SLANY ChapterNews Newsletter Summer 2005

ChapterNews 1 Vol. 77, #2 Summer 2005

Message from the (Out-going) President

Chapter Highlights from the Past YearBy Thomas Pellizzi

Dear Chapter Members:

It has been an honor serving as Chapter President this past year. I want to thankall the current Board and Advisory Council Members for their contributionsduring past term. Our collaboration has accomplished a number of importantgoals for the New York Chapter that I would like to highlight for the entireChapter membership.

1. A New Sponsorship Strategy. In calendar year 2004, our chapter collected atotal of $12,350 in program sponsorship. To remedy this, we initiated a newsponsorship strategy in 2005 and have collected $18,650 in the just the first 5 months of the year. How does this new strategy work?

a. We offer vendors a “product demo” opportunity at sponsored events.

b. We recognize our sponsors in every Discussion List announcement for anevent, and include a link to the sponsor’s web site in these announcements.This provides a valuable means for new sponsors to introduce their prod-ucts to our membership.

c. We’ve added a Corporate Sponsors Page to our web site. This page displaysthe logos of all our sponsors and links them to their web sites. Furthermore,it organizes the logos into categories that reflect the total level of supportfrom each sponsor. This encourages additional sponsorship because itmakes contribution levels transparent.

d. We’ve made a point of soliciting new companies as potential sponsors forthe New York Chapter.

e. We collaborate to share the load of contacting potential sponsors, and wefocus on reminding vendors of the size and purchasing power of the NewYork Chapter.

2. A New Budgeting Process. We have controlled our budgets more tightly toensure that costs do not exceed revenues for our programs and other impor-tant activities, such as ChapterNews. We have also revised our Chapter BudgetSpreadsheet, to make distinctions between mandatory expenses (e.g., holdingan Annual Meeting) and optional expenses (e.g., events that are contingentupon obtaining revenue).

3. Chapter Programming. Our President Elect, Gwen Loeffler, did a remarkablejob of arranging very successful programs that increased attendance this year,especially the program featuring the best-selling author, Malcolm Gladwell.Others helped too, with additional successful programs organized by: CareerDay Chair Gretchen Hazlin, Library School Liaison Co-chairs PhyllisHodges and Paulette Toth, Diversity Chair Vandy Ranjan, and B& F ChairDenise Slifer.

ChapterNewsVolume 77, #2 Summer 2005

IN THIS ISSUE

Letter from the President:

Chapter Highlights .....................1

Message from the

Incoming President ....................3

Message From

The Director of Publications:

Tempus Fugit .............................4

On the Frontlines ...........................5

Chapter Announcements...............8

NY Chapter Member

Wins Scholarship .......................9

Welcome to the NY Chapter........10

Career Day 2005 Wrap Up...........13

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4. Professional Development. Cathy Ciaccio and Mar-lene Augustin-Lambert successfully organized all ofthe Chapter’s Professional Development activities,which included several Virtual Seminars held at SIBL.

5. A New Chapter Logo. The Board retained a profes-sional designer (Judi Burger) to create a dramatic newChapter logo. It can viewed on our Chapter’s web site.

6. A New Web site Alias. The Board approved registra-tion of an alias web address for the Chapter. It is mucheasier to remember and distribute: sla-ny.org

7. A New Web site Design. Our Web Administrator,Michael Rivas, worked closely with Michael Gruenberg,our Director of Publications, to redesign our web site.The resulting design has greatly improved functionality,visual clarity, and responsiveness for our membership.

8. Other Fundraising Efforts. The Board is developing aplan for a local Fundraising Program that will be target-ed to non-vendor sources of funds. Specifically, we areplanning to position ourselves as a worthy non-profitrecipient of donations from local corporations.

9. Association Awards and Scholarships. NY Chaptermember Carol L. Ginsburg was inducted into theAssociation’s Hall of Fame, while Jeannie Bail wasawarded the Mary Adeline Connor ProfessionalDevelopment Scholarship.

To conclude, it has been a very successful year and a greatpleasure serving as your Chapter President. I have enjoyedworking with such a dedicated, talented and committedgroup of fellow Board and Council Members, and I lookforward to continuing my service as Past President in the coming term!

Thomas PellizziPresident, New York Chapter (June 15, 2004 / June 15, 2005)

Tom is a Principal at InfoSpace Consultants, where he hasbeen a special library consultant and library designer for morethan 17 years. Inquiries about this article should be addressedto [email protected]

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A Message from YourIncoming PresidentBy Gwen Loeffler

H aving served as your President-Elect this past year,I have learned so much from so many of you. Any-time I’ve needed advice or guidance – or just plain

old help – I knew I could turn to the Board, the AdvisoryCouncil or one of you – our members.

Perhaps the most important thing I learned this year isthat anything can get done if one puts her mind to it. ButI have also learned that much more can get done – and itcan get done better – when more people participate.

With this in mind, we would like to encourage our membersto become more involved this year. We’re revitalizingmany of our old committees and beginning a few newones so that we can be sure that our programs and initia-tives reflect the interests and needs of our members.

We introduced this idea at the Chapter’s Annual BusinessMeeting in May, and some of you have already expressedan interest in joining one or more of our committees.Now we would like to introduce the idea to all of ourmembers. We realize that everyone is busy, so we haveestablished a number of ways to get involved that vary interms of time commitment, responsibility and format.

▲ Your commitment can be as simple as welcoming gueststo an event and distributing name tags on a singleevening as a member of the Arrangements Committee.

▲ Perhaps you have ideas for programs or recommenda-tions for a speaker. You’d be perfect for the ProgramPlanning Committee.

▲ Maybe you’re a skilled party planner or you know all thebest places to gather for drinks after work. Put you exper-tise to work on our Holiday Party Planning Committeeand help select the venue, the entertainment and themenu for this year’s party.

▲ Perhaps you’d like to forge new relationships with students and Deans from area library schools as amember of the Library School Liaisons Committee.

▲ Or maybe you’d like to welcome our new membersand reconnect with members we haven’t seen in awhile as a member of the Membership Committee.

▲ If you prefer to work at your own pace in your owntime, you might become a regular contributor toChapterNews as a member of the Editorial Committee– just be sure you meet the deadlines established byChapterNews Editor, Jennifer Kellerman.

▲ And each year, the Chapter assembles a Career DayCommittee. Join this committee early and help selectthe location, program format and speakers. Or partici-pate on the day of the event by meeting with studentsand sharing your experience.

No discussion of committees would be complete here inthe New York Chapter if we didn’t mention our mostactive group, the Diversity Committee. This committeeorganizes programs, awards scholarships and participatesin events throughout the year. They even have their ownpage on the Chapter’s web site. You can find a link to itin the left-hand column on our home page which youcan reach by visiting www.sla-ny.org.

And if that isn’t enough, there will be other ways for youto participate. Your involvement might be as quick asresponding to a brief survey or bringing a colleague whorarely attends to the next event. It is our hope that themore members who get involved, the more opinions andpoints of view will be represented. And the more opin-ions and perspectives that are represented, the more rele-vant our programs, events and initiatives will be to moreof our members.

Please join with me, the Board and the Advisory Councilto make this – our 90th year – a very special and produc-tive year for the New York Chapter. To express yourinterest in any of our committees, please visithttp://www.surveymonkey.com/s.asp?u=639401103988.

Gwen Loeffler is Senior Research Specialist at the globaladvertising and marketing network Young & Rubicam Brands,and President-Elect of the New York Chapter of SLA. She canbe reached at [email protected] or 212-210-3986.



Message From The Director of Publications

Tempus FugitBy Mike Gruenberg

Whew! That was fast. It seems like only yesterday that Iagreed to take on the role of Director of Publications forthe New York chapter. As I learned about the duties andresponsibilities required for this job, I quickly realizedthat no small task lay in front of me.

The first order of business was to look at ChapterNewsand preside over its resuscitation. Therefore, my goals atthe outset were to:

1. put the e-publication on a regularly scheduled deliverytimetable

2. create the type of publication that vendors would sup-port through their advertising

3. bring more relevant issues to the attention of themembership through the publication

4. use ChapterNews as the main voice of the organizationto reach the widest array of members

5. earn enough revenue from advertising so the publica-tion would pay for itself.

My first task was to create a working relationship amongthe key members of the group – the Editor, AdvertisingDirector and me.

When I first met Jennifer Kellerman, I knew that theediting would be in good hands. I caught a break when I spoke one afternoon to my friend of many years, Nancy Bowles. She accepted the role of Advertising-Manager. I had sold products to Nancy when I was asalesperson at Disclosure and she was at UBS. I knewwhat a tough negotiator she was so I decided to use hertalents for the benefit of ChapterNews. With Nancy’sacceptance, my team was in place.

I had high hopes, but really no idea if I could meet theabove stated goals.

In explaining my plans to the Board, I pointed out that,in my opinion, we needed some degree of uniformity inour “message” and “look” when communicating to themembership and the rest of the world. The old look ofthe Chapter web site was not in tandem with the look Ihad envisioned for ChapterNews or the site. Thus, I wasgiven the responsibility of modernizing the web site. Atthe time, the webmaster position was vacant and Iimposed on my friend, Shirley Loh, to take on the job.She graciously accepted, but shortly thereafter had to

step down due external pressures. Once again, I lucked outwhen Michael Rivas agreed to be the webmaster andbought into the vision of the new NY Chapter web site look.

The success of ChapterNews made it reasonable to assumethat the web site should be complimentary in look to thepublication. Once again, the Board was very active andmany of the changes proposed were open to discussionand, ultimately, the majority ruled on whatever designdecisions had to be made.

All parts in place, two years later … I’m pleased toannounce that we have published on a regular basiseleven issues of ChapterNews, and one bonus April Fool’sissue. That makes 12 on-time issues. Through Agnes’and Tom’s leadership, we brought to light many of thepertinent and sometimes controversial topics facing ourmembers. We openly discussed the budget difficultiesfaced by the Chapter. We highlighted some of the charitywork being done by our members. ChapterNews began topay for itself through increased ad revenues. We laugheda little, cried a little, but mostly had a lot of fun produc-ing ChapterNews.

Whether it was the incredible patience of Michael Rivas,the extraordinary attention to detail of Jennifer Keller-man or the dogged pursuit of Nancy Bowles to extract asmuch advertising money as possible from the vendors, allour objectives were met and, quite frankly, were surpassed.

Finally, a note of gratitude to Kevin Gatta of Gatta Designwho takes our articles and advertising and miraculouslyturns them into ChapterNews: You are an incredible indi-vidual whose traits are a combination of all those I havejust mentioned. I cannot thank you enough.

At the SLA Chapter meeting on May 24th, those inattendance saw the new look of the web site. All of youhave had the opportunity to read all our ChapterNewsissues and hopefully you have enjoyed them. You maynot have agreed with everything we wrote, but we hopewe made you think and act and make the chapter betterbecause of that. As I look to new challenges and responsi-bilities within the SLA organization, I am happy to havemade a contribution to the betterment of the chapter.Thank you all for giving me this opportunity.

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Michael Gruenberg is Corporate Sales Manager at CambridgeScientific Abstracts (CSA). He can be reached at 516 576-1575and his e-mail is [email protected].

Although Mike will no longer be the Director of Publications, hewon’t be leaving us. Look for a new column by Mike in the nextissue of ChapterNews!

On the Frontlines…By Kevin Manion

A s announced in the spring issue of ChapterNews,this column will detail the stories, experiences andsuccesses of New York Chapter members. By com-

piling and sharing these stories, I hope to raise awarenessof the value of membership and to promote communica-tion and professional networking.

There is a wealth of untapped creativity and ideas in ourmembership. In the months to come, I will be sharingsome of those ideas with you. In my new role as Presi-dent-Elect of the Chapter, I will also be reaching out tomembers to hear their experiences and to understandsome of the ways they have solved problems. I hope tobring people and ideas together so we can all learn fromour collective experience.

In the first installment of this column, I would like toshare a few recent personal experiences that give tangibleexamples of the benefits of membership in SLA and theNew York Chapter.

Networking

In March of this year, we had the pleasure of promotingRoberta Piccoli – a New York Chapter member – into therole of Manager of our Information Center at ConsumerReports. Roberta first came to us as a temporary placementvia InfoCurrent to help us work through some majorresearch projects related to development of our magazineand web site content areas. After several months of solidwork, Roberta left us to take on another assignment.

I ran into Roberta regularly at SLA events and at the2003 New York Chapter Holiday Party. At the party, weshared a drink, had some laughs and talked about work.She was finishing up a contract and was planning onlooking for a new assignment. The next morning, I walkedinto my boss’s office and we talked about using the rest ofour consultant budget to handle some projects we hadbeen putting off for a while. I told her I had spent part ofthe previous evening chatting with Roberta and that shewould be available after the holidays. We brought Rober-ta back and at the end of our fiscal year (May), offeredher a full time researcher job – which, much to ourdelight, she accepted. As a result of her exceptional skillsand “can do” attitude, she was promoted into the role ofmanager this past March.

Our involvement in SLA and in the Chapter created anopportunity for Roberta and I to meet regularly. Theevents sponsored by the New York Chapter enable us tostep out of our busy daily routine and to interact withcolleagues we do not regularly encounter.

Connecting

Last summer, I spoke for the first time at an SLA confer-ence as part of a panel on managing records, archives and research presented by the Social Science Division,Museums, Arts & Humanities Division, Retired Mem-bers Caucus, and the Washington, D.C., chapter. I wasjoined in this panel discussion by Susan Fifer Canby ofthe National Geographic Society, Libraries & InformationServices and Pamela Tripp-Melby of the InternationalMonetary Fund, Information Services Division. Theprogram focused on the synergies between records,archives and research and how each of us managed our particular units.

Andrew Berner, a New York Chapter member, who is alsomember of the Museum, Arts and Humanities Division,had recommended me to the organizers of this programas someone who was operating a unit that incorporatedthese three activities. The program was a great successand in November of 2004, Susan, Pamela and I wereasked to reconvene at the Library of Congress to speakto members of the Washington, D.C. chapter. In the fallof 2005, the three of us will be attending the third SouthAtlantic Regional Conference and leading a half day con-tinuing education course on integrating records, archivesand research. The half day session is to be followed by apresentation to all attendees at the end of the conference.


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On the advice of another New York Chapter colleague,Guy St-Clair, I repackaged the June 2004 Nashville pre-sentation into an article which was published in Januaryin Information Management Journal. I have receivedemails from Canada, Australia and various parts of theUnited States asking follow up questions about both thepresentation and the article.

Yeah, so what?

Recently, I was asked by two colleagues at Which? (U.K.counterpart to Consumer Reports), about the operationsof our Information Services unit. In our email exchange,we discovered that our units have a great deal in com-mon. I took advantage of the opportunity to ask my col-leagues if they were at all involved in any professionalactivities. I was delighted to find out that they had bothjust recently re-joined SLA after a hiatus. I plan onchecking in with them in a few months about the activi-ties of their chapter.

So why is all this important? Because membership offerspossibilities. Through our networking activities and bycontributing to our profession, we create opportunitiesto meet, exchange and learn. Learning comes in manyways – it comes when attending a continuing educationcourse at an annual conference, by reading the latestissue of Information Outlook or other journal, and evenover a chat and a glass of wine at a Chapter event.

The next installment of this column will take a look athow Chapter members have used knowledge acquired in professional development or training and applied that learning in their work environments.

If you have something to share on this topic or any relat-ed topic – don’t hesitate! Please contact me [email protected] or give me a call 914-378-2263. I would love to hear from you!

Kevin Manion is Associate Director in the Strategic Planningand Information Services Department at Consumer Reports. Hemay be contacted at [email protected].


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CHAPTER ANNOUNCEMENTS

The New York Chapter has a new web site address!

www.sla-ny.orgCheck it out!!

DLDC names scholarship winner!Betty Ann Derbentli is the recipient of this year’s DiversityLeadership Development award. She started her career asan Art Appreciation and English Literature teacher at thesecondary level at St. Andrews Episcopal School, a privateschool on Long Island. She moved on to higher educationand worked as an adjunct professor of Art History atDowling College. Prior to joining the library school atSt. John's University, she was the Curator of the VisualResource Collection of the Visual Arts Department atDowling College.

Betty Ann believes that it is “very important to marry theaspect of digital images with the information and standardsassociated with library science.” She says, “the age oftechnology has opened a unique ‘scholar's portal’ thatenables the scholarship of academia to be linked with thevisual imagery of art works and artifacts.” It is her belief thatart history, library science and digital images will be thecombination used for academic study in the 21st century.

Betty Ann is also a new SLA member. Welcome and con-gratulations, Betty!

“Thank You” to Our ColleaguesWarm Regards, Phyllis Hodges and Paulette TothCo-Chairs Library School Liaisons 2004-2005

On behalf of the library school students and the SLANew York Chapter, we would like to say “thank you,” to our colleagues and their respective library staff forallowing us to visit their libraries on May 12, 2005 forthe Spring New York Midtown Library Tour.

Bear Stearns & Company Inc. LibraryMr. Steven H. Medley & Ms. Brigitte M. Anderson-Crumb

Business WeekMs. Jamie Russell

Canadian Consulate General LibraryMr. Curtis L. Field

McGraw-Hill Company, Inc. Business Information CenterMs. Susan M. Gormley

Pricewaterhouse CoopersMs. Elizabeth Croft

Simpson Thatcher & BartlettMs. Peggy B. Martin & Ms. Cynthia Raha

Skadden ArpsMs. Agnes Mattis

Time Inc.Ms. Marilyn Adamo

Recent GraduateMargaret “Maggie” Smith graduated from Pratt Instituteon May 13, 2005 with a Masters in Library and Informa-tion Sciences. She also won the Sylvia G. MechanicMerit Award in Business Librarianship. This award isgiven in memory of Sylvia G. Mechanic who was anadjunct faculty member at Pratt and worked for forty-two years in the Brooklyn Public Library, includingtwenty-three years as a librarian in the Business Library.

Maggie has been a member of SLA since 1994. She isactive in the New York chapter in the Solo and Business& Finance divisions and as chair of Downtown Network-ing. She is also a recipient of the SLA-NY Fall 2003scholarship award.

Maggie is Research Director at D. F. King & Co., Inc.

Congratulations, Maggie!

CHAPTER ANNOUNCEMENTS

NY Chapter Member Wins ScholarshipBy Jennifer Kellerman

R ecently, the Special Libraries Association announcedthe names of the 2005 scholarship recipients. NewYork Chapter member Jeannie Bail was awarded

the Mary Adeline Connor Scholarship, which is grantedto an SLA member who is enrolled in a post-MLIS certificate/degree program.

With an MLIS from Pratt Institute, Jeannie is now apart-time student at Brooklyn Law School. When askedto explain why she chose to go back to school for a lawdegree, Jeannie says, “Pursuing a JD has always been aninterest of mine because the law affects our everyday livesin so many ways.” Her favorite class in law school wasConstitutional Law. She says, “I had a phenomenal pro-fessor and I find the issues fascinating, particularly forlibraries and the control of information in today’s society.Before I started the course, I visited the National Archivesto view the Constitution in person. It was exceptionallypowerful to see the physical document and contemplatethe rights it reserves to us as American citizens, and tolearn how those rights have evolved over time basedupon its interpretation.”

Jeannie has one year of law school left before she gradu-ates. She intends to remain in the information industry“I’ve always loved libraries and library architecture. Infact, wherever I travel, the central library is always on mysightseeing list. During college, I worked in the referenceand technical services departments of the campus library.That experience opened my eyes to the possibility oflibrarianship as a career.”

For the past four years, Jeannie has worked at the invest-ment bank, Lazard. In May, she started a new full-timeposition as Library Director at Allen & Company, aninvestment bank serving the entertainment industry. “Thisposition is a bit of a change since I will be a solo librarian.However, it is a new challenge and I believe it is an excellentchance to apply my skills and what I have learned on thejob and through SLA over the years,” she notes.

Balancing a career, law school and home life is challengingbut Jeannie says that she tries to stay “focused and notlose sight of what [she] is trying to achieve.” She thinksof her demanding schedule as a marathon, “it requires alot of stamina and I have to pace myself, so I don’t runout of steam.” She is grateful to have had the support of the library managers at Lazard, Beth Butler and JoanMorris, and of her fiancé, who is honing his skills as achef while Jeannie is in school.

Her time is pretty much consumed by work and schoolright now but, once she graduates, Jeannie looks “for-ward to getting more involved with SLA,” perhaps onthe Executive Board. The Chapter would be lucky tohave her!

Congratulations, Jeannie!

Jennifer Kellerman is the editor of ChapterNews and a corporatereference librarian at Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison LP.She can be reached at 212.373.2457.


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Career Day 2005 Wrap UpBy Gretchen Ebeler Hazlin, MLS

More than 100 special librarians, aspiring librarians,vendors and colleagues met at Baruch College’sNewman Conference Center on Friday, April 1,

for the annual New York Special Libraries AssociationCareer Day 2005. This year’s event targeted current students and information professionals in order toencourage their SLA membership and to introduce them to the varied opportunities in librarianship.

The networking event featured two panels with eightspeakers from Business Week magazine, Credit Suisse FirstBoston, InfoCurrent, New York Academy of Medicine,New York Law School, PricewaterhouseCoopers andScholastic, Inc. They offered advice and guidance on different aspects of librarianship.

At the “Career Café,” attendees had a chance to mingleand get answers to their queries from other professionals.A vendor area was set up for recruitment agencies, databaseservices and other organizations to showcase the vital ser-vices they provide the industry. These included tables forInfoCurrent, ProLibra, Wontawk and The MetropolitanNew York Library’s METRO. Though in past years theevent was held with money allocated in the Chapter budget, Career Day 2005 was funded primarily throughgenerous sponsors, Factiva and Thomson Dialog, whichhad representatives on hand.

The first panel, “Perspectives on the Job Search,” featuredthree speakers who related their recent experiences as arecruitment officer, a hiring manager and a job seeker.Diane Goldstein from the InfoCurrent agency provideduseful suggestions and discussed using a library staffingagency in the search for a position. Paulette Toth fromKirkland & Ellis, described the kinds of skills she looks for in a potential new hire. Jeffrey Dreiblatt, a recentlibrary school graduate, recounted his exhaustive jobsearch ñfilled with ups and downs- and how he managedto acquire a coveted position at PricewaterhouseCoopersat the end of it. He also provided suggestions for jobsearch tools and web sites.

The day’s second panel, “A Day in the Life of an Infor-mation Professional,” featured five speakers from fieldsacross the information industry. Donna Slawskyn dis-cussed how she manages a digital archive of photographsand illustrations at Scholastic, Inc.

Camille Broussard talked about her experiences as a Pro-fessor of Legal Research and Acting Director of the LawLibrary at New York Law School.

Jamie Russell, Director of Information Services/ResearchLibrary at Business Week magazine, related how she andher staff provide research to reporters and run an exten-sive training program for reporters on using the web.Barbara Hawkes, an Information Research Analyst atCredit Suisse First Boston, discussed the research areasof business, finance, and technology. Janie Kaplan,Director of Library Services at the New York Academyof Medicine, spoke about the various functions of alibrarian in the medical arena.

As with every Career Day, volunteers made the wholeday run smoothly, providing support for set-up, registra-tion, the Career Café, and cleaning up after the event.

The Baruch College venue received raves from attendeesfor setting, space, and food.

Upon review of the post-event evaluations, not a singleattendee indicated any disappointment in the event, so it was truly a successful day.

A big thank you goes out to everyone who participated in the event. I do hope that all SLA NY members getinvolved in next year’s Career Day

Gretchen Ebeler Hazlin is Coordinator, Education & OutreachServices in the Library at the New York Academy of Medicine.She was also the chair of SLA NY Career Day 2005. She can bereached at [email protected] or 212.822.7323.


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SLANY ChapterNews Newsletter Summer 2005