SLA 2020 Annual Conference

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SLA 2020 Annual Conference

124 Course items

The SLA Annual Conference is the premier event for special librarians and information professionals who want to explore the latest challenges and trends in information, knowledge, and library management, refine their skills, connect with colleagues, and meet with leading product and service providers. The 2020 Annual Conference was presented virtually to provide accessible, interactive opportunities for learning, networking, and engagement.

If you work with, provide, manage, curate, archive, and/or research information, data, and/or content, the SLA2020 Annual Conference is for you!

Recorded sessions are available to purchase individually or as one package including all conference sessions. Packages by topic are coming soon. All sessions are discounted for SLA members.

Scroll through the presentations below or use the search bar at the top to look for a specific session.

Complimentary to SLA Members: Lightning Talks (5-10 minutes) and Quick Takes (15-20 minutes), SLA Task Force led sessions, Hot Topic sessions, Solution Showcase sessions, Thought Leaders Presentations.

Complimentary to Non-Members: Lightning Talks (5-10 minutes), Hot Topic sessions, Solution Showcase sessions, Thought Leaders Presentations..

$249.00 - $449.00

Items Included in the Purchase of this Course

Opening Remarks and Yvette Pegues' Keynote Presentation

Quick Take: An ABC of Bias and Why You Should Love Your Enemy!

Accelerating the Transition to Open Access

Comprehensive Database Reevaluation: Starting From Scratch - Impossible Task or Unique Opportunity?

Anything but Black and White: Ethics in Competitive Intelligence

Do You Know Who Your Publisher Is?

Quick Take: Digital Transformation: Adapting, Connecting and Reinventing – Our Journey

Asian Libraries at the Crossroads: The Road Ahead

From $30K to $400K in 5 years flat: Spectacular Growth in Research and Revenue at the NCBiotech Library

Harnessing the Power of LinkedIn for its Social Media and Competitive Intelligence Value

Brainstorming Future DEI Programming

Hot Topic: Using SciVal and Scopus to Analyze Research Impact at a National Lab

Case Law, Statutes and Regulations for the Non Legal Information Professional

CI Solutions beyond SWOT: Transforming the Intersection of Strategic CI Techniques and Technology into Actionable Insights

Communication & Collaboration to the next level remotely using Microsoft Teams

Metamorphosis: Growing, Learning and Mutating into New Roles

Quick Take: Learning, Sharing, and Caring: Creating a Training and Development Program for Library Staff and Users

Lightning Talk: Library as Core Facility

Managing Change: How to Lead in an Ever-Changing World

Quick Take: MetaSat: A Flexible Approach to Satellite Metadata

Misinformation, Disinformation, and Manipulated Media: What’s Your Protection Plan?

Data Analytics and Legal Information: Preparing Yourself for the Future

Negotiations and Partnerships in the New Normal: Success Strategies that Work

Quick Take: Post-Covid Essentials: What you and your staff must do after the pandemic

Project Management for the Information Professional

Public law: How Librarians Can Level the Playing Field for the General Public

Quick Take: Scopus CiteScore or Clarivate Journal Citation Reports or both?

Quick Take: So many devices, so little time: how best to manage your growing (and diverse) mobile device collection

Technically Speaking: Competitive Intelligence in Science and Engineering

Lightning Talk: Utilizing Environmental Scanning and Monitoring to Accelerate Crisis Preparedness, Response and Recovery

The Accidental Digital Asset Manager: How Traditional Library Skills Transfer to the DAM World

The A-Z of Basic Tools to research private companies

Lightning Talk: The BC Gay and Lesbian Archives at the City of Vancouver Archives

The New PubMed: An Essential, Innovative and Mobile Friendly Tool for Biomedical Research

Quick Take: The RACI Chart in Your Library

Quick Take: Using Copyright Materials During COVID-19

Quick Take: When two become one: work-life balance in the time of COVID-19

When Your Organization is Flat, How Do You Move Up? Moving from Mid-level to Upper Management

Witnessing Whiteness in LIS

What’s in a Name? Digital Curation and Academic Trends

10 Secrets of Successful Live Virtual Learning

2020 – A year of living dangerously. How Covid19 will impact the CI profession over the next 5 years

Agile Working and Knowing How to Set Boundaries

Beef Up Your Interviewing Skills for Primary Collection

Bringing Analog People into a Digital World: Learn How to Make Change-Resistant Staff and Clients Comfortable With New Technologies

Challenges in Building Healthcare and Medical Taxonomies: Case Studies

Do You Belong in SLA? Who Does and What Next? A Report on the SLA Climate Survey Results

Effective Difficult Conversations: An Essential Competency for Life and Leadership

Expanding the Library Walls: Finding New Ways to Identify the Impact and ROI of Your Library

Fighting Bias, One Search at a Time

Foreseeing the Future of Intelligence and Information Services Together: Are We Prepared? How Do We Know?

Fostering Diversity in Science: Physics Roundtable

Internationalization of Taxonomies and Controlled Vocabularies

It’s Search, Jim, But Not as We Know It

Literature Locked Up: How Prison Book Restriction Policies Constitute the Nation’s Largest Book Ban

Mathematics Beyond the Academy

Mining Institutional Knowledge: Using Text and Data Mining to Enhance Discovery

Lightning Talk: Not-So-Identical Twins: Google Scholar and the Problems With Versions

Quick Take: NTKN LibGuide Petting Zoo

PAM Vendor and Librarian Panel

Resilience Engineering to Improve the Agile Organization

Revealing and Banishing Bias in Taxonomies

Quick Take: Rogue Knowledge Management: How to Nurture and Support Knowledge Management From the Ground Up

Sci-Tech Researchers’ Barriers to Publishing – Results of a Survey

The COVID-19 Infodemic: Dealing With Mis and Dis Information in a Global Pandemic

Quick Take: The Evolution of Library Services at Remote Area Medical Clinics

The Universe in a Slide of Glass: the History, Preservation, and Data Mining of Astronomical Plates

To Infinity and Beyond Medicine: Librarian Experiences With Systematic Reviews Across the Disciplinary Spectrum

Transforming Open Science to Open Scholarship

Trends and Topics in Library Security and Safety: Keeping Staff and Patrons Protected in the New Normal

Using Superiority Analysis to Empower Info Pros to Become Growth Champions

UX Customization to Generate Higher Information Literate Outcomes in Your Organization

We Have High Standards! The 2020 Standards Update

What Next? Financial Planning for Retirement and Life Changes

Lightning Talk: All-Volunteer Library is one of the USS Midway's Secret Ingredients

Quick Take: Applying Agile Principles to Ensure the Success of Your KM Strategy

Be the Knowledge Consultant in Data-Driven Initiatives

Blockchain and Libraries: Findings from the SLA Toronto Working Group

Data for Civic Good: How Libraries and Local Governments Are Working Together to Make Community Data More Accessible