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www.sla.org Iowa Chapter Bulletin December 2007
President’s Message
By Anna Marie Guengerich, SLA-Iowa President
Iowa Library Association Conference 2007
I attended ILA this year for this first time and
had a great time— interesting sessions, good
food, and a very nice bag! The Special Libraries Round Table
sponsored a breakfast meeting where I met 2008 SLRT Chair Sheri
Muller of Grand View College (Des Moines) and Vice Chair Matt
Pannkuk of Buckle Down Publishing (Iowa City). Sheri and Matt are
also members of our chapter, as were some of the other attendees at
the breakfast. I definitely see the benefits of joining both ILA and SLA.
Dinner with Stephen Abram
Another great thing about the ILA conference was meeting SLA
President-Elect Stephen Abram, where he presented a keynote and
also another session. Stephen is energetic, engaging, entertaining; we
are fortunate to have him as our incoming SLA president. If you ever
think to yourself, ―I‘m a ‗sweater set‘ librarian and all this new stuff is too
much to learn,‖ he will lead you through a complete makeover, quickly
and with encouragement that you CAN do it. Check out his column from
Information Outlook, Feb. 2007, issue: ―15 Minutes a Day: A Personal
Learning Management Strategy.‖
Inside SLA@iowa
Editor’s Corner, p. 2
Kay’s Concise Report on
Denver, p. 3
Fall Meeting Highlights, p. 4
Member News, p. 4
Library in the Limelight:
Emerson Process Management
Information Center, p. 5
Scholarship Recipient’s
Winning Essay, p. 7
New Members, p. 8
Conference Report: Digital
Assets Management, p. 9
Conference Report: Internet
Librarian 2007, p. 10
Newly Elected Executive
Board, p. 11
Calendar, p. 12
Stephen recently initiated a Call for Volunteers with plans to build a
database of members interested in working with fellow information specialists from all over the world.
Read more about it and think about filling out the volunteer form, too:
http://www.sla.org/content/community/committe/volunteer.cfm
If you want to test out volunteering by first dipping your toes into a local lake rather than a global ocean,
our Iowa Chapter would love to have you join one of our committees.
In spite of his crazy travel schedule, and picking up a nasty cold/flu bug along the way, Stephen rallied
to meet with us for dinner Friday night. A noisy, pregame Hawkeye football crowd filled Mondo‘s
Restaurant and we had to shout at one another to be heard, but it was still great to meet Stephen in
person. We were happy to have SLIS represented by Prof. Patricia Katopol, and students Laurie Aude
and Elizabeth Galvez and her husband. Other guests were Dave Martin, Dan Daly, Matt Pannkuk,
Jamie Hosek, and Jacqueline Snider and her husband. Thanks to all for coming. We hope you enjoyed
Happy
Holidays!
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Editor’s Corner
By Susan Lerdal, SLA@iowa Editor
Some interesting things I‘ve read or viewed
lately:
Top 7 Alternatives to Wikipedia
http://oedb.org/library/features/top-7-alternatives-towikipedia
Wikipedia is one of the most popular Web sites
in the world, but it is vulnerable to many
problems. If you are looking for a different kind
of online encyclopedia, check out the seven
alternatives to Wikipedia featured in this article.
A Vision of Students Today
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dGCJ46vyR9o
A short video summarizing some of the most
important characteristics of students today—
how they learn, what they need to learn, their
goals, hopes, dreams, what their lives will be
like, and what kinds of changes they will
experience in their lifetime. Created by Michael
Wesch in collaboration with 200 students at
Kansas State University.
The Machine is Us/ing Us (Final Version)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NLlGopyXT_g
"Web 2.0" in just under 5 minutes. Created by
Michael Wesch at Kansas State University.
World Digital Library
http://www.worlddigitallibrary.org/project/english/inde
x.html
―The World Digital Library will make available on
the Internet, free of charge and in multilingual
format, significant primary materials from
cultures around the world, including
manuscripts, maps, rare books, musical scores,
recordings, films, prints, photographs,
architectural drawings, and other significant
cultural materials. The objectives of the World
Digital Library are to promote international and
inter-cultural understanding and awareness,
provide resources to educators, expand non-
English and non-Western content on the
Internet, and to contribute to scholarly research.‖
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SLA-Iowa Executive Board
Anna Guengerich, President
Iowa Testing Programs, University of Iowa
Iowa City
anna-guengerich@uiowa.edu
Kay Kelly, President-Elect
Principal Financial Group, Corporate Library
Des Moines
kelly.kay@principal.com
Kenneth Braun, Secretary
Library Resources, Pioneer Hi-Bred
International, Inc.
Des Moines
ken.braun@pioneer.com
Isabela Varela, Treasurer
Academic Advising & Career Services
University of Northern Iowa
Cedar Falls
isabela.varela@uni.edu
Brent Chesson, Past President
Principal Financial Group, Law Library
Des Moines
chesson.brent@principal.com
SLA@iowa, the bulletin of the Iowa Chapter of SLA,
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Contact Editor Susan Lerdal at:
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President’s Message
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your first trip to Iowa, Stephen. You have inspired me to get rid of some sweater set notions hanging in
my mental closet. Some of my real sweater sets have got to go, too. I counted and I have too many.
Thank you!
My term as President ends December, 2007, and this is my final President‘s message. I am very
pleased we were able to again offer our scholarship this year, a significant accomplishment for our
small chapter. Tara was a fantastic representative for SLA-Iowa at the SLA conference.
Other recent highlights for our chapter include:
SLIS Professor Patricia Katopol joined our chapter. With her guidance and enthusiasm for SLA,
we hope a student chapter will form.
Executive Board voted to give a donation to SLA‘s Diversity Committee.
We have become better acquainted with State Librarian Mary Wegner; she is a great advocate
for all libraries in Iowa. Thank you, Mary, for coming to our spring meetings in Des Moines and
giving us an annual update.
Meg Boulton and Kim Bloedel recently volunteered to take the positions of Membership Chair
and Webmaster respectively.
I am very grateful to the members of the Executive Board and Advisory Council who made the above
things happen, as well as all the other activities during my term. They all have lots to do in their work
lives and personal lives, yet each of these people managed to find the time to volunteer for our chapter.
SLA Conference
Denver, June 2007
By President-Elect Kay Kelly
Networking was great, sessions were terrific, and the shopping – that
was wonderful! I purposely book a hotel that‘s convenient to shopping
whenever possible. Not only does it provide fun people watching, but it
usually gives me a reason to get in some walking. Exercise wasn‘t a
problem in Denver since the Convention Center alone includes 2.2
million square feet of convention and meeting space. Can‘t say that I
walked every square foot, but I did decide the 40 foot blue bear that
continuously stares into the Convention Center must have gotten a kick
out of watching hundreds of conference weary librarians pass by each
day.
Editor’s Note: SLA 2007 Contributed Papers and Presentations are available
at: http://www.sla.org/content/Events/conference/ac2007/conference/papers.cfm
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Fall Meeting Highlights
By Anna Marie Guengerich, SLA-Iowa President
Wow! — That‘s my reaction to the great turnout we had for our annual fall meeting. A big ―Thank You‖
to Program Chair Dave Martin for organizing this day for us, and to Student/Academic Relations Chair
Jacqueline Snider for promoting the meeting to SLIS. It was a pleasure to meet 2007 scholarship
recipient Tara Marsh, along with the other SLIS students who attended. Thank you for your interest in
SLA.
Also many thanks to our presenters:
Panel – Careers in Special Librarianship: Tara Marsh reported on her experiences at SLA 2007 in
Denver and the benefits of SLA in her workplace; SLIS Professor Patricia Katopol reflected on her own
career path and interest in knowledge management; and Joel Berger, President of library consulting
and staffing firm C. Berger Group, Inc., spoke about the current job market and making the most of your
MLS.
http://slis.uiowa.edu/~slisweb/index.php?section=f&page=faculty/profiles.html
http://cberger.com
SLIS Student Miriam Sweeney introduced us to Second Life, a social
networking 3-D virtual world. Miriam is a reference librarian in SL— what
does she do??? She does what any librarian does at the reference desk—
answers questions, about real life and SL.
http://secondlife.com/
IM Masha Brendel in SL
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Wow!
Ed Holtum made us all shudder a bit, and glad that we did not get sick long ago. Ed
curates the John Martin Rare Book Room at University of Iowa‘s health sciences library, a nearly 5,000
volume collection of rare classics in medicine of the 15th through 20th centuries. Vivid interactive slides
and video clip interviews with the late Dr. Martin gave us a glimpse into the great intellect and
inquisitiveness of scientists who brought about understanding of the human body, all without MRI scans
and lab tests. Ed brought some actual pieces for us to look at and you can also see the digitized
collection online.
http://www.lib.uiowa.edu/hardin/rbr/
Member News
Suzanne Corriell, recipient of the 2006 SLA-Iowa scholarship, has accepted a position as the
Research and Reference Services Librarian at the University of Richmond School of Law in Richmond,
Virginia, effective August 1, 2007.
Susan Lerdal, Drake University Law Library Reference Librarian, recently presented a session entitled
Sound Research or Seat of Your Pants: Should Law Librarians Conduct Empirical Research? at the
annual meeting of the Mid America Association of Law Libraries in Lincoln, Nebraska.

Library in the Limelight:
Emerson Process Management Information Center
By Jennifer Raghavan, SLA@iowa Writer
This edition of Library in the Limelight features Emerson Process Management Information Center,
located in Marshalltown, Iowa. The Marshalltown information center works in collaboration with two
other sister companies in the Emerson Process Management group—the Process Systems and
Solutions eLibrary in Austin, Texas, and the Rosemount Engineering Library in Chanhassen,
Minnesota. These three libraries make up the only libraries in the whole of Emerson Electric.
I spoke with Brian Herman, who is Emerson‘s Information Center Analyst. Brian has been with
Emerson Process Management for two years. Previously, Brian worked for Kutak Rock Law firm in
Omaha, Ames Public
Library, Skokie Public
Library and Glenview
Public Library in Illinois,
Trinity Divinity School in
Deerfield, Illinois, and
Southeast Community
College in Lincoln,
Nebraska. He‘s been in
the profession for
approximately 17 years,
functioning as reference
librarian and researcher,
cataloger, ILS manager,
and paraprofessional.
Brian earned his MALS
from Rosary College (now
Dominican University) in
River Forest, Illinois, and
has a BA in biblical studies.
What is the history of your
library?
The library was started in
October 1979. It consisted of
a collection of books,
Back Row (left to right): Mark Heindselman (Manager, Knowledge Network and
Information Services); Herb Rickert (FISHWEB Content Webmaster); Brian
Herman (Information Center Analyst); Jeremy Wilson (SharePoint
Administrator)
Front Row (left to right): Jamie Hosek (Information Center Assistant); Stacy
Lorance (Content Management Analyst); Jan Otto (Content Management/Web
Administrator); Barb Bereczki (Contract Employee)
articles, patents, competitive product catalogs and with, at the time, a very high tech microfilm based
product catalog system. Communication with online databases, which were new at the time, was with a
Texas Instruments Silent 700 terminal that used thermal paper and had no video screen. The library
grew and took on some additional responsibilities for managing internal engineering documentation. In
1984 it moved to the current location which has about 4000 sq. ft. and was renamed the Fisher
Controls Information Center.
The current Information Center manages 40,000 internal proprietary reports, 10,000 patents, 20,000
journal articles, 5000 books, 2000 audio/video, 300 directories, 5000 hard copy standards, and over
150 active subscriptions. Besides the Information Center, less active documents and company records
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Library in the Limelight
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are held in another location called the Records Center. This facility contains over 43,000 sq. ft. of paper
and microfilm business records from Fisher Controls business locations around North America. Boxes,
cabinets, and file shelves of records are maintained both for permanent and dated storage intervals.
Who are your users? Do you primarily deal with your users in-person or electronically?
We serve engineers and business development people within our company. We deal with most
requests via phone and email, but also take many requests in person from those who reside at or are
visiting the Marshalltown office.
What are some typical requests you field?
We find specific documents (patents, standards, journal
articles, conference proceedings, market studies, D&B
company reports, SEC reports, etc.) and datasets
(economic indicators, capacity numbers for plants in an
industry sector, installed base [number of plants] for an
industry sector, smoke stack lists [contact lists of industry
specific factory locations], lists of industry specific project
information, etc.) for our customers. We perform literature
searches in technical and business development areas. We
perform ongoing news delivery, specific to the interests of
our company using various methodologies of delivery. We
do investigative research for various new interests in
technical and business development areas.
What is the most challenging question you've been
asked?
Questions involving private companies in lesser-developed countries seem to be among the most
challenging.
How have your library and your role changed since you began your tenure?
We remain as fluid as possible so that we can adapt to and meet the ever changing information needs
of our company.
How do you see your library changing in the next 5-10 years?
We will be moving to a different building sometime in the next year.
What do you like best about your job?
The research is my favorite part of the job.
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We remain as fluid as
possible so that we can
adapt to and meet the
ever changing
information needs of
our company.
As special librarians, we have a responsibility not only to ourselves
but to all those who look to us for aid in charting this complex era in
which we live." Howard L. Stebbings (SLA President, 1935-1937)

The SLA Conference and a Question Best Kept Close
By Tara Marsh
(Editor’s Note: This is the essay that Tara submitted in her application for the SLA-Iowa student
scholarship.)
When applying for Library and Information Science graduate program at the
University of Iowa, I was asked a great deal, by myself as much as others, what
I wanted to do with the degree upon completion. I fielded the oft repeated: What
does a librarian do? This question, I have learned, is one that must be kept
close and always asked. It‘s not one to be answered and then forgotten about.
The role of a librarian will be continually changing and it‘s that single question
that can help keep the practicing professional vibrantly connected and relevant
in the field.
In regards to my professional intents, I had some ideas, most of which
surrounded working with smaller more specialized collections. I had had the opportunity to work in a
very small library while studying abroad and loved being the resource people came to for class
readings, aid in researching, and even help with cultural information about the town.
I know enough about corporate librarianship to understand its importance and incredible benefit to our
organization. The reference interview has already helped me with better organizing projects brought to
my desk by eliminating miscommunication and reworking. I also know enough about this form of
librarianship to be extremely interested in its pursuit. My experience over the past two years has taught
me that even within a single organization the information need is extremely diverse and it keeps
changing. In this environment especially I can see myself continually asking: What does a librarian do?
I‘m hoping to bring back the knowledge I learned from the SLA conference to propose a new corporate
librarianship position at the company for which I‘m currently working. I can anticipate the big question
that they will ask me during the review process: What does a
corporate librarian do and how does it differ from the current
responsibilities of your job? This question is understandable,
especially given the host of queries I have myself: How do you
manage rights to confidential digital records? How do you
interface with project managers to help structure client
information gathering? How does the librarianship position fit
into internal process development?
Even though my detailed understanding of the professional role is imperfect, what excites me about
corporate librarianship is how it‘s a highly tailored application of librarianship to a particular
environment. What also excites me is how my role will change with the changing information needs of
the organization; I will get to grow professionally with the organization. If my SLIS education is any
indication (as I‘m sure it is), there is not a proverbial off-the-shelf panacea for many of the problems or
projects that arise. The best resource for finding solutions is other people in the profession. In this vein,
attending the SLA annual conference will afford me with an invaluable opportunity to meet and talk with
people working not only in corporate libraries, but other special collections whose practices and
problem solving will be highly applicable to my current information environment. These conversations
will not only have the power to illuminate what a corporate librarian position entails, but will also provide
me with a network of people I can turn to for advice.
While I have some inkling as to what librarians, and specifically special collection librarians, do in their
professional environments, I‘d love to see how others continue to address this most pertinent and at
times perplexing question.
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The best resource for
finding solutions is other
people in the profession.

New Members
Matthew Pannkuk
Librarian and Permissions Manager, Buckle
Down Publishing, Iowa City
After seeing his mother,
sister, and cousin
become librarians,
Matthew Pannkuk
decided having one
more in the family
couldn‘t hurt. Matthew
earned his B.A. in
English at Central
College in 2001, and a
few years later enrolled in the University of
Kentucky‘s SLIS program. After receiving his
MLS in 2006, Matthew joined the ranks of the
unemployed library school graduates. After a
few months of job searching, he ran across a
job ad for Buckle Down Publishing in Iowa City.
Buckle Down Publishing is a small, educational
publishing company that creates supplemental
materials for students in grades 2-12 to help
them succeed on state tests, many of which are
required by the No Child Left Behind Act. The
company‘s standards-based, test-prep
materials for reading, writing, math, science,
and social studies are designed specifically for
the 22 states the company currently serves.
Besides the state-specific materials, Buckle
Down also produces a set of books in core
subjects for use in schools throughout the U.S.
in grades three through high school.
Matthew maintains a working library consisting
of reference materials, circulation of current
printed products, an archive of all products
printed, and a digital catalog of over 30,000
images, perhaps the most accessed source of
information in Buckle Down‘s library. This
collection consists of illustrations and
photographs, created at Buckle Down or
obtained through various organizations and
institutions. In this capacity Matthew also works
as permission manager, clearing and obtaining
usage of copyrighted material to use in Buckle
Down products. He also supervises the library
as well as other aspects of the company‘s
information needs. The reference materials in
the library collection include textbooks and
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teacher guides, history books, literature
anthologies, books on classroom theory,
encyclopedias and dictionaries. The library also
maintains a collection of all Buckle Down
materials currently in print and an archive of all
publications produced by Buckle Down,
including all printings of these publications.
Overall, Matthew works closely with all
departments of Buckle Down, including
editorial, production, marketing and sales.
These various departments depend on him not
only for information but also for teamwork and
camaraderie. Working at Buckle Down provides
a challenging and rewarding experience in the
special library field, as well as the library field in
general.
Megan Tedell
SLIS Student, University of Iowa, Iowa City
Megan Tedell is currently a student in the SLIS
program at the University of Iowa. She will
graduate in May 2008. In her time as a library
and information science student at Iowa, she
has worked in a few different places on
campus, including the Main Library and the
Hardin Library for the Health Sciences. While
thus far her experiences have been primarily in
academic libraries, she‘s interested in
information work in more specialized contexts
as well. She was drawn to this profession by a
strong desire to help people connect with the
information they need, and has found herself
continually coming back to issues with
instruction and learning. Since she strongly
believes that learning is a life-long process, not
just something you do in school and then forget
about once you enter the "real world," she is
also interested in facilitating learning in workrelated
contexts.
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Henry Stewart DAM
Symposium
By Cheryl Scheer, August Home Publishing
I attended the Henry
Stewart DAM Symposium
held in Los Angeles in
November 2007. This
conference series focuses
mainly on the
management and
business aspects of digital
asset management and marketing asset
management, as well as workflow automation.
There is a separate track devoted to
technology. There is also a vendor area where
attendees can meet with software and solution
providers and see demonstrations of the
various applications.
Most of the presenters come from larger media,
advertising, and publishing companies, or
consulting companies. Based on my
conversations with attendees, they come from
many different industries. At the three events
I‘ve attended, I‘ve met professional
photographers who were trying to organize their
own photo portfolios and people (non-librarians)
from manufacturing companies who had been
told that managing digital material was now part
of their job.
The importance of having librarians on the
asset management team was mentioned again
and again. I found it interesting that the
presenters and attendees seemed to be
laboring over issues that the library world
solved long ago. These include: controlled
vocabularies and taxonomies, metadata
(cataloging) standards, and distribution
channels.
Many organizations need to manage their
digital materials but feel that they cannot afford
a librarian. Others stated that they couldn‘t
afford not to! There are consultants in the
industry who assist these companies with
requirements gathering and evaluation of
potential solutions. Cataloging skills are vital to
DAM, but so are database design skills, and
familiarity with different file formats and
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software applications that the organization uses
to produce digital assets.
The conference organizer who invited me to
speak told me that they are always looking for
presenters. They waive the conference fee for
speakers. There are several events each year.
See www.damusers.com for more information
about the symposium series. To learn more
about the ―business end‖ of DAM, check out the
symposium‘s official publication, The Journal of
Digital Asset Management (ISSN: 1743-6540,
http://www.palgravejournals.com/dam/index.html).
New Members
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Meg Boulton
Librarian, Whitfield & Eddy, Des Moines
Meg attended Michigan
State University and
received a B.S. in
Psychology, specializing
in Child Development.
Determined to work in
her degree field, she
came to Des Moines to
work as a site director for
Boys and Girls Club.
After one very rewarding and frustrating year
she knew she needed a change. Having
worked at the Cooley Law Library as a student
for three years, she was thrilled when a position
opened at the Drake University Law Library.
Meg worked there as the Stacks/Circulation
Administrative Assistant for 1.5 years before
moving to the Parks Library at Iowa State
University where she served as the Supervisor
of Stacks Management. This summer she was
offered a position with the Law Firm of Whitfield
and Eddy as their librarian. With this new career
challenge, she has decided to start applying to
MLS programs. Meg is very excited to be a
member of SLA and look forward to
participating in programs, meeting new people,
and asking many questions.

2.0: Info Pros, Library Communities, & Web Tools
By Beth Arnold, Pioneer Hi-Bred
Librarians must be where their users are.
This was an overarching theme throughout Internet Librarian 2007, a conference
subtitled ―2.0: Info pros, library communities and web tools.‖ And while this
concept doesn‘t necessarily mean that we have to literally be in our user‘s
offices, classrooms, or houses when they‘re doing their work, it does suggest that
we must be accessible to them, no matter where they are.
Nearly 1600 librarians and exhibitors attended this 3 day conference in Monterey,
California, at the end of October. And, though a minor earthquake on the second
day of the conference briefly shook the chandeliers at the conference hall, it did not severely impact
any of the sessions or attendees.
Some of the highlights of the conference included updates on search, data visualization, and
collaborative tools. Federated search was emphasized by several speakers. They indicated that many
users go to one place (Google) to search for many things. If libraries wish to make their databases as
accessible as possible, a single search interface is necessary. Although the market for federated
search has changed over the last few years, several vendors and open source software opportunities
exist. Even the web search engines are doing a variation of federated searching—the Google Universal
interface intermingles information from news sources, web sites, and videos and images.
We should focus on users who
need the highest quality
information, and who need to
know the most about a topic.
Joe Janes‘ keynote speech on the second day of the conference
discussed the need for libraries to let go of wanting to be Google.
Librarians need to accept that many of the ready reference questions
we used to get go to Google now, and that‘s okay. Librarians can try
to help with web misinformation by participating in collaborative
answering sites, such as Yahoo! Answers. If we want to address
these web-focused users, we need to go to where they are. If we can
prove our quality of resourcefulness by providing good answers to
questions on sites, then librarians will gain the web credibility to draw in more web users. Janes also
discussed librarians need to focus on providing in-depth research to ―deep divers‖ of information. We
should focus on users who need the highest quality information, and who need to know the most about
a topic. In order to reach these people, librarians need to be involved in their user communities.
Data visualization projects, such as Swivel (http://www.swivel.com) or Many Eyes
(http://services.alphaworks.ibm.com/manyeyes/home), were also addressed as popular ways of
showing data comparisons that may not be obvious. Using information that is often available for free
online, people are combining data sources to show information in new ways. These visualization tools
are a great way to quickly show patrons information that they may not have understood as easily in text
format. Many of the freely available data visualizations found online are related to mapping, often using
a Google Maps API. Two of the more light-hearted and fun data visualization sites are Chocomap
(http://chocomap.com/) for finding chocolate stores, and Newsmap
(http://marumushi.com/apps/newsmap/newsmap.cfm), which shows the news of the day, color
categorized.
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Highlights from Internet Librarian 2007
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To wrap up the conference, Elizabeth Lawley provided the final keynote speech, focused on using
gaming for end user instruction. She asserted that gaming doesn‘t necessarily need to be an end
product, but that making instructional activities more fun will help users learn. Lawley indicated that
librarians creating training or learning materials should incorporate some aspects of successful video
games by making users feel that they understand what is happening, feel some level of
accomplishment, make some progress, and engage in communication within five minutes of starting the
experiences. Library instruction, whether online or in person, should fill a need for the user, and should
be oriented toward knowledge integration, instead of just passing on information.
To serve the needs of our users, it is imperative that we continually fine-tune our knowledge of the
various opportunities presented to us through the rapid changes in technology and, specifically, the
Internet. By giving them the tools to find and process information and the opportunity to form new
knowledge, we can be where our users are.
Kay Kelly, President
Principal Financial Group, Corporate Library
Des Moines
kelly.kay@principal.com
Dave Martin, President-Elect
Pomerantz Business Library, University of Iowa
Iowa City
j-martin@uiowa.edu
Kenneth Braun, Secretary
Library Resources, Pioneer Hi-Bred International, Inc.
Des Moines
ken.braun@pioneer.com
Newly Elected Executive Board
Effective January 1, 2008
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Isabela Varela, Treasurer
Academic Advising & Career Services, University
of Northern Iowa
Cedar Falls
isabela.varela@uni.edu
Anna Guengerich, Past President
Iowa Testing Programs, University of Iowa
Iowa City
anna-guengerich@uiowa.edu

Calendar
January
American Library Association Midwinter Meeting, January 11-16, 2008, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
http://www.ala.org/ala/eventsandconferencesb/midwinter/2008/home.htm
SLA Leadership Summit, January 23-26, 2008, Louisville, Kentucky
http://www.sla.org/content/resources/leadcenter/LeadershipSummit/08leadsummit/index.cfm
February
First International Conference on Web Search and Data Mining (WSDM), February 11-12, 2008, Stanford, California
http://wsdm2008.org/
Music Library Association Annual Meeting, February 17-24, 2008, Newport, Rhode Island
http://www.trincoll.edu/mla2008/
SARC IV: The Surreal Landscape ~ Information Professionals Mastering the Challenges of Time & Space, February
27-29, 2008, St. Petersburg, Florida
http://units.sla.org/regconf/sarc4/index.html
March
Electronic Resources & Libraries 2008, March 18-21, 2008, Atlanta, Georgia
http://www.electroniclibrarian.org/ocs/index.php/erl/2008
April
Computers in Libraries 2008, April 7-9, 2008, Arlington, Virginia
http://www.infotoday.com/cil2008/
Buying & Selling eContent, April 13-15, 2008, Scottsdale, Arizona
http://www.buy-sell-econtent.com/
The Society of Competitive Intelligence Professionals (SCIP) International Annual Conference and Exhibition, April
16-19, 2008, San Diego, California
http://www.scip.org/08annual/
Association of Independent Information Professionals Annual Conference, April 30-May 4, 2008, Pittsburgh,
Pennsylvania
http://www.aiip.org/Conference/2008/2008_Save_the_date_insert.pdf
May
Medical Library Association Annual Meeting, May 16-21, 2008, Chicago, Illinois
http://www.mlanet.org/am/am2008/
June
North American Serials Interest Group Annual Meeting, June 5-8, 2008, Phoenix, Arizona
http://nasig.org/conference/2008/
SLA Annual Conference, June 15-18, 2007, Seattle, Washington
http://www.sla.org/content/Events/conference/ac2008/index.cfm
Web Content 2008, June 17-18, 2008, Chicago, Illinois
http://www.webcontent2008.com/
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