SLA New England Archives are stored at Simmons College Archives in Boston, Mass. On this website, one can access information regarding:
Chapter History:
♦ The slider below was compiled and presented by the SLA NE Centennial Committee during the Annual Business Meeting in December of 2010. It presents the timeline of the chapter since conception. Please mouse over the slider to view the slides.
Of the 23 charter members of SLA at Mt. Washington Hotel, Bretton Woods, three were Bostonians; Frederick W. Faxon, Editor, Boston Bulletin of Bibliography; Daniel N. Handy, The Insurance Library of Boston (Association President 1912-14 & 1924-26), and Guy E. Marion, Arthur D. Little (Association President 1918-19).
First meeting of Boston Branch of the Special Libraries Association, the first city to establish a local presence.
Chapter opens Boston Cooperative Information Bureau.
Publication of Directory of Libraries and Other Sources of Information in Boston and Vicinity
Education Committee inaugurates annual courses in librarianship.
First bulletin, the Shock Absorber, begins publication. This continues through 1927, is succeeded by a section in the association's Special Libraries.
Boston Chapter News Bulletin begins publication.
Chapter begins providing technical book exhibit at annual Boston Herald Book Fair, and continues through 1947.
Chapter members create list of subject headings for the vertical files of the Civil Defense Library of the Massachusetts Committee on Public Safety, Planning and Technology Division.Volunteers from the chapter staff Information Booths for Servicemen at North and South Stations Chapter members develop bibliographies on such subjects as Blackout, Sabotage, Consumer and the War, Post-War Planning, and Medical Books for the Laity.
Directory of Special Libraries in Boston Vicinity and Member Libraries in New England.
Boston becomes major industrial and academic center for research and development, and the chapter's Science-Technology group becomes active with meetings, workshops, and training courses. Business and finance, insurance and publishing also continue as major interests.
Celebration of 50th Anniversary.
"A Day on the Job" inaugurated and continues through 2010, opportunity for Simmons College library science students to spend a day at the libraries of chapter members.
Celebration of 75th Anniversary.
Celebration of 75th Anniversary.
SLA Annual Conference held in Boston.
Organization of chapter archives and transfer from Boston Public Library to Simmons College Archives is completed.
Chapter discussion list was started at Babson College.
Workshops are videotaped and sold to members unable to attend, or who attended and wish to have a record.
Workshops are videotaped and sold to members unable to attend, or who attended and wish to have a record.
Chapter web site is started.
SLA Annual Conference held in Boston.
Website for attendees was created.
Inauguration of online version of chapter bulletin. Last paper issue of chapter bulletin.
Young Professionals Committee began. Soon renamed as New Professionals. Programming for Maine, NH, Southern, and Western regions expanded.
Chapter receives Information Technology Division Outstanding Technology Programming Award in recognition of the most inspired, cutting edge, and innovative chapter technology programming of the 2004-2005 year.
Merger with Connecticut Valley Chapter.
Centennial Celebration.
Centennial Celebration.
On December 8, 2011 SLA Boston officially changed its name to SLA New England. The Chapter board passed a vote to change the name of the chapter from SLA Boston to SLA New England.
On February 1st 2012, the SLA New England Chapter launched its new website on WordPress from Wiki.
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31♦ Click to download a PDF of Past Chapter Officers since 1918.
♦ Click to download a PDF of original document listing of SLA-New England Officers 1918-1941
♦ Click to download a PDF of the document prepared by Ruth Kertzer Seidman for the SLA New England Centennial.
Meeting Minutes:
♦ Click here to view Past Meeting Minutes and SLA Shock Absorber Newsletter.
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