New Event Calendar

We are discontinuing this Chapter Events Blog. From now on you can keep track of events via our SLANY Google Calendar application. You can access the calendar via the SLANY homepage, or directly at: http://tinyurl.com/slanycal

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Happy Hour on Wednesday, Aug. 26th

Please join us for a drink, a snack, and good networking on Wednesday, August 26th, from 5:30 to 7:30 pm.

Happy Hours are a regular event which the NY Chapter organizes to give members a chance to meet and chat. Prospective members, students, and colleagues also are welcome.

There is no charge to attend, and there is no agenda except to network with colleagues in a quiet space. You will have an opportunity to introduce yourself to the group and make any announcements (such as a new position, job search or job availability). Please come and tell us who you are and, if you are looking for something, what it is.

Midtown Executive Club
Rumford Hall
40 West 45th Street (betw. 5th/6th Aves). You will see a blue awning that says CQ (for Club Quarters).
http://www.midtownexecutiveclub.com

Drink Prices: $4 for soft drinks; $10 for wine or beer.
PLEASE NOTE: Half-price for beer and wine until 6:30.

Please RSVP to Vida Cohen at cohen.v@att.net to help us establish an attendance figure. But feel free to drop by even if you have not RSVP'd.

Thur., Aug. 13th - Why You Need to Be LinkedIn and How to Develop a Powerful Profile

LinkedIn: Why You Need to Be LinkedIn and How to Develop a Powerful Profile

How to expand your network to get a job (or just in case!)

With Nathan Rosen, Information Resources Manager @ Morrison & Foerster

Thursday, August 13th, 6:00-8:00PM at Baruch College, Newman Library, 151 East 25th Street, Room 135

Nathan Rosen is the creator and administrator of the Law Library Association of Greater New York's group in Linkedin, along with two other Linkedin groups. He is a knowledge specialist with 25 years of expertise in researching, organizing and distributing information and managing a library, training program, and an Intranet. Nathan has both a MLS from Columbia University and a JD from UMKC. He was the first librarian to be recognized as one of the top innovators by Inside Counsel magazine and was identified as a Top Researcher on Wall Street in a book on Super Searchers of Wall Street. Currently he is the Information Resources Manager at Morrison & Foerster, after serving 11 years as Vice President in the Legal & Compliance Department of Credit Suisse. Previously he was the Director of the Library & Technology Center at the Association of the Bar of the City of New York and for 12 years the Associate Library Director at Proskauer Rose. Additionally he was worked in public libraries, university libraries, law firm libraries and business libraries. He is also a lawyer and author of more than 200 articles and books.

Refreshments will be graciously provided by SLA-NY.

The program is limited to 40 participants. Please RSVP early to reserve your space : jperos@wlrk.com

The program is open to SLA-NY members free of charge and non-members at a charge of $10. Priority will be given to SLA-NY members due to space constraints.

Thur. July 30 - Happy Hour/Meet the Candidates

Please join us for a drink and an opportunity to meet and have a Q&A session with Agnes Mattis and Cindy Romaine, the candidates for 2010 President Elect of SLA. The SLA-NY Chapter is holding its next 2009 Happy Hour on Thursday, July 30th, from 5:30 to 7:30 PM at the Midtown Executive Club.

The "program" portion of the evening will begin promptly at 6:15 PM and run until about 7 PM. There will be brief candidate statements and then a chance for all present to ask Agnes and Cindy questions. So that we do not have to spend time introducing the candidates and we have more time for dialog with Agnes and Cindy, we would appreciate if you would please read their bios online in advance @ http://www.sla.org/content/SLA/governance/bodsection/can/09cand/.

The 2010 SLA President Elect will be President of the Association in 2011.

Happy Hours are a regular event the NY Chapter organizes to give members a chance to meet and chat. Prospective members, students, and colleagues also are welcome. There is no charge to attend. You will have an opportunity to introduce yourself to the group.

Midtown Executive Club
Rumford Hall
40 West 45th Street (betw. 5th/6th Aves). You will see a blue awning that says CQ (for Club Quarters).
http://www.midtownexecutiveclub.com

Drink Prices: $4 for soft drinks; $10 for wine or beer.
PLEASE NOTE: Half-price for beer and wine until 6:30.

Please RSVP to Vida Cohen at cohen.v@att.net to help us establish an attendance figure. But feel free to drop by even if you have not RSVP'd.

Thursday, July 16 - Job Search Techniques

SLA NY Presents: Job Search Techniques: Best Practices for Today’s Market

With Laura Hill, founder of Careers in Motion LLC, a career coaching firm based in New York City.

Laura works with individual clients at all stages to optimize their careers, including determining their career direction and conducting successful job searches.

Thursday, July 16th, 6:00-8:00PM at Baruch College, Newman Library, 151 East 25th Street, Room 135

In this program, you will learn:

• How to ensure that your resume is effective and competitive in today’s challenging market
• How to develop your elevator pitch and answer to “why should we hire you?”
• The power of examples and how to use them to ace your interviews
• Basic principles of salary negotiation and how to overcome typical challenges
  
  

Laura Hill is founder and president of Careers in Motion LLC, a career coaching firm based in New York (www.careersinmotionllc.com). Working directly with business professionals and executives, she helps her clients optimize their careers through personal assessment, strategic planning, and providing job search assistance with resumes, interviewing skills and negotiations. Her clients include C-suite executives, BBA/MBAs from top business schools, and professionals in virtually all disciplines including marketing, finance, sales and operations. Her broad industry expertise includes financial services, especially capital markets and investment management; media/entertainment/internet; healthcare; consumer products; and professional services.

Laura was a featured career expert on CNBC’s The Wall Street Journal Report With Maria Bartiromo in early 2009. She has been quoted on career topics in The Wall Street Journal, Forbes.com and The New York Times, and is a contributing author for the Forte Foundation’s Career Center . She is a frequent speaker for groups including Financial Executives International (FEI), Stern Women in Business, The Association of Corporate Counsels, The Financial Women’s Association and Technology Executives Networking Group (TENG).

She is a member of the Association of Career Professionals International, Financial Women’s Association of New York, Society for Human Resource Management, Association for Psychological Type, and the Executive Women’s Golf Association. She is a member of Women United in Philanthropy ( United Way of New York ). Laura received a BBA in marketing from the McCombs School of Business at the University of Texas and an MBA in finance from the Stern School at New York University . She is a certified career coach with The Five O’Clock Club.

Refreshments will be graciously provided by SLA-NY.

The program is limited to 40 participants. Please RSVP early to reserve your space : jperos@wlrk.com

The program is open to SLA-NY members free of charge and non-members at a charge of $10. Priority will be given to SLA-NY members due to space constraints.

Tues. June 23 - Centennial Celebration Dinner

The New York Chapter of the Special Libraries Association

Is Pleased to Invite You to Join Us for

A Centennial Celebration Dinner

Honoring SLA’s 100^th Anniversary

and

The SLA NY Chapter’s 90^th Anniversary

The University Club

One West 54^th Street

New York, NY 10022

Tuesday June Twenty-third 2009

Cocktail Reception with Open Bar 6- 7 PM

Elegant three-course Dinner with Wine 7 - 10 PM

Cost to SLA Members: $75.00

Non-SLA Members: $150.00

Festive or Business Attire*

RSVP by Wednesday, June 10^th 2009 to Vida Cohen at cohen.v@att.net

Please let Vida know if there are other attendees with whom you would like to sit at the dinner
(maximum of 8 per table).

Please let Vida know if you have special dietary needs.

You may pay with credit card via Paypal on the SLA-NY website at: http://tinyurl.com/slany

Please forward payment receipt to Vida with your RSVP.

If you wish to pay by check, please make it out to SLA-NY, and mail to:

Vida Cohen, 233 East 69th Street, Apt 3C, New York, NY 10021

All payments must be in advance and not at the door. Refunds will not be available.

*Please be advised of The University Club's dress code: Men are required to wear jackets, dress shirts and ties. Women are required to wear clothing meeting similar standards: tailored clothing including suits, dresses and skirts or tailored trousers with dress shirts, blouses or sweaters. Capri pants, jeans, shorts, sneakers, flip flops and other such casual sportswear are not considered appropriate.

Thursday, May 21 - Louis Uchitelle

WHEN: Thursday, May 21, 2009 5:30 - 7:45 PM
Networking Reception: 5:30 - 6:30 PM
Presentation including Q&A: 6:30 - 7:45 PM

PROGRAM: New York Times prize-winning economics writer Louis Uchitelle will discuss the current "Great Recession" in New York and beyond. He will also share insights from his 2006 book "The Disposable American: Layoffs and Their Consequences." The book will be available for sale (ca. $15), and Mr. Uchitelle will be glad to sign copies. Please join us for this interesting and insightful presentation on the most important issue of today!

Louis Uchitelle has covered economics for The New York Times since 1987, focusing on business issues, monetary and fiscal policy and labor trends, particularly the unwinding of job security and the spread of layoffs. He originated and served as lead reporter for a series of seven stories published in March 1996 that explored the layoff phenomenon. The series, “The Downsizing of America,’’ won a Polk Award.

He also is the author of “The Disposable American: Layoffs and Their Consequences,’’ published by Knopf in 2006. He reported extensively on the Federal Reserve during Alan Greenspan’s early years as chairman and produced, for The Times Magazine, the first detailed magazine profile of Mr. Greenspan’s performance.

In the early 1990s, he spent weeks in Russia and Ukraine reporting on the former Soviet Union’s plunge into capitalism. He was the only journalist from a major American publication sent to concentrate on the economic transformation then taking place.

Mr. Uchitelle was a visiting scholar at the Russell Sage Foundation in New York in 2002-03 and taught journalism for many years at Columbia University’s School of General Studies. Before joining The Times, he worked for The Associated Press as a reporter, an editor and a foreign correspondent in Latin America. He and his wife, Joan Uchitelle, live in Scarsdale, N.Y. They have two grown daughters.

WHERE: Skadden Arps, 4 Times Square at Broadway (between 42nd and 43rd Street) 37th Floor. Enter on 42nd or 43rd St. side.

DIRECTIONS: Use any public transportation going into Times Square.

RSVP: To Vida Cohen at cohen.v@att.net by close of business Thursday, May 14th. In honor of its Centennial and of the outstanding nature of this program, SLA-NY is once again delighted to invite non-members, including our colleagues from other organizations of information professionals, to join us at no charge. Vida will confirm your RSVP, so if you have not received an email response, please re-send your RSVP. All attendees must be on the security list in advance.

NOTE: Please be sure to cancel in advance if you find you are unable to attend this or any event for which you have RSVP'd in the affirmative. We make this request because catering costs are based on the number of RSVPs received. We look forward to continuing our Centennial Celebration and hope you will attend our forthcoming events, which are listed at the bottom of this announcement.
** Please email Vida by close of business on Friday, May 15th if you have to cancel your RSVP.