DC/SLA Chapter Notes - January 1999

Chapter Notes January 1999

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Vol. 58, No. 5 January 1999 Contents Navigating the Funding Maze: The Smart Librarian's Guide to Foundation Center Resources President's Corner Call for Nominees for Chapter Awards From the Board....

News Libraries & the Newsroom: Strategies for Change Global 2000 fellowships Books for All! 1999 Legal Research Institutes I & II DC/SLA Chapter Leadership Navigating the Funding Maze: The Smart Librarian's Guide to Foundation Center Resources Date: Wednesday, February 10, 1999 Time: 6:00 - 8:00 p.m.

Place: The Foundation Center 1001 Connecticut Ave., NW - Suite 938 Washington, DC 20036 Register soon! Registration is limited to 50 members RSVP by February 3, 1999 to: Mandy Baldridge, Telesec/CORESTAFF, 11160 Veirs Mill Road, Suite 414, Wheaton, MD 20902. Have a question? E-mail: mbaldridge@telesec.com ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Name:

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Cost: SLA member - $10 SLA student/retiree member - $5 Non-member - $15 This is my first DC/SLA event ______ Please make checks payable to DC/SLA Return to contents

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The President's Corner

By Daille Pettit, DC/SLA President, dpettit@ahma.com In the next few months, the Strategic Planning Committee, led by Kari Anderson, will be meeting to map out the future of the D.C. Chapter. It's been almost 10 years since our chapter developed a strategic plan, so it's certainly time for us to do another. One of the first things the committee will do is to survey chapter members to determine what you appreciate about the chapter, what activities you feel are relevant, what you don't like about the chapter, and what direction you think the chapter should take into the next millennium.

In preparation for this process, I encourage you to spend a few quiet minutes now to analyze why you are a member of the Special Libraries Association. Does your membership in the D.C. Chapter provide you the opportunities to take advantage of that membership? In other words, if one of the major reasons you belong to SLA is for networking opportunities, do chapter events provide you with the right venue for you to network with the type of special librarians you want to meet? If not, why not? If your goal is professional development, is the chapter offering the kinds of programs you need for your own professional development?

What the leadership of DC/SLA needs is member comments, suggestions and ideas, and a membership survey will be an excellent tool to get your input. Your feedback will be even more valuable if you've had a chance to think about what you want out of DC/SLA and if you're willing to express those thoughts to us. In the meantime, of course, you can always share your opinions with me at dpettit@ahma.com or call me at 202/289-3192.

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Call for Nominees for Chapter Awards!

This next May, two chapter awards will be presented at the annual business meeting and banquet.

These are the Washington, D.C. Chapter Board of Directors' Award and the Member of the Year Award.

The Board of Directors' Award is given to an individual or group, who may or may not be a member of DC/SLA, in recognition of a special achievement or contributions to the field of special librarianship.

The Member of the Year Award is presented to a D.C. Chapter member for outstanding contributions to the chapter, public service activities, assistance in professional development, promotion of special librarianship, or publication of a professional paper.

If you know of any worthy candidates, please contact either of the Awards Committee Co-Chairs, Roger Haley at rogerhaley@aol.com or Rick Davis at rdavis@uli.org.

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The Chapter Board met at the Center for Strategic and International Studies on November 10, 1998. z

Freedom Forum requested that the raffle and coin collection for the Book for All project not take place at the Global 2000.

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The Mellon Foundation may be approached about a grant for the Global 2000.

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The Winter Meeting will be held in San Francisco, January 23-25. The theme of the conference is "Crossing the Bridge to the 21st Century."

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In January, the professional development event, "Life in the Fast Lane - Coping with the Change" will be presented by the West Group.

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The Student Affiliations Chair met with the University of Maryland's Student Board. At the meeting, there was a discussion on merging the student ASIS and SLA Chapters. Since the ASIS chapter had a limited number of members, the merger would encourage more people to join ASIS. The Board decided this was not a chapter issue, but recommended the Student Affiliations group at SLA headquarters examine and decide on this issue.

Contact Laura Foy, Recording Secretary, for a complete copy of the minutes. She can be reached at 202/2962920 or labuy@msn.com.

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News Libraries & the Newsroom: Strategies for Change The increasing importance of information access in the newsroom requires new alliances between the news library and the newsroom. At a "News Research & the Newsroom" seminar at the Poynter Institute in December, teams of researchers, editors and reporters from six newsrooms gathered to develop strategies for changing roles and relationships. Here's your chance to gain from and participate in an ongoing discussion that affects us all.

Monday, February 1, 1999 12:30-2:00 (light lunch and drinks provided) Library of Congress Congressional Reference Division, Conference Room, Room LM 215 Madison Building 101 Independence Ave., S.E. To register, contact Ruth Leonard by January 22, The Washington Post, 202/334-6545 or leonardr@washpost.com. Limited to 15 participants.

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Global 2000 fellowships At this time of year it is good to keep charity in mind for the less fortunate and also to think about making tax deductible charitable contributions. We are just $162.60 short in reaching the Global 2000 goal of $6,000 before the end of the year.

Thank you to Rea and Richard Austin, who have led the way for us by their $300 tax deductible contribution to the Global 2000 Fellowships. We have now raised $5,837.40 since April 1998 to send librarians from developing countries to the Global 2000 Meeting in Brighton England in October 2000.

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Please help fill in the gap and send your contribution to DC/SLA, Marilyn Bromley, Treasurer, Bureau of National Affairs Inc library, 1231 25th Street NW, Room N2000, Washington, DC 200371197.

Raffle Winners At the Annual Christmas party, 19 lucky winners collected their raffle prizes. Congratulations to: The Disclosure Inc. donation of a one year license to Global Access Internet Service comprising access to Disclosure's EDGAR, SEC Filings Index, Insider Trading Information, and Worldscope Co. Reports, valued at $21,000. Winner: Bryan Saltsgauer of The Mills Corp.

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A one-year subscription to the Worldscope Database via the new Dow Jones Interactive internet platform, valued at $20,000. Winner: Donna Scheeder of the Congressional Research Service.

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Two round trip tickets anywhere in the continental US, provided by our SLA travel agent Champion-Kail Travel. Winner: Sharon Lenius.

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Estelle Alexender (2), Marilyn Bromley(2), Sharon Lenius(2) and Chris Windheuser(3!) bought several tickets and each won more than one prize!

Special thanks to all the other prize donors, and ticket sellers and buyers. We made $625.00 on the raffle.

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Books for all!

Got any foreign coins just sitting around? Send them as a donation to Books for All, an organization which delivers books to the poorest of children in developing countries. They deliver books by camel, donkey cart, whatever mode of transportation is available in their rural settings. It is a solid organization run out of Munich by a professional librarian, who receives no compensation, and spends all of her time working on the project.

DC/SLA collected quite a few coins at the Christmas party. Special thanks to Telesec for their donation of $100 to Books for All. You can also order very attractive calendars featuring Books for All's work for children ($10 each) and note cards ($1 each). Send Sue O'Neill Johnson an e-mail at sjohnson3@worldbank.org if you're interested. Send foreign currency to Sue at 10957 Rocky Mount Way, Wheaton, MD 20902.

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1999 Legal Research Institutes I & II The Law Librarians' Society of Washington Education Committee presents the Legal Research Institutes -- hands-on all day programs aimed at those working in law libraries who want to sharpen their research skills and non-law library personnel and paralegals with limited experience using basic American legal sources.

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Dates: Tuesday, March 30, 1999 Thursday, April 1, 1999 Topics: Primary Law - Cases; Legislative History Sources; Primary Law - Statutes; Administrative Law Secondary Sources; Internet Resources; Looseleaf Services; Updating Your Research Place: George Washington University Jacob Burns Law Library 716 20th Street Washington, DC 20052 Time: 8:30 am - 5:00 pm Cost: LLSDC members:$30 each day Non-members:$75 each day z

Limited enrollment (Includes a morning continental breakfast and mid-afternoon snack)

Mail registration to: Jane Walsh, E.B. Williams Law Library, 111 G Street NW, Washington, DC 20001, phone: 202/662-9199.

--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Registration by mail only by March 15, 1999 Make check payable to: Law Librarians' Society of Washington, DC Name:

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Please indicate: ___Legal Research Institute I: Tuesday March 30, 1999 ___Legal Research Institute II: Thursday April 1, 1999 ___LLSDC member ___Non-member Registration will be confirmed by fax or mail. Note: Contributions, gifts, dues or registration fees paid to the Society are not deductible as charitable contributions for federal tax purposes.

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DC/SLA Chapter Leadership For a listing of DC/SLA Board members: http://www.sla.org/chapter/cdc/board.html For a listing of DC/SLA Committee members: http://www.sla.org/chapter/cdc/coms.html

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