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Dear Colleagues, 

Registration is now open for the Special Libraries Association - San Diego 
Chapter Fall Seminar, scheduled for Friday, October 4! Please join us for what 
is sure to be an invigorating day of presentations and networking. 

Click here to register today: 
http://sandiego.sla.org/2013/09/sla-sd-2013-fall-seminar-registration-now-open/ 

Registration closes Sunday, September 29.  

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SLA-SD 2013 Fall Seminar: 

Connecting the Dots of Creative Innovations… 

When: Friday, October 4, 2012, 8:00 AM – 4:15 PM 

Where: Marina Village Conference Center, 1936 Quivira Way, San Diego, CA 92109 

Overview

Are you eager to learn about creative projects and innovations pursued by 
colleagues in diverse facets of librarianship and information services? Do you 
find yourself looking for new ideas to spark your own workplace initiatives? If 
so, please join the Special Libraries Association San Diego chapter at our 
annual fall seminar. The seminar will include an invigorating day of 
presentations by speakers from a variety of information settings, who will 
share insights, real-life examples, and practical tips on how their innovations 
are making an impact in their organizations. 

Attendees will also have opportunities to explore a vendor showcase, hear short 
vendor presentations, and enjoy a delicious continental breakfast, box lunch, 
and snacks catered by Panera Bread. 

Agenda 

8:00 – 8:30    Registration, Continental Breakfast 

8:30 – 8:45    Welcome 

Talitha Matlin, SLA-SD President 

8:45 – 9:30    KEYNOTE — Our Next Chapter: San Diego Public’s New Central 
Library 

Bruce Johnson, MLS, San Diego Public Library Deputy Director of the Branch 
Libraries Division 

Bruce Johnson will start off the day on a high note by introducing one of the 
latest big innovations in the San Diego library community: the San Diego Public 
Library Central Library Expansion Project. Attendees will hear an inside 
perspective on the planning, reorganizing, and re-envisioning of the new 
downtown Central Library. 

The next chapter in San Diego Public Library’s story is about leveraging, 
establishing partnership and working differently to provide superlative 
service.  From the challenge of raising $65 million in private funds to 
securing and retaining a $20 million construction grant administered by the 
State Library and working with the San Diego Unified School District with the 
establishment of a new charter high school in the Library the New Central 
Library features a variety of technological innovations from automated 
materials handling to the Gigabyte Passive Optical Network (GPON). 

9:30 – 10:00    Beyond the Needs Assessment: How a Knowledge Audit Informs 
Strategic Planning 

Cindy Shamel, MLS, President, Shamel Information Services 

A knowledge audit provides the kind of information an organization requires in 
order to address organizational goals. It includes an implementation plan and 
feeds into an overall strategy for knowledge management. This presentation 
provides background on the knowledge audit process and actual project outcomes, 
using real life examples. 

10:00 – 10:30    Surfacing Information Seeking Trends with Search Logs and 
Library Usage Statistics 

Tim Gallati, MLIS, Senior Librarian, Qualcomm, Inc. 

This presentation will discuss a unique and ambitious initiative currently 
underway at the Qualcomm Library to analyze and report on the information 
seeking trends within the company. The presentation will detail particulars of 
the initiative (as inspired by the Google Zeitgeist) and it will discuss why 
the library is the ideal place to house this initiative due to the skillsets 
our profession brings to the table. Attention will be put to reviewing specific 
examples of methods and tools for analysis including text mining, taxonomies, 
data dashboards, and beyond. 

10:30 – 11:00    Break, Vendor Showcase 

11:00 – 11:45    Visually Connecting the Dots: Video Information Delivery at 
Qualcomm 

Scott Brown, MA, MLIS, Manager of Library Services, Qualcomm, Inc.
Shannon Malcolm, JD, MLIS, Senior Librarian, Qualcomm, Inc. 

Librarians from Qualcomm, Inc. will demonstrate InfoHacks—Qualcomm’s 
innovative, on-demand videos teaching effective research skills to support 
learning unconstrained by location and time—and ResearchViews, which use video 
to enhance deliverables by providing a complete package of analysis, 
presentations, and video so users are able to focus quickly on the most 
relevant information. 

11:45 – 12:45    Lunch, Vendor Showcase 

12:45 – 1:30    Vendor Presentations, Chapter Update 

1:30 – 2:15    The CSUB Faculty Excellence Showcase: Collaborative Information 
Sharing 

Johanna Alexander, MBA, MLIS, Librarian, California State University 
Bakersfield 

Attendees will learn about the CSUB Faculty Excellence Showcase, a 
collaborative information initiative developed at California State University, 
Bakersfield. The project was implemented to highlight the scholarship and 
achievements of CSUB faculty but is relevant and adaptable to many 
organizations. The presentation will cover Showcase features as well as design 
and implementation issues. 

2:15 – 2:30    Break, Snacks, Vendor Showcase 

2:30 – 3:15    Knowledge Creation and the Expanding Role of the 21st Century 
Library 

Kathlin Ray, MLIS, Dean of Libraries and Teaching & Learning Technologies, 
University of Nevada, Reno 

Learn how one library is rediscovering its relevance to its academic 
communities by removing over half of its print collections, radically 
redesigning user space and providing 3D printing services to the entire campus. 
Using the DeLaMare Engineering and Science Library at the University of Nevada, 
Reno as a case study, this presentation will discuss how UNR Libraries applied 
theoretical models of learning and innovation to a real world problem and 
transformed DeLaMare Library from a dusty little-used backwater into a lively 
incubator for collaboration, innovation and knowledge creation. 

3:15 – 4:00    Cultural Intelligence: Are You Culturally Competent? 

Michele Lucero, MLS, MBA, Director of Client Development, LAC Group 

This presentation will discuss an overview of cultural intelligence (CQ), its 
four capabilities and how it may be applied within your organization. It is 
only recently that cultural intelligence has surfaced as an element that can 
increase job performance, personal well-being, cross-cultural adjustment, and 
profitability. It is essential that information professionals recognize their 
CQ level (a self-assessment will be provided) and how they can use it within 
their role as an information professional. 

4:00 – 4:15    Closing, Evaluations 

Helene Idels & Amy Jankowski, SLA-SD Directors 

Cost

Registration includes presentations, a vendor showcase, continental breakfast, 
lunch, and snacks.

*       SLA members: $65 ($70 after September 23)
*       Non-members: $80 ($85 after September 23)
*       Students/unemployed/retirees: $30 ($35 after September 23)

Registration

Please visit the SLA-SD Blog to register for the Fall Seminar: 
 
<http://sandiego.sla.org/2013/09/sla-sd-2013-fall-seminar-registration-now-open/>
 http://sandiego.sla.org/2013/09/sla-sd-2013-fall-seminar-registration-now-open/
The registration deadline is September 29, 2013. 

If you have any questions about registration, please contact Lauren Rasmussen 
at  <mailto:[email protected]> [email protected] 

Contacts:

Registration: Lauren Rasmussen,  <mailto:[email protected]> 
[email protected]

Seminar information: Helene Idels & Amy Jankowski,  
<mailto:[email protected]> [email protected]

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