Description: Handheld devices. Tablet computers. Reading on the web. Dedicated eReaders. Digital bookstores. Americans are reading in more ways than ever before, and eReading expands the options that readers have to entertain themselves and absorb information. Libraries are continuing to evolve the services they offer to customers based upon how people prefer to read. David Lisa, Adult Services & Urban Libraries Specialist in the Library Development Bureau at the New Jersey State Library, will talk about the current state of eReading, how different generations look at this and what the future might hold.

5:30 Networking
6:00 Dinner (Because of building security, please make every effort to arrive by 6:00)
6:45 Presentation by David Lisa

The P-T chapter gratefully acknowledges EBSCO Publishing for sponsoring this meeting.

The PT chapter thanks Joy Whitney, Ellen Specht, and Karen McQuillen for planning this meeting. If you have any questions, please contact (Karen McQuillen, kmcquillen@ets.org, 609-734-5664)

To pay via PayPal or credit card, use the drop-down menu to select SLA member, student/retiree, or non-member. Please fill in the boxes asking for your work/school affiliation and preferred email and phone number.

Membership status

SLA Member $20.00 USD Student/Retiree/Between jobs $15.00 USD Non-SLA Member $25.00 USD

Work/school affiliation

Preferred email and phone

Or, return the February 15, 2012 SLA meeting Flyer with your check (made payable to P-T SLA) no later than Monday, February 13th

Directions to Edison Ventures

Link to Google Map

Edison Ventures is located at 1009 Lenox Drive, Building 4, Lawrenceville, NJ 08648. Lenox Drive is at the intersection of I-295 and Princeton Pike.
Please park on the side of the building that is parallel to I-295 and come in the East entrance. Take the elevator to the 2nd Floor. The office is across from the elevator.

Dear Members,

I wanted to remind everyone that 2012 is our 45th anniversary! If we want to celebrate this milestone with a dinner event, we need a few people to form a committee so that we can begin to plan. Please let me know (zanaett77@yahoo.com) or contact Louise Deis, our Program Chair if you are interested.

We also have several empty “Chair” positions (only 1 year!) that we would like to fill,  so please consider supporting your chapter by volunteering for:

Employment Chair;  Continuing Education Chair; Archives Chair

Contact me for more information on these and other chapter activity opportunities! Louise and I will be attending the SLA Leadership Summit next week and we hope to learn a lot and bring back many good ideas for our chapter.   Soon you will receive information on our upcoming February meeting.

Sincerely,

Zana Etter, 2012 P-T SLA Chapter President

What are the current trends in open access? Many librarians consider open access to be one of the most important topics in scholarly communication and want to learn more about scholarly publishing, development of repositories, research impact, and global benefits. Laura Bowering Mullen will update us and lead a discussion on current issues and challenges that librarians face in the realization of an open access agenda. Mullen is the author of the 2009 book Open Access and its Practical Impact on the Work of Academic Librarians: Collection Development, Public Services, and the Library and Information Science Literature and has a special interest in practical realizations of open access in the everyday work of librarians.

5:30 Dinner at Valentino’s Pizza (pay on your own; coffee, tea, and cookies will be provided at RWJF)
6:45 Tour of Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Library, led by Librarian, MaryBeth Kren
7:00 Presentation on Open Access

If attendees do not wish to join us for dinner, they are more than welcome to just attend the presentation. The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation will be opening their doors to us at 6:30 pm.

To pay via PayPal or credit card, use the drop-down menu to select SLA member, student/retiree, or non-member. Please fill in the boxes asking for your work/school affiliation and preferred email and phone number.

Membership status

SLA Member $5.00 USD Student/Retiree/Between jobs $5.00 USD Non-SLA Member $5.00 USD

Work/school affiliation

Preferred email and phone

Or, return the December 14,2011 SLA meeting Flyer with your check (made payable to P-T SLA) no later than Monday, December 12th

Directions to Robert Wood Johnson Foundation

The address of Robert Wood Johnson Foundation is Route 1 and College Road East.

Traveling north on Route 1, exit at College Road East and, at the first traffic light, turn right into our driveway. There is a large blue sign that says Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. Make the first left into visitors’ parking and proceed to the front door.

Traveling south on Route 1, exit at College Road East and follow the exit ramp around to the 2nd traffic light and turn right into our driveway. There is a large blue sign that says Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. Make the first left into visitors parking and proceed to the front door.

Landmarks – We are across Route 1 from Forrestal Village, Ruth’s Chris Steak House, Salt Creek Grill, and The Westin Hotel.

Directions to Valentino’s Pizza, 110 Rockingham Row, Princeton, NJ 08540, 609-520-1191
Located in the food court of Princeton Forrestal Village

Exit on College Road West toward Forrestal Road Center W/Forrestal Village
Turn left onto Village Blvd.
Turn right to stay on Village Blvd.
Take the second right to stay on Village Blvd.
Arrive at 110 Rockingham Row

Parking is available on the street, in parking garages, and on surface lots in Forrestal Village.

Menu

In honor of a former chapter member, Rosemary Allen Little,  the Princeton-Trenton SLA Chapter each year provides a monetary scholarship to one library school student who applies.  Students can submit essays and are judged by a committee of chapter members,  and the best essay is chosen.  This year, the Rosemary Allen Little Award was given to Katie Maricic. Katie completed an internship at the Rutgers Art Library in New Brunswick, and hopes to someday work as a librarian in a museum or library devoted to the Arts.

I was fortunate to be asked to represent our chapter by attending the Scholarship Donor Recognition Reception which was held at the Livingston Student Center at Livingston Hall on September 22, 2011.

I enjoyed meeting Katie’s family and seeing her receive the award. I also heard several guest speakers, including our chapter member Claire McInerney, Chair of the Department of Library and Information Science at Rutgers University, and Jorge Reina Schement, Dean of the School of Communication and Information. It was very gratifying to witness the generosity of so many donors and to see many talented young scholars receive these well-deserved awards. They have much to offer our profession and are destined for success in their future careers.

I was especially touched by listening to the donor of the Pamela Richards Memorial Fellowship, Guy Richards Smit. He spoke about his mother, Pamela Richards, a former library school professor I remember, who unfortunately passed away too soon but is honored each year by this fellowship.

We wish Katie Maricic much success in her new job at the Brookdale Community College Library and look forward to next year’s contestants for the award.

Zana Etter, 2011 Program Chair/President Elect

Thank you all for attending today’s webinar on WordPress. I have posted a recording of the session on Blip.tv and embedded it here. You can also download my slides here.

More and more libraries are looking for a way to make dynamic, easy to edit websites. Many of these libraries turn to powerful content management systems and then find that they have taken on more than they can handle. WordPress has gotten a reputation as a blogging platform, but many are using it for their entire website – including libraries. This workshop will walk librarians through the basics of using WordPress as a content management system for their entire library website.

‘Great WordPress workshop last week. I went in not knowing even how to spell “WordPress” and came out thinking “This is the best thing I have ever seen; we need it for our library website yesterday!”’ – Satisfied Student.

By the end of this program, participants will…
…Know what they need to install WordPress
…Be able to find and choose from existing templates/designs
…Be able to add and edit website content using WordPress

Nicole Engard is known in the library world for her blog “What I Learned Today…” as well as her many publications including her book “Practical Open Source Software for Libraries.”

If you would like to participate in the webinar, please register at the following website and login instructions will be sent to you.

https://www1.gotomeeting.com/register/424471792

Join us for dinner in Chancellor Green, the University’s first library built in 1873, then later a pub. Now part of the Gerhard Andlinger Center for the Humanities, with furnishings designed by famed Princeton architect Michael Graves.

Dinner will be followed by a behind-the-scenes tour of the Marquand Library of Art and Archaeology by librarian Sandra Brooke, who will talk to us about the library’s collection of art and architectural history, artistic photography, and several new fields of archaeology including Islamic and pre-Columbian.

After the tour, you can visit the Princeton University Art Museum, which is in the same building as the Art Library, and is open until 10pm on Thursday evenings.

Thursday, October 27, 2011

Parking is available in all University lots after 5PM

                                                   5:30 – 6:00     Networking in Chancellor Green
                                                   6:00 – 6:45     Buffet Dinner in Chancellor Green
                                                   6:45 – 7:45    Tour of Marquand Library of Art and Archaeology

To pay via PayPal or credit card, use the drop-down menu to select SLA member, student/retiree, or non-member. Please fill in the boxes asking for your work/school affiliation and preferred email and phone number.

Membership status

SLA Member $20.00 Student/Retiree/Between jobs $15.00 Non-SLA Member $25.00

Work/school affiliation

Preferred email and phone

Or, return the October 27 2011 SLA meeting Flyer with your check (made payable to P-T SLA) no later than Monday, October 24^th

If you have any questions, please contact Elana Broch ebroch@princeton.edu, 609-575-6495 or Mindy Weinberg mindyw@princeton.edu, 908-227-4812.

Directions

Parking is available in all University lots after 5pm, but we suggest you park in Lot 10, on William Street, which is one block south of Nassau Street.

Map and Directions. Marquand Library is in McCormick Hall.
Parking map
Article about Chancellor Green
Website for Marquand Library

Join the SLA Princeton-Trenton Chapter on Monday March 14^th, 2011 for great food, great networking and a great discussion on the future of mobile computing.

Future of Mobile Computing: Presented by John LeMasney

This overview on the future of mobile computing will talk about trends, practices, and expectations regarding the rise of mobile computing and what we should expect from it in the next five years. The talk will discuss mobile devices, the benefits of geolocation, cloud services, companies that make the most sensible use of mobile computing, and the amazing trend towards true digital convergence. Come and see what’s going on now in the world of mobile computing and how it will affect our work, play, learning, and lives from now on.

John LeMasney is a husband, father, artist, designer, technologist, consultant, open web advocate and open source evangelist. He works, lives and teaches in NJ. For more information about John, please visit http://john.lemasney.com or visit his daily sketch project at http://365sketches.org

Venue:  Campus Club, Princeton University, 5 Prospect Avenue Princeton, NJ 08544

To pay via PayPal or credit card, use the drop-down menu to select SLA member, student/retiree, or non-member. Please fill in the boxes asking for your work/school affiliation and preferred email and phone number.

Join us on May 20, 2010 for ‘From the Reference Desk to Twitter: Meeting Our Users on Their Terms’ presented by Kay Cassell.

Time: Networking: 5:30 p.m.
Dinner: 6:00 p.m.
Location: Princeton Public Library

Download the poster presented by Kadri Kallikorm-Rhodes at SLA Annual Meeting, Idea Showcase June 6, 2007.