Thursday May 3, 2012
Metro

57 East 11th Street

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The New York Chapter of the Special Libraries Association,

in cooperation with  the Metropolitan New York Library Council (METRO),

proudly presents…

Librarian/Vendor Relationships-
What Every Librarian Needs to Know When
Preparing for a Salesperson’s Visit
Presented by Mike Gruenberg
Organzied by Laura Forshay, METRO

Register at: http://metro.org/events/169/
$25 for SLA-NY and METRO members.  $40 for non-members.

When a salesperson makes an appointment to see a librarian, the reality is that certain expectations by both parties need to be met. Time is valuable and the results of that appointment need to be apparent for both parties. Too often, the salesperson and/or the librarian fail to be fully prepared.

In this workshop, Mike Gruenberg, a sales executive with 34  years of experience selling successfully to libraries throughout the world, will review the expectations of both the librarian and salesperson and by doing so will impart knowledge necessary for librarians to have a greater understanding of the sales process and how to be fully prepared for the sales call.

All librarians who interact with salespeople should attend.

Mike Gruenberg’s name in the Information Services Industry is synonymous with winning results – in sales team development and leadership, in performance and customer satisfaction, and in his own success in selling complex information services into demanding markets worldwide. Mike’s track record during more than 30 years in the Industry is headlined by the significant profit performance he has delivered in every position he has held.

Program Details:

Thursday, May 3^rd, 2012
5:30 pm – 8:00 pm

METRO Training Center (4th floor)
57 E. 11th Street
New York, NY 10003

Cost:
$25 for SLA-NY and METRO members.  $40 for non-members.

RSVP:

Register at: http://metro.org/events/169/

Hope to see you there!

Friday April 27, 2012

40 West 45th Street

Map and Directions | RSVP: VidaCohen70@gmail.com

Please join SLA NY for Breakfast to hear the latest
analysis on today’s Global Financial Markets.

Our speaker, Diane Blaney, Leading Analyst with Greenwich Associates,
will unravel the mysteries of the recent debt crisis,
the behavior of hedge funds and other market performance
in her discussion of drivers and trends in these markets.

This is a great opportunity to become acquainted with the latest
in-depth knowledge on this topic and arrive back to the office an expert.

We would like to thank our new sponsor:

Register

Tuesday May 1, 2012 – Tuesday May 1, 2012

407 West 42nd Street

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Description:

Save the Date: Midtown Luncheon

Organized by Carol Ginsburg and Stephen Kochoff, Co-Chairs, Midtown Luncheon

Date:               Tuesday, May 1, 2012
Time:              12:30 PM – 2:30 PM
Location:         West Bank Café
407 West 42^nd Street (at 9^th Ave.)

Cost: $35 per person

RSVP:  carol.ginsburg@bstamerica.com

Save the date for our next Midtown Luncheon! Our luncheons are a great way to meet and get to know your fellow SLA-NY chapter members over a lovely meal in a great location.

Register

Wednesday April 4, 2012

40 West 45th Street

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Description:

Navigating the Workplace

Presented by Dr. Shelley Reciniello, Ph.D.
Organized by Pam Rollo, Career Development Committee Chair

Date:               Wednesday, April 4^th, 2012
Time:              Networking 5:30 PM – 6:30 PM, followed by program
Location:         Midtown Executive Club,  40 West 45^th Street (btwn 5^th and 6^th Avenues)

RSVP:  Please RSVP by Monday, April 2, 2012 to Vida Cohen at vidacohen70@gmail.com

You may have changed employers, or your employer may have changed.  Learn how to adjust to begin or continue your success!

Dr. Reciniello is presently an active member of the International Society for the psychoanalytic Study of Organizations and an affiliate of the Center for the Study of Organizational Change  at the University of Missouri-Columbia.  Her PhD was conferred by the New School University.

RSVP:  Please RSVP by Monday, April 2, 2012 to Vida Cohen at vidacohen70@gmail.com

Register now for SLA@Pratt’s Skill Share Fair! All are welcome!

Taking place on Friday, March 23, 2012 from 4:00 – 7:00 PM, SLA@Pratt’s Skill Share Fair is a mini-conference designed to highlight current trends in library and information science. We’re hosting concurrent panels on hot topics in the field today, as well as an unbeatable opportunity to discuss your career goals in one-on-one conversations with professionals in the field. A reception will follow. More info about Skill Share can be found at http://mysite.pratt.edu/~sla/events.html.

Registration is open through Thursday, March 22 at noon. Please visit www.tinyurl.com/skillsharefair2012 to sign up!

SLA@Pratt Skill Share 2012 Schedule

Speed Mentors: Sign up for some one-on-one time with leading experts in the field! Our mentors will be available in two shifts:

4:00 – 5:30

- Leah Lustocuff, Digitization Archivist and Project Education Coordinator, Brooklyn Historical Society

- Carolyn Hansen, Map Cataloger, Brooklyn Historical Society

- Ellen Mehling, Director, Graduate Library School Program, Palmer School at L.I.U; Career Development Consultant at METRO

- Jen Rutner, Senior Analyst at Ithaka S+R

5:30 – 7:00

- Mitchell Brodsky, Digital Archives Project Manager at New York Philharmonic

- Clara Cabrera, Research and Reference Specialist at WilmerHale

- Mindy Carner, Taxonomy Specialist at Unicef

- Helen-Ann Epstein, Clinical Librarian at Weill Cornell Medical College

- Sarah Jewell, Reference Librarian at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center

Panels: Attend panels on the latest and greatest developments in the field! We are hosting three panels in two time slots:

4:00 – 5:15 pm:

Know What’s Around You: Competitive Intelligence and the Information Professional

- David Adler, Senior Competitive Intelligence Librarian at Bingham McCutchen

A New Spin on Understanding Culture: Data Librarianship and Digital Humanities

- Micki McGee, Faculty of Sociology and Anthropology at Fordham University

- Barbara Rockenbach, Director, History and Humanities at Columbia University

- Chris Sula, Assistant Professor at Pratt Insitute

- Ben Vershbow, Manager at NYPL Labs

From Paper to Digital: New Frontiers in Archives

- Brian Cross, Director of Digital Assets at Conde Nast

- Mitchell Brodsky, Digital Archives Project Manager at New York Philharmonic Archives

5:30 – 6:45 pm:

Leadership and Career Development for the New Information Professional: Tips, Trick and Tools

- Lisa Chow, People Interact Consultancy

- Sandra Sajonas, People Interact consultancy

Turning Insight into Opportunity: Librarians in Corporate Cultures

- John Lovari, Director, Strategic Intelligence Services at Center for Marketing Intelligence, IPG

- Moy McIntosh, Librarian at Fitch Ratings

- Christina Rawlins, Strategic Intelligence Analyst at Center for Marketing Intelligence, IPG

Taxonomies and Information Architecture: Access, Usability, Governance, Results

- Heather Edwards, Taxonomy Developer at Associated Press

- Dalia Levine, Enterprise Information Architect at Ford Foundation

- Michael Hollitscher, Associate Director, Digital Asset Management at Digitas

Reception to follow

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Wednesday March 28, 2012

365 Park Avenue S

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Description:

Let’s welcome spring with the first happy hour of the year!
It’s been a while since we all met, the holiday season has come and gone – whew.
The weather is warmer, the flowers are starting to bloom…
let’s celebrate!

Welcome to…

The Spring At Last Happy Hour
March 28th from 5:30-7:30pm
Giraffe Hotel Restaurant
65 Park Avenue South at 26th St
RSVP by 3/20 to moymcintosh@gmail.com

We’ve met on the rooftop of the Giraffe in the past. For this event meet us in the restaurant downstairs.

Bring your friends, bring your co-workers!

There is no fee, it is a cash bar, but there will be appetizers.

RSVP by 3/20 to moymcintosh@gmail.com

Friday March 30, 2012 – Friday March 30, 2012

101 Murray Street

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Description:

SLA-NY Vendor Showcase: Save-the-Date

Organized by Clara Cabrera and Alyson Clabaugh

Date:               Friday, March 30, 2012

Time:              4:00 pm – 7:00 pm

Location:         St. John’s University – Manhattan Campus

101 Murray Street (btwn West and Greenwich Streets)

RSVP:  RSVP by Tuesday  3/27 to  slanypioneer@gmail.com. You MUST identify which of the sessions(s) you will attend, as seating is limited. No Walk-ins, so please RSVP. 

Attention: library students, recent library school graduates, and information specialist new to the profession.

Sign up for an event featuring a series of core resources that are mainstays in special libraries, to get you familiar with, and subsequently be able to hit the ground running when you enter the field.

As an added bonus to extend the learning experience, the vendors will provide the attendees temporary free access to the databases after the session.

Friday March 30^th -

4pm:

Dialog online-based information services help organizations across the globe to seek competitive advantages in such fields as business, science, engineering, finance and law. The Dialog portfolio of products and services, including Dialog® and DataStar®, offers organizations the ability to precisely retrieve data from more than 1.4 billion unique records of key information, accessible via the Internet or through delivery to enterprise intranets.

OR

ACM is the world’s oldest and largest society in computing with over 100,000 members worldwide. All of ACM’s publications and their complete archives which includes 40+ journals, 8 magazines, 270 conference proceedings, and bibliographic database are housed in the ACM Digital Library (DL).
5pm:

Westlaw annually publishes more than 66 million legal books and 500 CD libraries. Thomson Reuters also leverages its knowledge of the legal market with solutions for client development and legal office automation provided by its affiliated businesses, Elite and FindLaw. In addition, Thomson Reuters offers a number of legal education components, including online continuing legal education courses through West LegalEdcenter and preparatory materials for the bar review.

OR

FactSet offers instant access to accurate financial data and analytics to thousands of investment professionals around the world. Our company combines hundreds of databases from industry-leading suppliers and clients’ own proprietary data into a single, powerful information system, making FactSet a one-stop source for financial information.

OR

EvaluatePharma the first company to provide consensus forecasts on global drug sales, EvaluatePharma set new industry standards in providing reliable consensus estimates for the pharma and biotech industries.

6pm:

LexisNexis a leading global provider of content-enabled workflow solutions designed specifically for professionals in the legal, risk management, corporate, government, law enforcement, accounting, and academic markets.  LexisNexis provides customers with access to billions of searchable documents and records from more than 45,000 legal, news and business sources.

OR

Intelligize products are designed to be used both in the research of SEC disclosure as well as the creation of documents including all filings and responses to SEC comments.   What makes us different is our patent-pending process of reformatting and indexing the content at the clause level giving the user the ability to review both qualitative and quantitative analysis of the information contained in the EDGAR database.

OR

ARTstor Digital Library is a nonprofit resource that provides more than one million digital images in the arts, architecture, humanities, and sciences with an accessible suite of software tools for teaching and research.

Cost: This is a FREE event open to library students, recent library school graduates, and information specialist new to the profession.

RSVP:  RSVP by Tuesday  3/27 to  slanypioneer@gmail.com. You MUST identify which of the sessions(s) you will attend, as seating is limited. No Walk-ins, so please RSVP.)