Recent Updates from SLA
Proposed Taxonomy Division Circulating Petition
A proposed Taxonomy Division is circulating a petition to identify members for the proposed division, which will focus on ways to organize and structure information so that content is accessible and useful. It would offer a practical context for exploring issues and sharing experiences related to planning, creating, maintaining and using taxonomies, thesauri, authority files, and other controlled vocabularies and information structures.
Contact Margie Hlava, mhlava@accessinn.com or Janice Keeler, jkeelersla@sbcglobal.net for more information or to volunteer to help get this division started. You must be a current SLA member to sign the petition.
Name Change Discussion Moves to Alignment Blog
While some Transportation Division members have commented on our wiki about the the subject of changing the association's name to better reflect the value information professionals add to their organizations, you all are encouraged to join the association's lively discussion on the subject. This wiki includes specific suggestions for new names and you can add your voice to the conversation.
RSS Feeds Now Powered by Yahoo! Pipes
The mega-feed of SLA RSS feeds is now powered by Yahoo! Pipes and you can subscribe directly. Grazr no longer supports RSS feeds compiled from multiple feeds; the Grazr widget listing feeds separated out by individual blogs will not be updated.
Nicole Engard gave a refresher on Yahoo! Pipes and other mashups at SLA 2009 (scroll down to June 17.)
LMD Launches Reading Club
The Leadership & Management Division (LMD) has just launced the Reading Club as a global initiative to celebrate SLA's Centennial. The Reading Club promotes knowledge-sharing and the exchange of creative ideas, insights and trends. We support continuous learning to develop leadership skills and to help achieve professional success. We're looking for new ideas and new resources and we're looking to have some fun. Initial titles include:
*Reinventing Knowledge: From Alexandria to the Internet by Ian McNeely and Lisa Wolverton
*Orbiting the Giant Hairball: A Corporate Fool's Guide to Surviving with Grace by Gordon MacKenzie
*Tribes: We Need You to Lead Us by Seth Godin
*"The Hidden Traps in Decision Making," Harvard Business Review classic reprint by Hammond, Raiffa & Keeney.
Everyone is welcome to comment on postings. To contribute postings about your own reading or about the blog's featured titles, contact blog owner, Alex Grigg, agrigg@lexmark.com.