Tag Archive | SLA
Do we need New Professional groups?
Below is an article I wrote for Information Outlook, the SLA’s journal, in August 2010. Since the online version (and obviously, the paper copy too!) is only viewable by SLA members, I have reposted here now the embargo has passed for the benefit of any non-SLA members reading. Librarians who are new to the profession […]
Post-holiday catch-up
So, I got back from Egypt almost a week ago (which was fab! Some pics on Flickr, if anyone’s interested) and I’ve had a lot of catching up to do! Came back to over 100 emails (in my personal inbox) and over 600 new items in Google Reader. Have cleared my inbox now but am […]
SLA vote – yea or nay?
Now that I’ve got only two days left in which to decide whether I want to be a member of the Special Libraries Association or the Association for Strategic Knowledge Professionals, it’s probably about time I actually made up my bloody mind. Part of the reason I’ve put off voting for so long is that […]
Am I a “Strategic Knowledge Professional”?
You may have already heard that the Special Libraries Association (SLA), as a result of their extensive research during the alignment project, have proposed a name change. The new name, to be voted on by SLA members next month, is the “Association for Strategic Knowledge Professionals”, or “ASKPro“. I’ve waited until now to blog my […]
Professional body membership, benefits of
On Wednesday evening I went along to the CLIG AGM, at the lovely Ye Olde Mitre. I’ve only recently joined CLIG, and was pleasantly surprised to discover that my employer would pay for membership – not only for CLIG, but apparently for any relevant professional body (my boss’ words were “CILIP, BIALL, any of the […]
