Join fellow SLA New England and Art Libraries Society of North America/New England (ARLIS/NE) members for a Spring Program at EBSCO Publishing on Friday, June 1st in Ipswich, MA.

Agenda

9:30-10:00 – Arrival, coffee, greetings
10:00-10:30 – Sam Brooks (Executive Vice President, Sales & Marketing)– Presentation on new products and services
10:30-11:00 – Editorial and Product Management Staff – Discussion of H.W. Wilson resources including Art Source, feedback about current products
11:00-noon – Tour of the EBSCO Publishing facilities including our Editorial Department and their scanners, our servers, and the rest of the campus
12:00-1:00 — Lunch – Chapter announcements and discussion
1:00 -2:30 — Ipswich Museum and John Whipple House tours

Cost:Free (including lunch and tours of the nearby Ipswich Museum and Whipple House)

Location: EBSCO Publishing, 10 Estes Street, Ipswich, MA (800) 653-2726

Public Transportation: Commuter Rail Stop: Ipswich on the Newburyport/Rockport line. It is literally a minute walk from the main building.

Driving Directions and Parking: Parking is free and available but we need to know how many spaces to reserve. Google Map Directions

RSVP Deadline: For an approximate attendee account, the registration deadline is Sunday May 20, 2012.  Please register at http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/arlis_sla_ebsco

Contact: Khalilah Gambrell, gambrell9899 AT SIGN gmail.com

Join us for this afternoon event on May 17^th from 3pm-5pm.  The three speakers highlighted below will be discussing innovative and creative projects in which they have been involved within their companies.  Coffee and refreshments provided!

The event will be followed by a pay-your-own-way dinner at Flatbread Company

Location:

Pierce Atwood LLP

254 Commercial St.

Directions

Speakers:

Emily Florio, the Manager of Libraries & Library Information Systems at Fish & Richardson will discuss how her department has used various types of technology and resources to support her firm’s strategic initiatives.  Emily will show how her department  has embraced SharePoint and other software, including APIs, CUIs and widgets to create customized tools.  Come learn how you can offer customized access points to content that will drive resource utilization and deliver value to your firm in new and innovative ways.

Tom Clark, the Knowledge Services Team Lead at the MITRE Corp., will dive into the modern news distribution world and discuss how the MITRE Information Services staff create and deliver 17 newsletters to MITRE staff. He’ll describe the platforms that MITRE uses and why and also talk about the future of news delivery and how social media, devices and apps are changing the way we look at the news.

Betty Edwards, a Senior Research Analyst at Draper Lab in Cambridge, will discuss two major initiatives that have extended the scope of information services.  The first is an innovative e-mail filtering service for hundreds of Google and Google Scholar alerts, which are distributed daily to Lab employees.  Through programming and the creation of shell scripts, a new delivery mechanism was designed that bypasses Microsoft Outlook.  The second initiative involves the investigation, implementation, roll-out, and marketing of the Lab’s membership in an R&D organization known as IRI – the Industrial Research Institute.  It provides the Draper community with insights, solutions, and best practices in innovation management developed through collaborative knowledge creation.

Use SurveyMonkey to Register here!

There is no charge for this event beyond what you eat and drink if you stay for dinner, but we would appreciate it if you could register by end of day on Monday May 14th.

• Questions?  Contact Kami Bedard, kbedard@pierceatwood.com

What are you doing for dinner on Thursday March 29th?  Join Past-President Nancy Burt and other SLA NE colleagues for a dine around at Mandarin Restaurant in Reading MA!

There is no charge for this event beyond what you eat and drink, but we would appreciate it if you could register by the end of day on Tuesday March 27th. Walk-ins are always welcome!

Register here.

Questions? Contact Nancy Burt at nancy.b.burt@gmail.com

Hope to see you there!

SLA New England Student Relations Committee Invites you to Participate in our Annual Day on the Job!

Dear SLA New England Members,

The SLA New England student relations committee is pleased to announce the annual “Day on the Job” (DOTJ) program for LIS students. This popular program enables students to meet with practicing professionals and to learn more about their jobs, work environments, and career history and objectives. The program has proven to be highly beneficial to students as they explore different work situations. In some cases it has had a direct impact on a student’s career choice. We invite you to be a host to one or several of these students.

Despite its name, the DOTJ does not involve a particular day or format. The date and time can be whenever the student and host finds to be mutually convenient, although usually the best time for students is during the school semester. The format is also flexible, ranging from a day-long job “shadowing”, to a series of interviews, to a library tour, to a conversation over a cup of coffee. Any time you are able to share with a student will be appreciated.

In keeping with the SLA New England name change, we hope to invite the students from GSLIS West, Southern Connecticut and beyond to participate. If you are based in these two areas (or Maine, Vermont or New Hampshire!), please consider being a host. Additionally, membership in SLA is not required for host or student participation so feel free to send this announcement to your colleagues off-list.

To sign up as a host, please complete the Host Sign Up online form . Also, we have another survey for those students who are interested in being a part of this program and experience a “Day on the Job“. To sign up as a student, please fill out the Student Sign Up form. We would appreciate receiving your response by Friday, March 23rd. Once we have determined which student(s) are the best match for your situation, we will email the contact information to you in April.

If you have any questions please contact Chris Hurd, Student Relations Committee, at churd82(at)gmail.com

Please join Bentley Library on Thursday, March 29, for the spring installment in the Bentley Library Information Literacy Series, featuring Laura Saunders, assistant professor at the Simmons College Graduate School of Library and Information Science. Light refreshments will be available in LaCava 325AB at 3:30 pm, with the event getting underway at 4:00 pm.

Laura Saunders, Assistant Professor, Simmons College Graduate School of Library and Information Science
Prof. Saunders is a former academic reference and instruction librarian who holds master’s and doctoral degrees in library and information science from Simmons. She is an expert on information literacy and will speak about the future of information literacy—how research and evaluation skills transfer from high school to college, and from college to beyond, and how faculty and students both contribute to students’ ongoing learning of information literacy skills and concepts.

More information about Prof. Saunders and her research and teaching is available on the Simmons College GSLIS website.

Please RSVP to Liz Galoozis by March 15 if you plan to bring a class to the event or will require students to attend.

SCIP Connecticut Chapter & SLA New England
Present

The Next Generation of Intelligence Analysis: Preparing Your KITs+1 for the Journey

Speaker:  Dr. Craig Fleisher, Chief Learning Officer for Aurora WDC
 
Connecticut Center for Advanced Technology
East Hartford, Connecticut

Tuesday, March 6th, 2012
5:30-7:30 PM

 The next generation of intelligence analysis looks very different from the analysis done in our organizations over the past few years. Driving forces, including needs to address the growing complexity of competitive and environmental factors, better dealing with the global explosion of data available, and the urgent need for alternative cognitive models, among other things, have brought intelligence analysis to a tipping point. Based on nearly two decades of research conducted with hundreds of global organizations, Dr. Craig S. Fleisher, the “Dean of Intelligence Analysis” will discuss how analysis practices and processes need to be re-engineered to meet rapidly changing needs of decision-makers. Dr. Fleisher will illustrate several “next generation” analytical elements, the development of structured analytical methodology including the means for uniting key intelligence topics (KITs) and analytical techniques in a framework known as KITs+1™, collaborative insight mechanics driven by Web 2.0 applications such as wikis, and new models for training and development like the one called Analytical Fitness™ that Aurora is using with its own analysts and clients.

Dr. Craig S. Fleisher is the Chief Learning Officer for Aurora WDC, where he develops custom, executive training programs for organizations intent on building and leveraging their intelligence analysis capabilities for achieving competitive advantage. He is a former SCIP President, inaugural chair of the CI Foundation,  Editor of the Journal of Competitive Intelligence and Management, SCIP Fellow and Meritorious Award winner, SCIP’s highest international honor. Dr. Fleisher has also served as dean of two business schools, been a university research chair  holder, has written/co-written over a hundred academic articles, and half a dozen CI books including his foundational efforts Strategic and Competitive Analysis (Prentice Hall, 2003) and Business and Competitive Analysis (FT Press, 2007).  A popular global speaker,  he is also  affiliated on the graduate faculties of Università della Svizzera italiana in Switzerland, Tampere University of Technology (Finland) and Leicester Business School, UK, among others.

Date/Time:  March 6^th, 5:30 – 7:30 PM

Location: Connecticut Center for Advanced Technology, 222 Pitkin Street, East Hartford, CT 06108

Directions:  http://www.ccat.us/directions.php

Agenda:        5:30-6:15  Networking

6:15-7:15  Presentation

7:15-7:30  Q&A

Cost:      $15  SCIP/SLA Member

$20  Non-member

Registration:  http://www.scip.org/Training/EventsDetail.cfm?itemnumber=15898

For more information, contact:

Fred Wergeles

SCIP-CT Chapter Chair

860.408.9093

Fred@IntelStrategy.com

Date: Wednesday February 29th, 2012

Time: 12 noon-1:30 pm

Place: Congregational Library, 14 Beacon Street, 2^nd Floor, Boston, MA 02108

Directions:  On Beacon Hill, just a block from the State House and Boston Common. Use of Public transportation is recommended. The nearest MBTA stop is Park Street. Upon exiting Park Street Station, walk up Park Street toward the State House. Turn right onto Beacon Street. No. 14 is down the block on your right. Government Center and State Street stops are also short walks away. On street parking in the area is very limited. There are a number of parking garages in the area including the Common Garage if planning to drive.

Cost: Free. Bring your brown bag lunch. Cookies and beverages will be provided by the Congregational Library.

Description: Networking and Roundtable Discussion: Come share creative ideas/programs/outreach that you or your library has been using to promote and market the library services and/or expertise. What’s working and what’s not!

Register by Friday February 24th, 2012: http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/FebBrownBag

Questions? Claudette Newall, 617-523-0470, cnewhall(AT)14beacon.org