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Encampment at Valley Forge in 4 Minutes

Encampment at Valley Forge in 4 Minutes

Shared from SLA Connect: Those who attended the tour of Valley Forge that DMIL sponsored after SLA 2016 may especially enjoy this video. It’s a summary of the significance of the encampments there in 4 minutes.  Talk about your elevator speech!   There is precious little remaining that was there during the time of the encampments so I’m very glad we had such a good tour guide and the park…

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#SLA2016 takeaways

SLA 2016 was an excellent conference. My experience was a little different this year as I was wearing several different hats: an attendee, a chapter president and a board candidate. I’ll blog about the latter separately, but here I wanted to capture some of the things which resonated most strongly with me as an attendee (and, perhaps coincidentally, as a leader). For a conference which didn’t…

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Professional Development at the #SLA2016 Conference

Professional Development at the #SLA2016 Conference

By Michael F. Moore, June 12, 2016 Sunday’s sessions, for me, were all about professional development.  I work as a subject specialist for systems engineering, so two sessions caught my eye. The first session, A Bucketful of Engineers and Resources: Understand 10 Engineering Disciplines and Identify their Top Ten Information Resources by Giovanna Badia and Doreen (whose last name is not in the…

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Welcome to the #SLA2016 Conference in Philadelphia!

Welcome to the #SLA2016 Conference in Philadelphia!

By Michael F. Moore, June 12, 2016 I rode the train from Boston on Saturday, saw the ocean in Connecticut, saw New York City (on the horizon and from beneath). Now I’m here in Philadelphia, enjoying the warm, sunny weather as I walked in among the trees and parks and flags of the Benjamin Franklin Parkway to get to the Conference Center. DMIL member Tom Rink is SLA President and Master of…

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