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Vol. 58, No. 10 July/August 1999 Contents President's Corner Neighborhood Dinners Coming Attractions DC/SLA Officers 1999-2000 Minutes of the May 11 DC/SLA Board Meeting DC/SLA Student Membership Award Help Wanted! President's Corner Washington DC Chapter, Special Libraries Association By Nancy Minter, DC/SLA 1999-2000 President, nminter@ui.urban.org I am very pleased and honored to be serving as the Chapter President this year, and, admittedly, a little nervous as I contemplate the enormity of the tasks ahead of me. Luckily, we have a large membership and many past presidents on whom, I trust, I may call for help and support as we carry out our plans for the next work year. So, what might those plans include? As I flip through the calendar and see the new millennium waiting for us, I have three principal areas on which I wish us to focus our attention in the coming year. First, we will continue our commitment to the Global 2000 fundraising effort. As you may know, Global 2000 will be an international conference held in Brighton, England in October of the year 2000. During the past year, we have held a series of special events to raise funds for this landmark symposium. Our chapter's goal is to raise $15,000 to help sponsor the participation of librarians from economically challenged countries. So far, we have raised more than two-thirds of this amount. For the coming work year, we are turning our efforts to grant seeking and some direct solicitation of other chapters and divisions. Members of our chapter will be assisting SLA select candidates to receive these sponsorships, and to mentor those selected. Funds raised will be used to provide transportation, registration, housing, and meals for attendees. If you haven't yet made your own personal contribution to this effort, I encourage you to do so. Second, we will develop and implement a five-year strategic plan. As we stand perched on the edge of a new millennium, we are at a perfect time to be planning for the years ahead. We will be building a new committee in the immediate future, and charging it with the tasks of evaluating the good and the less than good, determining how to improve and strengthen our chapter, and suggesting how to strategically position our chapter and ourselves to maximize our opportunities to learn, grow, and expand our horizons. The committee's recommendations will be based on member input as well as ideas it develops as a team. Third, we will constantly assess how we might involve more chapter members in our programs and leadership activities. We have begun to vary the days, times, and locations of our programs so that more members might be available to attend. We want to enrich our program planning to be sure it is teaching our members how to go beyond the traditional librarian's role, to impact their organizations' core strategies and operations. In short, to ensure that our professional development activities are on the leading edge, not the trailing edge.
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We want to reach out, through networking, through mentoring, and yes, through caring, to help each other, and thereby help ourselves and our profession, be stronger and more visible. Through this increased involvement, we will grow our chapter, not just in the number of members, but in the quality of the knowledge leaders we count among our members. To help foster professional development and caring, we will be trying a new idea -- we are creating a new position on the Advisory Committee: Mentoring Coordinator. This person will link chapter members who are practicing professionals with more experienced members who volunteer to serve as mentors. This Coordinator will take the place of the Employment Chair, whose position has been essentially replaced by discussion lists and Web postings of available job vacancies. If you'd like to help by mentoring others, I invite you to sign on to assist. As I begin my term, I thank you for your support in the past, and seek your support for the future as we set out together to fulfill our goals: z to continue our leading role in fundraising for Global 2000; z to develop and implement a strategic plan; and z to energize our membership and foster leadership opportunities. Please join with me: together, we can make these goals a reality. Return to contents
Neighborhood Dinners You are invited to the DC/SLA Neighborhood Dinners Making a great idea even better, we've expanded last year's "Neighborhood Dinners" events to more neighborhoods, more restaurants, and a choice of evenings! Now, wherever you are, whichever night you're free, come have dinner with twelve (or so) of your peers. All dinners are "Dutch Treat" so pick a place, pick a night, and come schmooze, network, and trade war stories with the best in the business - us! All dinner reservations are for 6:00 p.m. Tuesday, Sept. 21, 1999 Bethesda - Thyme Square, 4735 Bethesda Ave., Myra Engers Weinberg, Hostess (Red Line Bethesda Metro, 1 ½ blocks south on Wisconsin, 1 ½ blocks on Bethesda Ave.) z Capitol Hill - The White Tiger, 301 Massachusetts Ave. NE, Roger & Mary Haley, Hosts (Red Line to Union Station, 2 blocks) z Clarendon - La Cantina Havana Café, 3100 Clarendon Blvd., Daille Pettit, Hostess z
Wednesday, Sept. 22, 1999 z Adams Morgan - Utopia, 1418 U Street NW, Rick Davis, Host (1 ½ blocks from the Green Line, U Street station) z Alexandria - Stella's, 1725 Duke Street, Anne Caputo, Hostess z Bethesda - La Madeleine, 7607 Old Georgetown Rd., Kitty Boyd, Hostess (One block north of the intersection of Old Georgetown and Wisconsin Ave.; Red Line to Bethesda) z Foggy Bottom - West End Café, 1 Washington Circle NW (in the One Washington Circle Hotel), Linda Smith, Hostess
Thursday, Sept. 23, 1999
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Dupont Circle - Childe Harold, 1610 20th St. NW, Catherine Kitchell, Hostess (Red Line to Dupont Circle, walk one block north) z Friendship Heights/Chevy Chase - Clyde's, 70 Wisconsin Circle, Dave Shumaker, Host (Red Line to Friendship Heights, walk one block north on Wisconsin Ave.) z Metro Center - M & S Grill, 600 13th St NW, Barbara Folensbee, Hostess (Red Line to Metro Center, north on 13th) z Tysons Corner - Clyde's, 8332 Leesburg Pike, Mandy Baldridge, Hostess (At the intersection of Route 7 (Leesburg Pike) and Route 123) z
Name:____________________________Phone:________________ Organization:__________________________________________ Email Address:_________________________________________ __ This is my first DC/SLA event __ This is my first DC/SLA event __ Student __ SLA Member __ DCLA Member __ ASIS Member __ LLSDC Member RSVP by September 17, 1999 to: Mandy Baldridge, TeleSec/CORESTAFF, 11160 Veirs Mill Road, Suite 414, Wheaton, MD 20902; Fax 301-949-8729; email: mbaldridge@telesec.com Return to contents Coming Attractions Mark your calendar! Save these dates! Here's a tentative schedule of coming Chapter events. Watch for updates in coming issues of Chapter Notes: Wednesday, October 20: Evening meeting with heavy hors d'oeuvres. We're hoping John Crosby, Special Libraries Association Director of Public Relations and Government Relations, will join us with an update on major initiatives and issues. Bring your questions. z Thursday, November 18: Morning meeting with continental breakfast. Our topic will be "Knowledge Management (KM)." Hear from local information professionals who are introducing successful KM projects; find out what works and what doesn't. z Tuesday, December 7: Rev up the Holiday season and start the countdown to Y2K with your colleagues at the Chapter's annual holiday reception. z
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DC/SLA Officers 1999-2000 Chapter Board members: http://www.sla.org/chapter/cdc/board.html Chapter Committee members: http://www.sla.org/chapter/cdc/coms.html Return to contents
Minutes of the May 11 DC/SLA Board Meeting The DC SLA Board met at the Center for Strategic and International Studies. Global 2000 fundraising is going well. We have a goal of reaching fifteen thousand for the Global
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2000 conference and we have raised a total of $12,137. We raised about four thousand dollars from the Chamber Music Concert. Sharon Lenius will be looking into grants and matching funds for the Global 2000 Conference. Fred Heller announced the three new members who volunteered to be editors of Chapter Notes. They are the following: Johanna Cornwell; Amy Pass; and Eileen Deegan. A sample of the Inmagic Meeting Database was passed out during the Board meeting. The database is a list of the events and the number of people who attended the programs as well as a list of the people who actually attended. The Business Information Finders Group and the Legal Interest Group were recognized. The Business Information Finders Group is an informal group acknowledged as an unaffiliated group. The purpose is to increase awareness of business sources. Legal Interests group is preparing to become a formal affiliated group. The objective is to enhance the skills of the group. Return to contents
DC/SLA Student Membership Award Students, get acquainted with the Special Libraries Association and meet your future colleagues in Washington area libraries and information centers. For Free! DC/SLA announces its new Student Membership Award to increase awareness of the Special Libraries Association and the Washington, D.C. Chapter among students in the Nation's Capital. Two awards will be presented, one each to a student at the University of Maryland and Catholic University of America, consisting of: z z z
SLA student dues for one year ($35.00) free attendance at 3 DC/SLA chapter events of your choice free attendance at DC/SLA's holiday social in December
(Total value of the package is approximately $100.) Eligibility: Any student currently enrolled or accepted for enrollment in the library science program at U-MD or CUA. You will receive a check to use when paying your SLA membership dues. If you have already joined SLA within the 90 days prior to the contest deadline (November 1, 1999), you will be reimbursed for your basic dues. The contest: Submit an essay of 300-500 words on this year's topic, "Key challenges facing special librarians in the next century." Rules: Submit award application, available soon on the DC/SLA website (http://www.sla.org/chapter/cdc), attach your essay typewritten on 8.5x11 in. paper, include evidence of enrollment or acceptance to U-MD or CUA library science master's degree program. Mail your entry to: Special Libraries Association Student Membership Award
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P.O. Box 287 Benjamin Franklin Station Washington, D.C. 20044 Deadline: Entries must be received by November 1, 1999. Return to contents
Help Wanted! Chapter Notes Business Manager DC/SLA needs a business manager for the Chapter Notes newsletter. If you would like to exercise your organizational/managerial/financial skills and have an interest in becoming involved in DC/SLA, please contact: Nancy Minter, DC/SLA President nminter@ui.urban.org We look forward to hearing from you! Return to contents
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