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Past Programming for UCLA SLA during 2004-2005 academic year
Fall 2004
Informational
Meeting (Oct 4)
Voyager Training (Oct 6)
Personal Knowledge Management (Oct 11)
Westwood Mixer (Oct 14)
Virtual Reality Tour (Oct 15)
Networking Luncheon (Oct 20)
Fashion
Institute Tour (Oct 21)
Panel
of Special Librarians (Nov 15, 2004)
Winter 2005
Resume
Writing Panel (Jan
20, 2005)
Cataloging
Panel (Feb
3, 2005)
Quantum
2 Presentation (Feb 3, 2005)
Panel
of Business Librarians (Mar 1, 2005)
Spring 2005
Academic Librarians' Panel (April 28)
Cross-Training for Librarians and Archivists: SLA Archives Project (April 29)
Fourth Annual UCLA-SCC Dinner (May 11)
Movie Night (May 18)
Landing the Job: Job Search Strategies (May 19)
Informational
Meeting
Date: Monday, October 4th, 2004
First Meeting: 1:00 PM - 1:30 PM
Second Meeting: 1:30 PM - 2:00 PM
Room: GSEIS 245
Join us to meet the SLA crew. We're happy to take programming suggestions or answer questions about SLA or the IS program in general.
In order to allow students to attend both the ALA booksale and SLA's first meeting on October 4th, SLA will hold back-to-back meetings at 1:00 and 1:30.
UCLA's
Voyager online catalog system blasts off into a new universe in 2004: Learn
about the replacement for the Orion2 system being used by the UCLA Library
system
Date: Wed, October 6th, 2004
Time: 1-2 PM
Room: GSEIS 111
Presenter: Miki Goral, YRL Instructional Services
Come learn about the new OPAC system implemented by UCLA this summer.
Organize
your life: Personal Knowledge Management (PKM) with Aura Lippincott
Date: October 11th, 2004
Time: 5:30 PM - 6:30 PM
Room: GSEIS 121
Presenter: Aura Lippincott, Rosenfeld Management Library, Anderson School
of Management, UCLA
Come get organized before the new school year starts with your own personalized
knowledge management system.
Pizza will be provided, so please RSVP to sla@ucla.edu so we can
have plenty of food for everyone!
Join us in the evening to get acquainted with your fellow students and the
officers of SLA and ALA. This event is being co-sponsored.
Date: Thursday, October 14th, 2004
Time: 4:00 PM - 7:00 PM
Location: Acapulco
(Map) 1109 Glendon Ave
Los Angeles, CA 90024-3501
Acapulco's Website
Join us for an evening of conversation and conviviality. Co-sponsored
with ALA, ALE, AMIA, and Horn Press.
Happy Hour Specials
$3.95 Margaritas, $2.50 Tequila shots, and half off
all appetizers
Holodeck
here we come! Take a tour of UCLA's Visualization Portal and experience Virtual
Reality
Date: October 15th, 2004
Time: 11:30 AM - 1:00 PM
Location: 5628 Math Science Bldg, UCLA
Portal's Website
Walking Directions
We will meet in front of GSEIS at 11:30 and depart for the math science building
at 11:45.
Please RSVP to sla@ucla.edu
Networking
with Information Professionals: Lunch at Chili's in Westwood
Date: October 20th, 2004
Time: 11:30 AM - 1:30 PM
Location: Chili's Restaurant
(Map)
1056 Westwood Blvd
Los Angeles, CA 90024-2903
Phone: (310) 481-2228
Please RSVP to sla@ucla.edu by October 17, 2004.
Meet in front of GSEIS at 11:00 AM to walk to Chili's, we will depart by 11:10
AM.
Or feel free to meet us there. Participants will purchase their own meals.
Take
a tour on the well-dressed side: Tour the Library of hte Fashion Institute
of Design and Merchandising
Date: October 21st, 2004
Time: 2 PM - 5 PM
Location: Fashion Institute of Design and
Merchandising
FIDM's Website
Address:
Fasion Institute of Design and Merchandising
Los Angeles Campus
(Map) 919 S Grand Ave
Los Angeles, CA 90015-1421
Please RSVP to sla@ucla.edu. Carpooling will be arranged.
Panel
of Special Librarians
Date: Monday, November 15, 2004
Time: 6 PM - 8 PM
Location : 245 GSEIS
Join us for free pizza
and a panel of special librarians.
The librarians will discuss their careers and their thoughts on entering the
profession.
The first hour will be a panel discussion and the second hour be a question and answer session.
Lynda Bunting, Arts Librarian, Museum of Contemporary Art
Mark Holmes, Entertainment Librarian, Twentieth
Century Fox Research Library
Robin Mayper, News Researcher, Los Angeles Times
Alison Becker, Senior Research Analyst (Philanthropic
Donations Researcher), UCLA
Marisol Ramos-Lum, Marine Biology Librarian, Cabrillo
Marine Aquarium
The panel was well-received.
Resume
Writing Panel
Date: January 20, 2005
Time: 2 - 4 PM
Room: GSEIS 121
Come hear from our speakers on how to write the resume to get the job you want.
The UCLA Career Center is sending two representatives, Mr. Jayshree Radhakrishnan, a career counselor, and Don Spring, their career librarian. Visit the Career Center's homepage.
Belinda Beardt, Chief Operating Officer of Advanced Information Management (AIM) will share her experience. AIM specializes in Library and Information Staffing. Visit AIM's homepage.
Pat Hawthorne, the Director of UCLA's Libraries' Human Resources Department will also share her thoughts.
This event is being co-sponsored with the ALA Student Chapter at UCLA.
Cataloger's
Panel
Date: February 3, 2005
Time: 2 - 4 PM
Room: GSEIS 121
This panel will feature presentations by four alumni of UCLA's information studies program. Michael Lauruhn, Andrea Leigh, and Angela Riggio, and Caroline R. Miller.
Mr. Lauruhn currently works as a developer of categorization and metadata tools. His resume is available here.
Andrea Leigh is the metadata librarian at the UCLA Film and Television Archive and Chair of the Moving Image Collections' Education and Outreach Committee.
Angela Riggio is Head of the E-resources Cataloging and Metadata Section at UCLA.
Caroline R. Miller is Head of the Monographic Cataloging and Authority/Database Maintenance Sections at UCLA.
This event is being co-sponsored with the ALA Student Chapter at UCLA.
Quantum
2 presentation by Heidi Porth of Dialog
Date: Feburary 3, 2005
Time: 6:15 PM - 8:00 PM
Room: GSEIS 121
Presenter: Heidi Porth, Dialog corporation
URL for Quantum 2
Learn about Quantum 2, a continuing education tool sponsored by Dialog, a division of Thomson Publishing.
The presentation will be: Leading the Way: Trends & Best Practices in the Information Professional Role.
Description: In a working environment characterized by relentless change, leadership is a necessary ingredient for professional success. This session focuses on how information professionals can define and communicate a vision of their role and the value of the information center to stakeholders within their organizations. Information trends, challenges and best practices are offered as context for the effective positioning of the value of the information service. This session sets the framework within which all other sessions interconnect and interrelate with each other.
Please join the UCLA Student Chapter of SLA and IS 256 for a panel focusing
on business reference.
Linda Heichman, Business Librarian, Cal State Fullerton
Lindy Lecaros, Librarian, Jefferies & Company, Inc., Investment Banking
Library
Cookie Lewis, Independent Information Specialist, InfoMania
Robert Timmerman, Business Subject Specialist, Los Angeles Public Library
Date: Tuesday, March 1st
Time: 7:00 PM to 8:30 PM
Place: GSEIS Room 121
Pizza will be served along with light refreshments. Open to all graduate students.
RSVPs gladly accepted. RSVP to sla@ucla.edu.
This is a GSA-sponsored event.
Date: April 28, 2005
Time: 6:30- 8:00 PM
Room: GSEIS 111
Come join SLA and ALA for an inside look at academic librarianship.
The following panelists have graciously agreed to share their experiences and insights with us.
- Scott Breivold, Media, Communications & Art Librarian. University Library, California State University, Los Angeles.
- Chris Coleman, Reference Librarian. Young Research Library, UCLA
- John Dobbins, Electronic Resources Librarian, Occidental College
- Miki Goral, Reference and Instruction Librarian, Young Research Library, UCLA
- Deborah Moore, Instruction Librarian, Glendale Community College
- Dorothy Potter, Technical Services Librarian, Pasadena City College
- Dominique Turnbow, Reference Librarian, Louise A. Darling Biomedical Library, UCLA
See you there.
Cross-Training for Librarians and Archivists: SLA Archives Project
Date: Friday, April 29, 2005
Time: 10 AM - 3 PM
Location: The Aerospace Corporation
The SLA SCC archive has been managed in recent years, but could use some weeding, some preservation, and some TLC. Neal Axton and the SLA SCC archivist Joyce Hardy are working together to develop a proposal for the collection to present to the SLA SCC board.
Part of the archive has already been digitized and you can view it here.
You can read the SLA Practices for Chapter Archives if you are interested in learning more. The Aerospace Corporation is an interesting venue and is a rich source of members of SLA SCC.
Date: Wednesday, May 11, 2005
Time: 6 PM
Room: Moore Reading Room, Moore 3340
Join us for our annual dinner where we entertain the Southern California Chapter and students and professionals break bread together.
Janice R. Lachance, the executive director of SLA National, will attend the meeting, which has us all abuzz at SLA. There will also be a display showcasing SLA history presented by the SLA SCC Archives as well.
Date: Wednesday, May 18, 2005
Time: 6:30 PM
Room: GSEIS 121
After the panel of library leaders, grab some dinner and then join us for a movie!
We will be showing the wacky love story, Foul Play where Goldie Hawn plays a librarian who falls for a cop played by Chevy Chase.
A camp classic, don't miss it!
Landing the Job: Job Search Strategies
Date: Thursday, May 19, 2005
Time: 1:00 - 3:30 PM
Room: GSEIS 111
Join us for a panel of placement experts who will help you learn how to land that perfect job. Panelists will include:
Belinda Beardt, Chief Operationg Officer, Advanced Information Management
Keith Gurtzweiler, Recruiter, Library Associates
Susan Scheiberg, Assistant Library Director, RAND Corporation & SLA Member