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.

The video recording for Barbara’s Hirsh’s webinar held on Feb. 23, 2012 is now available on the LMD vimeo website:

Barbara Hirsh, past co-chair for the LMD Content Buying Section, provided some useful tools and tips to negotiate license agreements, subscription agreements, market data sets and any other data related purchases you need to make for your organization. The session includes specific ‘what to do’ as well as ‘what to avoid’ plus examples of both successful and ‘not so successful’ agreements.

Barbara is Director, Information Resources & Knowledge Management, for NERA Economic Consulting, New York, NY

Presentations on Vimeo

You can reach all the presentations at:
http://www.vimeo.com/slalmd

Cindy Hill’s presentation on Career Agility is at:
http://vimeo.com/slalmd/careeragility

Matt Reis’s presentation on Conflict Management is at:
http://www.vimeo.com/slalmd/conflictmgmt

Bethan Ruddock’s presentation on Alternative Careers is at:
http://vimeo.com/slalmd/alternative-careers

Dee Magnoni, LMD Chair and Ned Potter, ECCA Winner (Photo by: Jim Tchobanoff)

This year the Leadership & Management Division (LMD) helped sponsor Ned Potter, a winner of the SLA Europe’s Early Career Conference Award (ECCA.)  Ned is an Academic Liaison Librarian at the University of York in the UK and was recently named a 2011 Movers and Shakers by Library Journal.  LJs profile of  Ned gives a fascinating look at a person who is very “inspiring, confident, clear-thinking, and worth listening to.”  Ned created a great video of his personal impressions of the SLA Conference and LMD.

The Leadership & Management Division has co-sponsored a deserving recipient of the SLA Europe’s ECCA beginning in 2009.  Previous award winners include:

2010 Chris Rhodes

2009 Laura Woods