Visit the IEEE Exhibit at SLA for a Chance to Win an Amazon Kindle
Going to SLA? Stop by the IEEE exhibit to register for a chance to win an Amazon Kindle from IEEE. While there, you can request a free demonstration of the IEEE Xplore® digital library, learn about our new products and services, discuss new and exciting ways to promote the value of your library or simply touch base with your account manager. Visit IEEE Booth #417 on 15-18 June for your chance to win!
Join Us for the IEEE Breakfast and Presentation at SLA
Information professionals and their colleagues are invited to attend the IEEE breakfast at the 2008 SLA Annual Conference. Discover why researchers around the world rely on IEEE scientific literature to be innovative and why leading organizations access IEEE articles and papers to support R&D, develop new patents and expedite time-to-market. At the breakfast, IEEE will present tips to demonstrate the value of IEEE information to your organization, highlight results from a recent new patent development study of the large impact of IEEE research and demonstrate upcoming enhancements to the IEEE Xplore® digital library. Both IEEE customers and those interested in obtaining access to IEEE online publications are welcome. The breakfast will be held Tuesday, 17 June at the Washington State Convention Center at 9:00 am, and registration is required. Please RSVP to Phyllis Buchta at p.buchta@ieee.org.
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Learn How to Meet Researchers’ Changing Expectations at SLA
Mike Buschman, IEEE Client Services Manager, will be presenting at the 2008 SLA Annual Conference, along with John Law, ProQuest Vice President, Discovery Services. The presentation, entitled “How to Meet Researchers’ Changing Expectations” will be on Monday, 16 June from 9:00–10:30 am in Room 611-612 of the Convention Center. Mike will describe ways corporate libraries can take advantage of the results of John’s research and will discuss some of the similarities and differences to the user experience, as well as challenges faced by the special librarian. In addition, he will share successful marketing stories from the corporate library world.
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Join Us to Celebrate the First Birthday of scitopia.org
While you’re at SLA, we hope you’ll join us in celebrating the birthday for scitopia.org—the federated vertical search portal scitopia.org created through the collaboration of 15 leading science and technology societies. Join us for cake and coffee on Tuesday, 17 June from 3:00–4:00 pm at the Level 2 Open Area, South End (across from Room 201). We look forward to seeing you there. And if you haven’t experienced scitopia.org yet, we encourage you to give it a try today.
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IEEE Supports SLA
In support of the 2008 SLA Conference mission to create an environment for networking, communication, learning and other developmental opportunities for information professionals, IEEE is sponsoring a number of engaging and fun events. Join us at these IEEE-sponsored events as we explore what’s happening in a variety of engineering fields and look at how technology is changing the way researchers use libraries.
Sunday, 15 June
7:30-9:30 pm: Engineering Division 40th Anniversary Celebration and Meeting
Monday, 16 June
7:00-8:30 am: SUSHI: Standardized Usage Statistics Harvesting Initiative
7:00-8:30 am: Petroleum & Energy Resources Division Business Meeting
3:30-5:00 pm: Engineering Division's Science & Energy Resources 101
Tuesday, 17 June
7:00-8:30 am: Competitive Intelligence Division Business Meeting & Breakfast (at the Sheraton Hotel, Metropolitan A)
9:00-10:30 am: IEEE Breakfast & Presentation
9:00-11:00 am: Cyberinfrastructure: Informatics Across the Biological Sciences
11:00 am-12:30 pm: Computer Science Roundtable
Wednesday, 18 June
12:15-1:45 pm: Cyberinfrastructure: Breaking the Rules & Building Bridges for Both Corporate and Academic Librarians
For more information about these IEEE-sponsored events, please visit the 2008 SLA Conference web site.
The regular June issue of What's New @ IEEE for Libraries will be published 25 June 2008.
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