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UPDATE:
SLA NY congratulates the NY Giants on their Super Bowl win. We also tip our hats to the New England Patriots who fought a hard battle on the gridiron.

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As the New York Giants take the field in Indianapolis and battle the New England Patriots in Super Bowl XLVI, the New York Chapter of SLA will be in a battle of its own.  SLA NY is throwing down the gauntlet and proposing that the New England Chapter of SLA accept a Super Bowl XLVI Challenge.

The rules are simple.  After the New York cheers for Big Blue and the New England cheers for the Pats come to an end and we find out which team is victorious, the losing Chapter Members must do the following:

1)  Change their profile pictures in Facebook and Twitter to the winning team’s logo for one week.

2)  Post, in a visible location in their libraries, a Super Bowl Championship poster, logo, or screensaver for one week.

3)  Pictures of the Championship memorabilia in the losing Chapter’s libraries should be posted on the losing Chapter’s website, and to their social media channels, for all to see.

New England, do you accept this challenge?  If so, let the game begin, and may the best team win!!!!!!

Update: SLA New England has graciously accepted the wager! Thanks to NE Chapter President Khalilah Gambrell and the NE Chapter members!

Add your comments here and on Twitter, hashtag #SLAWager

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The New York Chapter of the Special Libraries Association is delighted to announce that two of its members, Davis Erin Anderson, SLA-NY Discussion List Manager and Library School Liaison, and Moy McIntosh, SLA-NY President-Elect, have been named as 2012 SLA Rising Stars. 

The Rising Star Award is given to outstanding SLA members with less than five years of experience in the information profession.  Please see below for more information about the honorees:

Davis Erin Anderson

Davis works as a librarian at Boosey & Hawkes, the largest publisher of classical music in the world. In this position, she provides license and reference services for the copyright protected materials of the talent her company supports. In her five years with Boosey & Hawkes, she has implemented a company-wide SharePoint database, designed information architecture and content strategy for the company’s SharePoint site, and established herself as a resource for copyright law and licensing information.

Since joining SLA in 2009, Davis has provided strong leadership to her colleagues and student chapter. She currently serves as president of SLA@Pratt, the student chapter of Pratt Institute, and is library school liaison of SLA’s New York Chapter. In 2010, she co-organized the first SLA New York Chapter “Student Swing.” The lively event attracted library and information science (LIS) students from Long Island University, the Pratt Institute, Rutgers University and other schools and offered them a venue to gather and discuss their visions for the information profession and their own future careers. She also moderated an SLA@Pratt panel called Crowdsourcing & Linked & Open Data: New Ways to Make Collections Visible, in which experts demonstrated emerging technologies and how they could help solve problems currently facing information professionals.

Davis actively performs as a trained French horn musician in New York and is working to complete her masters of library and information science degree from The Pratt Institute.

Moy McIntosh

Moy is a librarian at Fitch Ratings, an international rating company that provides independent credit opinions, research, and data. A librarian on Wall Street, she archives financial files, reorganizes and broadens services to provide more research to clients, and updates files for Securities Exchange Commission compliance.

Moy joined SLA as a student in 2006 and quickly became active in the student chapter, SLA@Pratt, which she served as president from 2007-2008. In 2010 she played a valuable role on the New York Chapter’s Website Redesign Committee, and won the Mergent Outstanding Member Award in 2011 for her work to help shape the chapter’s new site. She was secretary of the New York Chapter’s executive board in 2011. She has also been a member of the New York Chapter’s Strategic Planning Committee, Nominating Committee, and Long Range Planning Committee and was recently elected president-elect, meaning she’ll lead the chapter as president in 2013.

“We as librarians must stay open-minded, welcome to change,” said Moy when participating in “Q & A” for LibGig. “We have to prove our worth more than ever, so don’t take anything for granted, and embrace the changes that are happening in the industry.”

Moy earned her master’s degree in library and information science from The Pratt Institute.

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View the complete SLA press release at:  http://www.sla.org/content/SLA/pressroom/pressrelease/12pr/pr2012-01.cfm

From Donna Severino, SLA-NY 2012 President
January 12, 2012

The SLA NY Chapter is busy developing new programs, recruiting new members, collaborating with other information professional organizations, coordinating special events, and working on many special projects.  This is your opportunity to make an impact by volunteering for a committee.

No experience is necessary.  You can be a student of the profession.  You can be new to the profession.  You can be an expert in your field.  You can just have an interest in advancing the goals of the Library profession and the SLA NY Chapter.  The only requirement is that you be a current member of the Chapter.

Volunteer Opportunities Available NOW:

Chapter Archivist

Communications Committee/Website Backup Team

Downtown Networking Luncheon Coordinator

Hospitality Committee Member

Membership Chair/Membership Committee Member

Student Internships Chair

If you are interested in volunteering for any of these opportunities, please send an e-mail to slapres2012.ny@verizon.net.

Happy New Year!  I would like to take this opportunity to thank you for supporting our Chapter.  I look forward to serving you in 2012.  My goal is to build on the successes of our esteemed Past-President, Pam Rollo, as well as to blaze some trails of my own by focusing on enhancing the Chapter’s Communications and Marketing Strategy and focusing on our most important commodity, you, our Membership.

To meet these goals, a strong Communications Committee has been formed and will be led by the Chair, Amy Sarola.  The Committee has been busy since early December meeting, creating templates, branding communications and developing a dynamic strategy to enhance the way we communicate with our Members and beyond.  Hand in hand with this effort is increasing support for the Chapter by creating stronger partnerships with our sponsors and vendor community.  Happy Blitt, our Advertising Chair, in collaboration with Kathy Cray, who leads our Finance & Fundraising efforts, will be working closely to ensure our reach is broad and that we continue to strengthen long-standing partnerships while creating new partnerships for the Chapter.

In tandem to this strong and important committee, I am seeking to build an equally strong and dynamic Membership Committee, which will focus on the needs and objectives of our current membership, as well as targeting and recruiting new members. What’s important to you is important to the Chapter. If this sounds like an exciting opportunity to you, then I want to recruit you to take part in this important committee and this fundamentally important initiative.

I also want to hear from you personally.  I want to understand your needs and concerns.  To this end, I have established an e-mail that will come directly to me, so please do not hesitate to contact me at slapres2012.ny@verizon.net

The Executive Board and Advisory Council are working diligently on the 2012 Calendar of events and other projects.  I look forward to sharing details with you in the weeks and months ahead, so fasten your seatbelts.  I hope to make 2012 a productive and successful ride.

Donna M. Severino
SLA NY Chapter President 2012

| Current Issue | December 12, 2011 |

In this issue: The President’s Closing Letter, Crowdsourcing, Port Authority Library, THATCamps, The Charleston Conference, and Special Memories

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