>>Updated 2/25/13 to add Kim’s slide deck

Register for “Spotlight on Your Career:  Transitioning to New Job Opportunities” 

February 23, 2013
9:00 am to 2:00 pm, at DU in Ruffatto Hall.

This joint program, offered by the Colorado Association of Law Libraries (CoALL) and the Rocky Mountain Chapter of the Special Libraries Association (RMSLA), will benefit librarians of every type, no matter where you are in your career path. There will also be networking opportunities to meet and talk with  your fellow librarians and information specialists.

Program Schedule

9:00 – 10:00 am      Registration, Networking, and Continental Breakfast
10:00 – 11:30 am     Keynote Presentation by Kim Dority
11:30 – 12:30 pm      Networking Lunch
12:30 – 2:00 pm       Interactive Session

Program Description

Join speaker Kim Dority,  the founder and president of Dority & Associates, as she presents “Transitioning to New Job Opportunities.”

This discussion will explore the best strategies and tactics for finding, responding to, or creating new job opportunities. How do you identify transferable skills? How do you quickly get up to speed on a new industry? How do you translate LIS-speak to jobs in the non-LIS world? These are just some of the topics that will be covered in this practical, actionable presentation.

This will be followed by an interactive session: “Ideas into Action: How to Put Yourself in the Path of Opportunity”

Transitioning to new job opportunities requires individuals to master some very practical skills, such as learning how to tell a complete stranger who you are and what you do (the dreaded “elevator speech!”) and being able to describe your LIS skills in language that resonates with a non-LIS interviewer (so they have a clear understanding of just how incredibly cool those skills are). In this highly interactive 90-minute session, we’ll review the basics of these and several other key job-development skills, then practice them in a fun, safe environment that lets participants support and learn from each other.

Registration and Cost

Cost: $20 and includes continental breakfast and lunch
Registration and Payment Deadline: February 18, 2013 to ensure your lunch order

Checks should be made out to CoALL

Sent to:
Tamara Phalen, CoALL Treasurer
Holland & Hart
555 17th Street
Denver, CO 80202

Parking

Parking is not included in the registration fee.  The cost for parking in campus lots is $1.50/hr. in visitor lots, and there is a pay kiosk in each visitor lot. There is a large visitor lot just north of the College of Education (enter off Asbury) – Lot 316W (Sturm Hall Hourly) on this map.  Full-day passes are $8.

For questions about Spotlight, please contact Rachel Bates Wilfahrt at rachelbateswilfahrt@gmail.com or 303-518-2324.

This program is made possible by a grant from the AALL/Bloomberg Continuing Education Grants Program.

RMSLA and CoALL thank Thomson Reuters for supporting our programming.

Save the Date!

The Rocky Mountain Chapter of the Special Libraries Association and the Colorado Association of Law Libraries present Spotlight on Your Career, an annual one-day conference on library career development.

9:00am – 2:00pm, Saturday, February 23, 2013
Ruffatto Hall, University of Denver, 1999 E. Evans Avenue, Denver, CO

This year’s speaker is Kim Dority, the founder and president of Dority & Associates, an information strategy and content development company. In the morning, Kim will give a presentation on “Transitioning to New Job Opportunities.” In the afternoon, Kim will lead an interactive session called “Ideas into Action: How to Put Yourself in the Path of Opportunity.” All information professionals are invited to join us.

Please contact Rachel Bates Wilfahrt with questions at rachelbateswilfahrt@gmail.com or 303-518-2324.
Details and registration instructions will be shared when available.

This program is made possible by a grant from the AALL/Bloomberg Continuing Education Grants Program.

RMSLA and CoALL thank Thomson Reuters for supporting our programming.

RMSLA held its annual membership meeting on October 9, 2012, at Gates Hall at the Denver Botanic Gardens. About 40 members attended in person, and there were nine virtual attendees. Several students from the University of Denver MLIS program were among the welcome crowd.

After a social and networking hour and buffet dinner, RMSLA President Recca Larson opened the meeting and shared highlights on the chapter’s activities for the year.

• RMSLA received top honors and a $500 cash prize in connection with the SLA Information Technology Division’s Outstanding Chapter Technology Programming Award for its Virtual Lunch webinar series, coordinated by Director Connie Clem.
• RMSLA is participating in SLA’s Loyalty Project with James Kane, focusing on adding value to membership. RMSLA’s members in Utah are getting together for networking events and co-hosting library tours with the Utah Library Association. RMSLA uses technology to reach members beyond the Colorado/Denver region and is posting profiles of members from all around the chapter. Other units participating in the Loyalty Project include the D.C. Chapter (working on vendor relations), the Minnesota Chapter (working on member participation), the Florida/Caribbean Chapter (working on involving members at a distance), and the Southern California chapter (working on student engagement).

Director Jason Youngstrom shared details on chapter membership, which has shown a slight uptick though overall SLA membership is still lagging slightly, mainly traceable to economic factors. As of the meeting date, RMSLA had 140 members.

Academic Relations Chair Kendra Spahr presented the Rebecca Jackson Memorial Scholarship to University of Denver MLIS student Lindsay Roberts, who thanked the chapter for the support. Kendra also thanked everyone who attended a fundraiser or made a donation to this year’s scholarship fund. Major donors included the Jackson family and the Colorado Library Consortium (CLiC). Mary Ellen Bates of Bates Information Services, Ellen Naylor of the Business Intelligence Source, and Pat Wagner of Pattern Research each made a notable contribution.

President-Elect Rachel Bates Wilfahrt recognized the 2012 board and the work of RMSLA’s various committees and committee chairs. She invited all members to get involved by volunteering. Listowner Marcy Rodney encouraged members to use the discussion list to share job opportunities and other professional news. RMSLA’s discussion list currently has 352 subscribers.

The evening’s speaker, Marcy Phelps of Phelps Research, gave an insightful presentation on how to engage with the social media to be part of today’s knowledge flow in your sphere of expertise. Her presentation is part of the recorded meeting, available online. Marcy’s segment begins at about 28 minutes into the recording.

The meeting closed with door prize give-aways. All books were donated for the meeting by Information Today, Inc. Joe Kraus and Bronwyn Maxson (live attendees) and Daureen Nesdill (attending from Utah) each won a copy of Marcy Phelps’s book, Research on Main Street. Lindsay Roberts won Face2Face: Using Facebook, Twitter, and Other Social Media Tools to Create Great Customer Connections. Lisa Backman walked away with The Embedded Librarian, someone won UContent: The Information Professional’s Guide to User-Generated Content, Vivienne Houghton won The Librarian’s Guide to Negotiation, Jennifer Doran won the The Cybrarian’s Web: An A—Z Guide to 101 Free Web 2.0 Tools and Other Resources, and Connie Clem won Implementing Technology Solutions in Libraries.

Rachel Bates Wilfahrt did the behind-the-scenes work to plan the meeting. RMSLA would like to thank IHS for its generous support of the event. We also thank the Denver Botanic Gardens (home of the Helen Fowler Library & Archives) for providing the meeting space and librarian April Miller for helping with set-up. RMSLA also thanks the University of Denver and the inestimable Joe Kraus for assisting with the virtual attendance technology.

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