97th Annual Meeting Special Libraries Association
Baltimore, MD | June 11-14, 2006
No-Host Dinner, Saturday June 10
We’ll come together for a no-host (that means everyone pays for his or her own) dinner at yet-to-be-determined nearby restaurant. We’ll be holding it on Saturday evening this year, because of a change in the conference scheduling that will make Sunday unavailable for such an event.
Government Transportation Research Information Committee (GTRIC) Program, Sunday June 12 8:15 am – 3:00 pm
GTRIC is a forum for government transportation librarians and other information professionals who rely on state and federal government information. Presentations are designed to educate librarians in changes in legislation and policy that affect the free flow of information. Speakers from government, academia and the private sector will share information on initiatives in library and information sciences that affect our work in transportation.
Audience: All attendees
Moderator: Nelda Bravo, Head, National Transportation Library, U.S. Department of Transportation
Agenda:
Welcome
- Nelda Bravo, Head, U.S. National Transportation Library
Self Introductions
Iowa DOT Library’s Transportation Enhancement Grant for Historical Preservation
- Hank Zaletel, Librarian, Iowa DOT
MTKN & Pooled Funds consortia, how the two benefit the library community
- Janet Bix, Library Administrator, Ohio DOT
- Steve Cochran, Librarian, Washington State DOT
TRIS Update
- Barbara Post, Information Services Manager, TRB
Update on AASHTO Publications and Information
- Bob Cullen, AASHTO
Break–Bring your own coffee and snacks!
Knowledge Management at PA DOT
- Marleen Steele, Pennsylvania DOT
- Cheryl Bodan, Librarian, PennDOT Library and Research Center
TRB Special Report 284, Transportation Knowledge Networks: A Management Strategy for the 21st Century
- Barbara Post, Information Services Manager, TRB
FHWA Research Library
- Martha Soneira, Team Leader, FHWA
Box Lunch (served in meeting room
NCHRP Synthesis 37-02 “Preservation and Use of Institutional Memory”
- Nelda Bravo, Program Analyst, FHWA
The connection between Open WorldCat and Google and Yahoo
- Andy Bush, OCLC
Demo of the new NTL Integrated Search
- Tracey Schut, NTL
NTL Update
- Rosalyn Alleman, NTL, NTL Reference Services
Conclude Meeting
Ticketed event No. 410: $55.00
Free Agency: From Athletes to Librarians, Monday June 12 9:00 – 11:30 am
When sports stars become free agents, they are able to shop their talents to a number of teams, evaluating their worth to their potential employer, enhancing their assets during the off-season, and deciding what salary they should ask for. While we librarians don’t need steroids to do our jobs, we need that same attitude that we’re all free agents in the workplace. Mary Ellen Bates will give her thoughts on how to implement this strategy in the information marketplace.
If you’ve seen Mary Ellen at SLA before, you know that she really packs the room, and then some. This one is not to be missed.
Audience: All attendees
Speaker: Ms. Mary Ellen Bates, Principal, Bates Information Services
SLA Units: Transportation Division, Environment & Resources Management Division, Social Science Division
Sponsored by: PRENAX, Inc and Dialog
Transportation Division Business Meeting and Brown Bag Luncheon, Monday June 12 12:00 – 1:00 pm
Our annual business meeting. Bring a brown-bag (or any color) lunch.
Audience: Unit members only
Moderator: Bob Sweet, University of Michigan, Transportation Research Institute
Transportation Division Board Meeting, Tuesday June 13 7:30 – 9:00 am
Annual board meeting of the Transportation Division.
Audience: Board members only
International Update on Transportation Information, Tuesday June 13 11:30 am – 1:00 pm, Room 205C
The most elusive information resources in the field of transportation are those originating in Asia, Africa, South America, and the smaller countries of Europe. This program will allow transportation librarians to get up to date on the progress that librarians in these regions have made toward increasing accessibility of their countries’ transportation information. Ideally, we will have librarians from those parts of the world at the conference to make their own presentations. When not feasible, we will have U.S. colleagues undertake a study of the situation in various countries and make presentations by proxy.
Audience: All attendees
Speakers:
- Bonnie Osif, Librarian, Pennsylvania State University
- Bob Sweet, University of Michigan, Transportation Research Institute, “Travelogue”
SLA Units: Transportation Division
Transportation Division Open House, Tuesday June 13 7:00 – 9:00 pm, American Visionary Art Museum
Come meet and socialize with other Transportation Division members in an informal gathering at the American Visionary Art Museum.
Audience: Unit members only
SLA Units: Transportation Division
Sponsored by: American Society of Civil Engineers
Ticketed event No. 750: $10.00
Tour of Turner-Fairbank Highway Research Center, Thursday June 15 10:00 am – 2:00 pm
Martha Soneira of the Turner-Fairbank Highway Research Center is arranging a tour of the facility. Transportation to this facility is on your own (directions) if traveling by car. If you care to travel by train to Union Station in Washington, DC, Martha will have a van pickup at that location, upon prior arrangement, about an hour before the tour. Transportation back to Union Station will be provided as well after the tour.
Tour reservation deadline is Thursday, June 1, 2006.
To make reservations, or for more information, contact Martha Soneira by email at martha.soneira@fhwa.dot.gov, or phone at 202-493-3468
Audience: Unit members only
Host: Martha Soneira, Turner-Fairbank Highway Research Center
SLA Units: Transportation Division
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