Join RMSLA at noon on Thursday, May 17 for Joe Murphy’s presentation on the “Information Impacts of Current Tech Trends.”

Learn about the biggest technology trends affecting information centers, from 3D printing to econtent directions and mobile strategies. This session by Joe Murphy explores the most current trends in technology, including the social media landscape, how shifting smartphone usage is shaping information engagement, and how the roles of special librarians are continuing to evolve.

Joe Murphy is a Librarian and Technology Trend Spotter consultant helping libraries and more prepare for upcoming technology shifts. Joe is an author and editor, an international keynote speaker, and a conference organizer. For more details about Joe, who formerly worked in the Yale University Libraries, see his website, http://joemurphylibraryfuture.com.

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Register now to reserve your seat at https://www1.gotomeeting.com/register/115152769

This program is free to all SLA members. Non-members are welcome to attend for a $20 registration fee. Please allow 48 hours for our volunteers to confirm your registration and payment.

System Requirements

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Required: Windows® 7, Vista, XP or 2003 Server

Macintosh®-based attendees
Required: Mac OS® X 10.5 or newer

RMSLA writers were recently featured on SLA’s Future Ready 365 blog (http://futureready365.sla.org). Check out the posts to see chapter members’ contributions:

• Nov 21, Shelley Walchak, Take a Risk, Reap the Rewards
• Nov 20, Joseph Kraus, Collaborative Librarianship
• Nov 19, Recca Larson, Economic Gardening
• Nov 18, Ellen Naylor, How Cooperative Intelligence Will Make You Future Ready
• Nov 17, Laura Cullerton, The Value of Information Professionals
• Nov 16, Charles Leckenby, Introducing eBooks into the Denver Public Schools
• Nov 15, Connie Clem, Who Is SLA?

This group of posts joins several posts earlier in the year from RMSLA writers.

• Nov 12, Lee Ann Benkert, Playing It Smart: Letting Data Drive the Future
• Oct 8, Marcy Phelps, Stay Focused with Long-Term Planning
• Oct 6, Mary Ellen Bates, Adding Intrapreneurship to Your Toolkit
• Sept 16, Joseph Kraus, Future Ready: The Pace of Change for Technology and Culture
• Sept 15, Marcy Phelps, Build Your Network Now for a Future Ready Career
• May 28, Lark Birdsong, Be Ready and Unafraid
• May 24, Christine Hamilton-Pennell, Think Like an Entrepreneur
• Feb 6, Kim Dority, Rock the Future: Create Your Own
• Jan 31, Ellen Naylor, The Future Is NOW
• Jan 26, Christy Confetti Higgins, Just Connect!
• Jan 10, Scott Brown, Saying “Yes”

To find posts from chapter members, go to the blog’s calendar of posts and enter “rocky” in the search box. Or, use the “rocky mountain chapter” tag to pull up the November series of posts.

If you’ve been meaning to write your own 250+ words of experience and insight, there’s still time. Let us and SLA hear from you.

Wish you were an SLA member so you could hear Mary Ellen Bates for free next Thursday, July 21?

We can offer you the next best thing. Register today (using the link provided below) and send your check for $20 to RMSLA Treasurer, c/o Barbara Durland, 6921 North Hillridge Place, Parker, CO 80134. Sorry, credit card and PayPal are not available for this program, but PayPal will be available for future Virtual Lunch registrations.

This Virtual Lunch webinar features RMSLA chapter member and SLA Division Cabinet Chair Mary Ellen Bates, speaking on the topic, “Info Pros in 2021: Are We Virtual Yet?” It’s sure to be an eye-opener and a catalyst for fresh thinking.

The program will begin at noon, Mountain time. Attend online by yourself or gather a group together for lunch and value-adding discussion.

Register for this WebEx program (hosting provided by Jones e-global library):
https://jiu.webex.com/jiu/onstage/g.php?d=624858438&t=a

RMSLA is offering a Virtual Lunch webinar on Thursday July 21, 2011, with presenter (and RMSLA chapter member and SLA Division Cabinet Chair) Mary Ellen Bates. Mary Ellen’s session will be titled: “Info Pros in 2021: Are We Virtual Yet?”

The program will begin at noon. Attend online by yourself or gather a group together to brown-bag, compose extra-brilliant questions, and review highlights and action items after the session.

Here’s the URL to register for this WebEx program (hosting provided by Jones e-global library):
https://jiu.webex.com/jiu/onstage/g.php?d=624858438&t=a

Watch for news about more Virtual Lunch programs, which RMSLA will be hosting on the third Thursday of each month. Mark your calendar for these upcoming dates in 2011:

Aug 18
Sept 15
Oct 20
Nov 17
Dec 15

If you’d like to be a presenter or suggest a speaker or topic, please contact chapter director Connie Clem (connie@cleminfostrategies.com) or RMSLA President-Elect/Program Chair Recca Larson (rlarson@littletongov.org) with your ideas. We’re following up on suggestions made in the 2010 member survey. Thanks to everyone who provided input – it’s much appreciated!

And while you’re reserving calendar space, be sure you’ve reserved Monday, September 12 as your night to see SLA President Cindy Romaine in person and join in celebrating RMSLA’s 60th anniversary. The venue and other details will be announced later this summer.

>>> Addendum: See Mary Ellen’s slide deck (PDF format).

Pam Sandlian Smith, this year’s speaker at RMSLA’s Shirley Alldredge Lecture and library director at the award-winning Anythink Libraries in Adams County, Colorado, shared her views on innovation and change in a post on SLA’s Future Ready 365 blog, readable here.

A snip:

Imagining our future at Anythink Libraries required a team of people who were willing to abandon library structures that were not working for our customers, or were not sustainable in a world of limited resources. It required a collaboration of people who had infinite trust in each other’s abilities and perspectives. It required a willingness to live with ambiguity as we were challenged to find the right answer, not the first answer, or the safe answer, but the answer that fit the criteria of a new paradigm.

You can read more about Anythink Libraries on the Anythink website, or read about how the library system “re-think” earned The American Library Association’s 2011 John Cotton Dana Library Public Relations Award and the 2010 National Medal for Museum and Library Service from the Institute of Museum and Library Services, an independent federal agency.

See what Pam has to share with us in person about channeling your inner wizard, genius, and explorer on behalf of your information clients. Join us on March 3 at the Colorado Dept of Education building in Denver, or attend her presentation online. Pam will speak beginning at 7:00 p.m., after the RMSLA annual chapter business meeting, which opens at 6:00.

Register online for the evening’s events or sign in to attend the virtual program.