WHEN: October 23, 2001 (Tuesday), 5PM-- social half-hour; 5:30PM-- dinner; 6:30PM-- awards; 6:45 PM--- panel.
WHERE: Four Seasons Sports Country Club; less than 1.5 hours' drive from Lexington, Dayton, or Cincinnati; http://www.fiveseasonscc.com/crestview.html
COST: Presentation & dinner-- $20.00 for ASIS&T, SLA, AALL, GCLC, OPLIN, OCLC, MVAHSL members; $23.00 for non-members; $10 for student or retired members. PREPAYMENT REQUIRED TO GUARANTEE CATERER.
COST: Presentation only-- $3.00 for members; $6.00 for non-members; free for student or retired members.
PAYMENT DEADLINE: 5PM on 10/19/2001
Have you thought of becoming a webmaster when you get your MLS degree? Or maybe working for a publisher? What about using indexing to develop online products for a corporation? Or perhaps employed by a non-profit organization as a product support analyst? Come hear several Information Science practitioners share educational and career experiences that are not in traditional library settings. Also the SOASIST award winners for 2001 will be acknowledged, along with a drawing for a $100 gift certificate.
Presenters:
Mary E. Marshall is Director of Sales and Marketing for Greenwood
Electronic
Media, a division of Greenwood Publishing Group, Inc. Previous positions
include product development and marketing positions with LEXIS NEXIS, K.G.
Saur Verlag, OCLC and EBSCO. These positions range from being an
individual
contributor to bottom line responsibility for a market segment with over
$50
million revenue. Her work included creating the new reference product
line,
establishing market identity, performing due diligence, and implementing
downsizing of functional areas. Educational preparation combined with the
first career as a librarian provided the foundation for this business
career. Following graduation from the University of Denver with an MLS,
she
worked as a school librarian and ultimately as director of media services
for Boulder Valley Schools in Boulder, Colorado. Mary also worked as a
science cataloger at the U.S. Air Force Academy when humans actually typed
original cataloging records. Following the completion of an MBA from the
University of Colorado with an emphasis on sales and marketing, she worked
with the Bibliographic Center for Research, a regional network for OCLC
beginning a new career on the business side of library and information
services.
Patricia Neff, MLIS, is a Product Manager responsible for development and
maintenance of legal indexing, taxonomies, and search products at
LexisNexis, where she specializes in developing editorial standards and
tools. A former globetrotter across the North, South, East, West and
Australia, Patricia has worked in a variety of academic, special, and
public
libraries, more recently as director of technical services at two law
school
libraries and as a library systems and training consultant at Innovative
Interfaces, Inc. She holds a MA in Management from Antioch University
McGregor, a MLIS in Library & Information Studies from the University of
California, Berkeley, and an AB in Comparative Literature and Slavic
Languages & Literatures from UC Berkeley. Patricia is the current chair
of
the SOASIST Awards Committee and will serve as Chapter Assembly
Representative in 2002. Contact information: LexisNexis, 9443 Springboro
Pike, Miamisburg, OH 45342. Phone: (937) 865-6800. E-mail:
patricia.neff@lexisnexis.com. Web: www.lexisnexis.com.
Linda Newman is Technical Research & Development Manager for the
University
of Cincinnati Digital Press (UCDP), which is located in the Archives
Department of the University of Cincinnati Libraries. She provides
software
development, management of an NT Server, and web design and web
coding. She
provided all programming for a 32-bit Windows application, called CUrator,
which the UCDP uses for its research publications on cd-rom (see
http://www.ucdp.uc.edu) . CUrator
is a tool for
the organization, description, and visual presentation of documentary
resources. High resolution images are presented via a database offering
85
fields for physical and bibliographic description as well as notes, and
links can be made to associated documents in various formats including
maps,
charts and texts. There are multiple searching capabilities, as well as
the
ability to conduct searches across multiple databases. Prior to joining
the
UCDP full-time in December of 1997, she was Assistant Director of the
Library Systems Department, where her primary responsibility was
management
of the Libraries' multi-building LAN, with both staff and public networked
applications. Linda earned a BA in Philosophy from Denison University,
and
an MLIS from the University of Kentucky, and is a member of Beta Phi Mu.
Contact information: Blegen Library, University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati
OH 45221-0113. Phone: 513-556-1957 Fax: 513-556-2113. Email:
Linda.Newman@uc.edu. Web:
http://www.ucdp.uc.edu and
http://www.archives.uc.edu .
DIRECTIONS to Four Seasons Country Club on their Web site:
http://www.fiveseasonscc.com/crestview.html
AGENDA:
Optional dinner: filet mignon-chicken duet, chef's choice of vegetable
and
starch, soup of the day, fresh garden salad, rolls, chocolate marble
cheesecake, and coffee, tea, or milk.
PREPAYMENT REQUIRED with check made out to "SOASIS" by 5 p.m., Friday,
10/19/2001, sent to Patricia Carter, B6F1 room 82, LexisNexis, 9595
Springboro Pike, Miamisburg, OH 45342. Please indicate (1) association
affiliation noting student/retired as appropriate, and (2) the name of
your
employer. Questions may be addressed to: patricia.carter@lexis-nexis.com
; (937) 865-6800 x6099.
A portion of dinner costs are being underwritten by LexisNexis.
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Sandy McIntyre Colby, MLIS, is a product support analyst for OCLC's CORC
service (Online Computer Library Center Cooperative Online Resource
Catalog)
and was previously OCLC Institute's Educational Technology Specialist for
the Online Library Learning web-based, library-concept-based
courses. Sandy
was formerly an Intranet Analyst with a Fortune 500 oil and gas company
where she coordinated metadata efforts to accelerate access to internally
generated electronic information, and served in a records manager
capacity.
Prior to her corporate experience, she held the position of Internet
Administrator at the Louisiana Department of Education where she applied
metadata and cataloging standards/systems to Internet/Intranet
environments.
She was also a newspaper and magazine writer for regional and national
markets. She has conducted numerous library & Internet presentations and
training for local and national audiences. Her writings
include: "Workflow
in a Technical Services Environment" for the Louisiana State
Library. Sandy
earned a BA in Journalism from Auburn University, an MLIS from Louisiana
State University, and is a member of Beta Phi Mu. Contact
information: 6565
Frantz Road, MC 750, Dublin OH 43017-3395. Phone: 614-764-4378. Fax:
614-718-7527. E-mail: colbys@oclc.org
5:00 - 5:30: REGISTRATION and social half-hour.
5:30 - 6:30: DINNER
6:30 - 6:45: Annual business meeting and SOASIST 2001 award winners
acknowledged.
6:45 - 7:45: Panel of speakers.