Joint Meeting with BayNet Featuring Tasha Bergson-Michelson

January 30, 2013, 5:30-8:00 pm

Elephant and Castle Pub and Restaurant, 424 Clay St, San Francisco, CA 94111

Please join us at our annual joint meeting with BayNet featuring Tasha Bergson-Michelson of Google’s Search Education Team.

Ms. Bergson-Michelson will share her searching expertise in this presentation: “Bookends: Bringing together the basics and the advanced; a look at how the simplest of search skills helps improve the complex research undertakings.”

Tasha Bergson-Michelson is a Search Educator at Google. Drawing on nineteen years as a librarian and research skills trainer in K-20 and corporate settings, Tasha collaborates with librarians and other educators who want to integrate research skills into their classes and reference interactions to help their patrons access the most relevant, highest-quality sources available today. Tasha creates training resources that she shares through the Search Education hub and the Power Searching with Google massive open online courses, in posts for MindShift, on Google+, and on Twitter as @ResearchWell.

Where:
The event will be held at the Elephant and Castle Pub and Restaurant.
424 Clay St, San Francisco, CA 94111

When:
January 30, 2013
5:30 – 6:30 Registration, networking and appetizers
6:30 – 7:00 SLA-SF and BayNet announcements
7:00 – 8:00 Program with Q&A following

Cost:
$25 for BayNet/SLA members
$50 for non-members
$20 for students, retired, or unemployed

Seating at the restaurant is limited, so register soon!

Thanks go to Information Express for their generous sponsorship of this meeting.

SF Bay Region Chapter Holiday Party
and Annual Awards Ceremony

Tuesday, December 18, 2012, 5:30 – 9:00 pm

ThirstyBear Brewing Company and Spanish Tapas Restaurant
661 Howard Street, SF
http://www.thirstybear.com

Please join us as we celebrate the season, another year of terrific Chapter events, and the contributions of some of our distinguished members.

Agenda:
5:30 – 6:30 Party!
6:30 – 7:00 Awards!
7:00 – 9:00 More Party!

Menu:
A variety of tapas and paella, including vegetarian options.
One drink ticket is included.

SLA Program Cost:
$25 per person for everyone

Location:
ThirstyBear is located in San Francisco’s SOMA neighborhood. It is a 6 minute walk from Montgomery BART and MUNI. Street parking and various garages are nearby.
http://www.thirstybear.com/contact

Registration Deadline:
Please register online or ensure your mail-in registration form and check are received no later than Thursday, December 13.

Registration Forms:

Mail-In Registration

Event Refund Policy:
After careful review, the Executive Board of the SF Bay Region Chapter of SLA has decided that we cannot accommodate refunds or “rain checks” for our events (this includes programs, tours, professional development workshops, etc.).

Some reasons why:

• Our chapter does not make a profit on our events. We subsidize our events because it is important to us to be able to keep our attendance fees low.

• We are required to pay in advance for food and venues, and these costs are frequently based on head count. Therefore, we’ve already paid for your attendance.

• As a volunteer organization we are just not staffed to be able to keep track of refunds or attendance for future events.

So if you’ve paid for an event you find you cannot attend, please consider the following:

• Post a notice on our discussion board inviting a member to take your place

• Think of it a tax‐free donation to our organization.

Thursday, November 29th, 4:00 – 7:00 PM

Behind the Scenes Joint Chapter Tour of the Iris & B. Gerald Cantor Center
for Visual Arts at Stanford University

museum.stanford.edu

Please join us for a special joint tour bringing together the San Francisco and Silicon Valley chapters. This tour will be a behind-the-scenes look at the Cantor Arts Center at Stanford University.

Formerly known as the Stanford University Museum of Art, the Cantor Arts Center has a collection spanning 5,000 years of art history and encompassing antiquity, ethnographic art, modern art, contemporary art, and sculpture gardens. The Cantor Center holds the largest collection of Auguste Rodin sculptures outside of the Musee Rodin in Paris.

**This tour is limited to 15 attendees, so please register early!**

*Please note that the attendance limit had to be revised from 25 to 15 due to safety and security concerns. Because of this, space is very limited. There has already been a lot of interest, so please register as soon as possible in order to secure a space.

SLA Tour Tentative Schedule
4:00 – 4:15 pm. Gather in the staff entrance on the left side of the building, directly behind Rodin’s “Gates of Hell”
4:15 – 6:00 pm. Tour will begin promptly at 4:15 – please be on time!
6:00 – 7:00 pm. Networking and refreshment available for purchase in the museum’s Cool Cafe

SLA Tour Cost: $5 flat registration for everyone

Location

The Cantor Arts Center is located at the intersection of Museum Way and Lomita Drive on the Stanford campus, northwest of The Oval and the Main Quad. Parking along Museum Way is by permit only until 4 pm on weekdays; parking is free after 4 pm and on weekends. A parking structure with both metered and permit parking is located on Roth Way near the Center. This parking is free after 4 pm weekdays and all day on weekends.

Stanford University is accessible by several public transportation agencies. More information can be found here: http://transportation.stanford.edu/alt_transportation/BayAreaTransit.shtml

A map and directions to the museum can be found here: http://museum.stanford.edu/visit/visit_MapDirections.html

Registration

Mail-In Registration

Event Refund Policy: After careful review, the Executive Board of the SF Bay Region Chapter of SLA has decided that we cannot accommodate refunds or “rain checks” for our events (this includes programs, tours, professional development workshops, etc.).

Some reasons why:

• Our chapter does not make a profit on our events. We subsidize our events because it is important to us to be able to keep our attendance fees low.

• We are required to pay in advance for food and venues, and these costs are frequently based on head count. Therefore, we’ve already paid for your attendance.

• As a volunteer organization we are just not staffed to be able to keep track of refunds or attendance for future events.

So if you’ve paid for an event you find you cannot attend, please consider the following:
• Post a notice on our discussion board inviting a member to take your place

• Think of it a tax‐free donation to our organization.

Save the Date!

Thursday, November 29th, 4:00 – 7:00 PM

Behind the Scenes Joint Chapter Tour of the Iris & B. Gerald Cantor Center
for Visual Arts at Stanford University

museum.stanford.edu

Please join us for a special joint tour bringing together the San Francisco and Silicon Valley chapters. This tour will be a behind-the-scenes look at the Cantor Arts Center at Stanford University.

Formerly known as the Stanford University Museum of Art, the Cantor Arts Center has a collection spanning 5,000 years of art history and encompassing antiquity, ethnographic art, modern art, contemporary art, and sculpture gardens. The sculpture gardens include the largest collection of Auguste Rodin sculptures outside of the Musee Rodin in Paris.

**This tour is limited to 25 attendees, so please register early!**

SLA Tour Tentative Schedule
4:00 – 4:15 Gather in the Main Lobby
4:15 – 6:00 pm. Tour will begin promptly at 4:15 – please be on time!
6:00 – 7:00 pm. Networking and refreshment available for purchase in the museum’s Cool Cafe

SLA Tour Cost: $5 flat registration for everyone

Location

The Cantor Arts Center is located at the intersection of Museum Way and Lomita Drive on the Stanford campus, northwest of The Oval and the Main Quad. Parking along Museum Way is by permit only until 4 pm on weekdays; parking is free after 4 pm and on weekends. A parking structure with both metered and permit parking is located on Roth Way near the Center. This parking is free after 4 pm weekdays and all day on weekends.

Stanford University is accessible by several public transportation agencies. More information can be found here: http://transportation.stanford.edu/alt_transportation/BayAreaTransit.shtml

A map and directions to the museum can be found here: http://museum.stanford.edu/visit/visit_MapDirections.html

Expanding Your Career Potential

Part 1 of 2

Tuesday, October 2, 2012, 6:00 – 7:30 PM

a webinar presented by
SLA President-Elect Deb Hunt and David Grossman

TThese are tough times, but librarians, archivists and other information professionals possess many marketable skills that may be easily adapted to access, organize and unlock the value within the paper, digital and knowledge information assets for their organization or their clients.

The workshop offers practical advice to help information professionals assess and expand their existing skill sets and develop new areas of expertise to broaden their career potential, maximize their earnings in their current position or gain that competitive edge for landing their next job.

You will learn how to:
Plan and jump-start your next career move
Acquire 33 essential skills for career growth
Create a dynamite resume
Develop YOUR own personalized road map for career advancement

Our presenters have designed their material to allow each webinar session to stand alone and provide value for those who can attend only one session while not duplicating material for those who are able to attend both sessions. [The second session will be held on November 13. See the SLA-SF Events web page for separate registration.]

SLA Program Costs:
$35 for SLA members, $70 for non-members/guests, and $30 for students/retirees/between jobs members.

Where:
GoToWebinar, hosted by SLA (You will need a PC with internet access and a phone. The link and call information will be provided after registration payment.)

Registration:
REGISTRATION IS CLOSED.

Mail-In Registration

Expanding Your Career Potential

Part 2 of 2

Tuesday, November 13, 2012, 6:00 – 7:30 PM

a webinar presented by
SLA President-Elect Deb Hunt and David Grossman

These are tough times, but librarians, archivists and other information professionals possess many marketable skills that may be easily adapted to access, organize and unlock the value within the paper, digital and knowledge information assets for their organization or their clients.

The workshop offers practical advice to help information professionals assess and expand their existing skill sets and develop new areas of expertise to broaden their career potential, maximize their earnings in their current position or gain that competitive edge for landing their next job.

You will learn how to:
Plan and jump-start your next career move
Acquire 33 essential skills for career growth
Create a dynamite resume
Develop YOUR own personalized road map for career advancement

Our presenters have designed their material to allow each webinar session to stand alone and provide value for those who can attend only one session while not duplicating material for those who are able to attend both sessions. [The first session will be held on October 2. See the SLA-SF Events web page for separate registration.]

SLA Program Costs:
$35 for SLA members, $70 for non-members/guests, and $30 for students/retirees/between jobs members.

Where:
GoToWebinar, hosted by SLA (You will need a PC with internet access and a phone. The link and call information will be provided after registration payment.)

Registration:
Please register online or ensure your mail-in registration form and check are received no later than Friday, November 9, 2012.

Mail-In Registration

Rediscovering the New Deal — In Libraries and in the Field

Presented by Dr. Gray Brechin
Author, Historian, and Lecturer

Thursday, September 13, 2012, 5:30 – 8:00 PM

Berkeley City Club

2315 Durant Avenue, Berkeley

The Living New Deal Project has, for eight years, been inventorying and mapping the vast legacy of New Deal public works first in California and then in the United States. Project founder and scholar Dr. Gray Brechin will describe the unprecedented effort to locate the innumerable artifacts left by the WPA, CCC, PWA, and other alphabet soup agencies that helped to lift the nation out of the last depression as well as the invaluable role that librarians and archivists have played in exhuming a lost civilization built by our forebears.

In addition to his work with the Living New Deal Project, Dr. Brechin is currently a visiting scholar at UC Berkeley’s Department of Geography.

Dr. Brechin will have his award winning book “Imperial San Francisco” on hand to sell and sign.
http://graybrechin.net/

SLA Program Costs:
$25 for SLA members, $50 for non-members/guests, and $20 for students/retirees/between jobs members.

Menu:
A variety of hot and cold hors d’oeuvres will be served, as will non-alcoholic beverages. Beer and wine will be available for purchase from a no-host bar

Agenda:
5:30 – 6:30 PM Check-in and networking
6:30 – 8:00 PM Presentation by Gray Brechin, followed by Q&A

Registration: Registration for this event is closed.

Mail-In Registration

A New Member Happy Hour!

Thursday, August 30, 2012, 5:30-7:30 PM

The Irish Bank

10 Mark Lane, San Francisco

The event will be free for new and prospective members*, students, and for seasoned members who bring along one or more prospective member. The fee for all others is $10.

One drink ticket will be given to each attendee. Appetizers will also be provided.

To register as a FREE attendee, please e-mail Shelli Owens at academic@sanfrancisco.sla.org and include the information from the mail-in form.

Registration: Online registrations and mailed checks need to be received by August 27th.

Mail-In Registration

A Tour of The Asian Art Museum’s C. Laan Chun Library Center

Thursday, June 21st, 2012 6:00 – 7:30 PM

Asian Art Museum

San Francisco

Please join us for a tour of one of the most comprehensive research libraries on Asian art and culture in the United States.

With over 40,000 titles and more than 230 active serial subscriptions, as well as auction catalogs, microforms, and photograph collections the C. Laan Chun Library Center has many materials, both rare and scholarly, not available in many of the local university and college libraries.

Subject areas cover not only art but archaeology, architecture, landscape architecture, history, philosophy, religion, folk culture, festivals and folklore, literature, the performing arts, and music, as well as some specialized materials on Asian science and medicine.

Museum Librarian John Stucky will be our guide to the C. Laan Chun Library Center. He will show us some of the collections, and discuss the library’s role as a museum library with an in-depth collection of material on the culture and cultural history of Asia.

http://www.asianart.org/library.htm

When: Thursday, June 21st, 2012 6:00 – 7:30 PM

Agenda:

6:00 PM – 6:30 PM Check-in, networking, and refreshments in the Fisher Room at Cafe Asia

6:30 PM – 7:30 PM Tour of the C. Laan Chun Library Center

SLA Tour Cost: $10 for everyone

Where: Asian Art Museum, 200 Larkin St • San Francisco, CA 94102

Getting There: The Asian Art Museum is located in the building that formerly housed the San Francisco Public Library, at 200 Larkin St, between McAllister and Fulton. The Civic Center BART Station is only about a block away. Parking is very limited in this part of San Francisco, so use of public transportation is advised. http://www.asianart.org/gettingthere.htm

Registration: CLOSED **This tour is limited to 25 attendees, so please register early!**

Registration Form: Mail-in Registration

A Very Special Joint Meeting of the
The San Francisco Bay Region and Silicon Valley Chapters

An Evening with SLA International Leadership:

Janice Lachance, Brent Mai, and Deb Hunt

Thursday, May 31, 2012, 5:30 – 8:00 pm

Delancey Street Club

San Francisco

Please join us for dinner and a panel discussion featuring CEO Janice Lachance, President Brent Mai, and our very own President-Elect Deb Hunt!

Our panel will be moderated by longtime SF Chapter Member David Grossman. David will be posing questions submitted by chapter members, so start thinking about what you’d like to hear from our leadership! Submit questions to tlandolt@reprintsdesk.com or hschiral@library.berkeley.edu by Friday, May 25.

Our annual joint chapter meeting is an excellent opportunity to network not only with your Bay Area colleagues, but also with SLA leadership. Don’t miss the chance to talk with SLA’s current President, President Elect, and CEO, all at the same time. Learn more about where the organization is going, and get their perspectives on trends in our profession. The evening will include networking time (with no host bar) and a plated dinner (chicken, salmon, or vegetarian), followed by the panel discussion.

When: Thursday, May 31, 2012, 5:30 – 8:00 PM

Agenda:

5:30 PM – 6:15 PM Check-in and networking

6:30 PM – 7:00 PM Dinner

6:45 PM – 8:00 PM Panel discussion

Cost: $30 for SLA members, $60 for non-members, and $25 for students, retired, and between jobs members.

Registration Deadline: Friday, May 25, 2012 – CLOSED

Registration Form: Mail-in Registration

Thank you to IEEE for their generous sponsorship of this meeting.