Chapter Notes July/August 1999
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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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