HAPI Brown Bag Lunch – 22 February at 12:30 PM

Please join SLA for a Brown Bag lunch presentation featuring the Hispanic American Periodicals Index entitled: HAPI in the 21st Century: The Challenges of Developing an Integrated Content and Process Management System.

When: Wednesday, February 22nd @ 12:30pm
Where: GSEIS bldg, Room 121

Drinks will be provided.

Details of the presentation are provided below.

The Hispanic American Periodicals Index (HAPI) is a leading source for authoritative, worldwide information about Central and South America, Mexico, Brazil, the Caribbean basin, the United States-Mexico border region, and Hispanics/Latinos in the United States.  HAPI was founded in 1974 and has been published at UCLA since 1976, initially a print index and now solely an electronic product undergoing dramatic internal changes.

The HAPI staff has been working on designing a content and process management system for our office and our volunteer indexers.  This came out of a need to reduce inefficiencies caused by having workflow tools and records dispersed in various formats (index cards, poster boards, excel worksheets, word documents, htm files), challenges to the sustainability of our data in our current outdated Filemaker database, and the possible internal benefits to HAPI and also to our users of moving our data from a flat database to a relational one. This project has been undertaken as we cease the publication of our  printed index  (we printed our last volumes in 2011) and continue solely with HAPI Online. This has been an opportunity not only to re-engineer our systems and processes but also to reimagine the future of HAPI as an exclusively  electronic product.

This presentation will cover challenges and solutions related to this multi-year project, such as issues  around project management,  financial decisions, mapping a complex subject structure, managing internal and external expectations, and planning for data migration.

Sócrates Silva, MLIS, MA
Associate Editor
Hispanic American Periodicals Index (HAPI)
UCLA Latin American Institute
ssilva@international.ucla.edu

Free film screenings from the UCLA Film & Television Archive!

Interested in classic films? Like to see them on the big screen? The UCLA Film & Television Archive holds screenings at the Billy Wilder Theater inside the Hammer Museum in Westwood. Admission is free for UCLA students! Check out the schedule here www.cinema.ucla.edu.

January and February feature classic films starring Spencer Tracy. Alternate selections from their Archive Treasures series include Remembering Marilyn Monroe and Trip the Light Fantastic: A Tribute to Robert Abel & Associates.

Enjoy!

KCRW Music Library Tour – 16 February at 2:00 PM

What?

KCRW Music Library Tour hosted by Music Librarian Eric J. Lawrence

www.kcrw.com

When?

Thursday, February 16, 2pm-4pm

Where?

KCRW, located on the main campus of Santa Monica College:

1900 Pico Boulevard, Santa Monica 90405

www.smc.edu

Join the SLA student group for an exciting tour of the KCRW music library!  KCRW is a public radio station and “a recognized tastemaker for new music from around the world.”  The KCRW music library houses an extensive collection of music culture in the form of vinyl records, cds, and digital tracks.   Recent projects include the digitization of the library’s vinyl records (50k+), the creation of a database system for instant digital track playback, and evolving plans for offsite (archival) storage.

More information on the library is available here (scroll to the bottom for a 7 minute video on the digitization project):

http://newmedia.kcrw.com/music_library/#howwedidit

Space is limited, so don’t sleep on this!  For those who wish to attend, please send an RSVP email to Tim Gallati (tim.gallati@gmail.com).  Please include transportation information in your response:

1) I need a ride; or

2) I have a car and can take (#) people.

Free Museum Admission Days

Hope everyone had an amazing winter break, and that gearing up for winter term isn’t causing too much undue stress! One great way to ease back into the quarter is a visit to a local museum – and even better if that visit is free.

Thanks to Shannon, we have a beautifully compiled table listing a number of local museums and which days they offer free admission. Great for visiting for fun, and also an easy and inexpensive ways to start looking around for an internship or other work opportunity.

The museums are listed down the left, and the days/weeks of the month running along the top. The yellow squares blocked in are dates of free admission. For example:

• Autry National Center offers free admission the second Tuesday of each month.
• The Getty Center has free admission all the time.
• The Hammer Museum has free admission every Thursday.

(For students: Even if these don’t work well with your schedule, remember to check the museum website or call them up to see if you can get a student discount – many offer reduced rates to students who bring in photo ID.)

(You can click on the chart above to enlarge the image to full-size.)

Jumpstart the Winter Quarter with SLA and the Academy Archives Tour!

The tour is the first week of Winter Quarter, Thursday, January 12th, 2012 at 2pm.  The Archive is located at Academy’s Pickford Center for Motion Picture Study, 1313 Vine Street, Los Angeles, California 90028.

This is a great opportunity to learn about the Academy’s collections just as they begin focusing on the upcoming Oscar Season!  Space is extremely limited and tour spots will be reserved to the first 15 students who say they can commit to the tour.  Please RSVP to megan.gawlik@gmail.com as soon as possible and indicate if you would

a) like a ride,

b) will drive and can take (# of people), or

c) will meet us there.

For more on the archive, check out http://www.oscars.org/filmarchive/about/index.html

Clark Library Tour – 1 December 2011 at 3:00 PM

WHAT: Clark Library Tour
WHEN: 1 December 2011 at 3:00 PM
WHERE: 2520 Cimarron St. Los Angeles, CA 90018

The William Andrews Clark Memorial Library is one of UCLA’s major libraries for rare books and manuscripts, with particular strengths in English literature and history (1641-1800), Oscar Wilde, and fine printing. It is located thirteen miles east of campus (about a half-hour drive), in the West Adams District of Los Angeles north of USC. It is administered by UCLA’s Center for Seventeenth- and Eighteenth-Century Studies.

There are two free (!) parking lots for guests.

Again, space is limited, so if you are interested, please contact Elizabeth Eiben at (elizabeth.eiben[at]gmail.com) to reserve your place.

LA84 Tour – 21 November 2011 at 2:00 PM

WHAT: Tour of LA84′s library and archives.
WHEN: 21 November 2011 at 2:00 pm
WHERE: 2141 W. Adams Blvd. Los Angeles CA 90018

Are you interested in sports? The tour of LA84′s library will be perfect for you! The director is going to give us a presentation of what they do, as well as a tour of the library and archive. This is a great opportunity to learn more about digital libraries and working in a niche area.

From the LA84 website:

Mission: Life Ready Through Sport

The LA84 Foundation is endowed with surplus funds from the 1984 Los Angeles Olympic Games. Our mission is to serve youth through sport and to increase knowledge of sport and its impact on people’s lives. The LA84 Foundation supports a wide array of youth sports programming. We award grants to youth sports organizations within the eight southernmost counties of California. We also conduct our own youth sports and coaching education programs, a number of which have become models for similar programs nationwide.

The LA84 Foundation operates the largest sports research library in North America, the Paul Ziffren Sports Resource Center. It is a state-of-the-art research facility and learning center dedicated to the advancement of sports knowledge and scholarship. The Foundation also maintains a sizable collection of historic sport art and artifacts much of which was inherited from the former Helms Athletic Foundation Sports Halls of Fame.

The LA84 Foundation is a private nonprofit institution. The Foundation has committed more than $197 million to accomplish its mission since 1985. To date, more than two million boys and girls, and more than 1,000 youth sports organizations throughout Southern California have benefited from the endowment. They will be joined by many more in the years ahead.

It’s a great way to kick off a holiday week. Spacing is limited, so if you’re interested, please e-mail Megan Gawlik (megan.gawlik[at]gmail.com) and let us know!

Also, please note: free parking is available in their lot, with additional parking on the street.

SLA Trivia Night!

We have another event planned!

What?: POP QUIZ TEAM TRIVIA©

When?: THURSDAY, 10 November 2011 @ 8:30PM

Where?: The Cock ‘N Bull (2947 Lincoln Blvd. Santa Monica, CA 90405)

There is no entry fee and each team is allowed 1-5 members to compete for the various prizes.

Duration: 2 hours.

Pop Quiz Team Trivia is a combination of a traditional English pub quiz with an American game show. The format is designed to entertain and keep the competition tight .The questions are a mix of academia and pop culture, old and new. The questions spark new conversation for old friends and if you are trying to get to know new people, let the game be the ice-breaker. Music is chosen to accompany the questions, or provide a hint to an answer.

The following Friday, the 11th of November, is a holiday, so come out for a fun event and show off just how smart you are!

Jumpstart Your Career in Grad School: An intensive workshop for library & information science graduate students

Presented by the UCLA Department of Information Studies and the SLA Student Chapter at UCLA.

Generously sponsored by the SLA Southern California Chapter.

Your MLIS or MIS will arm you with terrific information skills, but it will be up to you to turn those skills into a rewarding, resilient, and sustainable career. What are the strategies and tactics you can put into action NOW as you progress through your program to help ensure that you graduate with a degree – and a career? Created by two seasoned information professionals, Kim Dority and Scott Brown, this intensive, day-and-a-half workshop will provide the insights, inspiration, coaching and practical tools you need to create the career of your dreams.

The cost of the workshop includes a workbook with more than 35 pages of LIS career information, worksheets, tools, and resource lists to help attendees continue to build on what they’ve learned in the workshop

When:
Friday, October 14, 2011, 6pm – 8pm and Saturday, October 15, 2011, 9am – 5pm. Continental breakfast, lunch and snacks are included on Saturday.

Where:
UCLA Department of Information Studies

Cost:
Current graduate students: $49
Non-students: $79

To register, and for more information and instructor biographies:  http://is.gseis.ucla.edu/events/friday_forums/workshops/2011/111014-15.html

SLA Food Tour of Downtown LA a Success!

On October 1st, SLA sponsored a private walking food tour of Downtown Los Angeles, featuring 6 delicious food stops: Masis Mediterranean, Mac & Cheeza, Syrup Desserts, Two Bits, Big Man Bakes and Sarita’s Pupuseria. We sampled some of LA’s greatest food, learned about the history of downtown LA and made some new friends within the IS department!

Thanks to everyone who joined us for this event!