SLA IT Division - Professional Development Committee

Committee's informal charge

• To solicit and coordinate CE/workshop proposals for the annual conference
• To be available to monitor (or check up on) CEs at the conference
• To investigate the use of webinars as a professional development tool between conferences
• To develop webinars as appropriate

2011 Annual Conference CEs

• IT Division CE information document for potential instructors
• 2010 potential program ideas from member survey
• 2011 Accepted CEs (11/10/2010)
• 2011 CE ideas that fell did not happen

 Webinar Information

• Volunteers on this topic:
  • Daphne Chang -- Will work with Jill Strand (Legal Div) on a proposed copyright webinar.  Also interested in the technology.
  • Kate Creegan -- Interested in the technology that might be used for a webinar 
  • David Cappoli
  • Kan Kin (long-time IT Division Board member) has information that he will share on this
    • Kan compiled a draft comparison spreadsheet on popular (open source vs. paid) webinar applications. If you have experience, please share with us.
  • Natalie Bulick
    
• Webinar services:
  • Volunteers: Daphne, David, Kate, Natalie
  • Latest as of 11.15.2010:  David and Daphne are reviewing the survey results for possible topics for a webinar series.  One topic stands out is 'emerging technologies'.  Will organize a trial of DimDim among the four of us in January . 
• Marketing channels for Webinar announcements:
  • Federal librarians list (Kan)
  • sla-cphil Philadelphia Chapter (Kate)
  • sla-cpt Princeton/Trenton Chapter (Kate)
  • sla-dbio Biomedical & Life Sciences (Kate)
  • sla-dche Chemistry Division (Kate)
  • sla-derm Environment & Resource Management Division (Kate)
  • sla-dgi Government Information Division (Kate)
  • sla-digicon-iteInformation Technology Division - Digital Content Section (Kate)
  • sla-dite SLA Information Technology Division (Kate)
  • sla-dkm Knowledge Management Division (Kate)
  • sla-dper Petroleum & Energy Resources Division (Kate)
  • sla-dpht Pharmacy & Health Technology Division (Kate)
  • sla-dst Science-Technology Division (Kate)
  • sla-secondlife SLA Second Life Initiative (Kate)
  • slawebWebmasters - Private list, Unit Webmasters Only (Kate)
  • DBIO Calendar (Kate)
  • SLA-CUNY - Upstate NY Chapter (Jill)
  • Syracuse Univ. student list
  • SLA-DITE (Daphne or David)
  • SLA-DBF Business & Finance Division (Daphne)
  • SLA_CSV Silicon Valley Chapter (Daphne)
  • SoCal (David)
  • PIUG list (Zhifu Shi: zhifu.shu@exxonmobil.com)
  • INFOLINK (Laurinda Alcorn: laurinda@research.att.com)
  • SLA-PAM (Emily L. Poworoznek: Emily.Poworoznek@unh.edu)
• Webinar ideas:
  • "Managing Copyright in a Web 2.0 World" - in conjunction with the Legal Division and the Kentucky Chapter.
    • Platform: BNA handles the registration and the hosting of the webinar.
    • Recording:  BNA handles the recording, which will be made public after the event.
    • For future reference: Another possible copyright speaker is Marty Brennan, the instructor for CE Workshop on Copyright at UCLA winter 2009-10.
    • Final announcement:

MANAGING COPYRIGHT IN THE DIGITAL AGE
Sponsored by BNA, Inc. and Dialog, LLC.

Do you struggle to understand what you, your library staff, and your users may do under the U.S. Copyright Act?  Do you understand the gray areas of Fair Use and the Library Exemption?  Do you need help interpreting and negotiating terms of copyright in contracts for electronic resources?  Do you try to educate your patrons about copyright and create guidelines they can understand? 

If so, join us for this webinar on Tuesday, December 7, 2010 from 1:00 - 2:30 PM Eastern Time.  James Heller, author of The Librarian's Copyright Companion, and Christine Graesser, a law librarian with 20+ years of experience in firm and government law libraries, will outline the basics of copyright law and offer tips on copyright compliance, licensing, and user education within your organization.

REGISTRATION: This webinar is free for SLA members and $15 for non-members. Please register online by Friday, Dec. 3rd.  Registration is limited to 500.

GOT A COPYRIGHT QUESTION YOU'D LIKE US TO ADDRESS?  Jim and Christine will be incorporating real-world questions into their program to make sure it is relevant to your needs.  Please submit your questions to Jill Strand at jillstrand@gmail.com by Monday, November 29th.

THANK YOU TO OUR SPONSORS: Thank you to BNA, Inc. and DIALOG, LLC for their generous  sponsorship.  Thanks also go to SLA's Legal and IT Divisions and the SLA Kentucky Chapter for working together to coordinate this program.

Committee Volunteers

• Jill Hurst-Wahl, hurst@hurstassociates.com
• David Cappoli, dcappoli@ucla.edu
• Chang, Daphne, Chang_Daphne@GSB.Stanford.Edu
• Young Lee, leebrarian@gmail.com
• Natalie Bulick, nbulick@gmail.com
• Kate Creegan, kate.creegan@exxonmobil.com and kate.creegan@gmail.com
• Kan Kin, Kan.Kin@sf.frb.org  -- He has info that the committee can use