PRICE: $45.00 Member/ $45.00 Student Member/ $45.00 Non-Member

See what's new, exciting, and decidedly different during a tour covering the city's major highlights. "City in a Garden," Chicago's motto, is much more than a slogan. On this tour, attendees will experience vistas from the extraordinary Millennium Park, the glorious lakefront and Navy Pier, Chicago's number one tourist attraction. Chicago’s remarkable architecture will also be highlighted as attendees learn how the modern styles evolved and produced the ever increasing panorama of world-class structures. A stop will be made at the Willis Tower Skydeck, formerly known as the Sears Tower. The Skydeck offers spectacular views spanning up to four states, a Chicago experience full of interactive exhibits and…The Ledge, a glass balcony extending four feet outside the 103rd floor of Willis Tower!

The Business & Finance Division welcomes you to Chicago.  All conference attendees are invited to stop by to begin the 2012 conference by greeting old friends and making new ones.

Registration Hours - Sunday

PRICE: $199.00 Member/ $99.00 Student Member/ $299.00 Non-Member

This workshop addresses key issues surrounding the creation, maintenance and cultivation of digital repositories. Drawing on the latest literature, case studies, and personal experiences, speakers lead a discussion covering planning the digital repository, selecting a methodology for its establishment, populating it with content, marketing it to the library’s constituencies, and meeting the various challenges and questions along the way. Share your own experiences, engage in group discussions about how to get the most out of a digital repository, and leave with lots of ideas and strategies for dealing with digital repositories.

SPEAKING:
Amy Buckland, McGill University Library; Jim DelRosso, Hotel, Labor, and Management Library; Cornell University

TBD

INFO-EXPO Sunday Hours

SLA's Fellows welcome first-timers to the conference with food, networking and conference wisdom. This is an ideal opportunity to meet association leaders and veterans, as well as those new to the conference.

Join us as we honor our 2012 Award Recipients and outstanding conference partners before featured speaker, Guy Kawasaki, takes the stage of the impressive Arie Crown Theater. 

Guy Kawasaki is the co-founder of Alltop.com, an “online magazine rack” of popular topics on the Web, and a founding partner at Garage Technology Ventures. He is also a columnist for the Open Forum of American Express. Previously, he was the software evangelist and later chief evangelist at Apple Computer Inc. 

Guy is the author of 10 books, including Reality Check, The Art of the Start, Rules for Revolutionaries, How to Drive Your Competition Crazy, Selling the Dream, and The Macintosh Way. His latest book, Enchantment: The Art of Changing Hearts, Minds, and Actions, released in March 2011, was a New York Times best-seller. The lessons in Enchantment are drawn from Guy’s tenure at Apple as well as his decades of experience as an entrepreneur and venture capitalist.

SPEAKING:
Guy Kawasaki

Join fellow SLA members as they sing their way into Chicago!  This fun-filled party will have more than just the blues—there will be music for all, from show tunes to 1980s to Lady Gaga.  So, come out and show us your talents or lack thereof.  No singing skills are required!

The Legal Division raises a glass to toast our valued vendor sponsor partnerships. Legal Division members can meet and mingle while enjoying a libation or two.

MODERATING:
Tracy Maleeff, Duane Morris LLP

Join your SLA colleagues for a networking reception that will be second to none!

MODERATING: 
Rebecca Vargha, University of North Carolina Chapel Hill

Annual division business meeting for Legal Division members, by invitation from our vendor partner Bloomberg Law/Bloomberg BNA.

SPEAKING:
Michael Bernier, Bloomberg BNA; Tracy Maleeff, Duane Morris LLP

SLA Marketplace Hours

TBD

As collections move from the print to the electronic world, libraries must change their collection development practices and policies to reflect new opportunities and challenges.  In this session you will learn how libraries are transforming their collection development practices and policies to address the proliferation of electronic books, including acquisitions based on patron demand. In addition, learn about creating, managing and selling e-books from the publisher’s perspective, information that will give librarians valuable insight into e-books from press to desktop.

MODERATING:
Catherine Lavallée-Welch, Univ of South Florida Polytechnic

SPEAKING:
Krista Coulson, University of Chicago Press; Leslie Reynolds, Texas A&M University Libraries; Rebecca Vargha, University of North Carolina Chapel Hill 

SPEAKER HANDOUTS: 
http://www.sla.org/pdfs/sla2012/CollectionsinTransLReynolds.PDF  

The third time’s a charm, and you’re sure to be charmed – and challenged – by the rousing discussion among the 2012 SLA Rising Star Award recipients and 2012 SLA Fellows during the third edition of this popular event. Learn how the perspectives of the Rising Stars, at the beginning of their information careers, and the veteran Fellows differ on relevant topics affecting the industry. For photos and a detailed description of last year’s roundtable, go to http://digbig.com/5bfmdf.

MODERATING:
Webb Shaw, J. J. Keller & Associates, Inc.

Whether you are moving into a management position at your current organization or taking on a team-lead role at a different organization, the first three months are critical for your longer-term success. Your fortunes depend on your ability to do the jobas well as your skill at clearly positioning yourself in the role with your boss, your team and yourself. The speaker will walk you through a process for transitioning successfully and sanely.

MODERATING:
Martha Foote, LibraryCo Inc.

SPEAKING:
Rebecca Jones, Dysart & Jones Associates

This wildly popular session that explores new and under-utilized Websites returns for another year. Fast-paced and fun, if offers a glimpse of what you may be missing on the Web.

MODERATING:
Tricia Thomas, Alston and Bird LLP

SPEAKING:
John DiGilio, Reed Smith LLP; Gayle Lynn-Nelson, LexisNexis

What do you, as a professional, bring to an organization? What competencies do you need to succeed? A panel will discuss the soft competencies that are core to our profession such as leadership, critical thinking, problem-solving, creative thinking, and proactivity.

MODERATING:
Rebecca Jones, Dysart & Jones Associates

Social media offers a powerful yet low-cost way for nonprofits to demonstrate, through pictures, words, and video, how they are making a difference and why they need support.  Whether you're considering social media for your organization or you've been using it successfully for years, this session is for you.  Participants will learn best practices for creating an engaging social media presence, hear from a nonprofit successfully using social media, and learn about exciting social tools on the horizon.

SPEAKING:
Scott Brown, Social Information Group; Brandy King, Knowledge Linking; Bobbi Weaver, CA Western School of Law

Librarians have been struggling for many years with digital rights management (DRM) protections built into electronic documents. These protections often make it difficult or impossible to treat an electronic acquisition in a traditional way, i.e., by purchasing it once and sharing it serially among a community of users. Librarians have entered into a dialogue over the past year with publishers and other vendors (e.g., aggregators) of DRM-protected products (standards, journal articles, books, etc.). During this session, you will hear from attendees about how they have been coping (or not) with the DRM challenge. Afterward, we’ll determine where we need to go from here.

MODERATING:
Bert Saul, Simpson Gumpertz and Heger Inc.; Sabina Tannenbaum, LTK Engineering Services

Tips, tricks and other practical information for beginner and experienced catalogers.

SPEAKING
Paul Burley, Northwestern University

Case studies and practical advice for transporting library skill sets to new areas of the information profession or to entirely new careers, with a focus on reinventing skills to stay competitive in a tight economy; branching out, and developing in areas that are still relevant to SLA.

MODERATING: 
Mary Talley, Talley Partners

SPEAKING:
Richard Hulser, Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County; Deborah Hunt, Information Edge; Ethel Salonen, The MITRE Corporation

Discover how law firm librarians can morph their skills and services to provide a competitive advantage. Topics to be addressed include legal issues specific to law firms, examples of law firm competitive intelligence, training recommendations, and adding value through CI.

SPEAKING:
Zena Applebaum, Bennett Jones SLP; Nathan Rosen, Dechert; Toni Wilson, MarketSmart Research; Emily Rushing, Haynes and Boone LLP

PRESENTATION HANDOUTS: 
http://www.sla.org/pdfs/sla2012/EvolvingRoleCIinLegal.pdf

It has been said that "the world is a global village," and the library and information professions are becoming more globally networked day by day. All conference attendees are invited to this reception (yes, food and drinks!) to celebrate the international activities of our association.  

Held off-site, this joyous event is highlighted by the presentation of the European Information Professional of the Year Award.

Search is among the most disruptive innovations of our time. It influences what we buy and where we go. It shapes how we learn and what we believe. It's also a radically multidisciplinary, creative challenge that's restructuring the landscapes of publishing, librarianship, communication, and knowledge management. In this talk, Peter Morville defines a pattern language for search and discovery that embraces user psychology and behavior, cross-channel information architecture, multisensory interaction, and emerging technology. He identifies design principles that apply across the categories of Web, e-commerce, enterprise, desktop, mobile, social, and real time. He also explains how future methods and user experience deliverables can help us  create better search applications today and invent the improbable discovery tools of tomorrow.

SPEAKING:
Peter Morville, Semantic Studios

In an age of costly litigation, e-discovery is a fact of life. Teaching information professionals how to manage and reduce risks through management practices that reduce time and costs for e-discovery production is a needed activity. Identifying where an organization's data lives and what must be understood when a discovery request is made is a valuable asset for any professional on the e-discovery team. Tips on creating comprehensive data maps and best practices information management will be offered in this course.

MODERATING:
Tracy Maleeff, Duane Morris LLP

SPEAKING:
Constance Ard, Answer Maven Solutions; Miller Montague, Answer Maven Solutions

You never get a second chance to make a first impression. Your resume is your marketing tool and the first chance to be noticed. In this session, you will learn how to write a super resume that will get you in the door.

SPEAKING:
Diane M. Goldstein, BST America

Many librarians are involved in the contract negotiation process or work alongside their institutions' purchasing and procurement staff. They have to be able to read and comprehend often complex contracts in order to get the most favorable and sensible terms for their libraries and organizations. Experienced information professionals who manage the content and contracts for their organizations will share their knowledge and tips for "getting to yes" without too much bloodshed!

MODERATING: 
Amy Affelt, Compass Lexecon

SPEAKING:
Carol Ginsburg, BST America LLC; Steven Goldstein, Alacra; Barbara Hirsh, NERA Economic Consulting; Laurie Sue Leichman, McKinsey & Co Inc; Bob Lemmond, Wolters Kluwer; Bill Noorlander, BST America LLC

Are you an early adopter trapped in a librarian’s body? Not sure how social media is relevant to your job? Is your workplace afraid of social media? As an information professional, you are well-positioned to take advantage of social media and help it get a foothold where you work. Find out how it’s possible and learn how to get started.

MODERATING: 
Anne Rogers, Cargill, Inc.

SPEAKING:
Maria Lettman, Cargill, Inc.

This session was standing room only in 2011, so we're bringing it back and expanding it to include international apps for librarians and information pros as well as updates on the best apps for competitive information, productivity, business, entertainment, communications, social networks, lifestyle, and fun.

SPEAKING:
Scott Brown, Social Information Group; Joe Murphy, LibraryFuture; Anna Shallenberger

PRESENTATION HANDOUTS: 
http://www.sla.org/pdfs/sla2012/60Appsin60MinutesReduxSBrown.pdf

Linked Data uses the Web to connect related data that were not previously linked. This session will provide an overview of linked data, its sources, and the value that information specialists can deliver through linking and integrating content and data from open sources.

SPEAKING:
Joseph Busch, Taxonomy Strategies; Joel Richard, Smithsonian Libraries

PRESENTATION HANDOUTS:
http://www.sla.org/pdfs/sla2012/AddingValuetoContentJoelRichard.pdf

http://www.sla.org/pdfs/sla2012/AddingValuetoContentJosephBusch.pdf  

The session will address Open access through the Federal Science Repository Service (FSRS) and the collaboration between NTIS and the scientific and engineering communities. Learn the what, why and how of this collaboration and find out how it is working and what it can do for you.

SPEAKING:
Wayne Strickland, National Technical Information Serv

What's better than an event designed to help you build your network within your SLA division?  One that helps you build it within two! The Pharmaceutical & Health Technology Division and the Legal Division invite our members to interact with colleagues, discuss the latest industry trends, meet new friends, and explore the increasing overlap between our divisions. 

Annual IT Division Open House and networking event, sponsored by Dow Jones.

PRICE: $15.00 Member/ $15.00 Student Member/ $30.00 Non-Member

A panel of buyers and sellers will discuss the most significant challenges faced in acquiring content over the past year.

MODERATING:
Ann Kenny, Ernst & Young LLP; Cynthia Studnicha, Ernst & Young LLP

SPEAKING:
Dawn Lynn, Abbott Labs; Bill Moore, ThomsonReuters; Mike Stelzer, Knowledge Management Services; Jim Toomey, Standard & Poor's

Once a taxonomy has been deployed, the real challenge is keeping it relevant, up to date, and aligned to organizational objectives. This session will highlight cases, tools, and best practices for governing and maintaining a taxonomy. The session will also examine the impact of taxonomy changes on previously-tagged content.

SPEAKING:
Matt Johnson, EMC Corporation; Fran Alexander, BBC Technology, Distribution, and Archives

PRESENTATION HANDOUTS: 
http://www.sla.org/pdfs/sla2012/KeepYourTaxFreshRelevantMattJ.pdf

http://www.sla.org/pdfs/sla2012/KeepYourTaxFreshRelevantFAlexander.pdf

So you've created your organization's Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn, and YouTube accounts. Everyone is patting themselves on the back...but what's next? Before you rest on your laurels, here are some great tactics for propelling your social media strategy from mediocre to fabulous.

MODERATING:
Joan Axelroth, Axelroth & Associates

SPEAKING:
Cheryl Yanek, Catalyst

Learn from seasoned experts how to implement and manage institutional repositories, and tips for making them grow.

MODERATING:
Jonathan Nabe, SIU - Carbondale

SPEAKING:
Stephanie Davis-Kahl, Ames Library, Illinois Wesleyan University; Jim Ottaviani, University of Michigan Library; Lisa Palmer, Lamar Soutter Library, UMass Medical School

Marketing may not be in your job description, but it's a critical part of everyone's job. Mary Ellen Bates offers techniques for raising the profile of your information center and yourself in ways that are authentic and comfortable to even the most marketing-phobic.

MODERATING: 
James Manasco, University of Louisville

SPEAKING:
Mary Ellen Bates, Bates Information Services Inc.

This session will provide an overview and case studies of using controlled vocabularies and metadata schema to index and manage non-textual content including video, still images, and audio files. The session will focus on the unique standards, best practices, tools, and challenges of DAM. The session will also address how the DAM approach differs from (and integrates with) the management of textual content.

MODERATING: 
Leigh Montgomery, Christian Science Monitor

SPEAKING: 
Rene Aranzamendez, Getty Images; David Riecks, ControlledVocabulary.com; Laura Fu, Sears Holdings Corporation; Randall Marcinko, MEI

SPEAKER HANDOUTS: 
http://www.controlledvocabulary.com/sla/1249_Riecks.ppsx

http://www.controlledvocabulary.com/sla/sla-chi.pdf

SLA 2012 is turning the conference closing session on its head!

Join us for a new and exciting panel presentation by leading information pros who will discuss and debate topics that were popular during the conference and will continue to be important throughout 2012. This highly engaging event will build on the momentum created by conference sessions and attendee interactions and will include content posted on social media platforms by conference attendees.

Facilitated by Donna Scheeder, an SLA past president, this expert panel will address provocative and radical questions about our profession, our services and our value. You’ll explore challenging perspectives and ideas for our future, and you’ll walk away excited, inspired and re-invigorated about the profession’s possibilities.

MODERATING:
Donna Scheeder

PRICE: $20.00 Member/ $5.00 Student Member/ $20.00 Non-Member

The Kentucky Chapter invites all conference attendees to join us in putting the icing on the cake of another successful conference.  We hope you will take this chance to bid adieu to your friends and colleagues before you travel back to your place of origin. We also hope to ease your parting tears by including a drink ticket and a chance to win a little taste of Kentucky.

PRICE: $55.00 Member/ $55.00 Student Member/ $70.00 Non-Member

Join your colleagues in LMD, DITE, MAHD, DTRN and the Architecture Caucus as we take an evening boat tour of the architectural highlights of Chicago. Beverages and snacks will be available for purchase on the boat. 

Attendees should meet in the 8th street lobby of the Chicago Hilton at 5:45 p.m. Please contact On The Scene prior to the event with questions at 312-661-1440 option 0.

MODERATING: 
Rebecca Vargha, University of North Carolina Chapel Hill