Please join the SLA Student Chapter
on Tuesday, April 23rd at 6:30 pm for
“Impostor Syndrome: The Plague or Good Fortune of the Smart Professional”
6:15 – 6:30 pm Social Chat
6:30 pm – 7:30 pm Program
Talk to any smart and successful professional and you’ll hear the same story—Impostor Syndrome. First defined in the 1970s by psychologists Imes and Clance, Impostor Syndrome is that feeling of anxiety that you really don’t know what you are doing, you only got where you are by luck, and everyone will soon find out that you are a fraud. Sound familiar? These are feelings that live and thrive in the darkness. This program will seek to throw some light on them. We will discuss what Impostor Syndrome is and provide some tools for managing it.
Have a question you would like answered for the program? Please submit any questions for the speaker to sjsu.slasc@gmail.com.
The main event will run from 6:30-7:30 pm Pacific. Join us beforehand for a social chat at 6:15 – it’s an excellent opportunity to meet fellow students and the SLASC Executive Committee. All attendees will also have the chance to enter a raffle to win a $25 gift card during the event!
Scheduled Speaker:
Cynthia Bassett
Cynthia Bassett is the Electronic Services Librarian at the University of Missouri Law School Library. She wears many different hats in her day-to-day work, including legal research instructor, digital repository manager, and social media manager. She recently added ‘law student’ to the mix and is officially a 2L. She has served as President of Mid-America Association of Law Libraries, a 9-state chapter of the American Association of Law Libraries and as Chair of AALL Computing Services Special Interest Section (but probably only because she talks a good game).