Here is something fun: http://pinterest.com/bkbiblio/future-of-librarianship/

Taken from the page:

“Our ‘New Librarianship’ contest has generated so much excitement and interest! We were very impressed with the work that our contestants put into their boards and the varying ways you have defined what it means to be a New Librarian. While it has been a tough chore to decide ‘the best of the best’, we have come up with our Elite 8 boards, as shown.

Now it’s your turn to vote! Check out all the boards and then vote for the one you believe best represents the future of librarianship. The three boards receiving the most votes will all receive a copy of Professor Dave Lankes’ book The Atlas of New Librarianship.

Voting will be open until this Friday at 5pm EDT (March 30) and winners will be announced 9am Monday (April 2) at 9am EDT.  Good luck to everyone!”

For anyone thinking of establishing a consulting business…

There’s no sense in reinventing the wheel or making beginner’s mistakes when it comes to YOUR livelihood.  Invest three hours and $50 on May 2 at this workshop in Indianapolis to get your business off to a good start.

Hit the ground running with Pam’s and Ulla’s down-to-earth guidance and expert advice.  Come get the definitive overview of the myriad details you must decide about.  Learn about the practical arrangements you must put in place. Discuss the personal challenges you are likely to encounter.  Take away “been there, done that” insights to save you time and effort and minimize risk.

Ulla DeStricker and Pam Casey are experienced independent information professionals who are known for their engaging, positive, and effective – not to mention honest! – presentation style. Both Ulla and Pam are also well-known SLA members.

Check it out and register at http://www.aiip.org/WorkshopCaseyDeStrickerEntrepreneurship.  Any questions?  Send a note to ulla@destricker.com and pamcasey@informationnow.ca.

Join us for the LMD Professional Development Series March 2012 Webinar

Title: Mining Enterprise Assets: Another Role for Info Pros with Deb Hunt, SLA President-Elect

Date: Thursday, March 29, 2012

Time: 2:00 PM – 3:00 PM EDT

Topic:

Folks with an MLS/MLIS have skills that can be adapted and applied in a way that may not have occurred to them: to empower organizations that are desperate to find their information assets (paper, digital, knowledge) in an information overload (or maybe information hairball!) reality. This can be a career opportunity for us — in the jobs we have now, in our next jobs, as consultants.

Presenter:

Deb Hunt is Principal of Information Edge which empowers clients to find the information they need to do their work. Information Edge specializes in enterprise content management, knowledge services, professional research, and library design and automation. Deb has been a member of SLA since 1986 and is SLA’s 2012 President-Elect. She served on the SLA Board as a Director from 2008-2010 and is the creator and team leader of SLA’s 23 Things, for which she received the SLA Presidential Award. She is a past President of the San Francisco Bay Region Chapter and a member of the Silicon Valley chapter and the Library Management, KM, and IT divisions. She is an active member in the Association of Independent Information Professionals (AIIP) and served on its Board of Directors from 2001-2003.

System Requirements:

PC-based attendees: Required: Windows® 7, Vista, XP or 2003 Server

Macintosh®-based attendees: Required: Mac OS® X 10.5 or newer

Space is limited. Reserve your Webinar seat now at: https://www1.gotomeeting.com/register/508932561

After registering you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the Webinar.

This webinar is limited to 100 attendees and the session will be closed to registration after that number is reached

After the limit is reached, we would want the text to change to:

The registration for the March 29 webinar, Mining Enterprise Assets: Another Role for Info Pros with Deb Hunt, SLA President-Elect, is closed, as it has exceeded the attendance limit.

We will be recording the session and the recording will be announced by LMD as soon as it is ready.

Thank you for your interest.  We are so very sorry we cannot accommodate the number of SLA members interested in this topic.

Please register for the next LMD Professional Development Series program.
SLA President Elect Deb Hunt will present Mining Enterprise Assets: Another Role for Info Pros on Thursday, March 29, at 2 p.m. EDT.

This registration is open.  SLA LMD members have priority for registration. Other SLA members will be confirmed during the week before the event, if space is available. We will be recording this session; the recording will be available to all.

Program: Folks with an MLS/MLIS have skills that can be adapted and applied in a way that may not have occurred to them: to empower organizations that are desperate to find their information assets (paper, digital, knowledge) in an information overload reality. This can be a career opportunity for us — in the jobs we have now, in our next jobs, as consultants.
Understand the valuable transferrable skills you have — and that you can sell them. There are opportunities both as entrepreneurs and intrapreneurs in consulting to information intensive organizations, which is just about any organization or business today.

Bio: Deb Hunt is Principal of Information Edge, www.information-edge.com, which empowers clients to find the information they need to do their work. Information Edge specializes in enterprise, document and digital asset management, knowledge services, research and analysis, and library design and automation. In addition to her MLS, Deb is a certified Enterprise Content Management Practitioner (ECMp) and believes that learning never stops.

Deb has been a member of SLA since 1986 and is SLA’s 2012 President-Elect. Her presidential theme is “Transform Knowledge and Expertise into Strategic Value.” She served on the SLA Board as a Director from 2008-2010 and is the creator and team leader of SLA’s 23 Things, for which she received the SLA Presidential Award. She is a past President of the San Francisco Bay Region Chapter and is also a member of the Silicon Valley Chapter and the LMD, KM, DPHT and IT divisions. She is an active member in the Association of Independent Information Professionals (AIIP) and served on its Board of Directors from 2001-2003.

With Early Registration for the 2012 annual conference open, we want to remind you to include the LMD Marketing Section breakfast scheduled for Tuesday morning, July 17, at 8AM. In addition to our virtual Swap-n-Shop, we have an exciting panel discussion planned, Using Social Media to Promote Libraries and Librarians. We’ve asked three extraordinary individuals to lead the discussion, building on their successes over the past few years, so that we can benefit from their unique perspectives as:

Social Media Marketing guru Melissa Giovagnoli, President of Networlding

Corporate Media Marketing officer Roger Tye, Director of Consumer Engagement at Allstate Insurance Co.

Our own Connie Crosby, Crosby Group Consulting.

As always, we thank the Advertising and Marketing Division (AMD) as a co-hosting SLA unit, and look forward to having their members participate in a lively discussion.

If you’d like to inspire others by having your marketing materials included in the virtual Swap-N-Shop, please use the online form to let us know that you’d like to contribute. Even if you are only thinking about contributing, please complete a form so that we will know what we might expect, how much material, and what we need to do at the breakfast to make this accessible to our members. It’s your contributions that make the Swap-N-Shop special!

We need final submissions by 1 May 2012.

This month’s theme is “learning & growing”.  There are a number of ways we as information professionals can discuss and even illustrate our growth.  Consider making a post today that talks about a resource or service that helps you professionally.

In addition, there are some great conversations taking place via LinkedIn Groups.  Why not weigh in…

Group: Special Libraries Association
Discussion: My background is in math, science, and software engineering.

Group: Special Libraries Association
Discussion: In the latest issue of Information Outlook, Seth Godin provacatively states that we need more incompetent librarians. He says that competence is the enemy of change. Does he have a point?

Group: SLA Europe and Leadership & Management Division of SLA
Discussion: Just curious, how often would you say that you engage in conversations via LinkedIn, i.e. once a week, twice a week, none, etc.?