**You can download a PDF detailing all of our programs here.**
2014 SLA Conference Programs
The Leadership and Management Division is one of SLA’s most active and vibrant divisions. In Vancouver we will have a wide range of top-flight programs for division members and other attendees. Please take a look at the details below and make LMD’s programs your first choice in Vancouver!
LMD Business Meeting and Luncheon
Monday, June 9, Noon – 1:30 p.m.
Come and network with your fellow LMD members while learning about the division’s activities since our last meeting. This meeting is open to division members and anyone who is interested in learning more about LMD. A two course plated luncheon will be served.
Cost: $30 – division members and students; $40 – non-members
Speaker: Martha Foote, LibraryCo Inc.
Disruption, Alignment and Embedded Librarianship: Connecting the Dots and Avoiding the Traps
SPOTLIGHT SESSION!
Sunday, June 8, 1:30 – 3:00 p.m.
As members of a disrupted profession, librarians require new strategies to realign what we do with the changed expectations of our employers.
Embedded librarianship is an innovative strategy. Learn about the core characteristics of embedded librarianship, some of its common traps and pitfalls, and strategies for avoiding these problems.
Speaker: David Shumaker, Catholic University of America
Big Data & Job Opportunities Panel
Monday, June 9, 4 – 5 p.m.
This panel discussion will focus on opportunities and roles for librarians in big data. Learn how we as a profession can market and apply our inherent data and analysis skills to ensure we are in on the ground floor of this evolving field.
Speakers: Amy Affelt, Compass Lexecon; Jane Dysart, Dysart & Jones; Gayle Kosokowsky, Vound, LLC; Kimberly Silk, Martin Prosperity Institute, University of Toronto; Daniel Lee, Senior Manager, Knowledge Management Operations, PwC Canada
Developing and Leading a Knowledge Sharing Culture
SPOTLIGHT SESSION!
Tuesday, June 10, 2:00 – 3:30 p.m.
This session will explore the structural and human resource changes needed to build an organizational culture where people are encouraged and motivated to share information and knowledge. By the end of the session, participants will be able to determine where their organization lies on the collaboration continuum, identify ways they can shift their organization to be more adept at sharing knowledge and understand how they can be more effective at initiating and championing the shift.
Speaker: Steve Lowden, Steve Lowden and Associates
Choices Just Get Harder: Making Career Transitions When Money is Not the Motive
Tuesday, June 10, 2:00 – 3:30 p.m.
Do you feel that you are stagnating in your current position? Are you moving from full-time employment to a high energy “retirement” and needing alternatives? Where are the positions? What are the possibilities? How do you match your skill set with the range of options before you? And yes, this is a range of options… Learn about assessing your strengths, knowing your requirements, understanding the choices and how to be successful making the move.
Speaker: Dr. Ken Haycock, University of Southern California Marshall School of Business
For more information please contact our program planners Leslie Farison, farisonll@appstate.edu or Tom Rink, rink@nsuok.edu.
Library Outreach and the Italian Beef Sandwich
(Co-sponsored with the Legal Division)
Sunday, June 8, 11:45 a.m. – 1:15 p.m.
Being able to communicate a library’s value is critical to its’ success and continued existence. A key part of that communication is effective outreach to the user community that it serves. This session will discuss library outreach and describe practical things that librarians can do to have effective outreach as well as how to develop a mindset wherein library service is always at “top of mind”.
Speakers: Eugene M. Giudice, Latham & Watkins
LMD Consulting Section: Breakfast with Dr. Ken Haycock
Tuesday, June 10, 8:00 – 9:30 a.m.
Come have breakfast with one of the leading thinkers in the information industry and hear for yourself what you need to know to realize success. Prepare to be challenged. Dr. Haycock always delivers the straight goods.
Cost: $30 – division members and students; $50 – non-members
Speaker: Dr. Ken Haycock, University of Southern California Marshall School of Business
LMD Content Buying Section Breakfast: Managing External Content and Online Tools for the Enterprise
Monday, June 9, 8:00 – 9:30 a.m.
Join us for a panel discussion on topics chosen by our members. We expect a riveting discussion that will touch on various aspects of managing external content and online tools for the enterprise. Expected topics include: mobile delivery options, importance of single sign-ons and your role in the supplier’s product development process.
Cost: $5 – division members and students; $35 – non-members
LMD Marketing Section Luncheon: Video Magic: Production Advice and Secrets
Sunday, June 8, 11:45 a.m. – 1:15 p.m.
Videos featuring information service customers are popular in-house communications tools, but they’ve got to be done right – otherwise no one will watch them. Join us for lunch as we learn about producing videos, watch examples by seasoned videographers and have our video production questions answered. Attendees may either purchase a boxed lunch or bring their own food.
Cost: $47 – division members, students and non-members
Speakers: Devon Cooke, Storybubble Media; Shawn Lam, Shawn Lam Video; David Cooperstone, The Studio Video Facilities
Open House
(Co-sponsored with the Knowledge Management Division)
Sunday, June 8, 8:00 – 10:00 p.m.
Join your colleagues for an evening of informal networking and light snacks as we kick off the conference! Each attendee will receive one ticket for a complimentary drink; after that, it’s a cash bar. First timers are especially welcome.
For more information please contact our program planners Leslie Farison, farisonll@appstate.edu or Tom Rink, rink@nsuok.edu.
**You can download a PDF detailing all of our programs here.**