{"id":27260,"date":"2013-06-09T15:03:02","date_gmt":"2013-06-09T19:03:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/inalj.com\/?p=27260"},"modified":"2013-06-12T14:57:05","modified_gmt":"2013-06-12T18:57:05","slug":"on-sla-both-near-and-far","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/inalj.com\/?p=27260","title":{"rendered":"On SLA, Both Near and Far"},"content":{"rendered":"

by Naomi House<\/em><\/p>\n

On SLA, Both Near and Far<\/span><\/h3>\n

I am missing SLA Annual<\/a> this year in San Diego.\u00a0 I am frankly much the worse for it.<\/strong>\u00a0 I am blessed to have\"SLA<\/a> been able to speak and travel so much this year and my time-off requests finally caught up with me.\u00a0 Next year, I promise myself to plan better.\u00a0 This is simply a can’t miss event and the fact that it is being held on the west coast means a large group of librarians I have not met yet will be attending.\u00a0 So I sit in my room and comfort myself by following the #sla2013<\/a> Twitter feeds and the SLA Facebook<\/a> postings and I am grateful to have these glimpses into what appears to be another fab conference!\u00a0 (in the photo at right are Sharon Lenius, Deb Hunt,\u00a0Linda Broussard, Nevenka Zdravkovska and me, Naomi House)<\/em><\/p>\n

SLA has been great for me in my career as well.\u00a0<\/strong> The leadership has encouraged thinking beyond the usual job titles and I have been able to serve at the local level.\u00a0 I am on the strategic plan committee for DC\/SLA<\/a>, my local chapter.\u00a0<\/strong> Membership<\/a> for students and the unemployed is very inexpensive as well and I consider it high value and worth the small cost to me in my career.\u00a0 We all spend money on things we don’t need and balk at investing in our networks and careers, which baffles me.\u00a0 It is well worth it.<\/p>\n

Recently SLA Virginia President and INALJ VA assistant, Patrick Dougherty<\/strong> invited me to co-host a happy hour with Deb Hunt, President of SLA<\/strong> <\/a>at SLA Headquarters in Alexandria, Virginia. I was in for a treat.\u00a0 I was able to chat about so much that is going on in our field with SLA leadership and discuss some of my pet\"SLA<\/a> projects\/concerns, library employment and international librarianship.\u00a0 It was relaxed and yet invigorating and I am still making plans and working off of suggestions I gleaned from my chats.\u00a0 Patrick was pretty phenomenal for having put this all together and for driving all the way there from Charlottesville area!\u00a0 Wow!\u00a0 I thank him as well for helping you guys find jobs in his volunteer work with INALJ VA<\/a> (and previously he assisted INALJ PA<\/a>).\u00a0 Thanks Patrick (see us in the photo to the left)<\/em> \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n

The thing about SLA is that events like these, both the local ones and national ones are often free or low cost.\u00a0 I am blown away by what they are doing- truly doing more with less and I encourage anyone to get involved.\u00a0 I am certain that my career is better for it.<\/p>\n

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by Naomi House On SLA, Both Near and Far I am missing SLA Annual this year in San Diego.\u00a0 I am frankly much the worse for it.\u00a0 I am blessed to have been able to speak and travel so much this year and my time-off requests finally caught up with me.\u00a0 Next year, I promise…<\/p>\n

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