St. Catherine University: SLA

  Our tour of the American Craft Council Library is on November 15th at 5:30pm! There is a cap of 8 people, so please RSVP to attend.  Masks will be required and all attendees will need to give information for contact tracing.

  Welcome to a new semester!  Our first meeting of the fall is Thursday, September 9th at 5:15! We're going to start the semester by trying a hybrid in-person/online meeting. You're welcome to join us in-person in CDC 287 (we'll have candy!) or online via Google Meet. Send us an email (stkatesla@gmail.com) if you'd like to be on our listserv. We regularly send out links to meetings, news about upcoming SLA events, professional development, and job opportunities.  

  We miss our normal meeting snacks! So this semester, in lieu of in-person meetings, if you attend 2 of our monthly meetings or 1 monthly meeting + another SLA event, we'll put together a little package of goodies and send it to you in May!

  Welcome to a new semester! Our first meeting is February 11th at 5:00 via Google Meet. We'll discuss our plans for the semester - events & professional development opportunities - and get to know one another! As a fun extra this semester, if you join us for 2 meetings or a meeting + an event, we'll send you a little packages of goodies in May 🙂 All SLA meetings this semester are on the 2nd Thursday of the month - you can add our meetings to your school google calendar with this link .

  SLA-MN is hosting their annual holiday gathering on December 4, 2020, from 4-5:00pm. There will be a virtual escape room via small breakout groups! This will be a good opportunity to network with local SLA members and learn how to adapt a Google form for your own escape room with family or friends. This event is free, though registration is required .  

  On November 16th, St. Kate's SLA is hosting a virtual discussion with Peter Rachleff, the co-executive director of the East Side Freedom Library, and Marlin Heise, the curator of the Hmong Archives (housed at ESFL).  This will be an opportunity to talk with Peter and Marlin about the work they do to preserve labor, immigration, African and Asian American social movements and histories, and what they have done to make the ESFL building a gathering space for those communities.  Date: November 16, 2020 Time: 5:00pm central Meeting Link For more information, email us at stkatesla@gmail.com

  On October 4th at 7pm, SLA is hosting an informal panel with members of SLA MN. This is your chance to ask questions about special libraries as a career path, SLA as a professional organization, and really anything related to special libraries. No question is too weird! If you have a question or topic you'd like to discuss, feel free to submit them anonymously ahead of time HERE . When: Sunday, October 4th Time: 7pm - 8:30pm Place: Google Meet Our panelists: Jill Strand - Former SLA National & MN President, Senior Manager, Library & Knowledge Information Systems at Fish & Richardson P.C. Marilee Tuite - Current SLA MN President, Reference and Digital Services Librarian, Center for Transportation Studies at the University of Minnesota Kyunghye Yoon - SLA Student Group Advisor, Associate Professor, Master of Library and Information Science Program at St. Catherine University

Our first meeting of the semster is September 10th at 5:00 on Google Meet. We'll discuss our plans for the semester - events, professional development opportunities, & tours - and get to know one another!  Send us an email (stkatesla@gmail.com) if you'd like to be on our listserv. We regularly send out links to meetings, news about upcoming SLA events, professional development, and job opportunities.

  On August 27th, SLA's Students and New Professionals Advisory Council (SNPAC) has organized a FREE panel with SLA members in a variety of roles at different types of organization. They'll discuss what a “typical” day looks like for them, how their career path lead them to their current role, and what skills they deem essential for success.  Panelists: • Seema Rampersad, Senior Business Researcher & Service Manager, The British Library • JonLuc Christensen, Records Management Specialist/FOIA Liaison, NASA/Caltech Jet Propulsion Laboratory • Kat Siddle, Sample Librarian, Lululemon • Clara Williams, Library Manager, Atlanta Botanical Garden   Event details: Date: August 27 Time: 4:00pm Central time Register here: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZMrf-Cvpz0vGdSzhk3NAK2m1vQGsy7eOaAf

Our SLA Professionals Info Panel is in just a few days! Come meet library professionals from a variety of workplaces, hear about their experiences, and ask questions. We hope you can join us! Monday, May 4th 6:30pm - 8:00pm Google Meet ( contact us for meeting link) Our panelists:     Mary Dolan O'Brien: Program Manager - American Academy of Neurology     Rachel Wangerin: Senior Technical Information Analyst - 3M     David Norris: Cataloging and Metadata Librarian, St. Catherine University

Following the announcement from St. Catherine that all classes will be moving online for the remainder of the semester, SLA will be working to do the same . We will still be holding our April 8th meeting at 5:15 online . More details will be coming via email. Don't forget, we are taking election nominations for our event chair! Send us an email or join the meeting to nominate someone. Our hope is to hold our scheduled April 6th Professionals Panel in some online form, possibly at a later date than previously scheduled. We are working with our panelists to find the best solution and will let you know as soon as we can. There is still time to submit essays for the Travel Stipend ! DEADLINE MARCH 25th! SLA has not yet cancelled its annual meeting and so we are still moving forward with travel stipend funding. As things are changing fast, often daily, we will work around whatever happens.  Networking is an important part of what we provide as a student group and we want...

Join colleagues, friends, and new acquaintances at the SLA-MN Winter Mixer on Thursday, January 30th.     7-9 pm at Urban Forage Winery & Cider House . No RSVP Required! Enjoy Urban Forage's wide menu of cider, mead and wine from locally sourced fruit, flowers and honey. Snacks provided by SLA-MN. The trivia theme for the evening is Disney movies from 1989-1999. Bring a friend! Non-members are welcome! Parking/Transit : Urban Forage is located at 3016 E Lake St, Minneapolis, MN 55406 on the #21 bus line. There is free street parking.

The next SLA-MN Board Meeting is re-scheduled for Weds., March 13 from 6-7:30pm . They will be meeting in the community/meeting room at Peace Coffee on Minnehaha Ave in Minneapolis. All chapter members, and interested non-members, are welcome to attend. Among the usual business updates, they will discuss salons and programs/events for 2019. If you have any thoughts/ideas, or would like to host in 2019, please let Lindsey Dyer ( ldyer@jjhill.org ) know prior to the board meeting.

Our Fall 2017 Information Professionals Panel is fast approaching! We will hear from an incredible variety of professionals who work in special libraries or non-traditional information roles. The lineup is still being finalized, but currently includes: Leslie Hunter-Larson, Librarian, Minnesota Pollution Control Agency Dr. Tim Senapatiratne, Reference Librarian, Bethel Seminary  Beth Christensen, Music Librarian, St. Olaf College Samantha Stepp, Document Management Specialist, Metro Transit We'll keep updating this page as we finalize our panelists, but we hope you will save the date and join us Monday, October 30, 2017 at 6:00 p.m. in CdC Room 17!

SILENT AUCTION DONATIONS NEEDED! On Monday, December 5, 2016, the St. Kate's Special Library Association Student Group will be hosting a Silent Auction fundraiser at the SLA Holiday Party to raise funds for a scholarship to help send a St. Kate's MLIS student to the 2017 SLA Annual Conference in Phoenix, Arizona. We need your help with donations! Hand-crafted items - jewelry, purses, scarves, quilt Gift baskets - wine/liquor, bath items, BBQ tools Tickets to sporting or cultural events - MN Wild, MN Twins, Guthrie Memberships - museums, cultural Photography or Artwork An hour of housecleaning service or some babysitting Gift certificates - Gas Stations, Restaurants, coffee/tea shops, movie theaters, book retailers, pet stores, craft stores, Home Depot, Best Buy, any place you frequent Anything YOU WOULD like to bid on! Donations Needed by Thursday, December 1st Contact us if you would like to donate: stkatesla@gmail.com Sarah Larsen: sel...

SLA-MN has an event coming up this  Thursday, October 27  which is open to SLA members. Check out the details below.  Not a member of SLA-MN? Students can join for a reduced rate  here . SLA Connect / Fredrikson & Byron Library Open House  10.27.16 By:  Karen Mackey   ,  5 days ago The Fredrikson & Byron Library will host an open house for SLA members on  Thursday, Oct 27 , starting at  4:00 PM . They'll offer a guided tour of SLA Connect, the new interactive membership platform. Learn how to logon, change the frequency of email delivery, update your profile, and find contact information for other SLA members. Laptops will be available for you to logon and change your settings right away, or you can bring your own laptop. They will also have a guided tour of their library, which serves the needs of 300 attorneys and paralegals practicing in the areas of corporate and M&A, intellectual property, labor & e...

Due to a lack of applicants, we have decided to extend the deadline and lessen the requirements for the $1,000 SLA Conference Scholarship. The new deadline is May 5th. The new requirements will be: A short 100-word biography detailing your involvement in SLA and/or commitment to the field of special librarianship. A 500-word essay about how attending the 2016 SLA Conference will further your career and/or education, as well as how your attendance might benefit the St. Kate’s MLIS Program. The 2016 SLA Conference will take place in Philadelphia, PA from June 12-14. The SLA is also looking for student volunteers for the conference (deadline April 29). More information here:  http://bit.ly/1SHr9zz

Date: Monday, December 7th Time: 5:30pm - 8:30pm Location: HGA Architects and Engineers (420 N 5th Street #100) Tomorrow is the much-anticipated SLA-MN Holiday Party and SLA Student Group silent auction. We have managed to acquire about 20-25 donations for the silent auction and are ready to put this thing into action. If you haven't yet, register for the party here and come join us for an evening of low-key mingling with information professionals in the Twin Cities (not to mention fancy food and an open bar!). Hope to see you there!