* Dine Around
Date: April 1
Host: Patrick Clapp
Restaurant: Flying Fish
Restaurant Address: 815 King Street #A
Alexandria, VA
Restaurant telephone number: (703) 600-3474
Restaurant website: www.flyingfishdc.com
Closest Metro station: King Street (Blue & Yellow Lines)
Arrival time: 7 PM
RSVP: patrick.clapp@qiagen.com
Sponsored by the Solo Librarians Division of SLA.
* Building Sister Libraries
Date: April 2 10am-1pm
Location: Southeast Neighborhood Library, 403 7th St. SE, Washington, DC -near the Eastern Market station on the Orange Line.
DCLA, DC Public Library and the DC/SLA International Relations Committee welcomes registration for "Building Mindful Bridges for Kids and Armchair Travelers through Sister Libraries" on April 2, 2011, 10 am -1 pm. The workshop will cover the basics for setting up a Sister Library partnership with an overseas library. To register, please visit the DCLA website. Deadline for registration is March 31, 2011. For questions about the workshop agenda, please contact Barbara Conaty at bcon9876@aol.com or 703-863-2273.
* Dine Around
Date: April 4
Host: Sharon Lenius
Restaurant: Joe Theismann's
Restaurant Address: 1800 Diagonal Road
Alexandria, VA
Restaurant telephone number: (703) 739-0777
Restaurant website: www.joetheismanns.com
Closest Metro station: King Street (Blue & Yellow Lines)
Arrival time: 6 PM
RSVP: leniussa@gmail.com
* Dine Around
Date: April 5
Host: Jessica Bland
Restaurant: Faryab
Restaurant Address: 4917 Cordell Avenue
Bethesda, MD
Restaurant telephone number: (301) 951-3484
Restaurant review: www.washingtonian.com/
Closest Metro station: Bethesda (Red Line)
Arrival time: 6:30 PM
RSVP: msjbland@yahoo.com
* Treasures of the USGS Library
Date: April 6, 7-8pm
Location: USGS, 12201 Sunrise Valley Drive, Reston, VA
Join DC/SLA’s own Richard Huffine for a free lecture on the treasures of the USGS Library, held at the USGS facility in Reston, VA. Since its creation in 1882, the USGS Library has grown to become the world's largest library dedicated to earth and natural sciences, holding more than 1.5 million volumes and 800,000 maps. Richard Huffine, Director of the USGS Libraries Program, will highlight some of the rarest, most valuable, and significant materials held by the USGS. These include early maps of America, documents that establish the provenance of the Hope Diamond, and documentation of our exploration of the American West by Hayden, King, Powell and Wheeler. The Library’s initiative to digitize their collection for online access will make these cultural and historic records available worldwide to anyone at anytime.
* DC/SLA Board Meeting
Date: April 7, 6-8pm
Location: Dow Jones, 1025 Connecticut Ave, NW, 11th Floor, Suite 1100, Washington, D.C. 20036.
* Moving into Management and Team Leadership Roles Part 1-ClickU
Date: April 12, 1-2:30pm
Location: DowJones- 1025 Connecticut Ave, NW 11th Floor, Suite 1100 - Washington, D.C. 20036- (Metro: Farragut North or Farragut West; between L & K Street on Connecticut)
Guests must present a photo ID to the guard in the lobby.
In this session, participants will learn about making the move to a new position, including clarifying expectations and establishing early goals, even if your new boss doesn't think this is necessary. It's also important to understand yourself and the importance of knowing your tendencies to better understand those working with you. We'll also cover why politics and relationship building are critical, and how to approach these responsibilities with confidence and competence.
FREE for SLA members attending at the Onsite location (Dow Jones) sponsored by DC-SLA Chapter.
$25 FEE for NON-SLA members attending at Onsite location (Dow Jones) sponsored by DC-SLA Chapter
Please RSVP Gregory Bailey at baileyinfospec@gmail.com and Register at: http://units.sla.org/chapter/
* Dine Around
Date: April 12
Host: Anne Caputo
Restaurant: La Tomate
Restaurant Address: 1701 Connecticut Avenue, NW
Washington, DC
Restaurant telephone number: (202) 667-5505
Restaurant website: http://latomatebistro.com
Closest Metro station:: Dupont Circle (Red Line)
Arrival time: 6 PM
RSVP: anne.caputo@dowjones.com, (202) 862-6632
* Dine Around
Date: April 13
Host: Jennifer Boettcher
Restaurant: Hard Times Cafe
Restaurant Address: 3028 Wilson Boulevard
Arlington, VA
Restaurant telephone number: (703) 528-2233
Restaurant website: www.hardtimes.com/location/
Closest Metro station: Clarendon (Orange Line)
Arrival time: 6:30 PM
RSVP: boettcher@georgetown.edu
Reserve by April 6
Sponsored by the Business Information Finders Committee of DC/SLA.
* Celebrate International Special Librarians’ Day
Date: April 14 6-8pm
Location: Georgetown University Law Library, 111 G Street, NW, Washington, DC - nearest Metro is Judiciary Square or Union Station
Celebrate International Special Librarian's Day with the DC/SLA International Relations Committee. Our panel of distinguished speakers will discuss various aspects of international librarianship. The evening begins at 6 pm with networking and refreshments. Speakers: Alan Overland, Edna Reid, Dr. Sohair Wastawy, Dean of Libraries at Illinois State and former Chief Librarian of the Library of Alexandria, Alexandria, Egypt. Date & time: Thursday, April 14, 6 pm - 8:00 pm Location: Georgetown University Law Library, 111 G Street, NW (nearest Metro is Judiciary Square or Union Station)
$10 Students/Retired/Unemployed Members
$15 Members
$20 Non-members
Register and pay at: http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/
* Dine Around
Date: April 19
Host: Lois Ireland
Restaurant: Chevy's Fresh Mex
Restaurant Address: 1201 South Hayes Street
Arlington, VA
Restaurant telephone number: (703) 413-8700
Closest Metro station: Pentagon City (Blue & Yellow Lines)
Arrival time: 6 PM
RSVP: lois_ireland@freddiemac.com
* Lubuto Library Project’s Zambian Language Literacy Project Brown Bag Lunch
Date: April 20, 12-1pm
Location: Bread for the World Institute, 425 3rd St. SW, Suite 1200, Washington DC 20024
The Lubuto Library Project was one of 12 groups chosen from several hundred applicants worldwide to be awarded a grant from EIFL’s Public Library Innovation Project, for which EIFL received funding from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation to encourage innovation with information technology in public libraries. Lubuto's project addresses the critical need that the educational system cannot meet for a means to teach all Zambian children to read in their original language. This same problem is widespread in sub-Saharan Africa, particularly in countries with dozens, even hundreds, of different languages. Lubuto libraries reach out-of-school children and can help them toward reading by read-aloud and storytelling programs, but tools for reading teaching in Zambian languages are not available. Youth who had been using the One Laptop Per Child XO laptops in Lubuto libraries and experienced Zambian reading teachers have been trained in the OLPC application Etoys and now work each week to create early reading programs in seven Zambian languages. The project creators use six XO 1.5 laptops, which were granted to Lubuto Libraries by the OLPC Foundation. The open source reading programs can run on other platforms and in addition to being made available to Lubuto Library users on XO laptops will be posted on the LubutoCollections.org website to inspire the creation of similar programs in other African countries and languages. Mike Lee of Sugar Labs, Washington DC, USA and One Laptop Per Child organization, Boston, MA, USA and Jane Kinney Meyers, President of the Lubuto Project will present the project, demonstrate some of its output and discuss its impact during a brown bag lunch.
* Dine Around
Date: April 21
Host: Susan Fifer Canby
Restaurant: Jackie's
Restaurant Address: 8081 Georgia Avenue
Silver Spring, MD
Restaurant telephone number: (301) 565-9700
Restaurant website: www.jackiesrestaurant.com
Closest Metro station: Silver Spring (Red Line)
Arrival time: 6 PM
RSVP: susanfifercanby@gmail.com
Reserve by April 16.
Sponsored by the Encore Caucus of SLA.
* Moving in Management and Team Leadership Roles Part 2-ClickU
Date: April 26, 1-2:30pm
Location: DowJones- 1025 Connecticut Ave, NW 11th Floor, Suite 1100 - Washington, D.C. 20036- (Metro: Farragut North or Farragut West; between L & K Street on Connecticut)
Guests must present a photo ID to the guard in the lobby.
This session will focus on specific competencies that will help participants make the successful transition to new responsibilities, including balancing priorities and avoiding burnout, even as projects, urgencies and priorities shift; delegating and coaching employees to help them build on their strengths; and communicating at the right time and in the right way.
FREE for SLA members attending at the Onsite location (Dow Jones) sponsored by DC-SLA Chapter.
$25 FEE for NON-SLA members attending at Onsite location (Dow Jones) sponsored by DC-SLA Chapter
Please RSVP Gregory Bailey at baileyinfospec@gmail.com and Register at: http://units.sla.org/chapter/
* DC/SLA Professional Book Club
Date: April 26 6:30 - 8:30pm
Location: Teaism, 400 8th St. NW - Closest Metro Archives Stop
Hamlet's BlackBerry: A Practical Philosophy for Building a Good Life in the Digital Age by William Powers.
About the book:
Our discombobulated Internet Age could learn important new tricks from some very old thinkers, according to this incisive critique of online life and its discontents. Journalist Powers bemoans the reigning dogma of digital maximalism that requires us to divide our attention between ever more e-mails, text messages, cellphone calls, video streams, and blinking banners, resulting, he argues, in lowered productivity and a distracted life devoid of meaning and depth. In a nifty and refreshing turn, he looks to ideas of the past for remedies to this hyper-modern predicament: to Plato, who analyzed the transition from the ancient technology of talking to the cutting-edge gadgetry of written scrolls; to Shakespeare, who gave Hamlet the latest in Elizabethan information apps, an erasable notebook; to Thoreau, who carved out solitary spaces amid the press of telegraphs and railroads. The author sometimes lapses into mysticism—In solitude we meet not just ourselves but all other selves—and his solutions, like the weekend-long Internet Sabbaths he and his wife decreed for their family, are small-bore. But Powers deftly blends an appreciation of the advantages of information technology and a shrewd assessment of its pitfalls into a compelling call to disconnect.
Please RSVP to gsauvey@gmail.com if you plan to attend.
* Association Roundtable Brown Bag Lunch
Date: April 27, 12-1:30pm
Location: TBD
Information discussion of the Association Information Services Caucus. Group meets monthly. Topic TBD
* DC/SLA Fiction Book Club
Date: April 27, 6-7pm
Location: Please RSVP: Barbara Folensbee-Moore at bfolensbee-moore@morganlewis.
The topic for April will be books that take place in one day - this is within a 24 hour period or on the same actual day. There are several web sites with very nice lists of books to recommend - see below.
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* Dine Around
Date: April 27
Host: Lisa Haakon Pogue
Restaurant: Bistrot Lafayette
Restaurant Address: 1118 King Street
Alexandria, VA
Restaurant telephone number: (703) 548-2525
Restaurant website: www.bistrotlafayette.com
Closest Metro station: King Street (Blue & Yellow Lines)
Arrival time: 6 PM
RSVP: lhpogue@hotmail.com, (703) 861-7247
* Dine Around
Date: April 27
Host: Peggy Garvin
Restaurant: Indique Heights
Restaurant Address: 2 Wisconsin Circle
Chevy Chase, MD
Restaurant telephone number: (301) 656-4822
Restaurant website: www.indiqueheights.com
Closest Metro station: Friendship Heights (Red Line)
Arrival time: 6:30 PM
RSVP: peggy@garvinconsulting.com
* Joint Spring Workshop
Date: April 29, 8:30am - 3:15pm
Location: Library of Congress, Mumford Rm., 6th Fl, Madison Bldg. 101 Independence Ave., SE- Closest Metro Capital South
Do you have a strategic plan for your library? How do you know if your library is supporting your organization's strategic goals? In this time of fiscal uncertainty, how can you develop a strategic plan that will ensure your library is valued and essential to your organization's future?
This one day workshop should help you answer these questions, and, if you don't have a strategic plan for your library already, enable you to have the basic tools to develop one that makes sense in the context of your organizational goals.
Keynote Speaker: DeEtta Jones, DeEtta Jones and Associates, Raynna Bowlby, Associate, Library Management Consulting
$60.00 - Chapter Members
$85.00 - Non-Chapter Members
$25.00 - Students/Retirees/Unemployed
Includes continental breakfast and lunch. Tax ID number is 13-5404745
Register and pay at: http://units.sla.org/chapter/
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