Pam's report on Special Libraries Association (SLA) Leadership Summit in Savannah
I'd like to thank the library for help supporting my trip to the Special Libraries Association (SLA) Leadership Summit in Savannah last week.
This meeting is really a working meeting to do organization business, start planning the programs for 2010 (in New Orleans), and do division business. Our keynote speaker was Stephen McGarvey who talked about motivating people and how our choice of words can do great harm or good. For example, if you use the word but rather than and it can be perceived as negating the other person's message.
For those of you who are interested, the programs for the Sci-Tech Division of which I am current chair are at: http://www.d.umn.edu/~penrici/scitechprelimprog.pdf
One of the big discussion was the SLA alignment project. This is a big project of defining what a special librarian is and whether the name really resonates with what we do. For more information go to: