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Volume 57, No. 3 November, 1997 CONTENTS: Joint DC/SLA, DCLA Holiday Party WORKSHOP ON CONFLICT MANAGEMENT DC/SLA New Website The President's Corner SLA Winter Meeting New DC/SLA Chapter Members Museum Library profile Reference on the Web report

THE WELL-ROUNDED PROFESSIONAL SERIES JOINT DC/SLA, DCLA HOLIDAY PARTY Date: Wednesday, December 10 Time: 6:00 p.m.

Place: Dave & Buster's Cost: z $20 (Members); z $25 (Nonmembers); z $12.50 (Students & Retirees).

A "power card" game token ticket, worth $5.00, will be given to every attendee, at no additional charge.

Dinner will be served.

The well-rounded professional has FUN and networks with his or her peers. Let's celebrate the holidays together at Dave & Buster's at White Flint Mall. Dave & Buster's will be offering us a delicious dinner of roast Cornish game hens with rice pilaf and other goodies. At the same time, we'll be able to socialize with our peers of the Washington DC/SLA chapter and the DC Library Association. And have a great time on Dave & Buster's "Million Dollar Midway" which features the latest in virtuality, simulators, as well as a variety of classic electronic games and sports! The West Group has generously offered to underwrite the cost of the "power card" game tokens for each SLA and DCLA member!!! Many thanks and our hats off to them!

Guests are welcome, including children, ages 10 and up.

Dave & Buster's is located at White Flint Mall, and there is plenty of parking available in the mall parking lot. D&B=92s is also accessible by the Metro (red line in the direction of Shady Grove). Exit White Flint station and look for the shuttle buses which are available from the station to the mall approximately every 15 minutes, or walk the two blocks south on Rockville Pike to the mall.

Send your registration by Monday, December 1st, to: DCLA, Holiday Party, Benjamin Franklin Station, P.O. Box 14177, Washington, DC 20044. Checks should be made out to DCLA. "Joint DC/SLA Party," Wednesday, December 10th:

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NAME:________________________________________ PHONE/E-MAIL:________________________________ ORGANIZATION:________________________________

The WELL-ROUNDED PROFESSIONAL SERIES: WORKSHOP ON CONFLICT MANAGEMENT Location: Washington Post Building Date: Tuesday, November 18 Time: 6:00 - 8:00 p.m.

Cost: z z z

$13 (Members); $14 (Nonmembers); $6.50 (Students & Retirees).

Human relations in a service environment is an important part of any information professional's job. How do you react? Can you diffuse a potentially unpleasant or even dangerous situation? Is there a co-worker you have difficulty dealing with? To learn to cope, attend a workshop on conflict management conducted by Martha Johns, Coordinator of Educational Theater Programs, Kaiser Permanente.

Directions: The Washington Post Building is two blocks from McPherson Square Station (on the Orange/Blue lines ) or 2-1/2 blocks from Farragut North (Red line). Downtown parking is available for a fee in the general neighborhood. The meeting room is located on the 9th floor. Please enter through the main entrance.

Send your name, organization, phone, e-mail address to Jenifer Grady, 1328 "E" Street SE, Washington, DC 20003 by Monday, November 10. Make checks payable to Washington DC SLA. Also - complete the following sentences: What bugs me most is... I'm not sure how to handle the patron who...I'll never forget when...

WE ARE ON THE WEB!!

The DC Chapter of SLA is now on the Web. You can access it at: http://www.capcon.net/dcsla Connect to the site and read: z z z z z

upcoming events; text of Chapter Notes; contact list of Board and Committee members; link to the SLA site for details on the SLA Winter Meeting; listserv information will soon be added.

Please take a moment to view the site and give us your comments.

The President's Corner: Chapter Online

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by Ellie Briscoe, DC/SLA President, ebriscoe@ngs.org Huzzah! The Chapter has a Web page! Please visit often and give us feedback. High praise to the Internet Committee: Greta Ober, Marisa Urgo, Eileen Rourke, Rosalind Scott and Webmaster Kristina Lively.

As Chapter President, I receive newsletters of the other SLA Chapters. I was intrigued to see what other groups are doing, and tickled by some of the newsletter titles. With the two lists scrambled to alphabetical order, can you match the bulletin to its chapter? (Answers at the bottom of this page.)

Cutting Edge District of Columbia Gold & Silver Gazette Informant The LaSoMi Newsletter The Pointer Queen City Gazette River City Reporter SLA Soundings Special Collections

Baltimore Chapter Notes (trick question) Cincinnati Heart of America Illinois Long Island Louisiana/Southern Mississippi Omaha Area Pittsburgh Sierra Nevada

Some titles are quite direct: SLA San Diego Bulletin, SLA/Southern California Chapter Newsletter, and so on. All were information professionals communicating with each other, reporting on meetings, discussing common interests. Newsletters reach all members of a Chapter, including those who do not have Web access, and remain a valuable tool. Here is what a few of the newsletters mentioned.

Fairfield County ran a bibliography on new library technology, and published the results of a local salary survey. Louisiana/Southern Mississippi is developing a web site, and running a one-day dualtrack Internet hands-on workshop for beginners and advanced users. Wisconsin is hosting the fourth Great Lakes Regional Conference with multiple concurrent sessions on topics such as Using the Internet, Positioning for Success and The One-Person Library. Illinois had a Fall Back to Work issue, featuring an article by Mary Ellen Murphy entitled "Work & play: an oxymoron?" and Cincinnati's lead article was "A library without walls does not mean a library without librarians," by Mary Lynn Wagner.

Long Island has a Student Outreach program in November, featuring interviewing tips plus "Library 101: Life in the Real World," and an educational meeting with a Census Bureau representative in February. Rio Grande Chapter ran an article on strategic planning in conjunction with a discussion of the SLA competencies document, and asked members to identify five critical issues facing their chapter and five critical issues facing the library/information science profession so the chapter can do its own strategic planning.

Since these were summer issues, most ran lists of the new chapter leadership, and summaries of the previous year's exploits. Most carried advertising; one had ads only for SLA products. Many carried articles by Chapter members profiling their libraries, reporting on visits to libraries overseas, or giving tips.

Let us know if you would like to see similar events or send us coverage, or if you have even better ideas. (I understand in teaching circles this is called "dissemination of good practice," not "stealing ideas.")

Winter Meeting in High Gear

by Dave Shumaker, Local Arrangements Chair, dshumake@mitre.org Chapter preparations for the upcoming SLA Winter Meeting and Winter Education Conference are

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now in high gear. Thanks to the many Chapter members who responded to last month's appeal, we're staffing up for a variety of volunteer opportunities. But we still have openings, and if you've been thinking about lending a hand, now's the time to come forward.

We're especially in need of volunteers who can give a couple hours during the meetings (Jan. 2227) to staff either the Conference Registration or Hospitality desks. To help with: Conference Registration, contact Laura Foy, 301/581-4755 or e-mail labuy@msn.com; Hospitality, contact Mandy Baldridge, 301/929-2665 or telesec@clark.net For other opportunities, check last month's Chapter Notes or contact me at 703/883-6947 or shumake@mitre.org For more details about Winter Meeting and Winter Education Conference, check out SLA's information at http://www.sla.org/conf_meet/web.html and http://www.sla.org/professional/wintered.html. Also watch for local arrangements information, prepared by Holly Chong-Williams, that will be linked to these sites and to our own Chapter site.

New DC/SLA Chapter Members Sharman Ballantine, US CIA Customer Services Center Cynthia Gerecht Audrey Greene, EBSCO Subscription Services Danielle Greene, Powell Goldstein Frazer Library Brian Hulvey, EBSCO Subscription Services Jennifer Ingersoll-Casey, RAND Sarah Ivey Suzanne Kincheloe, National Press Club Karla Pearce, Johns Hopkins University Eisenhower Library Neal Pomea Amy Ressing, West Group Julia Stetson Tiffany Wiens

Museum library

by Nancy Matthes, MIC@iafc.org One place where the staff of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum can rely upon for their information is its library, located in the same building at 100 Raoul Wallenberg Place SW in Washington, DC. Open since 1993, the library collection consists of approximately 34,000 volumes, according to Mark Ziomek, Library Director. In addition to books, the library collects videos, microforms, printed music, and serials. The Museum Archives and Photo Archives are separate departments.

Ziomek is responsible for developing the collection, devoted to the study of the Holocaust and genocide studies. The Library acquires several thousand titles each year. Ziomek also oversees the delivery of reference services as well as cataloging activities for the library. He serves as a liaison with other departments within the museum, as well as with other libraries and Holocaust Centers in the United States and throughout the world.

Over the last two years, Ziomek and his staff were instrumental in making changes to the LC

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Classification system and the Library of Congress Subject headings for Holocaust literature. "I developed and contributed over one hundred Holocaust-related subject headings for inclusion in LCSH as well as a revision to the Library of Congress Classification for literature of the Holocaust."

His previous experience includes working at the Library of Congress as a member of the Library of Congress Intern Program, a music cataloger, and senior cataloging policy specialist. He holds an AB degree from Bowdoin College (Brunswick, ME) in history and music, and an MS in LS degree from the University of Illinois (Urbana-Champaign, IL). He is a member of ALA, SLA, and ARLIS-NA. Ziomek supervises 10 staff whose top priority is the provision of services to the museum staff.

"After that, our primary users are family researchers, then researchers working on personal, historical research. We answer questions by phone, e-mail, letter, and, like other libraries, our email clientele is growing."

The US Holocaust Memorial Museum Library is open to the public every day from 10-5. The collection does not circulate, but the library has a limited interlibrary loan program. The reference desk can be reached at 202/479-9717 and by e-mail at library@ushmm.org.

Reference on the Web

by Greta Ober, gober-beauchesne@ifc.org The first program of "The Well-Rounded Professional Series" was a great success. No doubt, the selection of speakers caused it to be a sell-out event. The topic was "Reference on the Web", and it began with Mary Ellen Bates of Bates Information Services (mbates@batesinfo.com) discussing search engines and search strategies. She was followed by Holly Chong-Williams of Knight-Ridder Information, Inc., (holly_chong-williams@krinfo.com) discussing U.S. Government resources on the Web; then finally Deborah Smith-Cohen of the American Society of Association Executives (dscohen@asae.org) who talked about Internet reference training.

Mary Ellen shared some of her favorite sites and expertise in searching and covered when to search the 'Net and when not to. Some tips she offered are: search the 'Net when looking for basic information on an organization; for government sources; you need some buzzwords; you need a specific article (and know where to get it); you need passionate sources (e.g. death penalty); and you've got much more time than money. And when not to: you need authoritative sources; you need a comprehensive search; you need a retrospective search; you need it all and you need it fast! (Browse Mary Ellen's complete presentation by accessing her web page:http://www.batesinfo.com/) Holly's discussion of government resources started back in December of '94, when the GILS (Government Information Locator Service) began. Then came WINGS (Web Interactive Network of Government Services), which is sponsored by the U.S. Postal Service. It provides access to numerous services and links to other useful web sites. Some notable government sites were mentioned: Library of Congress, GPO, and FedWorld.

In discussing Internet training, Deborah reminded us of some important points: know your browser (be a good navigator); know key sites (especially in your industry); be aware of the various search engines; be knowledgeable in your own organization's internet/intranet; know your audience well enough to know how they want their information packaged. It's also important as the trainer to know a bit about the history the Internet. She also discussed length/frequency of training, who should provide the training and training resources available. | Home | Chapter Board | Chapter Committees | Chapter Notes | Chapter Listserv | webmaster

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