2008/2009 SLIM-OR SCALA Officer Descriptions

Here they are the 2008/2009 SLIM-OR officer descriptions.  Please see the side bar for specific date/time/location information for the officer election on August 23, 2008.

President:

Official representative of SCALA in Oregon, call meetings of officers, create agenda for meetings, final authority on all group activities, create and publish content to the blog, liaise with: professional organizations, ESU Faculty, Cohorts and Kansas group. Provide cohesion and direction for all other SCALA officers in Oregon. The president approves all financial transactions of SLIM-OR SCALA funds and acts as a signer on the SLIM-OR SCALA business checking account.

Vice President:

The Vice President shall act as President-elect of the Board and shall perform the duties of the President in the absence or inability of the President to perform these duties. The Vice-President shall have any other powers and duties as may be prescribed by the Board of Directors. The VP is in charge of moderating the SLIM-OR SCALA listserv.

Secretary:

The Secretary shall have overall responsibility for all recordkeeping. The Secretary shall perform, or cause to be performed, the following duties: (a) official recording of the minutes of all proceedings of the Board of Directors and members’ meetings and actions; (b) provision of notice of all meetings of the Board of Directors and members; (c) authentication of the records of the corporation; (d) maintaining current and accurate membership lists; (e) and any other duties as may be prescribed by the Board of Directors. The secretary will be in contact with the webmasters to get information uploaded to the blog so that SCALA members have easy access to the records.

Treasurer:

The Treasurer shall have overall responsibility for all corporate funds. The Treasurer shall perform, or cause to be performed, the following duties: (a) keeping of full and accurate accounts of all financial records of the corporation; (b) deposit of all monies and other valuable effects in the name and to the credit of the corporation in such depositories as may be designated by the Board of Directors; (c) disbursement of all funds when proper to do so; (d) making financial reports as to the financial condition of the corporation to the Board of Directors; (e) and any other duties as may be prescribed by the Board of Directors.

Events Coordinator:

The events coordinator is responsible for facilitating all SLIM-OR SCALA social events. The events coordinator will act as a liaison between the Board of Directors and SLIM-OR SCALA members for the planning and execution of all aspects related to social events.

Web Manager:

The Web Manager is responsible for design, maintenance and upkeep of the SLIM-OR SCALA web presence, including the blog, the internal collaboration wiki and any other web services SLIM-OR SCALA may use (e.g. Flickr, Del.icio.us, LibraryThing, etc.) While not primarily responsible for web content, the web manager will work with the Communications Officer and any other collaborators to facilitate the production of regular content for the SLIM-OR SCALA blog.

Communications Officer:

The Communications officer will manage the content of the SLIM-OR SCALA blog and will create the SLIM-OR SCALA newsletter. This officer will promote SCALA to the Oregon cohort and possibly other distance cohorts. Other responsibilities include; managing all public relations, including member feedback, writing press releases and spearheading campaigns to increase active members of the group.  

 

 

July Board Meeting Minutes

are up here.

Annual Meeting and Officer Elections

The SLIM-OR SCALA Annual Meeting and Officer Elections is scheduled for Saturday August 23 to coincide with the 1st week of 801 for OR9. The meeting will be at 12:15 in the Smith Cafeteria.

We’ll have more information here on the elections as we work things out.

SLIM-OR SCALA Calendar

Hello all - I just switched the SLIM-OR SCALA calender over to Google Calender - if anybody is actually following the RSS feed, you should switch over to the new one.

Infocamp Seattle

A cool upcoming “unconference”:

InfoCamp Seattle 2008 - an “unconference” for anyone interested in user-centered information and design issues.

Infocamp Seattle had almost 100 people participate last year, including students from all over the Pacific Northwest, librarians from universities and public libraries, entrepreneurs, professors, information architects, user experience designers, leaders of local non-profits and businesses, government employees, and more.

The cost for students is only $10 ($50 for professionals; free for volunteers), and the dates/times are September 27-28, 2008 (9am to 5pm on both days, plus an optional social event on Saturday night).  The main web site is http://www.infocamp.info

The event was covered by the Silverfish, the UW iSchool’s student newsletter:
http://students.washington.edu/aliss/silverfish/archive/winter2008/feat_infocamp.html

And, the ASIS&T Bulletin published a story about InfoCamp too:
http://www.asis.org/Bulletin/Jun-08/JunJul08_Louie.html

Minutes for the June Board meeting

are here.

Thanks to Emily Ford

Emily Ford, OHSU Oregon Health Go Local Project Manager (an MLS librarian), visited SLIM-OR students this past weekend. Oregon Health Go Local (http://www.ohsu.edu/library/golocal/) will be an on-line directory of health related services for the entire state of Oregon. It will be searchable by health condition and integrated with the Medline Plus database. This unique project requires Emily Ford to take on many roles. She has successfully synthesized her outreach, management and technical skills to land as the project manager. It was interesting and informative to hear about Emily’s path to this position and how she hopes to grow this project into a vital community resource. For more information on the project and how to get involved please review the brochure and volunteer job description.

Also a SLIM-OR alumni, Todd Hannon, is the principle investigator of this project. It will be exciting to see this project go live!

Incorporation

We are very proud to announce that SLIM-OR SCALA is now legally registered with the State of Oregon as a Mutual Benefit Nonprofit corporation. This allows us to open a bank account for the organization as well as provides us with a more clear legal and procedural framework to conduct our organization business. Thank you to all of our SCALA officers, especially Crystal Neal, Treasurer, who was a of great assistance in completing this registration process. Special thanks to Perry for her support and agreeing to be a signer on our bank account.

The minutes of our incorporation board meeting are here.

Our newly drafted bylaws are here.

One byproduct of this incorporation is that we now have no members! Before now, we have just considered anyone in the SLIM-Oregon program as a member, but under Oregon State law all members must consent to their membership. Therefore, if you wish to continue to be a member of this organization we will need you to send your full legal name and street address to the corporation’s secretary Candise Branum hermione[dot]danger[at]gmail[dot]com.

Basically, if you become a member you will be able to vote for officers and on any changes to the organizational structure. You will not be required to do anything as a result of your membership, however (no dues, etc.)

Here are the details:
1. You will not be excluded from participating in any SCALA event as a non-member. However, if you wish to participate in any member elections you must consent to be a member. Under Oregon State law we must keep a roster of all members including a street address. This roster is part of the corporation’s public record and is open to the public. In order for someone to view or records they must request to do so. Your address will not be posted to any website.

2. As a member you are entitled to participate in annual elections. Each fall we will hold an election for the next term’s SCALA officers. Also, as a member, your votes are required in order for us to make changes to our Bylaws. If you are not a member you will not be entitled to a vote on these matters.

3. As a member of the public you are entitled to view or organization records. This includes our Articles of Incorporation, Bylaws, member roster, meeting minutes (from this date forward), and financial records. Please send a request to view these records to the corporation secretary Candise Branum at hermione[dot]danger[at]gmail[dot]com. Please note that our Bylaws will be the only document posted on our blog http://www.esuscalaor.wordpress.com. If you wish to view any other record please contact Candise.

SLA Conference report from April

April Younglove reports from SLA:

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On Tuesday night I returned from the Special Libraries Association convention in Seattle. I had two simple goals:

1. To accept my scholarship award.
2. To get through the entire conference without paying for any of my own food.

I am happy to report that I was wildly successful in both ventures. I did not need to purchase so much as a soda at the convention. There were plenty of opportunities to stop by division breakfasts, attend vendor lunches and hit the many nightly receptions. Before I left, I told my husband about my aspirations. He said with concern, “But what about networking? What about professional development? Shouldn’t you focus on those goals?”

The secret genius of my original goals, I later discovered at the convention, is that they actually caused me to do far more networking and professional development than I might have otherwise. Getting an award became a natural conversation starter, and by forcing myself to find out where the food was, I had to sit at tables with strangers and meet them. I had to attend events sponsored by divisions like the agricultural division and the military division that I never would even have dreamed of attending otherwise, had it not been for my personal scavenger hunt.

I met and talked with librarians and information professionals from all over the world and from many different organizations. A few of the organizations represented by those I met personally included:

• Liblime
• Rolls Royce
• UNESCO
• The Getty
• Kraft Foods
• The ARMY
• IEEE
• The Presidio of San Francisco
• The International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda
• NBC

Many other information professionals simply worked for themselves. I was so busy going from event to event and seeking the holy grail of a completely gratis convention that I didn’t even have time attend a reception at the Pacific Science Center and the Space Needle. There was so much networking and professional development going on that I even missed out on a behind the scenes trip to the Seattle Art Museum.

What I learned as a first timer at an SLA convention:

• SLA is truly international and is strongly represented in the UK, India and much of Asia.
• SLA Chapters are regional groups. SLA Divisions are groups with a common interest.
• My SLA membership includes access to dozens of free professional tutorials via the Innovation Lab (http://www.sla.org/innovate/) and will soon grant me free access to Adobe software. You should take advantage of these benefits if you are a member!
• SLA is hungry for Gen Xers and Millennials and spends a lot of time, effort, and money trying to attract students and young professionals. I got three separate job offers at the convention!
• Vendors don’t actually know how to answer any of your questions, so you should just take a flier and enjoy the free ice cream/blinky pen/stuffed flying monkey.

Valuable tips that I learned from the sessions I attended:

• Find a person with a job you aspire to have. Ask that person to email you his or her resume. This way you get to see what a successful resume for the job you want looks like.
• On a similar note, ask to job shadow a professional for a day. Most people are flattered and very few people say no.
• The traditional corporate librarian title and job is disappearing. Apply for positions that include the phrase “knowledge management” in the job description.
• Law librarians are increasingly being called upon to do business research, so if you want to do business research consider getting a job in a law library.
• Visual literacy skills are transferable to many areas outside of art museums. For instance: training doctors to read medical images.
• Attitude and aptitude are more important than experience and subject matter mastery.
• Vinton G. Cerf, one of the creators of the Internet and the acting vice president of Google feels awkward on Second Life too.

I posted a Flickr set with some pictures of my SLA 2008 adventure: http://www.flickr.com/photos/aprily/sets/72157605686742697/

Minutes for the 6/14/08 officer’s meeting

are here