Professional Development Workshop: Introduction to GIS

Hey SLAISers.

Just to remind you: a free introductory workshop on Geographic Information Systems (GIS) librarianship is being co-hosted by the SLA and ASIS&T student chapters at UBC on February 3rd.

Tom Brittnacher, GIS Librarian at UBC, will present an introduction to the field of GIS and will cover the wide variety of roles and services that GIS Librarians perform. If this is a field you’d like to find out more about, reserve a place by registering here.

Details: Friday February 3 – 10am to 1pm. Terrace Lab.

If you have any questions, leave a comment or contact us through the handy form after the jump.

Hope to see you there!

SLA Week is here!

Don’t forget about the exciting events SLA@UBC has coming up this week. Check out the poster below for more details.

Click here to register for the panel discussion, and here if you’d like to attend the tour of special libraries on campus.

Hope to see you there!

 

Next Meeting: Thursday January 12, 2012

Our next meeting will be in the Trail Room in SLAIS from 1:00-2:00pm.

We will be providing an introduction/orientation to students interested in learning more about the SLA and the SLA@SLAIS. We will also be reviewing our final plans for our upcoming SLA Week events and electing a new Webmaster.

All are welcome to attend!!!

Next Meeting: Wednesday, November 2nd

Our next meeting will be in the Trail Room on Wednesday, November 2nd, from 12pm-1pm.

We will be discussing upcoming workshops (LexisNexis, GIS, and DBTextworks) and finding volunteers to help with the planning. All are welcome so please stop by!

SLAIS Exclusive: UBC Law Library Tour

For those of you who haven’t heard, the new UBC Law building Allard Hall is open and ready for business. Of course, for all of us here at SLAIS, what that really means is that we have a new library on campus. Interested in taking a tour of the new UBC Law Library? Elim Wong, Reference Librarian at the UBC Law Library, has generously volunteered to show SLAIS students around the amazing new facilities and provide some insight into some of the design features found in the LEED-certified building.

When: Wednesday, October 26, 11:30-12:30

Where: Meet at the SLAIS lounge at 11:15 to go as a group, or come right at 11:30 to Room 208 in the Law Library

How: Register at http://elred.library.ubc.ca/libs/dashboard/view/2692

Next Meeting: Thursday, October 13, 12-1pm

Join us for our next meeting, Thursday, October 13, from 12-1pm in the Trail Room.

We will be discussing:

• Feedback and post-mortem of SLA Week
• Plans for upcoming workshops (November)
• Upcoming Law Library tour (October sometime)
• Plans for networking (pub) event with the SLA Western Canada Chapter (November or early December)
• Planning for January SLA Week

If you are not currently a member of SLA at SLAIS and are interested in joining, just bring $1 to get in on the action.

Update: We will be giving away a FREE SLA Student Membership (value $40) to one lucky student at the meeting, so be sure to show up!

Professional Development Workshop: Background – CHECK!

UPDATE: SLA Western Chapter is offering a special student discounted rate to SLA@SLAIS members! Students can attend this workshop for only $15, a $10+ discount. There are only 3 spots available at this price, so if you are interested, please contact Tania Alekson at vancouver@wcanada.sla.org ASAP.

Background – CHECK!

Thursday, October 20^th
3-5pm
Royal Bank Room, YWCA Hotel
733 Beatty Street
Vancouver, BC V6B 2M4

SLA Members – $25
Non-members – $30

Check out this opportunity to attend a workshop geared towards helping professionals in the field learn about performing effective background research.

*Note: This workshop is sponsored by the SLA Western Chapter. For more information, including how to register, please see http://wcanada.sla.org/2011/09/27/background-check/

 

Reminder: SLA Week Library Crawl

For those of you who managed to snag a coveted spot in our library crawl, don’t forget to get down to the Starbucks at Waterfront Station by 12:45pm tomorrow. The schedule for tomorrow is as follows:

Environment Canada – 1pm

BC Courthouse – 2pm

Canadian Music Centre – 3 pm

Contemporary Art Gallery – 4pm

A map of our crawl is available here

If you weren’t able to get a spot on the crawl, there’s still one last chance to join us for SLA Week. We will be ending the crawl at Soho Billiards on Hamilton Street at Drake Street, just minutes from the Canada Line Yaletown Skytrain Station. No need to RSVP, just stop by and join us for a drink or two.

See you there!

Award Opportunity: Medical Library Association’s Rittenhouse Award

 

The Medical Library Association’s Rittenhouse Award offers a great opportunity for professional recognition–and more!–to students in an American Library Association–accredited school of library and information studies or to trainees in an internship in health sciences librarianship or medical informatics.  Established in 1967 by the Rittenhouse Medical Bookstore and continued by Rittenhouse Book Distributors, this award is presented annually for the best unpublished paper (bibliographical, issue or topic-based, or report of research results) or web-based project on health sciences librarianship or medical informatics.  The author of the winning essay receives free registration for the 2012 Medical Library Association’s annual meeting in Seattle, plus a cash award of $500 and a certificate.

Further information and an application form can be found athttp://www.mlanet.org/awards/honors/, or contact Taryn Resnick, Rittenhouse Award Jury Chair, at tresnick01@library.tamu.edu with questions or requests for additional information.

 

About the Medical Library Association

Founded in 1898, MLA is a nonprofit, educational organization of more than 1,100 institutions and 3,600 individual members in the health sciences information field, committed to educating health information professionals, supporting health information research, promoting access to the world’s health sciences information, and working to ensure that the best health information is available to all.

SLA Meeting: Thursday, September 8, Trail Room @ 2pm

The first meeting of the year is being held this Thursday, September 8 at 2pm in the Trail room. We will be welcoming new members, finalizing details for SLA Week and electing a new First Year Representative. For all you first years out there, this is a great opportunity to get involved with a club that will work with your busy schedule. If you would like to join SLA, all you need to do is show up and bring $1.