Western Costume Company Tour – 10 May 2012 at 3:00 PM
Join the SLA Student Chapter on Thursday, May 10rd at 3pm, for an exclusive tour of Western Costume Company, one of the oldest costume houses in Los Angeles! Western Costume has been outfitting the movie industry since 1912, working on countless classics including “Gone with the Wind” and “Birth of a Nation.” The research library was established in the 1920s and was the first library of its kind in the movie industry. The library has supplied inspiration and creative reference materials to art directors and costume designers for decades.
Space is limited, if you are interesting in attending please email Amanda at (almilbourn {at} gmail {dot} com) to reserve a spot.
Western Costume is located in North Hollywood, and carpools will be arranged for those interested.
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CNN Tour Photos
The CNN Tour was a great success! Thanks so much to everyone who made it possible.
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DMIL-Sponsored SLA Student Memberships
SLA Military Libraries Division (DMIL) is interested in launching a project to introduce students to the fascinating and challenging variety of opportunities within the academic, technical, medical, and installation libraries that comprise our division. DMIL will sponsor five SLA student memberships with DMIL as the accompanying division. For current SLA student members, DMIL will sponsor division memberships for 100 students. Interested students should respond to [lowery440 [at] hotmail.com]; details are forthcoming.
Tammy T Lowery, MLIS
Student Liaison, SLA Military Libraries Division
Head of Cataloging
Defense Language Institute Foreign Language Center
Aiso & Chamberlin Libraries
Presidio of Monterey, CA 93944
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CNN Library Tour – 13 April 2012
Join us for a tour of the CNN Library in the heart of Hollywood on Friday, April 13th at 4:00 PM.
Librarian Jaime Solano will give us a glimpse inside the fast-paced world of librarianship for television journalism, including video archiving, reference, and a tour of the CNN studio.
Afterwards, join SLA for happy hour at a nearby spot afterward, the Cat & Fiddle. http://www.thecatandfiddle.com
*As of yesterday, March 27th, there were only 8 spots, so please reply to Tim Gallati: tim.gallati [at] gmail.com to reserve your spot in advance.
The deadline for reserving your spot is Thursday, April 5th.
Sorry, as of today, March 29th, all spots are taken!
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14th Annual UCLA IS / DLIS / GSLIS / SLS Night at Dodger Stadium!
The 14th Annual UCLA IS / DLIS / GSLIS / SLS Night at Dodger Stadium!
Saturday, May 19, 2012 – 7:10pm at Dodger Stadium
Your Boys in Blue vs. the St. Louis Cardinals
Tickets*:
One for $15.00
Two for $14.00 each
Three or more for $13.00 each
*These Reserve Level seats normally sell for $18.
Come one, come all!!!
Download the form and fill out the details and drop it off with payment with Jennifer Clark at the reception desk on the 2nd floor of the GSEIS building no later than 4:00 pm on April 30, 2012.
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Another Trivia Night! – Thursday 1 March 2012 @ 8:30 PM
Take a break before finals begin and join the SLA Student Chapter for Trivia Night!
When: Thursday, March 1st at 8:30pm
Where: Cock ‘N Bull – 2947 Lincoln Blvd., Santa Monica, CA 90405
Details: 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.
Please send RSVPs to jpflaumer@gmail.com so we get a sense for how many teams we’ll have.
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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
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