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.

Happy Hour on Wednesday, June 3rd

Please join us for a drink, a snack, and good networking prior to the SLA annual conference in DC (June 13-17), whether or not you will be going to Washington. The SLA-NY Chapter is holding its next 2009 Happy Hour on Wednesday, June 3rd, from 5:30 to 7:30 pm at the Midtown Executive Club.

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, 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.

Hope you can join us!

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.

Tue., May 5 - 90 Minutes to a Great Taxonomy, Part 2

SLA-NY @ METRO is a series of FREE professional development opportunities for all library and information professionals in the New York area.

Tuesday, May 5, 2009, 3:00-4:30PM

90 Minutes to a Great Taxonomy, Part 2 - Jay Ven Eman

This seminar presents advanced taxonomy topics and issues such as taxonomy maintenance, alternative uses and deployments. The Semantic Web and a host of related initiatives are headed your way. Will your taxonomy be ready? At the heart of the Semantic Web are words and phrases that represent concepts that can be used for describing Web resources. Basic organizing principles of concepts exist in the present thesaurus/taxonomy standards. Learn how to enrich your taxonomy for such knowledge organization systems (KOS) as the Web Ontology Language (OWL) and Simple Knowledge Organization System (SKOS). Other topics that may be discussed, time permitting, are notation, facets, multilingual thesauri, and multiple taxonomies and thesauri. Feedback, suggestions, and questions from attendees will govern the discussion of these and other topics.

To RSVP or for questions, contact Janet Peros jperos@wlrk.com

Please Note: This is a replay of a Click University Webinar. The session will take place at METRO's offices (57 East 11th Street, 4th Floor, between University and Broadway). This is only available to on-site attendees at METRO.

Wed. April 22 - Midtown Networking Luncheon

Please join us for the Special Libraries Association's New York Chapter's next Midtown Networking Luncheon

Where:

Madison Bistro

238 Madison Ave at 37th Street

When:

12:00 PM on Wednesday April 22nd, 2009

Menu:

The menu will consist of items from Madison Bistro daily 3 course prix fixe menu for Wednesday. The meal will include an appetizer, a main course, and a desert. Examples of the types of food served at Madison Bistro are listed below:

Appetizer/Salad Examples

French onion soup au gratin

Crab cake and crustacés reduction

Organic Mesclun with Dijon & olive oil vinaigrette

Entree/Pasta Examples

Roasted free range chicken, bacon, mushroom & mashed potato Open ravioli, Beans medley, spinach, vegetables and goat cheese Mussels cooked in shallot and white wine broth served with French fries

Desert Examples

Mix Sorbet

Soufflé

Beverages:

Usually we try to include a soft drink beverage and coffee or tea. Unfortunately, we could not get this included in the total cost. Therefore, all beverages will have to be ordered and paid for separately. The prices are below:

Soft drinks - $3.50 per person

Coffee (Regular) or Tea - $3.25 per person

Price:

Total $29.50

Includes Starter, Appetizer, Entrée, and Desert Gratuity is included in the cost (No tax as we are tax-exempt) Cash is preferable though Checks will be accepted - Receipts will be provided at the event

Directions:

Take the #6 to 33rd Street

Walk 1 block West to Madison and 4 blocks north to 37th Street

Take the N or Q or R, to 34th Street

Walk 2 blocks East to Madison and 4 blocks north to 37th Street

RSVP:

Please RSVP slamidtownlunch@gmail.com before April 20th.

Tue. April 28 - Legal of New York

WHEN: Tuesday, April 28, 2009 5:30 - 7:45 PM
Networking Reception: 5:30 - 6:30 PM
Presentation including Q&A: 6:30 - 7:45 PM

PROGRAM: The Honorable Laura Ward of the NYC Criminal Courts will tell us the intriguing story of how she and her colleagues in the the United States Attorney’s Office successfully prosecuted notorious mob boss John Gotti. The NY Times referred to this as stunning accomplishment as "a scintillating triumph for a team of Federal prosecutors who, with years of diligence and a few good breaks, breathed new life into a tired old script and shattered the maddening aura of invincibility of a notorious gangster who called himself a plumbing salesman." (April 3, 1992)

Documents related to Judge Ward's presentation and furnished by her for background reading are available on the SLA-NY website.

Judge Laura Ward was appointed to the Criminal Court in New York County in 1997, where she served for three years before becoming an Acting Supreme Court Justice in January of 2000. Judge Ward formerly worked for the United States Attorney’s Office, New York State Attorney General’s Office, the Organized Crime Strike Force and a private law firm. She is a current member of the Board of Directors of the Manhattan Plaza AIDS Foundation and the Associates Committee of the Multiple Sclerosis Society of New York. Judge Ward earned her JD from Fordham Law School.

WHERE: Thomson Reuters, 195 Broadway (at Fulton Street), Thomson Hall, 4^th Floor. Please join us in thanking Thomson Reuters which is donating the venue and catering for this event. Thomson Reuters is pleased to be an SLA-NY Centennial Year sponsor.

DIRECTIONS: A, C – to Broadway & Nassau; J, M, Z – to Fulton & Broadway; 2, 3, 4, 5 – to Fulton & Broadway.

RSVP: To Vida Cohen at cohen.v@att.net by close of business Tuesday, April 21st . In honor of its Centennial and of the outstanding nature of this program, SLA-NY is 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.
** Please email Vida by close of business on Thursday April 23rd if you have to cancel your RSVP.