Annual Business Meeting - Thursday, Oct. 16

Please join the SLA NY Chapter for our annual business meeting. Members will have the opportunity to vote on the proposed slate of new officers for the Executive Board for 2009 and have a drink with colleagues. We also will be celebrating the winners of the chapter awards, talking about upcoming events and having a raffle to raise funds for the Lubuto Library Project.

Download the agenda here.

DATE and TIME:

Thursday, October 16, 2008

5:30-6:30 p.m. Reception (cocktails and appetizers)
6:30-7:30 p.m. Annual Meeting

LOCATION:

Skadden Arps Slate Meagher & Flom
Four Times Square (entrance on 42nd Street)
(Please bring your ID to gain admission at the security desk)

The SLA-NY Nominating Committee presents the 2009 slate of candidates (biographies will be sent to the list soon).

President-Elect
Leigh Hallingby, Head Librarian at Soros Foundations/Open Society Institute

Director of Finance & Fund Raising
Carol L. Ginsburg, Senior Consultant with BST America

Director of Professional Development
Janet Peros, Reference Librarian at Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz

Secretary
Heidi Weinkam, U.S. Director of Research with the Brunswick Group

Submitted by the 2008 SLA-NY Nominating Committee:

• Gwen Loeffler, Chair
• Andrew Berner
• Rick Mattis
• Tesse Santoro

Special thanks to BST AMERICA for their generous sponsorship of this event and their ongoing support of the chapter's efforts.

COST:
FREE for all SLA NY members
$10 for student non-members, $35 for all other non-members. Payable by check to SLA NY Chapter or by Paypal (on the chapter website at http://units.sla.org/chapter/cny/paypal.htm)
NOTE: Please also RSVP to Vida (see below) with your member status.

RSVP:
RSVP with your name & company/organizational affiliation to Vida Cohen at cohen.v@att.net by October 3. Security is strict so all attendees must be on the security list in advance.

The SLA-NY Global Outreach Committee will have raffles at the annual meeting and holiday party. Proceeds will go to the Lubuto Project http://www.lubuto.org, a non-profit organization started by SLA-D.C. member, Jane Kinney Meyers, with the goal to build 100 libraries in Africa in the next 10 years for street children and children whose parents have died from illnesses.

Since the SLA-NY Global Outreach Committee was started in 2001 by members Lois Weinstein and Lilleth Newby, proceeds from raffles have provided gift certificates for library supplies, or monetary contributions to libraries in developing nations. If you have a raffle prize you would like to donate, such as books, or tickets you are unable to use, please contact committee chair Rita Ormsby, rita.ormsby@baruch.cuny.edu. If you would like to help with this committee, Rita will be happy to hear from you.