Sally Bosken, Patricia H Bristol, Christopher Damrosch, Barbara M. Flanagan, Veronica Foster, Nancy J. Freeman, Gretchen B. Gould, Nora Hart, Georgeann McLean Higgins, Mary Jamieson, LaVaughn Jones, Mariann K. Kumke, Ellen Leander, Eric A. Lindstrom, Amy K. H. Mahoney, Justine E. Morgan, Jennifer P. Olsen, Barbara R. Rosen, Ramona A. Schescke, Jean S. Simpson, Marian G. Taliaferro, Mary E. Williams, Christopher M. Zammarelli December 2005 Alice Jade Alburo, Jerrie Bethel, Ellen M Callinan, Carol F. Creech, Josh Duberman, Mary O. Fumento, Cindy C. Goodwin, Michael L. Gruenberg, James S. Hauger, Laura S. Hjerpe, Patricia W. Klosky, Joan K. McCarthy, Carolina Menendez, Michael J. Petro, Christine R. Rasmussen, Eddie Rozier, Jacque-Lynne A. Schulman, Guy St Clair, Matthew Straiges, Margarita S Studemeister, Karen L. Thomas, Sara Uehlein, Leonard Williams January 2006 Elizabeth A. Allin, Denise D. Bedford, Margaret G. Braly, Candice Byrne, Ginger R. Demille, Anna M. Denicolo, Rachel E. Dickason, Richard A. Dickey, Kathleen M. Dougherty, Jessica L. Dovi, Kineret A. Gable, Roberta Geier, Thomas C. Glad, Ronald H Hargis, Soo H. Kim, Franda Fang Liu, Carol MacAdam, Douglas T. Malerba, Christine A. Matthews, Kate McAloon, Ms. Irene Munster, Courtney F. O'Donnell, Joan M. O'Kane, Tina A Plottel, William L Rafferty, Carol H Reese, Ann P Snoeyenbos, Jennifer A. Spencer, Alyssa M. Strouse, Elizabeth C. Sutera, Rebecca B. Vargha, Steve Witherspoon

JOINT SPRING WORKSHOP 2006

21st-Century Competencies for Information Professionals Date: Tuesday, April 25, 2006

Keynote Speaker: Jane Dysart, Dysart and Jones We live in a highly competitive world where change is a way of life. A library’s performance, quality, accountability, and adaptability determine its survival. Information professionals must define the core competencies that we need to stay proactive and vital. In this one-day session, Roberta Shaffer, Executive Director of FLICC; Dr. Eileen Abels, Associate Professor, University of Maryland, College of Information Studies; Rose Dawson, Deputy Director, Alexandria Public Library; and Donna Scheeder, Director Law Library Services, Library of Congress, will identify competencies and solutions necessary for that survival. Time: 8:30 – 9:00am, Registration & Breakfast. Please arrive promptly at 8:30, when LC opens, so you have enough time to go through security, find the Mumford Room, get registered, and eat breakfast before the program begins at 9:00. 3:30 – 4:00pm, Approximate Conclusion. Place: Mumford Room, 6th Floor, Madison Building, Library of Congress Cost: $40.00 members, $20.00 students, and $60.00 non-members (includes continental breakfast and lunch). The tax ID number is 54-1079345. Registration: • To use PayPal go to www.dcla.org. • To bill the registration fee to your agency’s FEDLINK Education Training (FT) account, call Elinda Deans, 202-707-4848 • To pay by check make check payable to Joint Spring Workshop and mail with registration to: Laura Hjerpe, 2026 N. Vermont St., Apt. 301, Arlington, VA 22207 For more information email laura_hjerpe@yahoo.com or call 703-597-2806. No purchase orders or training request forms.

Registration form and check must be received by April 12, 2006. SPONSORS: District of Columbia Library Association (DCLA), Lead Sponsor; DC Chapter of Special Libraries Association (DC/SLA); Law Librarians’ Society of Washington, DC (LLSDC); Federal Library and Information Center Committee (FLICC)

Registration: Joint Spring Workshop, April 25, 2006 Name:_________________________________________________________________________________ Organization: __________________________________________________________________________ Affiliation: DCLA ___ DC/SLA ___ LLSDC ___ FLICC ___ Other (specify) ____ ____ Member, $40.00 _____ Student, $20.00 _____ Non-member, $60.00 If you will need a receipt, please check here: _______ The JSW complies with ADA. We can accommodate your needs provided you contact us by April 10, 2006. 14

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