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Kudos For Their Contributions

By Judith Kolata, Information Specialist at Nuveen Investments

Editor's Note: Anybody who attends one of the Chapter's December meetings feels the holiday warmth. The Union League Club is one of the nicest holiday party venues in the city. The Dec. 5 meeting was also devoted to celebrating those individuals whose achievements have made the Chapter a better organization for their colleagues.

Kudos for Their Contributions

By Judith Kollata, Information Specialist at Nuveen Investments

Editor's Note: Anybody who attends one of the Chapter's December meetings feels the holiday warmth. The Union League Club is one of the nicest holiday party venues in the city. The Dec. 5 meeting was also devoted to celebrating those individuals whose achievements have made the Chapter a better organization for their colleagues.

Mapping our 'Manifest Destiny'

By Sarah Martin, Information Specialist, Y.T. & Louise Lee Lum Library, Appraisal Institute

Members of SLA Chicago Chapter attended the new exhibit of maps at the Newberry Library on Thursday, November 15. The exhibit, entitled “Mapping Manifest Destiny: Chicago and the American West,” contained maps by George Washington, Lewis and Clark and John Charles Fremont. 

Our Leadership's Continuing Role

By Bonnie Sebby, SLA Illinois Chapter Secretary and Knowledge Manager at Exelon Corporation
Photos by Krista Pospisil, Research Assistant at MacArthur Foundation

Illinois Chapter gathered in Chicago to map its future and celebrate its heritage at the Annual Business Meeting, September 6 at the Union League Club of Chicago.

Tactics of a Successful Information Pro

By Kristen Shea, SLA-Illinois Chapter

What strategies should new Special Librarians use to achieve success? And can the old pros benefit from the same advice? These two audiences mingled at the March 28 meeting of SLA Illinois Chapter, at the Union League Club in Chicago, to hear the answers from an expert colleague.

Meeting Notes: A Fresh Start and Working Smarter

By Jim Obst, SLA Illinois Informant Editor and Information Analyst, Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago

Photos by Joel Berger, C. Berger Group

It's a phone call no one on the Planning Committee or the Board ever wants to hear: The featured speaker for the Chapter meeting, Gary Price, could not fly to Chicago because of bad weather. The meeting was that very night, Tuesday, Sept 12.  Not one to let a little thing like no speaker spoil the kick-off meeting for the Chapter's new season of activity, President-Elect Laura Ikens picked a rabbit out of her hat. The result was a stand-in speaker and program that taught members how to change the way they work, for the better.

Chapter Meeting Notes, Feb. 22, 2006: Negotiate your way to the right salary

By Suzanne Arist, Internal Communications Committee Member and Reference Librarian

"The idea that once the job is offered to the prospective employee the ‘power’ shifts to the employee is pretty damn empowering," quipped chapter member Howard Fisher in response to Leigh Estabrook’s speech at the Feb. 22 chapter meeting. And empowering the speech was.

The SLA Illinois Chapter met at the Union League to hear Dr. Estabrook, professor and former Dean of the Graduate School of Library and Information Science at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and Director of the Library Research Center at UIUC. She initiated the highly regarded internet-based M.S. degree program at UIUC known as LEEP. And she has been involved in studies of the impact of the USA Patriot Act on libraries.

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