Chapter Notes November 1999
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Vol. 59, No. 2 November 1999 Contents President's Corner Real Knowledge Management: Best Practices for Starting and Running a Knowledge Management Program DC/SLA Discussion List September Neighborhood Dinners Minutes of the September 14 DC/SLA Board Meeting Are You an Experienced Librarian? Libraries in Asia Need Books and Journals Members' News John Crosby: An Insider's View of Information Politics in Washington Annual Holiday Reception President's Corner Washington DC Chapter, Special Libraries Association By Nancy Minter, DC/SLA 1999-2000 President, nminter@ui.urban.org Virtually Yours.... SLA is working to become more of a virtual association. You can already go in and review your own membership information and update it as necessary. Staff are now fine-tuning the Who's Who Online, to improve retrieval time. They will soon be testing event registration, implementing a virtual exhibit hall, and more. You will see more about these membership benefits in Information Outlook. We will also try to keep you all posted via our Chapter discussion list, so be sure to subscribe -- and urge your colleagues to do so, too. DC/SLA still produces its Chapter Notes both in paper and on our web page, so that all members have easy access to all the news about our activities and our Chapter. Many chapters, however, have gone paperless, producing their newsletters online only. Some automatically subscribe all members to the discussion list, to be sure they are "connected." Meeting notices are mailed out via snail mail. This would be considerably easier in a chapter with 150 members and quarterly meetings. For our 1100+ members and our monthly programming information, we have opted to keep our paper newsletter, complete with event announcements, and our 10 issues per year frequency is unusual among SLA's chapters and divisions. Our Strategic Planning Committee, recently constituted, may bring us other recommendations on this score. A recent extension of the virtual association idea is to create a mechanism for communicating with candidates for SLA-wide office. Since the Minneapolis conference this summer, the current candidates have been working on a plan for enhancing SLA elections, beginning with this first one of the new century. Let me assure you that all of the usual paper aspects of the SLA election that you're used to will continue: interviews in Information Outlook, Winter Meeting speeches to the leadership, and mailed ballots. In addition, SLA Headquarters staff have created a discussion list for members to post questions to candidates, a web site archive where answers to the discussion list questions can be viewed, and a Candidates' Election Chat Room. As a group, the candidates have discussed such topics as virtual election netiquette and what
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