2007 Janice Lachance visited:
- SLA Europe hosted Janice Lachance during a visit to London, including a visit to the Business Information Unit of the Institute of Directors
- Sputhern California Chapter sponsored Living Linked - A Social networking Conference, with Janice Lachance as Keynote Speaker inApril 2007
- The Boston chapter hosted Janice Lachance with a meeting at neXus, a green building resource center. plus a program at Simmons for the GSLIS students.
- Texas Chapter hosted Janice and Stephen Abram in San Antonio for a dinner meeting
- The Minnesota Chapter hosted visits of both Janice Lachance and President-Elect Stephen Abrams for Bring Your Boss Luncheon with SLA CEO Janice Lachance - May 8. 2007. The Chapter was excited to host SLA CEO Janice Lachance for a Bring Your Boss Luncheon where she shared her Top 10 Reasons every organization needs librarians to be successful. Members were encouraged to invite their librarian and non-librarian bosses and managers. Janice's comments were well-received and we were also able to arrange an interview with Janice on a midday radio program on the local CBS station. There were 69 people attended the event, which was sponsored by the Copyright Clearance Center and the James J. Hill Reference Library and held at The Minneapolis St. Paul Airport Hilton.
- The Pacific Northwest Chapter hosted Janice LaChance in January 2007 for The Road Ahead: What's in Store for SLA and the Global Community of Information Professionals.
2007 Rebecca Vargha visited
- Alabama Chapter and met with the University of Alabama's SchoolofLibrary and Information Studies
- SLA Europe in conjunction with London Online
- Southern California with Rebecca as keynote speaker
- Wisconsin Chapter hosted Rebecca in November
- The St Louis chapter sponsored Library Staff of the Future: Through a Crystal Ball presented by SLA president, Rebecca Vargha.
- The Washington Chapter had a panel discussion on "Gems from South Africa: What's Happening in the Library World," presented by SLA President, Rebecca Vargha; Victoria Harriston; and Shelly Edwards.
- Pittsburg chapter celebrated it's 85th Anniversary in October with special guest Rebecca Vargha.
2007 Stephan Abram visited
- Australia/New Zealand Chapter in conjunction with the LIANZA Conference in Wellington where he was the keynote speaker. There was an evening meeting on Thursday 4 October 2007 in Canberra. Stephen Abram was speaker at the Thursday breakfast session at the SirsiDynix National Conference 2007 which was sponsored by the Chapter.
- Princeton-Trenton Chapter is celebrating it's 40th anniversary in May 2007 with Stephen Abram as the keynote speaker
- Texas Chapter hosted Stephen and Janice Lachance in San Antonio for a dinner meeting
- The Wisconsin chapter presented a program on 10 Cool Technologies and Your Library's PR Plan, with speaker, Stephen Abram, SLA 2008 president
- Upstate New York Chapter held a spring program, "A Day with Stephen Abram" which broke attendance records with over 80 attendees.
- The Western Canada Chapter offered a joint event with Steven Abrams as speaker in Vancouver
- Southern California offered a program oon Charting the Future of Libraries with Stephen Abram as the Keynote Speaker in October 2007
- San Andreas and SF chapters held a joint meeting at the Stanford University Faculty Club, featuring Stephen Abram, President-Elect.
- Upstate New York Chapter held a spring program, "A Day with Stephen Abram" which broke attendance records with over 80 attendees.
- Minnesota Chapter - Special Libraries 2.0 - The Technology Forecast with SLA President-Elect Stephen Abram - Nov. 27, 2007
Sponsored by The Wall Street Journal, this event was held at Open Book, a center for the book arts in downtown Minneapolis with a buffet reception. Stephen's talk focused on the next generation of the web and the next generation of users. It's happening under the name of Web 2.0. It's the new hot web where true human interaction takes precedence over merely 'cool' information delivery and e-mail. It's about putting information into the real context of our users' lives, work and play. Concurrently, there's another big conversation about the vision for what Library 2.0 might look like in this Web 2.0 ecosystem. 73 members attended.
Linda Broussard visited
- Asian Chapter for the "Benchmarking and Best Practices in Special Libraries Conference" in New Delhi,India on 2 February 2007
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