On Tuesday, May 21, please join BEST Friends at noon for lunch with William Knoedelseder, author of Bitter Brew: The Rise and Fall of Anheuser-Busch and America’s King of Beer. The program will be held in LAPL’s Meeting Room A.  Cost is $15.00, and Mendocino Farms will be catering. Please click on the link for more information.

http://www.lapl.org/whats-on/events/best-friends-program-william-knoedelseder-author-bitter-brew

This week’s edition of the Intersect Alert is now available at
http://sanfrancisco.sla.org/2013/05/intersect-alert-april-27th-2013

Here are some of the highlights from this week’s alert:

• Human genome: US Supreme Court hears patents case
• The Dark Side of the Digital Revolution
• 3D-printed guns are inevitable

Dear Colleagues:

Please spread the news!

Announcing a SLA-SCC 2013 Scholarship for MLS/MLIS/IS Students!

The Scholarship Committee of the Southern California Chapter of the Special Libraries Association (SLA-SCC; http://southerncalifornia.sla.org) is pleased to announce that we are now accepting applications for the 2013 Karen Gersten-Sternheim Memorial Scholarship.

The Karen Gersten-Sternheim Memorial Scholarship consists of a one-time award in the amount of $3,000. The Scholarship was created in 1993 to honor the memory of Karen Sternheim, a UCLA librarian and a member of SLA-SCC.

An overview of the Scholarship competition follows.  Complete information is on our website: http://southerncalifornia.sla.org/student-programs/2013_sla-scc_scholarship-html.

Eligibility Guidelines

1. Applicants must be members of the SLA Southern California Chapter. Membership information may be found online at: http://www.sla.org/access-membership.

2. Applicants must demonstrate an interest in a career in special libraries, and must be currently enrolled and taking classes in an American Library Association (ALA) accredited masters in library or information science program per http://www.ala.org/accreditedprograms.  Also, at the time of application, the student’s graduation date should be no earlier than December 2013.

3. There is no geographic restriction on the school in which the applicant is enrolled. However, applicants must be permanent residents of California or Nevada, and must submit a photocopy of their valid California or Nevada State I.D. card, driver’s license or voter registration card.

Expectations of the Recipient

* The recipient will be asked to submit their essay to the SLA-SCC Communications Director for publication in the chapter’s newsletter.

* The recipient will be asked to attend the SLA-SCC annual fundraiser, the awards dinner and annual business meeting (attendance will be complimentary).

* The recipient will be asked to participate on the 2014 SLA-SCC Scholarship Committee.

Deadline for Consideration

The deadline to apply is June 30, 2013. The Chapter Scholarship Committee must receive an MLIS student’s completed and properly-formatted application containing all requested information no later than this date in order to be eligible for consideration.

How to Apply

For complete information on the criteria, guidelines, required information, and the application checklist, please refer to the Karen Gersten-Sternheim Memorial Scholarship webpage on the SLA-SCC website:

http://southerncalifornia.sla.org/student-programs/2013_sla-scc_scholarship-html.

Thank you in advance for sharing this funding and participation opportunity with students you know, or, if you are a student who meets the eligibility criteria, please consider applying yourself!  This is one of the larger SLA unit awards!

This week’s edition of the Intersect Alert is now available at: http://sanfrancisco.sla.org/2013/04/intersect-alert-april-21st-2013

Some highlights are:

• Leaked E-mails Show the State Department’s Top Watchdog May Lack Independence
• House Passes CISPA (Cyber Intelligence Sharing and Protection Act)
• Hill’s newest earmarks: Sequester exemptions

SLA CI Webinar 4/30 – Getting In-Depth Competitive Intelligence on Private Companies

Webinar Registration

https://www3.gotomeeting.com/register/241237654

More often than not disruptive innovations are born behind the walls of privately held companies. Given this how do you crack the code on these companies strategies? Additionally, how do you obtain some degree of early warning about how successful these companies might be in the future?

During this talk you’ll learn about a wide range of open source intelligence (OSINT) and human intelligence techniques (HUMINT) that you can use to answer the above questions.

We’ll cover:

· OSINT Assets – what can you learn from the web that’s meaningful and what can be aggregated to produce greater insight
· HUMINT Assets – who should you talk to and how do you get a hold of them effectively.
· Benchmarking – how to acquire or interact with competitor products and services in a meaningful way

We’ll also close with a discussion of the ethical considerations companies face when conducting private company research as well as what is typically in and out of bounds when conducting private company oriented research efforts.

Finally all attendees will receive a copy of one of Cascade Insights’ Framework Fight Club Handbooks. Each handbook provides a wealth of competitive intelligence frameworks that you can use to synthesize the intelligence you’ve collected.

Presented by Sean Campbell
Co-owner – Cascade Insights
Sean@cascadeinsights.com

** 4/23/13 Update:  This event has been postponed. **

Mark your calendar for Saturday, May 18 and get ready to

• Spend the day with fabulous colleagues
• Be surrounded by dinosaurs, cultural relics and treasures, jewelry, pottery, taxidermy, bugs (dead and living), GEMS & minerals
• Contribute to your industry
• Do good
• Be good (a good professional, colleague and friend…)
• Get supercool experience
• Enjoy a FASCINATING environment
• Support a Los Angeles LANDMARK institution

By helping with one or more of the following tasks

• Several aisles of books need to be placed in proper call number order
• Unboxing, cleaning and organizing books into groups for either cataloging, re-classification or addition to the ‘book sale’ collection
• Copy cataloging or serials data entry into online catalog if anyone wants to do desk work instead of physical labor
• Book repair if anyone has that expertise

And possible other projects NHM Library and Archives director Richard Hulser may think of at the Los Angeles County Natural History Museum Library and Archives.  More info will follow soon…for now, just circle the date & plan to BE THERE.

Announcing the CI Division’s 2013 Travel Grant Awards – Deadline for Application is April 26th

This year the CID will offer TWO travel grants for $750 each.

Applying is easy!

2 Professional Travel Grants Available for 2013 Annual Meeting

For those of you who are interested in an opportunity to receive the SLA CI Division’s third annual professional grant awards–2 awards in the amount of $750/each –the deadline for submission of your application and accompanying resume is April 26th at 12:00 Midnight CST.

QUALIFICATIONS

• Applicants must have a Masters degree from an accredited library or information science program or hold a position in competitive intelligence. 
• Applicants must be members of the SLA CI Division.
• Applicants are interested in attending the SLA Conference.
• Unemployed or under-funded as well as CID volunteers will receive preference (pending review of a quality short essay).

APPLICATION PROCEDURES

2-Step Process

1. Complete the application at http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/8X53H8F

The application includes a short essay, of up to 200 words, detailing the significance of the grant to your professional growth in competitive intelligence research.

2. Email your current resume (limited to two pages) to: cclaytonslacid@gmail.com

In the Subject Line type: Application for CI Award

If all elements are not received prior to the deadline, applicants may not be considered for the award.

POST-AWARD REQUIREMENTS

·         Recipients must volunteer to help the CI division on a committee or in another role mutually agreed to with CI division leadership.  Roles can be ongoing at the Chair or committee level or include a special project.  One of last year’s 2 winners served on our 2013 conference committee and another is now our first PR Chair.  The division also has short term projects which would qualify as your volunteer commitment. 

NOTIFICATION

All applicants will receive notification of the award status by May 3, 2013. The winners of the 2013 awards MUST attend the 2013 conference in San Diego, CA in order to receive his or her check.

DEADLINE

Again, please submit the application and accompanying essay via Survey Monkey and resume via email no later than April 26, 2013, at 12:00 Midnight CST.

SLA’s Pharmaceutical & Health Technology division is holding their spring meeting on Tuesday, April 16^th.

We are very (very) excited to announce our first ever, multi-session live webstream of the Spring Meeting – free to you!

Join us as we will be webcasting – live – two highly requested sessions from the Spring Meeting, featuring two fantastic speakers:

Tuesday, April 16 6:00am – 7:00am Pacific

Key Trends to Embrace: Supporting “Big Data”

Edd Dumbill, Editor in Chief, Big Data

Tuesday, April 16 12:00pm – 1:00pm Pacific

A View from the Executive Level: What the Info Pro Needs to Know

Mark Burfoot, Executive Director, Novartis

A big THANK YOU to Elsevier for sponsoring this webcast!

www.elsevier.com

Click here to register!

http://oedb.org/blogs/ilibrarian/2013/free-live-webinars-for-librarians-in-april

Compiled by Ellyssa Kroski

Here’s the monthly roundup of great-looking online webinars and free educational opportunities for librarians.

1.  Wednesday, April 10
11:30 am-12:30 pm (PST)
The Tween Scene at your Library (Colorado State Library)
http://cslinsession.cvlsites.org

2.  Friday, April 12
11 am-12:30 pm (PST)
Libraries & E-government: A brand new tool (American Library Association)
www.districtdispatch.org/2013/03/registration-available-free-e-government-webinar-for-public-librarians

3.  Tuesday, April 16
5:00 am – 6:00 am OR 9:00 am – 10:00 am (PST)
Libraries & E-government: A brand new tool (Libraries Thriving)
http://www.librariesthriving.org/component/content/article?id=70

4.  Tuesday, April 16
6:00 pm – 7:00 pm (PST)
Professional Ethics for Records and Information Professionals (San Jose State University)
http://slisweb.sjsu.edu/about-slis/colloquia/Spring%202013

5.  Wednesday, April 17
8:00 am – 9:00 am (PST)
Easing Information Anxiety: Teaching Information Literacy Strategies and Skills for College Readiness (Nebraska Library Commission)
http://nlc.nebraska.gov/scripts/calendar/eventshow.asp?ProgID=12034 

6.  Wednesday, April 17
11:00 am – 12:00 pm (PST)
Helping People Find Good Health Information Online (TechSoup)
http://www.techsoupforlibraries.org/events/helping-people-find-good-health-information-online 

7.  Wednesday, April 17
11:00 am – 12:00 pm (PST)
Technical Services Librarians Matter at Your Library: Finding a Career in Technical Services (ALCTS)
http://www.ala.org/alcts/confevents/upcoming/webinar/pres/041713 

8.  Wednesday, April 17
12:00 pm – 1:00 pm (PST)
18 Advanced Facebook Strategies for World Domination (Grantspace)
http://grantspace.org/Classroom/Training-Calendar/Live-Webinars/Facebook-Strategies-2013-04-17-Webinar 

9.  Wednesday, April 17
12:00 pm – 1:00 pm (PST)
Engage! Teens, Art & Civic Participation: Creating Compelling Discussion through Art (Programming Librarian – American Library Association)
http://www.programminglibrarian.org/online-learning/engage-part2.html#.UWRpZ0oufa4 

10.   Thursday, April 18
11:00 am – 12:00 pm (PST)
The Present and Future of Ebooks (American Library Association)
http://americanlibrarieslive.org/ 

11.  Friday, April 19
10:00 am – 11:30 am (PST)
Teaching the Tough Stuff: Exploring the Librarian’s Most Difficult Instructional Challenges (Lyrasis)
http://www.lyrasis.org/?sc_itemid={8D30C251-395D-4CE9-8AAD-04E9F6F860B5}&RowId=1-O95B6 

12.  Tuesday, April 23
12:00 pm – 1:00 pm (PST)
eBooks: Exploring the Rapidly Evolving Options (EBSCO and Library Journal)
https://event.on24.com/eventRegistration/EventLobbyServlet?target=registration.jsp&eventid=595744&sessionid=1&key=9E8BEC7968618C18DC4B92E0F74D7179&partnerref=ljwebebsco04232013&sourcepage=register 

13.  Wednesday, April 24
11:00 am – 12:00 pm (PST)
Personal Digital Archiving (ALCTS)
http://www.ala.org/alcts/confevents/upcoming/webinar/pres/042413 

14. Wednesday, April 24
12:00 pm – 1:00 pm (PST)
People are talking about you…but do you know what they’re saying? (InfoPeople)
http://infopeople.org/training/people-are-talking-about-you 

15. Wednesday, April 24
5:30 pm – 6:30 pm (PST)
What Do Science, Health and Medicine have to do with an MLIS?
(San Jose State University)
http://slisweb.sjsu.edu/about-slis/colloquia/Spring%202013 

16. Thursday, April 25
11:00 am – 12:00 pm (PST)
Archival 101: Dealing with Suppliers of Archival Products (ALCTS)
http://www.ala.org/alcts/confevents/upcoming/webinar/pres/042513 

17. Tuesday, April 30
10:00 pm – 11:00 pm (PST)
Extending access to e-books for public libraries: New strategies (WebJunction)
https://www.webjunction.org/events/webjunction/Extending_access_to_ebooks_for_public_libraries.html

Now there’s even more time to save on the information industry’s best value in learning, networking and professional growth. The early bird deadline for the SLA 2013 Conference & INFO-EXPO has been extended to April 19th.

Register Here.

Join your colleagues in San Diego for: 

• Networking! Share your experiences and learn from other information professionals.
• Learning! More than 200 events are scheduled, including educational programming, networking events, receptions, and tours.
• The latest technologies! Explore the INFO-EXPO Hall  and talk one-on-one with leading companies in the industry.
• A phenomenal keynote speaker! Mike Walsh, best-selling author of FUTURETAINMENT and CEO of Tomorrow, an innovation research lab, will share his insights about the digital future. 

Connect, Collaborate, and Strategize at SLA 2013! Register Today!