Slany Chapternews Newsletter Summer 2005

The New York Chapter

ChapterNews Volume 77, #2 Summer 2005

Message from the (Out-going) President

IN THIS ISSUE

Chapter Highlights from the Past Year

Letter from the President:

By Thomas Pellizzi

Chapter Highlights .....................1 Message from the

Dear Chapter Members:

The Director of Publications:

It has been an honor serving as Chapter President this past year. I want to thank all the current Board and Advisory Council Members for their contributions during past term. Our collaboration has accomplished a number of important goals for the New York Chapter that I would like to highlight for the entire Chapter membership.

Tempus Fugit .............................4

1. A New Sponsorship Strategy. In calendar year 2004, our chapter collected a

On the Frontlines ...........................5

total of $12,350 in program sponsorship. To remedy this, we initiated a new sponsorship strategy in 2005 and have collected $18,650 in the just the first 5 months of the year. How does this new strategy work?

Incoming President ....................3 Message From

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a. We offer vendors a “product demo” opportunity at sponsored events.

NY Chapter Member

b. We recognize our sponsors in every Discussion List announcement for an

event, and include a link to the sponsor’s web site in these announcements. This provides a valuable means for new sponsors to introduce their products to our membership.

Wins Scholarship .......................9 Welcome to the NY Chapter........10

c. We’ve added a Corporate Sponsors Page to our web site. This page displays

the logos of all our sponsors and links them to their web sites. Furthermore, it organizes the logos into categories that reflect the total level of support from each sponsor. This encourages additional sponsorship because it makes contribution levels transparent.

Career Day 2005 Wrap Up...........13

ADVERTISERS

d. We’ve made a point of soliciting new companies as potential sponsors for

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the New York Chapter. e. We collaborate to share the load of contacting potential sponsors, and we

Donna Conti Career Resources .....9

focus on reminding vendors of the size and purchasing power of the New York Chapter.

EBSCO.........................................13

2. A New Budgeting Process. We have controlled our budgets more tightly to

ensure that costs do not exceed revenues for our programs and other important activities, such as ChapterNews. We have also revised our Chapter Budget Spreadsheet, to make distinctions between mandatory expenses (e.g., holding an Annual Meeting) and optional expenses (e.g., events that are contingent upon obtaining revenue).

EOS International...........................6 Factiva .........................................12 Global Securities Information, Inc.11

3. Chapter Programming. Our President Elect, Gwen Loeffler, did a remarkable job of arranging very successful programs that increased attendance this year, especially the program featuring the best-selling author, Malcolm Gladwell. Others helped too, with additional successful programs organized by: Career Day Chair Gretchen Hazlin, Library School Liaison Co-chairs Phyllis Hodges and Paulette Toth, Diversity Chair Vandy Ranjan, and B& F Chair Denise Slifer. (Letter continues on page 2)

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ChapterNews New York Chapter Special Libraries Association Spring Vol. 77, No. 2

4. Professional Development. Cathy Ciaccio and Mar-

lene Augustin-Lambert successfully organized all of the Chapter’s Professional Development activities, which included several Virtual Seminars held at SIBL. 5. A New Chapter Logo. The Board retained a profes-

sional designer (Judi Burger) to create a dramatic new Chapter logo. It can viewed on our Chapter’s web site.

PUBLICATION SCHEDULE ChapterNews, the bulletin of the New York Chapter of the Special Libraries Association, is published four times a year. Visit our web site: www.sla-ny.org

6. A New Web site Alias. The Board approved registra-

tion of an alias web address for the Chapter. It is much easier to remember and distribute: sla-ny.org 7. A New Web site Design. Our Web Administrator,

Michael Rivas, worked closely with Michael Gruenberg, our Director of Publications, to redesign our web site. The resulting design has greatly improved functionality, visual clarity, and responsiveness for our membership.

Deadlines for submitting materials:

Fall issue Winter issue Spring issue Summer issue

September 24 December 15 March 15 May 14

8. Other Fundraising Efforts. The Board is developing a

plan for a local Fundraising Program that will be targeted to non-vendor sources of funds. Specifically, we are planning to position ourselves as a worthy non-profit recipient of donations from local corporations.

Submit all material to:

Jennifer Kellerman ChapterNews Editor E-mail: [email protected]

9. Association Awards and Scholarships. NY Chapter

member Carol L. Ginsburg was inducted into the Association’s Hall of Fame, while Jeannie Bail was awarded the Mary Adeline Connor Professional Development Scholarship.

Submissions: Articles on topics of general interest to information professionals and the New York Chapter are welcome. Authors can send submissions via e-mail as text file or MS Word for Windows attachments, or with article in the body of the e-mail. Please use single-line spacing, Courier font, with minimal use of boldface and italics. Include a byline with your full name and place of work.

To conclude, it has been a very successful year and a great pleasure serving as your Chapter President. I have enjoyed working with such a dedicated, talented and committed group of fellow Board and Council Members, and I look forward to continuing my service as Past President in the coming term!

ADVERTISING inquiries should be addressed to:

Nancy Bowles 235 East 22nd Street, Apt 9L New York, NY 10010 Telephone: (212) 679-7088 or E-mail: [email protected]

Thomas Pellizzi

President, New York Chapter (June 15, 2004 / June 15, 2005) Tom is a Principal at InfoSpace Consultants, where he has been a special library consultant and library designer for more than 17 years. Inquiries about this article should be addressed to [email protected]

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Gatta Design & Company, Inc. For inquiries call (212) 229-0071 or www.gattago.com Special Libraries Association assumes no responsibility for the statements and opinions advanced by contributors to the Association’s publications. Editorial views do not necessarily represent the official position of Special Libraries Association. Acceptance of an advertisement does not imply endorsement of the product by Special Libraries Association.

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▲ And each year, the Chapter assembles a Career Day Committee. Join this committee early and help select the location, program format and speakers. Or participate on the day of the event by meeting with students and sharing your experience.

A Message from Your Incoming President By Gwen Loeffler

No discussion of committees would be complete here in the New York Chapter if we didn’t mention our most active group, the Diversity Committee. This committee organizes programs, awards scholarships and participates in events throughout the year. They even have their own page on the Chapter’s web site. You can find a link to it in the left-hand column on our home page which you can reach by visiting www.sla-ny.org.

aving served as your President-Elect this past year, I have learned so much from so many of you. Anytime I’ve needed advice or guidance – or just plain old help – I knew I could turn to the Board, the Advisory Council or one of you – our members.

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And if that isn’t enough, there will be other ways for you to participate. Your involvement might be as quick as responding to a brief survey or bringing a colleague who rarely attends to the next event. It is our hope that the more members who get involved, the more opinions and points of view will be represented. And the more opinions and perspectives that are represented, the more relevant our programs, events and initiatives will be to more of our members.

Perhaps the most important thing I learned this year is that anything can get done if one puts her mind to it. But I have also learned that much more can get done – and it can get done better – when more people participate. With this in mind, we would like to encourage our members to become more involved this year. We’re revitalizing many of our old committees and beginning a few new ones so that we can be sure that our programs and initiatives reflect the interests and needs of our members.

Please join with me, the Board and the Advisory Council to make this – our 90th year – a very special and productive year for the New York Chapter. To express your interest in any of our committees, please visit http://www.surveymonkey.com/s.asp?u=639401103988.

We introduced this idea at the Chapter’s Annual Business Meeting in May, and some of you have already expressed an interest in joining one or more of our committees. Now we would like to introduce the idea to all of our members. We realize that everyone is busy, so we have established a number of ways to get involved that vary in terms of time commitment, responsibility and format.

Gwen Loeffler is Senior Research Specialist at the global advertising and marketing network Young & Rubicam Brands, and President-Elect of the New York Chapter of SLA. She can be reached at [email protected] or 212-210-3986.

▲ Your commitment can be as simple as welcoming guests to an event and distributing name tags on a single evening as a member of the Arrangements Committee. ▲ Perhaps you have ideas for programs or recommendations for a speaker. You’d be perfect for the Program Planning Committee. ▲ Maybe you’re a skilled party planner or you know all the best places to gather for drinks after work. Put you expertise to work on our Holiday Party Planning Committee and help select the venue, the entertainment and the menu for this year’s party. ▲ Perhaps you’d like to forge new relationships with students and Deans from area library schools as a member of the Library School Liaisons Committee. ▲ Or maybe you’d like to welcome our new members and reconnect with members we haven’t seen in a while as a member of the Membership Committee. ▲ If you prefer to work at your own pace in your own time, you might become a regular contributor to ChapterNews as a member of the Editorial Committee – just be sure you meet the deadlines established by ChapterNews Editor, Jennifer Kellerman. ChapterNews

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Message From The Director of Publications

step down due external pressures. Once again, I lucked out when Michael Rivas agreed to be the webmaster and bought into the vision of the new NY Chapter web site look.

Tempus Fugit

The success of ChapterNews made it reasonable to assume that the web site should be complimentary in look to the publication. Once again, the Board was very active and many of the changes proposed were open to discussion and, ultimately, the majority ruled on whatever design decisions had to be made.

By Mike Gruenberg

Whew! That was fast. It seems like only yesterday that I agreed to take on the role of Director of Publications for the New York chapter. As I learned about the duties and responsibilities required for this job, I quickly realized that no small task lay in front of me.

All parts in place, two years later … I’m pleased to announce that we have published on a regular basis eleven issues of ChapterNews, and one bonus April Fool’s issue. That makes 12 on-time issues. Through Agnes’ and Tom’s leadership, we brought to light many of the pertinent and sometimes controversial topics facing our members. We openly discussed the budget difficulties faced by the Chapter. We highlighted some of the charity work being done by our members. ChapterNews began to pay for itself through increased ad revenues. We laughed a little, cried a little, but mostly had a lot of fun producing ChapterNews.

The first order of business was to look at ChapterNews and preside over its resuscitation. Therefore, my goals at the outset were to: 1. put the e-publication on a regularly scheduled delivery

timetable 2. create the type of publication that vendors would sup-

port through their advertising

Whether it was the incredible patience of Michael Rivas, the extraordinary attention to detail of Jennifer Kellerman or the dogged pursuit of Nancy Bowles to extract as much advertising money as possible from the vendors, all our objectives were met and, quite frankly, were surpassed.

3. bring more relevant issues to the attention of the

membership through the publication 4. use ChapterNews as the main voice of the organization

to reach the widest array of members 5. earn enough revenue from advertising so the publica-

Finally, a note of gratitude to Kevin Gatta of Gatta Design who takes our articles and advertising and miraculously turns them into ChapterNews: You are an incredible individual whose traits are a combination of all those I have just mentioned. I cannot thank you enough.

tion would pay for itself. My first task was to create a working relationship among the key members of the group – the Editor, Advertising Director and me. When I first met Jennifer Kellerman, I knew that the editing would be in good hands. I caught a break when I spoke one afternoon to my friend of many years, Nancy Bowles. She accepted the role of AdvertisingManager. I had sold products to Nancy when I was a salesperson at Disclosure and she was at UBS. I knew what a tough negotiator she was so I decided to use her talents for the benefit of ChapterNews. With Nancy’s acceptance, my team was in place.

At the SLA Chapter meeting on May 24th, those in attendance saw the new look of the web site. All of you have had the opportunity to read all our ChapterNews issues and hopefully you have enjoyed them. You may not have agreed with everything we wrote, but we hope we made you think and act and make the chapter better because of that. As I look to new challenges and responsibilities within the SLA organization, I am happy to have made a contribution to the betterment of the chapter. Thank you all for giving me this opportunity.

I had high hopes, but really no idea if I could meet the above stated goals.

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In explaining my plans to the Board, I pointed out that, in my opinion, we needed some degree of uniformity in our “message” and “look” when communicating to the membership and the rest of the world. The old look of the Chapter web site was not in tandem with the look I had envisioned for ChapterNews or the site. Thus, I was given the responsibility of modernizing the web site. At the time, the webmaster position was vacant and I imposed on my friend, Shirley Loh, to take on the job. She graciously accepted, but shortly thereafter had to ChapterNews

Michael Gruenberg is Corporate Sales Manager at Cambridge Scientific Abstracts (CSA). He can be reached at 516 576-1575 and his e-mail is [email protected]. Although Mike will no longer be the Director of Publications, he won’t be leaving us. Look for a new column by Mike in the next issue of ChapterNews!

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On the Frontlines… By Kevin Manion

s announced in the spring issue of ChapterNews, this column will detail the stories, experiences and successes of New York Chapter members. By compiling and sharing these stories, I hope to raise awareness of the value of membership and to promote communication and professional networking.

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There is a wealth of untapped creativity and ideas in our membership. In the months to come, I will be sharing some of those ideas with you. In my new role as President-Elect of the Chapter, I will also be reaching out to members to hear their experiences and to understand some of the ways they have solved problems. I hope to bring people and ideas together so we can all learn from our collective experience. In the first installment of this column, I would like to share a few recent personal experiences that give tangible examples of the benefits of membership in SLA and the New York Chapter. Networking In March of this year, we had the pleasure of promoting Roberta Piccoli – a New York Chapter member – into the role of Manager of our Information Center at Consumer Reports. Roberta first came to us as a temporary placement via InfoCurrent to help us work through some major research projects related to development of our magazine and web site content areas. After several months of solid work, Roberta left us to take on another assignment.

Connecting Last summer, I spoke for the first time at an SLA conference as part of a panel on managing records, archives and research presented by the Social Science Division, Museums, Arts & Humanities Division, Retired Members Caucus, and the Washington, D.C., chapter. I was joined in this panel discussion by Susan Fifer Canby of the National Geographic Society, Libraries & Information Services and Pamela Tripp-Melby of the International Monetary Fund, Information Services Division. The program focused on the synergies between records, archives and research and how each of us managed our particular units.

I ran into Roberta regularly at SLA events and at the 2003 New York Chapter Holiday Party. At the party, we shared a drink, had some laughs and talked about work. She was finishing up a contract and was planning on looking for a new assignment. The next morning, I walked into my boss’s office and we talked about using the rest of our consultant budget to handle some projects we had been putting off for a while. I told her I had spent part of the previous evening chatting with Roberta and that she would be available after the holidays. We brought Roberta back and at the end of our fiscal year (May), offered her a full time researcher job – which, much to our delight, she accepted. As a result of her exceptional skills and “can do” attitude, she was promoted into the role of manager this past March.

Andrew Berner, a New York Chapter member, who is also member of the Museum, Arts and Humanities Division, had recommended me to the organizers of this program as someone who was operating a unit that incorporated these three activities. The program was a great success and in November of 2004, Susan, Pamela and I were asked to reconvene at the Library of Congress to speak to members of the Washington, D.C. chapter. In the fall of 2005, the three of us will be attending the third South Atlantic Regional Conference and leading a half day continuing education course on integrating records, archives and research. The half day session is to be followed by a presentation to all attendees at the end of the conference.

Our involvement in SLA and in the Chapter created an opportunity for Roberta and I to meet regularly. The events sponsored by the New York Chapter enable us to step out of our busy daily routine and to interact with colleagues we do not regularly encounter. ChapterNews

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On the advice of another New York Chapter colleague, Guy St-Clair, I repackaged the June 2004 Nashville presentation into an article which was published in January in Information Management Journal. I have received emails from Canada, Australia and various parts of the United States asking follow up questions about both the presentation and the article. Yeah, so what?

So why is all this important? Because membership offers possibilities. Through our networking activities and by contributing to our profession, we create opportunities to meet, exchange and learn. Learning comes in many ways – it comes when attending a continuing education course at an annual conference, by reading the latest issue of Information Outlook or other journal, and even over a chat and a glass of wine at a Chapter event. The next installment of this column will take a look at how Chapter members have used knowledge acquired in professional development or training and applied that learning in their work environments. If you have something to share on this topic or any related topic – don’t hesitate! Please contact me at [email protected] or give me a call 914-378-2263. I would love to hear from you!

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CHAPTER ANNOUNCEMENTS CHAPTER ANNOUNCEMENTS “Thank You” to Our Colleagues Warm Regards, Phyllis Hodges and Paulette Toth Co-Chairs Library School Liaisons 2004-2005 On behalf of the library school students and the SLA New York Chapter, we would like to say “thank you,” to our colleagues and their respective library staff for allowing us to visit their libraries on May 12, 2005 for the Spring New York Midtown Library Tour.

The New York Chapter has a new web site address!

www.sla-ny.org

Bear Stearns & Company Inc. Library

Mr. Steven H. Medley & Ms. Brigitte M. Anderson-Crumb

Check it out!!

Business Week

Ms. Jamie Russell Canadian Consulate General Library

Mr. Curtis L. Field

DLDC names scholarship winner!

McGraw-Hill Company, Inc. Business Information Center

Betty Ann Derbentli is the recipient of this year’s Diversity

Ms. Susan M. Gormley

Leadership Development award. She started her career as an Art Appreciation and English Literature teacher at the secondary level at St. Andrews Episcopal School, a private school on Long Island. She moved on to higher education and worked as an adjunct professor of Art History at Dowling College. Prior to joining the library school at St. John's University, she was the Curator of the Visual Resource Collection of the Visual Arts Department at Dowling College.

Pricewaterhouse Coopers

Ms. Elizabeth Croft Simpson Thatcher & Bartlett

Ms. Peggy B. Martin & Ms. Cynthia Raha Skadden Arps

Ms. Agnes Mattis Time Inc.

Ms. Marilyn Adamo

Betty Ann believes that it is “very important to marry the aspect of digital images with the information and standards associated with library science.” She says, “the age of technology has opened a unique ‘scholar's portal’ that enables the scholarship of academia to be linked with the visual imagery of art works and artifacts.” It is her belief that art history, library science and digital images will be the combination used for academic study in the 21st century.

Recent Graduate Margaret “Maggie” Smith graduated from Pratt Institute

on May 13, 2005 with a Masters in Library and Information Sciences. She also won the Sylvia G. Mechanic Merit Award in Business Librarianship. This award is given in memory of Sylvia G. Mechanic who was an adjunct faculty member at Pratt and worked for fortytwo years in the Brooklyn Public Library, including twenty-three years as a librarian in the Business Library.

Betty Ann is also a new SLA member. Welcome and congratulations, Betty!

Maggie has been a member of SLA since 1994. She is active in the New York chapter in the Solo and Business & Finance divisions and as chair of Downtown Networking. She is also a recipient of the SLA-NY Fall 2003 scholarship award. Maggie is Research Director at D. F. King & Co., Inc. Congratulations, Maggie! ChapterNews

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NY Chapter Member Wins Scholarship By Jennifer Kellerman

Career Resources, Inc. DC On-Line, Inc. ecently, the Special Libraries Association announced the names of the 2005 scholarship recipients. New York Chapter member Jeannie Bail was awarded the Mary Adeline Connor Scholarship, which is granted to an SLA member who is enrolled in a post-MLIS certificate/degree program.

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With an MLIS from Pratt Institute, Jeannie is now a part-time student at Brooklyn Law School. When asked to explain why she chose to go back to school for a law degree, Jeannie says, “Pursuing a JD has always been an interest of mine because the law affects our everyday lives in so many ways.” Her favorite class in law school was Constitutional Law. She says, “I had a phenomenal professor and I find the issues fascinating, particularly for libraries and the control of information in today’s society. Before I started the course, I visited the National Archives to view the Constitution in person. It was exceptionally powerful to see the physical document and contemplate the rights it reserves to us as American citizens, and to learn how those rights have evolved over time based upon its interpretation.” Jeannie has one year of law school left before she graduates. She intends to remain in the information industry “I’ve always loved libraries and library architecture. In fact, wherever I travel, the central library is always on my sightseeing list. During college, I worked in the reference and technical services departments of the campus library. That experience opened my eyes to the possibility of librarianship as a career.”

Balancing a career, law school and home life is challenging but Jeannie says that she tries to stay “focused and not lose sight of what [she] is trying to achieve.” She thinks of her demanding schedule as a marathon, “it requires a lot of stamina and I have to pace myself, so I don’t run out of steam.” She is grateful to have had the support of the library managers at Lazard, Beth Butler and Joan Morris, and of her fiancé, who is honing his skills as a chef while Jeannie is in school.

For the past four years, Jeannie has worked at the investment bank, Lazard. In May, she started a new full-time position as Library Director at Allen & Company, an investment bank serving the entertainment industry. “This position is a bit of a change since I will be a solo librarian. However, it is a new challenge and I believe it is an excellent chance to apply my skills and what I have learned on the job and through SLA over the years,” she notes.

Her time is pretty much consumed by work and school right now but, once she graduates, Jeannie looks “forward to getting more involved with SLA,” perhaps on the Executive Board. The Chapter would be lucky to have her! Congratulations, Jeannie!

Jennifer Kellerman is the editor of ChapterNews and a corporate reference librarian at Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison LP. She can be reached at 212.373.2457.

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Career Day 2005 Wrap Up By Gretchen Ebeler Hazlin, MLS

ore than 100 special librarians, aspiring librarians, vendors and colleagues met at Baruch College’s Newman Conference Center on Friday, April 1, for the annual New York Special Libraries Association Career Day 2005. This year’s event targeted current students and information professionals in order to encourage their SLA membership and to introduce them to the varied opportunities in librarianship.

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The networking event featured two panels with eight speakers from Business Week magazine, Credit Suisse First Boston, InfoCurrent, New York Academy of Medicine, New York Law School, PricewaterhouseCoopers and Scholastic, Inc. They offered advice and guidance on different aspects of librarianship. At the “Career Café,” attendees had a chance to mingle and get answers to their queries from other professionals. A vendor area was set up for recruitment agencies, database services and other organizations to showcase the vital services they provide the industry. These included tables for InfoCurrent, ProLibra, Wontawk and The Metropolitan New York Library’s METRO. Though in past years the event was held with money allocated in the Chapter budget, Career Day 2005 was funded primarily through generous sponsors, Factiva and Thomson Dialog, which had representatives on hand.

Jamie Russell, Director of Information Services/Research Library at Business Week magazine, related how she and her staff provide research to reporters and run an extensive training program for reporters on using the web. Barbara Hawkes, an Information Research Analyst at Credit Suisse First Boston, discussed the research areas of business, finance, and technology. Janie Kaplan, Director of Library Services at the New York Academy of Medicine, spoke about the various functions of a librarian in the medical arena.

The first panel, “Perspectives on the Job Search,” featured three speakers who related their recent experiences as a recruitment officer, a hiring manager and a job seeker. Diane Goldstein from the InfoCurrent agency provided useful suggestions and discussed using a library staffing agency in the search for a position. Paulette Toth from Kirkland & Ellis, described the kinds of skills she looks for in a potential new hire. Jeffrey Dreiblatt, a recent library school graduate, recounted his exhaustive job search ñfilled with ups and downs- and how he managed to acquire a coveted position at PricewaterhouseCoopers at the end of it. He also provided suggestions for job search tools and web sites.

As with every Career Day, volunteers made the whole day run smoothly, providing support for set-up, registration, the Career Café, and cleaning up after the event. The Baruch College venue received raves from attendees for setting, space, and food. Upon review of the post-event evaluations, not a single attendee indicated any disappointment in the event, so it was truly a successful day.

The day’s second panel, “A Day in the Life of an Information Professional,” featured five speakers from fields across the information industry. Donna Slawskyn discussed how she manages a digital archive of photographs and illustrations at Scholastic, Inc.

A big thank you goes out to everyone who participated in the event. I do hope that all SLA NY members get involved in next year’s Career Day Gretchen Ebeler Hazlin is Coordinator, Education & Outreach Services in the Library at the New York Academy of Medicine. She was also the chair of SLA NY Career Day 2005. She can be reached at [email protected] or 212.822.7323.

Camille Broussard talked about her experiences as a Pro-

fessor of Legal Research and Acting Director of the Law Library at New York Law School. ChapterNews

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