"Avoiding the Idea Graveyard" with Meredith Farkas

SLA PNW webinar by Meredith Farkas titled "Avoiding the Idea Graveyard".

Date: Wednesday 3/21/2012
Time: 12:00 to1:00 pm Pacific

Meredith Farkas is the Head of Instructional Services at Portland State University and a lecturer at San Jose State University's School of Library and Information Science. She is the author of the book "Social Software in Libraries: Building Collaboration, Communication and Community Online" (Information Today, 2007) and writes the monthly column "Technology in Practice" for American Libraries. Meredith was honored in 2008 and 2011 with the WISE Excellence in Online Education Award and in 2009 with the LITA/Library Hi Tech award for Outstanding Communication in Library and Information Technology.

To learn more about Meredith go to:
http://meredith.wolfwater.com/wordpress/about-me/

Thanks to all that attended, the slides are located at: http://dl.dropbox.com/u/7697594/graveyard.ppt

Ken Wheaton

SLA-UW Student Night and PNW chapter board meeting

All All PNW chapter members and SLA-UW students are invited to attend the PNW chapter board meeting. SLA-UW Student night will follow the board meeting.

Date:  

Tuesday, April 3^rd, 2012

Location:

University of Washington Center for Urban Horticulture (Botanical Garden location)

Northwest Horticultural Society Hall (NHS Hall)

3501 NE 41st St., Seattle, 98195

Map of the area: http://depts.washington.edu/uwbg/visit/cuh.php

PNW Chapter Board Meeting

5:00 - 6:00 PM          All PNW chapters, board members, and SLA-UW students are invited. ** Free, no registration required.

** A meeting agenda will be shared with members prior to the meeting.

SLA-UW Student Night Program

6:00 – 9:00 PM         
** This event requires registration ($20 for students, $35 for chapter members, $45 for nonmembers). 

6:00 - 6:30 PM     Social Hour

6:30 PM                Buffet Dinner

7:00 - 9:00 PM     Program

Presenters

Brent Mai, SLA 2012 President

Brent has been honored to serve the members of his profession through SLA in a variety of capacities. Most recently he served as the co-chair of the 2007 (Denver) Annual Conference Committee. As a member of the SLA Board of Directors from 2003-2006 and Division Cabinet Chair, he also served on the Annual Conference Committees for the 2005 (Toronto) and 2006 (Baltimore) Annual Conferences. Brent was a member of the Association's Finance Committee from 1999-2003. Brent currently serves as University Librarian and Director of the Center for Volga German Studies at Concordia University in Portland, Oregon. Before leading the library team at Concordia, he was Director of the Walker Management Library of the Owen Graduate School of Management at Vanderbilt University and the instruction librarian of the Krannert Management Library at Purdue University. As a corporate information specialist, he worked for Brown & Root (now KBR) in Houston and Bell Northern Research (now NorTel) in Dallas.

Learn more about Brent at the SLA website.

Kim Dority, Dority & Associates, Inc.

Kim Dority, MLS, is the founder and president of G. K. Dority & Associates, Inc., located in Denver, Colorado. She is an information specialist with expertise in information strategy, information process design, research, writing, editing, publishing, and online content development. Kim has worked with all types of organizations to design, build, and execute effective information strategies. Her work has encompassed the entire spectrum of information strategy, solutions, and implementation for both nonprofit and for-profit organizations. In addition to her work with G. K. Dority & Associates, Ms. Dority is on the advisory board of the University of Denver's Library and Information Science graduate program, and previously served as the program's interim director. During that time she created and has now taught for many years a course entitled "Alternative Career Paths for LIS Students," on which Rethinking Information Work is based. She has also written several bibliographies of reference works. Kim received her M.L.S. from the University of Denver, and her B.A. in comparative literature from the University of California at Irvine.

Learn more about Kim at her web site.


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