Join RMSLA in welcoming Sue Cronizer for a Virtual Lunch session on “Making a Difference in Your Organization.”

Sue will discuss how information professionals can become active and visible participants in their organizations. Learn to see your unit as a business within a business, expand your impact within a strategic framework, and be recognized for your essential contributions.

Date: August 16, 2012
Time: 12:00 noon Mountain Time (2:00 p.m. Eastern)

This program is free to all SLA members. Register now to reserve your space:
https://www1.gotomeeting.com/register/323081273

Non-members are welcome to attend by paying a $15.00 registration fee via the PayPal link provided on the RMSLA website:
http://bit.ly/RMSLA-Cronizer

Note: Please allow our volunteers 48 hours to approve your registration. Last-minute registrations cannot always be reviewed in time to admit attendees.

About Sue Cronizer
Sue Cronizer joined CSC in 1996 as a Senior Business Researcher and is currently the Managing Director of the ResearchNetwork, the Company’s dedicated market and competitive intelligence organization. In her role, Sue is responsible for managing a global team of researchers and analysts who develop actionable intelligence in support of deal prosecution, account expansion, solutions development, and strategic planning. She recently also took on the management of CSC’s global market research and sales enablement tools.

Prior to joining CSC, Sue spent seven years with Kraft Foods in the General Foods market and technical research business unit. Sue supported the research requirements for the Post Cereals, Maxwell House Coffee, and Desserts Divisions. She was responsible for understanding and anticipating all competitor activities, supporting the product development teams with market intelligence, and supporting the biologists, chemists, and flavor technologists with technical research.

Sue began her career at Mt. Sinai Medical Center in New York City. While at the teaching hospital, Sue provided medical intelligence in support of breakthrough research and clinicians. She developed and led educational programs for medical students and nurses on how to conduct their own research.

Sue holds a dual B.A. in Geology and Anthropology from Binghamton University and an MLIS from the School of Information Science and Policy at SUNY-Albany.

GoToWebinar System Requirements
PC-based attendees
Required: Windows® 7, Vista, XP, or 2003 Server
Macintosh®-based attendees
Required: Mac OS® X 10.5 or newer

Encore!!! Encore!!!
Sean Campbell, Co-Owner of Cascade Insights, will be our guest speaker for the CI Division’s encore presentation of “Going Beyond Google”, on Thursday, August 9 at 1 p.m. EDT. This session is FREE to all SLA members. Sponsored by: Aurora WDC and Cascade Insights. Space is limited!

Topic: Going Beyond Google: Gathering Internet Intelligence

Knowing a competitor’s strategies, in advance, can be the difference between success and failure, and yet members of business leadership teams, marketers, and sales teams are stretched too thin just “doing their job” to spend much time really analyzing the competition. During this session we’ll show you how can make the most of open source intelligence (OSINT) assets.

Take Aways:
• 20+ free Web tools for Competitive Intelligence
• Best practices for searching the deep web
• Multiple examples of how these tools have been used in competitive intelligence projects
• Guidance as to how you should rank and prioritize open source intelligence sources.

To register: https://www3.gotomeeting.com/register/485841318

System Requirements
PC-based attendees–Required: Windows® 7, Vista, XP, or 2003 Server
Macintosh®-based attendees–Required: Mac OS® X 10.5 or newer

Interested in hearing about ideas and main themes from this year’s Special Library Association (SLA) conference in Chicago?  Couldn’t make it to SLA or missed some sessions? Or did you attend and are able to share what you learned? Then join Michigan SLA at our August event: “What did you learn at the annual conference?” We’ll share what we learned with the group. This will be a great networking opportunity!

Date: Tuesday, August 7, 2012
Time: 6:30-7:30 p.m.
Location: Livonia Public Library-Sandburg Branch, Livonia, Mich.

This will be a brown bag event. Feel free to bring your own refreshments.

Please note: We hope to have something available remotely. However, if we don’t have at least 5 people participating we may cancel remote access. May require a long distance phone call.

Registration and Cost:
Please register here: http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/8N85W79
SLA Michigan Chapter Members – Free; Non-Members – $15.00

Directions/Map:
The Carl Sandburg Library is located at 30100 W. Seven Mile Rd., Livonia — on the north side of Seven Mile, west of Middlebelt Road. Telephone: (248) 893-4010.

Not a Michigan member, but want to become one? Click here to join or add the Michigan chapter to your membership.

****Not able to attend? Please take a few moments to tell us why: http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/M9L3KQR.****

Evolution of the Web: From Static to Semantic in 3 Big Steps
Tuesday, July 10, 2012
2:00 – 3:00 p.m.

Presented by Jason Bengtson, Emerging Technologies Librarian at the University of New Mexico’s Health Sciences Library and Informatics Center
Sponsored by the NC Chapter of the Special Libraries Association

Evolution of the Web: From Static to Semantic in 3 Big Steps
What is Web 3.0 and the semantic web? What are Web 2.0 technologies, and why are they important? How has the World Wide Web changed since the early days of Web 1.0? Jason invites attendees to ask these and other questions as important issues defining the World Wide Web and its future shape take center stage.

Cost:
SLA Members: FREE
Non-SLA Members: $10, payable via PayPal

Space is limited.
Reserve your Webinar seat now at:

https://www1.gotomeeting.com/register/854320144

(SLA members will receive instructions for joining the webinar within a few days of registration. Non-SLA members will receive an invoice for $10 with instructions for submitting payment via PayPal. Instructions for joining the webinar will be sent upon verification of payment.)

Jason Bengtson is the Emerging Technologies Librarian at the University of New Mexico’s Health Sciences Library and Informatics Center.  He has published several papers on technology topics in journals such as the Journal of Hospital Librarianship and Medical Reference Services Quarterly. Last year Jason presented his paper on Digital Palimpsest recovery to the South Central Chapter of the Medical Library Association and this year he presented two sections at the Technology in Libraries Conference, including a paper on applying principles of emergence to metadata. For more about Jason, you can visit his web page at http://hsc.unm.edu/library/faculty/Bengtson.html

Questions? Contact Susan Forbes, NCSLA President, forbes16@gmail.com

Join Sean Campbell, Co-Owner of Cascade Insights, guest speaker for our next CI Division’s webinar, on Tuesday, June 5 at 1 p.m. ET. This session is FREE to all SLA members. Sponsored by Aurora WDC and Cascade Insights.

Knowing a competitor’s strategies, in advance, can be the difference between success and failure, and yet members of business leadership teams, marketers, and sales teams are stretched too thin just “doing their job” to spend much time really analyzing the competition. During this session we’ll show you how can make the most of open source intelligence (OSINT) assets.

Take Aways:
• 20+ free Web tools for Competitive Intelligence
• Best practices for searching the deep web
• Multiple examples of how these tools have been used in competitive intelligence projects
• Guidance as to how you should rank and prioritize open source intelligence sources.

To register:  https://www3.gotomeeting.com/register/485841318

System Requirements
PC-based attendees–Required: Windows® 7, Vista, XP, or 2003 Server
Macintosh®-based attendees–Required: Mac OS® X 10.5 or newer

On June 6, nationally recognized Michigan-based intelligence firms Allis Information Management (AIM) and DeGenaro & Associates will host the Mid-Michigan Strategic & Competitive Intelligence Summit in Midland. These two premier agencies will share valuable insight and proven research techniques to help you develop a sustainable competitive advantage.

WHY ATTEND?

The Summit will provide tools and techniques that can be immediately applied in order to:

1. Identify and assess emerging threats and warning signs.
2. Drive business growth and fuel positive financial performance.
3. Collect valuable information on competitors and protect your own trade secrets.

WHO SHOULD ATTEND?

The Summit is intended for anyone that values information to support decisions, from executives to marketing/sales, business, R&D, and intelligence/information professionals. The Summit’s key takeaways can be applied in both large and small organizations.

The full agenda and registration information is available at http://www.allisinfo.com/summit.shtm

Join the University of Michigan Library’s Instructor College and fellow academic library instructors from across the state of Michigan for Michigan Instruction Exchange (MIX). This one day conference will connect you with academic library instructors from across the state in a conversation about student engagement and library instruction.  The day’s program offers:

• Keynote talk on student engagement in library instruction presented by Susan Gilroy of Harvard College Library
• Faculty and library instructor panel on partnership in teaching curriculum and student engagement
• Library instruction lightning talks given by instructors from across the state
• Networking with state of Michigan colleagues

When: August 10, 2012, 9:00 a.m. — 4:00 p.m.
Where: Hatcher Graduate Library Gallery (Room 100), University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
Targeted Audience: Michigan academic library instructors
Registration: http://tinyurl.com/mix-registration, closes July 20,2012
Registration fee: FREE

For more information, please visit http://www.lib.umich.edu/instructor-college/mix-conference. If you have any questions, please e-mail mix-conference@umich.edu.

Learn what prospect researchers do on a daily basis, the types of resources and databases they use, and where the jobs are. Find out what skills are required and why it’s more than just consulting a directory of millionaires. Come learn why this is a great field for someone with an MLIS.

Presenter:
Karly Szczepkowski is a Research Analyst for the Division of Development & Alumni Affairs at Wayne State University. She is a volunteer with I Need A Library Job (INALJ) and was the 2011 President of the Michigan Chapter of the Special Libraries Association (SLA). She received her MLIS from Wayne State University in 2008 and bachelor’s degree from the University of Michigan in 1996. Prior to attending library school she worked at a major Detroit-based advertising agency. She is looking forward to attending the SLA 2012 annual conference in Chicago.

When: Tuesday, June 12th, 2012 from 6:30-7:30 p.m.
Where: University of Michigan, Ross School of Business, Room R2310

Light refreshments will be served.

Registration and Cost:
Please register here: http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/prospect_research
SLA Michigan Chapter Members – Free; Non-Members – $15.00

Map/Directions:
http://www.bus.umich.edu/VisitUs/MapsDirections.htm
The Ross School of Business is located at 701 Tappan Avenue, Ann Arbor, MI 48109. Visitor parking is available via metered parking (change and credit card options) on the street or the City of Ann Arbor’s Forest Avenue parking structure, located three blocks east and one block north of the Ross School.