Gersten-Sternheim Memorial Scholarship deadline is June 30

Just a reminder that the deadline for applications to the 2011 Karen Gersten-Sternheim Memorial Scholarship is June 30, 2011.

For more information please visit the Karen Gersten-Sternheim Memorial Scholarship page on the SLA-SCC website by following this link www.sla-scc.org/web_pages/student_programs_section/sternheim_scholarship.html

The $3,000 Karen Gersten-Sternheim Memorial Scholarship is awarded annually by, and at the discretion of, the Southern California Chapter of the Special Libraries Association [SLA], and provides assistance to a student who is pursuing a career in special librarianship.

Deb Hunt podcast now available

Courtesy of SLA Europe, a fifteen minute interview with SLA President-Elect candidate is available as a podcast at http://www.sla-europe.org/2011/06/10/new-podcast-interview-with-president-elect-candidate-deb-hunt/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+sla-europe%2FAEYb+%28SLA+Europe%29

Student scholarship applications open

The SLA Southern California Chapter Scholarship Committee is pleased to announce that we are now accepting applications for the 2011 Karen Gersten-Sternheim Memorial Scholarship. Deadline for application receipt is June 30, 2011.

For more information please visit the Karen Gersten-Sternheim Memorial Scholarship page on the SLA-SCC website, by following the link.
Karen Gersten-Sternheim Memorial Scholarship
www.sla-scc.org
The $3,000 Karen Gersten-Sternheim Memorial Scholarship is awarded annually by, and at the discretion of, the Southern California Chapter of the Special Libraries Association [SLA], and provides assistance to a student who is pursuing a career in special librarianship.

Big Time Nominees

David Cappoli and Deb Hunt are running for SLA. Find their statements on the SLA blog: http://slablogger.typepad.com/sla_blog/.

Social Responsible Survey

Some of you participated in the kernel of this conversation at the SCC Professional Development day at Boeing. Well, I’m working hard on expanding the research and data gathering, then I plan to share the results and promote some lessons learned… Can you take five to complete the survey and/or share it with some info pros?

Corporate Social Responsibility Session, description from the SLA conference planner – Tuesday June 14th 2:00 – 3:30 pm
Ready to join a conversation about something greater than ourselves? Want to help create transformational change in your community—or your world? Join this exploration of social responsibility to see how collaboration among info pros, their enterprises, vendors, professional associations, and nonprofits/NGOs/community groups can start small, but achieve big. Come for ideas, stories, strategies, and resources plus connections with others who share your passion for positive change. Since the is a non-ticketed event and we expect the room to be at capacity, please RSVP via LinkedIn Events: http://events.linkedin.com/SLA-Corporate-Social-Responsibility/pub/595181

Promotion of the SLA CSR & Info Pros Survey –
https://spreadsheets.google.com/spreadsheet/viewform?hl=en_US&formkey=dG5EQVFnSHBGYjNBN2pTaXNEYTROenc6MQ#gid=

Christian Gray, Sales & Business Development at Reprints Desk, Inc.
+1 (323) 806-5856 | cgray@reprintsdesk.com | www.reprintsdesk.com

The Voice of Early Career Professionals and Students

The SLA First Five Years Advisory Council is surveying early career professionals and students to better understand their needs and concerns. We'd like to use this information to help guide SLA's programming and support for early career professionals. Please take 20-30 minutes to thoughtfully answer these questions. Feel free to be as candid as possible. The more details you can give, the better.

http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/SLA_FFY_2011

Please feel free to contact me with any questions. Also, please send this along to any of our student members as we would very much appreciate their input as well. Thank you so much!

Grace Rosales, SLA First Five Years Ambassador, Southern California Chapter

Get Ready for the Future Ready Toolkit

A team of SLA members and staff have collaborated to produce an extremely valuable deliverable for the SLA community. This group has taken the rich data gleaned from the SLA Alignment Project and translated it into a set of tried-and-true best practices that they have personally used to successfully meet professional challenges. The result is a new benefit of your SLA membership: The Future Ready Toolkit. These tools are focused and specific, and updated to include Web 2.0 technologies. Add to your own skillset by utilizing tools such as:
- Marketing and Branding Your Services
- 5 Ways to Use Social Media or Other Emerging Technologies in Your Job Search
- Build a Network to Engage and Partner with Stakeholders
- Planning, Writing, and Presenting a Budget
How to access the toolkit: Do you have a username and password in SLA's Wiki Spaces? If not, you'll have to sign up first (see link below). It takes a few seconds. Then, click on "Future Ready Toolkit" in the left-hand column, and start utilizing!

Want to learn more? Hear from the Toolkit coordinator, Amy Affelt, at the SLA Leadership Development Institute, Sunday, 7:30 a.m - 12 noon in Philadelphia at the SLA Annual Conference.

FutureReady Toolkit: http://wiki.sla.org/display/future/Home
SLA's wiki spaces: http://wiki.sla.org
Conference information: http://sla2011.tornado1.com/

Info Lit Standards for Teacher Education

The Information Literacy Standards for Teacher Education have been officially approved by the ACRL Executive Committee. The Standards will be posted on the ACRL website soon, and will also appear in an upcoming issue of C&RL News, ACRL's publication of record.

Cultural competence for academic librarians

ACRL Racial and Ethnic Diversity Committee(REDC) has developed cultural competencies standards for academic libraries. We want your feedback to improve these association standards now in the draft stage listed on the ACRL Standards Page, http://www.ala.org/ala/mgrps/divs/acrl/standards/index.cfm. SCC member Lesley Farmer edited the standards.

Please send your feedback to maxeyharris@gmail.com before June 8th. There will also be a panel discussion about these standards on Saturday, June 25, 4:00-5:30 p.m. Convention Center, Rm 338. Please come and share!

President-elect Candidate podcast available

Courtesy of SLA Europe, you are able to view a short biography and hear a 20 minute podcast during which SLA Europe interviews David Cappoli, candidate for SLA President-elect. David has been Treasurer and chapter President of the Southern California chapter. The podcast is available at http://www.sla-europe.org/2011/05/30/new-podcast-interview-with-president-elect-david-cappoli/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+sla-europe%2FAEYb+%28SLA+Europe%29 Next week, SLA Europe will interview Deb Hunt, also running for SLA President-elect. We will post that link when available.