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Settling the Super Bowl Wager

Settling the Super Bowl Wager

The Game was a classic. The Pats played hard and with a little more time maybe, just maybe things would have been different.  But they are not. The New York Giants are Super Bowl Champions and we now SLA New England members, we must settle our Super Bowl bet with SLA New York…. together. For [...]

Programming 2012 and Beyond!

Programming 2012 and Beyond!

Happy New Year SLA New England! Do you want to be involved in programming in your local area?  Do you have awesome ideas for programming that you would like help to get off the ground?  Why not join me and become an SLA New England Program Lead for your geographic area! As a Program Lead [...]

Brown Bag Lunch: Text Mining, Query Formulation and the role of Information Professionals

Brown Bag Lunch: Text Mining, Query Formulation and the role of Information Professionals

January’s Brown Bag Lunch Topic will be Text Mining, Query Formulation and the role of Information Professionals. The program is co-sponsored by the SLA New England Chapter and SLA Pharmaceutical and Health Technologies Division Date: Tuesday January 10, 2012 Time: 12 noon-1:30 pm Place: Tufts Center for the Study of Drug Development, Suite 1100, 75 [...]

2011 Annual Business Meeting Recap – Name Change, Award Winners, and Passing the Gavel

2011 Annual Business Meeting Recap – Name Change, Award Winners, and Passing the Gavel

Happy Holidays Everyone! Last night was a historic night as the Chapter voted overwhelmingly to change its name from SLA Boston to SLA New England at the 2011 Annual Business Meeting held at the Calderwood Pavilion in Boston. The vote was passed by a majority of members who attended in-person and online.  The revised bylaws [...]

Hidden Career Opportunities for Librarians and Information Professionals: 5 Tips from the Pros

Hidden Career Opportunities for Librarians and Information Professionals: 5 Tips from the Pros

The following post was written by Candice Kortkamp. She studies cataloging, metadata, and research methodology at the Simmons College Graduate School of Library and Information Science. Librarians and information professionals possess highly transferable skills that are applicable to a wide range of workplace environments. As traditional roles are rapidly being replaced with new titles and [...]

Welcome to the SLA New England Community

Welcome to the SLA New England Community

September 20, 2011

As Chapter President, I like to welcome everyone to the SLA New England Chapter website.  Since 1910, our chapter has a long standing tradition of supporting the professional development and continued growth of librarians and information professionals. Our chapter covers Maine, Vermont, New Hampshire, Massachusetts, and Connecticut (except for Fairfield County) and has well over [...]

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Let’s Go Pats! SLA New England Accepts Super Bowl XLVI Challenge

Let’s Go Pats! SLA New England Accepts Super Bowl XLVI Challenge

February 3, 2012

Hello all, To kickoff Super Bowl weekend, SLA New England has accepted SLA New York’s challenge regarding the Super Bowl match up between the New England Patriots and New York Giants.   When the Giants lose, SLA New York will: Change Facebook and Twitter profile pictures to the winning team’s logo for one week. Post, [...]

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Chapter Discussion and Dine Around in Connecticut

December 19, 2011

Join fellow SLA New England members on Thursday, January 12th from 6:00pm to 8:00pm for a chapter discussion and dine around in Connecticut. Location and agenda details are as follows: Union Street Tavern 20 Union St Windsor, CT 06095-2512 tel. (860) 683-2899 http://unionstreettavern.com/ Agenda: 6:00 to 6:30 Networking 6:30 to 8:00 Dinner and Chapter Discussion [...]

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Annual Business Meeting: Incoming Chapter President Khalilah Gambrell’s remarks

December 8, 2011

Excerpts from Khalilah's remarks at the 2011 Annual Business Meeting. Thank you all for your support and faith in me to lead SLA New England. I am deeply honored and take the role with a deep and earnest commitment to provide tools and resources to all of our members and to promote these tools and resources to [...]

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Cannot attend the Annual Business Meeting in-person? Join us online.

December 6, 2011

For the Annual Business Meeting, we will offer members unable to attend, the ability to participate via web. Date: Thursday, December 8th Time: 6:15pm to 7:30pm Please register for the web meeting by 4pm on December 8th : https://www1.gotomeeting.com/register/368494273 Agenda: The business meeting will begin at 6:15pm, and include several votes (e.g., to approve the [...]

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Brief Introduction of Matthew Burt, Our Nomination for Treasurer Position 2012!

December 1, 2011

Matthew Burt is running for a second term as SLA Boston Treasurer.  He has been a Chapter member since 2008.  He is a Simmons GSLIS alum and is currently working at Roome & Guarracino, a structural engineering firm in Somerville, MA.

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Bio of Devon McArdle, Our Candidate for President-Elect 2012!

November 21, 2011

Devon McArdle graduated with her MLS from the Simmons GSLIS program in August of 2010.  She worked as library assistant at Draper Labs while in school and then as a document delivery librarian with the company for a year afterwards. Devon is currently employed as an Information Literacy Librarian at American International Collegein Springfield, MA.  Her involvement with [...]

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2011 SLA Boston Annual Business Meeting scheduled for December 8th

November 17, 2011

Join us for the 2011 Annual Business Meeting. We will be electing a President-Elect and Treasurer along with honoring outstanding SLA Boston members. Members will also vote on the name change from SLA Boston to SLA New England. Date: Thursday, December 8th Time: 5:45 to 6:15 for networking, 6:15 to 7:00 business meeting followed by [...]

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