SLA 2012 Early Bird Deadline is Friday! There’s still time to save some money if you register by 11 May for the SLA 2012 Annual Conference & INFO-EXPO. Register today at http://sla2012.sla.org/registration/

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With regards to the SLA Arizona Chapter Business Meeting in May, I’ve learned the date conflicts with the Memorial Day weekend. Sorry about the oversight. The new meeting date is Friday, June 15.  We’re still holding it at Spinato’s at 4848 East Chandler Boulevard in Phoenix.  Times are the same: 12-1 for networking, 1-3 for [...]

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Join us for a Northern Arizona SLA meet up event! We’ll be meeting at the Gurley Street Grill in downtown Prescott, Thursday April 12 between 5pm and 8pm. Spouses and S/Os are welcome! http://www.gurleystreetgrill.com/ , 230 W. Gurley St., Prescott, AZ 86301. Please RSVP to Christine at cgearhart@ncu.edu.

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INALJ (I Need a Library Job) Meet-Up in Phoenix! The hottest library job seeking network comes to Phoenix on Wednesday, April 18 when SLA Arizona hosts an INALJ (I Need a Library Job) meet-up.  Join us at the trendy new restaurant, Cave & Ives, for networking with fellow library job seekers and HR personnel. We’ve [...]

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I am proud to announce our newest leader to SLA Arizona.  Christine Gearhart will be serving as Northern Arizona Relations Chair.  She works as a Reference/Instruction Librarian at Northcentral University in Prescott.  Christine has some great ideas for events and networking opportunities.  For our Northern Arizona members who want to get involved or who have [...]

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Greetings to all members of SLA’s Arizona Chapter, March is rapidly approaching and what a flurry of activity these past couple months have been!  We sponsored The Power of Taxonomy event in January, which was a tremendous success!  It was well attended and included people from as far away as Denver and Chicago.  I specifically [...]

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You are invited to attend the SLA Arizona Chapter Tucson Happy Hour, Thursday, March 8 at the Barrio Brewing Co, 5-8 pm. http://barriobrewing.com/ *Meet SLA Arizona Officers from Tucson *Network with other SLA members *Show your support for the local chapter *Share ideas for future programming *All librarians and library students welcome For more information, [...]

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Steve Jeffery will be conducting a tour of the geosciences library and records room of Freeport-McMoRan Copper & Gold (a global mining company). The library is within the exploration division and contains 20,000+ books, maps, and reports as well as records of exploration work and core samples. The tour will be conducted on Friday, January [...]

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Organized information builds power.  It demonstrates connections and shows the big picture, guiding us as that picture gets more complicated.  Join pioneer taxonomist Katherine Bertolucci as she explores the power of taxonomy in its many permutations.  Then hear a panel of practitioners describe their approaches to organized information, from veteran taxonomist Charles Simmons with his [...]

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I’ve seen several blog posts over the last few days relating to Google Search and the personalization they do – including some automatic personalization that you have no control over. Mary Ellen Bates posted about a small informal survey she did. The results are in her blog entry, Is Google really filtering my search results? [...]

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