Solos in Print: Published Solos Tell Their Stories
Organized by Tom Nielsen, SLA-NY Solo Division Chair

 Date :  Wednesday, April 4, 2012 ( It may be too late)

Time: 6:00 PM – 8:00 PM

 Location:  Metro    57 East 11^th Street, 4^th Floor

“How to Thrive as a Solo Librarian” was published in January 2012 by Scarecrow Press and edited by Carol Smallwood.  This anthology of how-to and best practice chapters includes three by local solos, a school librarian, an academic librarian and a government agency librarian. 

Join us to explore their stories (including the mystery of the book slasher) and experiences as solo librarians in NYC. 

Doors open at 5:30 and refreshments will be available. 

Panelists:
Jess deCourcy-Hinds, Bard High School Early College
Lara Frater, New York City Department of Mental Health
Jonathan Frater, Metropolitan College of New York

Moderator: Tom Nielsen, METRO

Panel Bios:

Jess deCourcy Hinds is the library director of Bard High School Early College Queens, and a freelance writer. Her essays, stories and reviews have appeared in Newsweek, Ms., Reuters.com, The Huffington Post, The New York Times, School Library Journal and several literary journals. Jess holds a BA from Smith College, and an M.F.A. in creative writing at Brooklyn College, where she taught English for five years.

Lara Frater has been in the library field for 15 years and has seen every aspect of library work. She worked at the New York City Health Department, The Environmental Protection Agency and the New York Academy of Medicine where she had been part of weeding processes both minor and major at each library. She became a librarian because of a strong belief that people need access to information. Besides library science, Lara’s book Fat Chicks Rule was published in 2005 and she maintains a blog by the same name.

Jonathan Frater is the Technical Services Librarian at Metropolitan College of New York. He has been in library-related work since 2001 when he became a Technical Services Assistant at the New York Academy of Medicine. He received his MLS in 2007 from Queens College at CUNY.  He is now heading up the RFID security project at MCNY and has dived head-first into system security as well. He was recently appointed Secretary of the New York Technical Services Librarians.

Cost:   FREE to all who attend!

RSVP:  RSVP to Tom Nielsen at

tnielsen@metro.org

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SLA MN Chapter Solo Librarians Solo Meeting – April 5th (Noon – 1 pm)

“When: Thursday, April 5th (Noon – 1 pm)
Where: HGA (hosts: Elizabeth Meylor & Julie Weston) Ford Center 420 5th Street North, Suite 100 Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA 55401
The topic for this meeting will be Change Management.
We will be discussing changes in our organizations, and how we have managed change, and lessons learned….

Contact Julie Eskritt for more information: 

julie.eskritt@donaldson.com

Hello Solos,    
Thanks to all who ran.

The 2012 Solo Librarians Division Executive Board is:

Chair: Patrick Clapp

Chair-Elect: Tom Nielsen

Secretary: Carolyne Darimont

Treasurer: Lisa Abbott

Past Chair: Hildy Dworkin

And showing her committment to the Solo Division our other candidate, Susan Wright has agreed to be our new Membership Chair.

Thank you to all our candidates. The Solo Division is starting off the year with a robust team!

Happy New Year,
Hildy

All Solo Division members will receive a link to take you to survey monkey to vote for your choices for Chair-Elect and Treasurer.   If you do not receive an e-mail by Tuesday 12/20, please contact me at hdworkin@nyc.rr.com. 

The e-mail used is the one you provided for your SLAmembership profile. We also have a question regarding the list. It is not a binding vote and comments will be used for information gathering purposes only-we want your opinion–your voice. 
 
Voting ends 12/28/11 5pm EST.
 
Thank you to our candidates and good luck!
 
Here are the bios for the candidates: 
 
Chair-Elect:

Tom Nielsen
 
Tom Nielsen is Member Services Manager at the Metropolitan New York Library Council (METRO) where he maintains benefit programs for all membership groups and plans professional development workshops, meetings, and special events.  Prior to METRO, Tom worked as a solo librarian at Hazen and Sawyer, PC, an environmental engineering firm. While there, Tom transformed the almost forgotten library into a 21st century information center implementing a web-accessible library catalog, intranet website and records management database in service to over 500 engineers in 13 offices along the East Coast. 
 
Treasurer: 
 
Susan Wright
 
Susan Wright (nee Barned) has been the librarian at the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives National Laboratory Center (forensic laboratory) for seven years. She joined SLA and the Solo Division in 2008 and has been interested in becoming more involved with the division for about two years. She learned the basics of budgeting and financial management as a child and has consistently looked for the best combination of price and value in making purchases.  In her spare time she enjoys reading, writing, playing her piano and spending time with friends. 
 
Lisa Abbott
 
Lisa Abbott has been a solo librarian for over ten years and is grateful for the support and camaraderie of her fellow Solos, both online and off.  She is currently the research librarian for the Kellogg Company in Battle Creek, responsible for the information needs of Keebler elves, worldwide.  Her previous positions include information specialist for the Kellogg Foundation and special collections librarian for a Cooperating Collection of the Foundation Center.  She lives in Kalamazoo with her husband and three cats and, like any true Michigander, can show you where that is on her hand.

Thanks to Daniel Lee for advice as well as    Webmaster for the Toronto Chapter site who answered my questions.

Any and all comments welcome.

If you want to post on the blog, let me know and I’ll see about setting it up.

Carolyne – Solo Web Master
(carolyne.darimont@arcelormittal.com)