A favorite chapter tradition, Neighborhood Dinners, will take place in April. See the Neighborhood Dinners webpage for information on how to host or attend a dinner. The list of upcoming dinners will be updated periodically, so check back often to learn about new dining and networking opportunities!

Taxonomies: What are they and how are they useful?

Online Webinar on Tuesday, March 12, 2013, 5:30 – 6:30pm (Pacific)

presented by Margie Hlava

Why:
Members of the SLA are perfect candidates to build and implement taxonomies. The oceans of data coming at us through the Internet portals need to be harnessed to power our research, development and management of existing knowledge as a foundation for growth and profitability. This webinar is a great introduction to a powerful skill that sets us apart from IT and adds value to our information systems.

Who:
Marjorie M.K. Hlava is President, Chairman, and founder of Access Innovations, Inc., in New Mexico. Very well known in the international information arena, she is the founding Chair of the SLA Taxonomy Division established in August 2009. She is past president of NFAIS (2002-2003), the organization of those who create, organize, and distribute information. Ms. Hlava is past president of the American Society for Information Science and Technology – 1993 (ASIST) and the 1996 recipient of ASIST’s prestigious Watson Davis Award. Ms. Hlava was also twice a member of the Board of Directors of SLA where she was awarded the President’s Award for her standards work. She has been granted 21 patent claims for her work.

When:
Tuesday, March 12, 2013, 5:30 – 6:30pm (Pacific)

Where:
By phone and online via GoToWebinar, hosted by SLA-SF. You will need a PC with internet access. You can use your computer audio or telephone (toll call). The link and call information will be provided after verification of registration payment.

Cost:
$25 for SLA members, $50 for non-members/guests, and $15 for students/retirees/unemployed.

Registration:
Registration is now closed.

Are you a current member of the SLA Taxonomy Division?
Taxonomy Division members may attend this webinar for free. Do not use the registration link shown above. Instead, send your name, email address and phone number with your interest in the webinar to Wendi Pohs, Taxonomy Division PD Chair: wpohs@infoclearonline.com. The deadline for this special offer is March 1, 2013.

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.

Freedom of Information

Library of Congress has archive of tweets, but no plan for its public display

In the few minutes it will take you to read this story, some 3 million new tweets will have flitted across the publishing platform Twitter and ricocheted across the Internet. The Library of Congress is busy archiving the sprawling and frenetic Twitter canon — with some key exceptions — dating back to the site’s 2006 launch. That means saving for posterity more than 170 billion tweets and counting, with an average of more than 400 million new tweets sent each day, according to Twitter.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/2013/01/03/e4db1c24-55d4-11e2-bf3e-76c0a789346f_story.html

Old school bookstore thrives in NYC

http://money.cnn.com/video/smallbusiness/2012/12/07/sbiz-old-bookstore-the-strand-new-york.cnnmoney

Rapid DNA: Coming Soon to a Police Department or Immigration Office Near You

In the amount of time it takes to get lunch, the government can now collect your DNA and extract a profile that identifies you and your family members.

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2012/12/rapid-dna-analysis

Extension Gives You More Control Over Your Facebook Privacy

Facebook Messages has a feature that tells you when a chat recipient has seen a message. This “read receipt” is, in true Facebook fashion, both nifty and unsettling. And it brings with it tons of potential for abuse. Unfortunately, there’s no built-in method to opt out.

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2013/01/extension-gives-you-more-control-over-your-facebook-privacy

2012 in Review: Digital Rights Activism Around the World

Just as in the United States, where a multi-pronged campaign against SOPA and PIPA killed the freedom-restricting bills, activism for digital rights saw great successes—and innovations—in 2012. While not every campaign was as successful in quashing efforts to restrict rights, it was nonetheless a great year worldwide for digital activism. Here are a few highlights:

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2012/12/2012-review-international-digital-activism

Public Policy

Libraries See Opening as Bookstores Close

At the bustling public library in Arlington Heights, Ill., requests by three patrons to place any title on hold prompt a savvy computer tracking system to order an additional copy of the coveted item. That policy was intended to eliminate the frustration of long waits to check out best sellers and other popular books. But it has had some unintended consequences, too: the library’s shelves are now stocked with 36 copies of “Fifty Shades of Grey.”

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/12/28/us/libraries-try-to-update-the-bookstore-model.html

Privacy Concerns

Alan Moore’s Neonomicon censored by US library

The removal of Alan Moore’s graphic novel Neonomicon from the shelves of a library in South Carolina has been described as “censorship” by free speech campaigners.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2012/dec/06/alan-moore-neonomicon-censored-library

Intellectual Property

Scanning Documents? Patent Trolls Want You To Pay Up

Earlier this week, Ars Technica profiled a particularly atrocious group of patent trolls who are demanding payments from small businesses for committing the egregious, shameful act of… scanning documents to email? Yes, the latest in a string of absurd patent-related stories involves the everyday act of using a networked scanner.

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2013/01/scanning-documents-patent-trolls-want-you-pay

International Outlook

Google backtracks on Chinese anti-censorship feature

Google appears to be backtracking on its once unshakeable anti-censorship stance, after removing a feature from its Chinese site designed to help users avoid getting cut off from the internet. The feature — which flagged up a warning message whenever a user began typing a censored word, then redirected them to a help page that explained how to avoid being cut off from the web — appears to have been disabled some time between 5 and 8 December 2012.

http://www.wired.co.uk/news/archive/2013-01/04/google-china-anti-censorship-fail

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.

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