The second post in a series on how to get to the SLA 2014 conference in Vancouver through a variety of awards offered by SLA. In this post, Sara Batts reflects on how she benefited from winning an SLA Rising Star award.
The first post in a series on how to get to the SLA 2014 conference in Vancouver through a variety of awards offered by SLA. In this post Bethan Ruddock, about to start her term as a Director for the SLA Board, reflects on how winning the SLA Rising Star award in 2010 has influenced her career.
There is a lot to report from across the SLA Europe Chapter since my last post two months ago. As we careen towards 2014 and Kate Arnold’s presidential year, SLA continues to develop its “beyond borders” strategy. This has seen a number of Chapter members invited to contribute to HQ activities resulting in some changes to our Board for 2014.
Anneli Sarkanen, Senior Information Officer at Field Fisher Waterhouse and SLA Europe committee member, reviews the SLA Europe event ‘Bridging the Gap’ at the International Librarian Conference 2013.
I couldn’t believe my good fortune when I learned that for the second year in a row I would have the privilege of representing SLA’s Legal Division at the BIALL conference. After crisscrossing America to attend the annual conference in San Diego, I jetted off to Strathclyde for the beginning of my Great Britain adventure.
Jill Cousins, Europeana Executive Director, and Beth Daley, PR and Editorial Officer kindly discuss the challenges of developing Europeana, the world’s biggest cultural heritage database, and the importance of collaboration, interoperability and open access to cultural items.
This is the the sixth in a series of SLA Fellow interviews, featuring Tom Rinck.
Lauren Lawler shares her reflections on attending the SLA 2013 conference in San Diego as one of our Early Career Conference Award winners.
Penny Andrews shares her reflections on attending the SLA 2013 conference in San Diego as one of our Early Career Conference Award winners.
Laura Williams shares her reflections on attending the SLA 2013 conference in San Diego as one of our Early Career Conference Award winners.
Sarah Wolfenden kindly reviews our Summer Soiree 2013, which took place on the beautiful rooftop terrace of Nomura’s London headquarters. See if you can spot yourself in our official photos.
Paul Allchin, Science and medicine reference specialist at the British Library, kindly reviews our recent event on personal branding presented by Kathy Ennis and Lyndsay Rees-Jones.
