Welcome to the Special Libraries Assocation
at the iSchool
The Special Libraries Association at the University of Washington is a student group that seeks to expose Information School students to careers in special libraries and the information industry in general. SLA-UW facilitates communication between students and professionals while having fun in the process! Check this page occasionally to see what events highlighting special librarianship are coming up at the iSchool.
Announcements
Oregon SLA Chapter Annual Dinner
Nancy Gershenfeld recently spoke to the Oregon SLA Chapter about the future of special libraries. You can view a video of her presentation here
UW Library Crawl
Date: Wednesday, November 7When: 3:00pm
Where: UW School of Art Slide Library, Art Bldg, room 120
Want to know more about special libraries? Academic libraries can be special too!
Join the UW student chapter of the Special Libraries Association (SLA) next Wednesday as we explore some special academic libraries on the University of Washington campus. And afterwards we'll wrap it up in typical SLA-UW style with a visit to the CulturalFest at the HUB for some serious intercultural mixing!
Feel free to join us at any point on the crawl, but join us at 3:00pm at the Art Slide Library for the full special libraries experience!
Our itinerary:
3:00pm - Begin tour at Art Slide Library
3:35pm - Walk to Engineering Library
3:40pm - Tour Engineering Library
4:15pm - Walk to Health Sciences Library
4:25pm - Tour the HSL
5:00pm - Head to CulturalFest @ HUB!
Library Tour: Callison Architecture
Date: Wednesday, May 23When: 3:00pm
Where: City Center Bldg, 1420 5th Avenue, Seattle
Please join SLA-UW for a library tour of Callison Architecture, one of the largest design firms in the nation.
We'll tour the Callison Library (books, journals, and more) and their Design Resource Center (materials and other cool artifacts). The library is staffed by two librarians (one iSchool grad) who have really done a great job making the library an essential function at Callison.
We need to meet in the building lobby (City Center Bldg, 1420 5th Avenue; enter the bldg at the corner of 5th and Pike) prior to the tour. Callison is just a short bus ride on the 7x series of buses from the Ave. The 2:08pm #71 will get us downtown at 2:30. Interested bus-poolers can meet Tim King at Odegaard Library at 1:50pm.
RSVP as soon as possible. Space is somewhat limited. For more information contact Tim King ("timking at u dot washington.edu").
About Callison: Callison provides planning and design services to retail, hospitality, mixed-use, healthcare and corporate clients throughout the world. Based in Seattle, Callison is one of the largest architectural design firms in the United States. Callison's clients include Nordstrom, Inc., Microsoft, Gap, Starwood Hotels & Resorts Worldwide, Boeing, Hewlett-Packard, Nike, Guess, Swedish Medical Center, Seibu Department Stores of Japan, and General Growth Properties.
Elections!
Welcome to our new 2007-2008 SLA officers who can now be found on the About Us page.
One scholarship left for the SLA Annual Conference in Denver:
April 30 is the deadline for the $5,000 Roger K. Summit Scholarship Award
View past announcementsPage updated on 04/21/07
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