Written by: Adina Vega Edited by: Gabrielle S. Vasquez Bates A cartoon featured La Cucaracha, a Chicano rights newspaper featured in the Archives. March 31st commemorates one of the most influential Mexican-American labor leaders and civil rights activists, César Chávez. Along with Mexican-American labor leader Dolores Huerta, he co-founded the Read more…
Photo rights: Cory Laurence by Cory Laurence I attended the SLA 2014 Annual Conference in Vancouver, Canada this June. I had a fabulous time and would absolutely recommend going to anyone who has an opportunity to do so. Now that it’s over and I’ve had some time to reflect, I’ve come Read more…
The Medical Library Association annual conference took place in Chicago May 17-May 21. SLIS SLA Student Group was represented by Dr. Cheryl Dee, Mira Gaffner, Basia Delawska-Elliott and Brian Elliott. SJSU was additionally represented by librarians Jennifer Dinalo (who is also the SLISConnect Alumni President-Elect) and Valeria Molteni. The conference — Building our Read more…
SLA Bay Region Chapter is having its first ever Book Club Meeting When: April 30th, 6:30pm – 8pm at Where: Sugarlump in the Mission The chosen author for our first meet up is the KeynoteSpeaker for this year’s SLA annual meeting, John Wilbanks. The two articles we’ll be discussing are: Read more…
Congratulations SLASC members: Cory Laurence, Ian Matzen and Basia Delawska-Elliott! Cory is this year’s recipient of the Special Libraries Association Silicon Valley Chapter Scholarship. Ian is this year’s recipient of the Graduate Student Scholarship. Basia is this year’s recipient of the Kaiser Permanente Medical Librarianship Scholarship. 2014 list of scholarship recipients.
Rory Dougan, Cory Laurence and Cybil Schroder — SLA Student Group members — were selected in the Silicon Valley Mentoring Program! The program is scheduled to run for six months. The students will work with their mentors on different projects and in a “variety of activities”. The Mentoring Program Kickoff Read more…
Roger K. Summit Scholarship applications are due by April 30! “The $5000 award is made to a graduate student in library and information science who has demonstrated outstanding interest or performance in electronic information services.” The scholarship recipients are selected based upon the following criteria: Academic achievement. Demonstrated interest in Read more…
Karen Gersten-Sternheim Memorial Scholarship Special Libraries Association Southern California Chapter (SLA-SCC) “The $3,000 Karen Gersten-Sternheim Memorial Scholarship is awarded annually by the SLA-SCC to a student member pursuing a career in special librarianship. The award was established in May of 1993 at a special board meeting called by chapter President John Read more…