On Wednesday, May 23, please join BEST Friends at noon for lunch with historian Tom Zimmerman, who will be discussing his new book, Paradise City: The Rise, Fall & Rebirth of Los Angeles. The program will be held in LAPL’s Meeting Room A. Cost is $15.00. Additional information listed below.

 BEST Friends is the support group for the Los Angeles Public Library’s Business and Economics, and Science, Technology and Patents Departments.  Your participation helps BEST Friends continue to provide these departments with financial assistance, and to create awareness of the valuable services both departments provide.

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This year’s ALA Annual Conference will be held on June 21-26, 2012 in Anaheim, CA with the theme of  Transforming Our Libraries, Ourselves.  For more information, check it out at: http://alaannual.org/

Here are upcoming events, selected podcasts, and news from the UCLA Department of Information Studies:

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This week’s edition of Intersect Alert is now available at: http://sanfrancisco.sla.org/2012/05/intersect-alert-may-14-2012/ or review it below.

Last week’s edition of Intersect Alert is available at: http://sanfrancisco.sla.org/2012/05/intersect-alert-may-7-2012/

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SLA Southern California regrets that Measure Up! How Six Sigma Tools Can Improve Your Library scheduled for Friday, May 18^th has been canceled.  If you paid your registration fee via Paypal, it will be refunded to you.  If you paid via check, your check will be returned to you. Read more

 Today is the last day to register to attend the SLA 2012 Annual Conference & INFO-EXPO this July in Chicago, Illinois using the Early Bird rate.

 SLA’s registration page is: (http://sla2012.sla.org/registration/)

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Join RMSLA on Thursday, May 17, at noon MDT for Joe Murphy’s Virtual Lunch presentation on the “Information Impacts of Current Tech Trends.” Read more