Members and friends of SLA Toronto

Welcome to the second issue of The Courier for 2008.

In my last letter, it was my pleasure to introduce you to your new Executive Board – by name only. With this issue we offer you a closer look at who your Executive Board members are by sharing their biographies. Each one of us, as members of the Executive, are dedicated to this Chapter and its success. We look forward to hearing from you with your ideas and feedback for continuously improving this vibrant Chapter.

Chapter Partners
Please join me in thanking our Chapter partners for 2008.

• CEDROM-SNi http://www.newscan.com
• XPI http://www.xpi.com
• LexisNexis Canada http://www.lexisnexis.ca
• FPinfomart http://www.fpinfomart.ca
• Dow Jones & Company http://www.factiva.com
• Google http://www.google.com/enterprise/
• BNA http://www.bna.com/
• Thomson Carswell http://www.carswell.com/

The generous support from our partners makes many of our events and programs possible. Please take a moment to review the invaluable products and services that our partners offer and keep them in mind when making your purchasing decisions. We owe a special thanks to our Chair for Partner Relations, Laura Knapp, who is working on our behalf to ensure our partners receive the full benefits of their partnership.

FPinfomart Student-to-Conference Award Winners Announced
This month the Chapter announced that Gillian Horwood and Julia Brewster were recently chosen as winners of the FPinfomart Student-to-Conference Awards for 2008. With FPinfomart’s generous support, Julia and Gillian will receive $1,500 grants to attend the SLA Annual Conference in Seattle, Washington, from June 15-18, 2008.

Both winners were selected based on the strength of their résumés as well as statements they submitted detailing what they hoped to gain from the conference experience.

Gillian Horwood graduated from the University of Western Ontario with a Bachelor of Arts (Honours) degree in Political Science. She is currently an MISt candidate at the Faculty of Information Studies, University of Toronto. In addition to her studies, Gillian is also working as a library assistant with the Department of Family and Community Medicine (DFCM) Library, Faculty of Medicine, University of Toronto.

Julia Brewster graduated from the University of British Columbia with a Bachelor of Arts degree in International Development and Spanish. She is currently an MISt candidate at the Faculty of Information Studies, University of Toronto. In addition to her studies, Julia is also completing a practicum at the Goodmans LLP library.

Please join me in congratulating both Gillian and Julia on their outstanding achievements!

Conference
By the time you read this, early bird registration for this year’s conference
in Seattle will have already closed. However, it won’t be too late to join your
colleagues and friends at conference. Full member registration is available
from April 2 to May 2, 2008. You can also registrar on-site (if you’re REALLY
late) after May 3, 2008. Visit the SLA 2008 conference page for more details.
(http://www.sla.org/content/Events/conference/ac2008/index.cfm)

As we did in 2005 here in Toronto, our Chapter will again host the Canadian Reception in Seattle. Plans are already well underway for this traditional Monday night reception, which will include cocktails and grazing on seafood while taking in the breathtaking views of the city and the Olympic Mountains from the 51st floor of Two Union Square in downtown Seattle. It’s not too late to join us!

100 Years of SLA
As you know, 2009 will be SLA’s 100th anniversary year. Here in Toronto we have decided to start to remember our origins early by re-publishing a series of articles from The Courier’s past. The Chapter’s Archivist, Nathan Loeppky, has been hard at work selecting a number of articles for the series and I think his first choice couldn’t be more perfect. You will find re-printed in this issue, in full, an account of the Chapter’s early days as it was related by Pauline Hutchison, the Chapter’s first President at the Chapter’s 10th Anniversary Meeting in April 1950. Personally, I found it fascinating that art collectors, art gallery directors, doctors, poets and even weather forecasters were among the first professionals to address the Chapter!

Daniel P. Lee, MLIS
President, SLA Toronto Chapter

Welcome to another issue of the Courier. The snow is finally starting to recede and Spring is (hopefully) on its way.

This issue is a big one! Thankfully, we don’t have to mimeograph the newsletter and mail it out the way our predecessors did in the 1940s and 50s. See the “From the Archives” feature for this month to find out more about our Chapter’s storied past.

Publishing The Courier online is one way we can honour SLA’s commitment to
“go green” and reduce our carbon footprint. In this issue’s Board Watch column,
our CEO Janice R. LaChance says that if we work together,” we can certainly
have more of a positive impact on the future of the environment.” Send your
green tips for saving energy, resources and reducing carbon emissions at your
organization to John Adams, SLA’s publications director (jadams@sla.org)
for inclusion in a monthly listing in Information Outlook.

Enjoy!!

Jennifer Burns
burns.jennifer@sympatico.ca

Heather Postill
hpostill@sympatico.ca

Daniel Lee, President
Since 2002, Daniel has worked as a Research Librarian for Navigator Ltd., a research-based communications and strategic counsel firm in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. Before he joined Navigator, Daniel was responsible for managing web-based content at CIPS, Canada’s leading association for information technology professionals. Prior to CIPS, he provided information services to the marketing and communications department of an e-learning company in Halifax, Nova Scotia.

Daniel has been actively involved in the Toronto Chapter of SLA since he moved to the city in 2001 and is serving as President in 2008. He has also served as Chair of the Programming Committee, Director, Chair of Public Relations and President Elect. In 2003, SLA Toronto chose Daniel as its delegate to the Seventh Northern Exposure to Leadership Institute in Emerald Lake, British Columbia. He is currently part of the SLA Innovation Laboratory working group and has chaired the Technology Review Advisory Group. Daniel is also the Partner Relations Co-Chair for the Leadership and Management Division of SLA. He was recently named a winner of the SLA Diversity Leadership Development Program Award.

Daniel is an active volunteer with the Canadian Lesbian and Gay Archives and has served as Chair of the library committee. He is a member of the Hugh O’Brien Youth Leadership Foundation, an avid swimmer and tennis player.

Daniel graduated from Dalhousie University’s MLIS program in 2001. He graduated summa cum laude with a Bachelor of Arts degree in Spanish and Portuguese from the University of Massachusetts at Amherst.

Daniel was voted “most organized” in high school.

Joy Shanfield, President-Elect
Shortly after getting her MLS degree from the Graduate School of Library (and Information) Science at McGill University, Joy left Montreal with her family to relocate in Toronto, where she has worked ‘happily ever after’ in a variety of library settings.

Currently, Joy is working in Library Services at Toronto Rehab, a teaching hospital affiliated with the University of Toronto. Within her group of seven information professionals (4 librarians, 3 library technicians), she is the Information Resources Specialist providing a full range of special library services to staff, students and volunteers at two of the hospital’s five Toronto sites. Joy is a cataloguing enthusiast and has enjoyed successive special projects to add selected card catalogue holdings retrospectively to an ILS (integrated library system), and then to convert the ILS holdings to a more rigorous cataloguing standard for inclusion in the University of Toronto Libraries’ SIRSI catalogue system.

Just before joining Toronto Rehab in 2002, Joy set up a new library for a property and casualty insurance industry association. Prior to that, she was employed for fourteen years in several multi-sized health- and insurance-related libraries in the Ontario government. Joy served a term in 1990-1991 as Chair of the Ontario Government Libraries Council, and acquired complementary public library sector experience during her 10-year involvement with the Town of Markham Public Library Board.

Joy has been active with the Toronto Chapter since 2002, participating on the Advisory Board as a member of the Programming Committee and Registrar, and filling the Executive Board positions of Secretary, Treasurer, and President-Elect.

Her outside interests include reading and collecting mystery fiction, traveling with her husband and friends, investigating and using technologies that organize collections (her family ‘collects’ things), being with and photographing her two wonderful grandchildren.

Britta J. Charbonneau, Director
Britta graduated with an MISt from the University of Toronto in 2001. After working in marketing and translating for a year, she went to Europe for a 3 month internship, where she worked on a corporate Intranet. Upon her return, she completed the post-graduate Interactive Multimedia program at the Sheridan Institute of Technology and Advanced Learning. Since then, Britta has worked in online marketing and Web content management in the financial sector, as well as taking on freelance projects. Her most recent position was a one year contract at Seneca College as the Web and Digital Services Librarian. Currently Britta is pursuing freelance opportunities. She has been an active member of SLA since 2001 and has been on the Programming Committee, as well as the Chapter Webmaster.

Faye Mitchell, Chapter Treasurer
Faye currently works as Senior Research Librarian at Sun Life Assurance Company of Canada. She is primarily involved in providing current awareness and research services to a varied domestic and international clientele. She has an MLS from the University of Toronto and undergraduate degrees in economics and sociology from the University of Maryland. Prior to joining Sun Life, Faye worked at other financial service company libraries and also doing market research for consulting firms in Washington D.C. and Toronto. Faye thoroughly enjoyed the SLA conference in Denver last year. In the Toronto airport, she spent her preflight time visiting with former Chapter President, Pam Casey, who suggested that she might enjoy volunteering for the Chapter in 2008 and of course the rest is history!

Jan Moffatt, Secretary
Jan is Reference Librarian at Lang Michener LLP. She was previously Solo Librarian at the C.D. Howe Institute.

Claire Lysnes, Membership Chair
Claire is the Membership Chair of SLA Toronto and has had an active role in the Chapter since 2006 when she began coordinating the New Information Professionals (NIP) Program. In 2007, Claire was sponsored by SLA Toronto to attend the 9th Northern Exposure to Leadership Institute, which was a precursor to her joining the Chapter Executive Board.

Claire’s professional involvement also includes her current role as President of the Faculty of Information Studies Alumni Association (FISAA) at the University of Toronto. She graduated from the Faculty in 2004 with her Master of Information Studies (MISt) degree.

Presently, Claire is Portal Content Specialist with the Knowledge Management group at PricewaterhouseCoopers Canada in Toronto. Her team manages the PwC corporate intranet, which recently won the “Best Portal, Content and collaboration Award” at the 7th Annual PCC Excellence Awards.

Claire is married and lives with her husband in the west end of Toronto.

Leadership Summit in Louisville, Kentucky, January 2008
Janice R. LaChance
CEO, Special Libraries Association
SLA exploded out of the starting gate in 2008 with an outstanding Leadership Summit in Louisville, Kentucky, home to the world-famous Kentucky Derby. Hundreds of chapter, division, section, caucus and committee leaders took part in this year’s event that focused largely on the future, especially SLA’s upcoming Centennial Celebration in 2009.

I want to thank everyone who took part in the summit and made it such an outstanding success. I would like to thank especially our Cabinet Chairs Libby Trudell and Robyn Frank, as well as our 2007 Cabinet Chairs Anne Caputo and Agnes Mattis and our 2008 Cabinet Chairs-elect Susan Fifer-Canby and Tom Rink.

Also, I would like to say a word of thanks to the SLA Kentucky Chapter, especially Susan Brown and Jan Berry, who did a wonderful job as hosts of this summit, and to my wonderful staff at headquarters for their hard work in preparing for this meeting. Of course, it would have been impossible to hold this event without the support of our terrific sponsors; Dow Jones & Company, our Gold Sponsor for the 2008 Leadership Summit and Thomson Scientific, our Silver Sponsor, as well as our supporting sponsors IEEE, ProQuest and EOS International. Thank you all very much for your generous support. It is appreciated so very, very much.

A centerpiece of this year’s summit and SLA’s activity during 2008 will be the continuing examination of the information profession and of the roles librarians, info pros and the association will play in the future. Working with a well-respected team of research and communications professionals led by the international consulting firm, Fleishman-Hillard in collaboration with futurist Andy Hines of Social Technologies, and Outsell Inc, we will help librarians and info pros align their knowledge, experience and skills with the evolving needs of tomorrow’s organizations. And, we will ensure that SLA continues to provide you with the right tools and the right skills at the right time to be successful in the rapidly changing world of information.

Members taking part in this year’s summit not only had the opportunity to learn valuable skills that will help them in their roles as leaders of the association, they also helped to shape plans for SLA’s Centennial Year and provided valuable feedback on the association’s alignment process.

We heard from a member of SLA’s alignment project team as the Dow Jones sponsored keynote speaker for the summit. Futurist Andy Hines, director of consulting at Social Technologies and the author of several books, has worked with numerous multi-national organizations seeking to identify trends that will have an impact on these companies and not-for-profit organizations in the future. Some of you may have seen Andy recently on the CBS Morning News discussing the ‘Future of Happiness’ study his company conducted for MTV about teen happiness. In Louisville, he talked about global societal trends that are likely to impact librarians and info pros as they perform their jobs in the years ahead and we are very fortunate to have him on our team.

Also joining us in Louisville were members of the Fleishman-Hillard team. David Wickenden, senior vice president and senior partner in charge of Fleishman-Hillard’s Integrated Media Practice led an update on the alignment project and discussed the findings of secondary research the project team has conducted to date. David and his team also talked about the exciting next steps for primary research that will help identify more clearly perceptions and attitudes about info pros and SLA among key audiences, including senior executives responsible for setting budget and hiring priorities that impact librarians and information professionals.

Following remarks by SLA’s 2008 President, Stephen Abram, about his ambitious and exciting goals for the association during his upcoming term, and my discussion of the current state of the association and its accomplishments during 2007, members took part in a freewheeling “table-top” discussion session called “Remembering the Future.” This exciting and innovative exercise organized by Libby and Robyn asked participants to imagine what the profession and the association would look like in the year 2010. It was a lively and spirited discussion that generated many great ideas. We will post these on the SLA Web site as soon as possible and would appreciate your feedback on them. The importance of your views and opinions on the future of the profession and on this examination cannot be overstated.

In a separate brainstorming session, members were asked for their thoughts and suggestions on the best ways to mark SLA’s upcoming centennial. Again, we received many excellent ideas that are being forwarded to the Centennial Commission and to the 2009 Annual Conference planners. This is an important milestone in SLA’s history and we plan to do it up right.

2008 will be an exciting year for SLA. In addition to the Leadership Summit, we are looking forward to another highly successful SLA Annual Conference & INFO-EXPO in Seattle, Washington (USA) in June. Besides librarians, info pros and their industry partners from throughout the world, we will be joined by Dr. Vinton Cerf, vice president and chief Internet evangelist of Google, who will be interviewed by television journalist Charlie Rose during the opening keynote session. We also will hear from Seth Godin, bestselling author and the person BusinessWeek called the “Ultimate Entrepreneur for the Information Age.” I encourage you to begin making plans now to join us in Seattle for North America’s premier information industry conference and INFO-EXPO.

Congrats to Campaign WINNERS!
The 2007 Recruit-a-Member Campaign wrapped up 31 December 2007. SLA members
worked very hard between October and December to recruit new members and it
shows in the numbers. More than 125 new members were recruited during the campaign.
The winners of the campaign were announced and presented with their awards at
the 2008 Leadership Summit. Click here to see the top recruiters and units at
http://www.sla.org/content/membership/getamember/index.cfm.

Book Recommendation
Rather than recommending a specific title this month, I encourage you to check
out SLA’s Leadership and Management Library at Click University if you have
not done so already. Nearly 1,000 titles are available free online to members
through SLA’s partnership with ebrary. This searchable library gives you access
to a wide array of business titles that can be extremely helpful in solving
an immediate business challenge or simply improving your management and leadership
IQ. I am confident you will be impressed with what you find: http://www.clickuniversity.com/

Leadership and learning are indispensable to each other.- John F. Kennedy

SLA: Knowledge to Go Green
Headquarters recently announced that SLA will join the fight for a cleaner,
greener earth. “The time for all organizations to be thinking this way has come,
and with the global warming and other environmental crisis becoming an increased
concern for our members, SLA is ready to step up and do the best that we can
do to make a difference,” said SLA CEO Janice R. Lachance. “As an international
organization with over 11,000 members, working together, we can certainly have
more of a positive impact on the future of the environment.” Read the press
release at http://www.sla.org/content/SLA/pressroom/pressrelease/08pr/pr2801.cfm

Send Your Green Ideas to Information Outlook
SLA’s magazine is starting a monthly listing of ideas members have used to save
energy, save resources, reduce carbon emissions, etc., in their workplaces.
The ideas don’t have to be limited to savings in the information department;
they can extend to the entire organization. Please let us know what you’re doing.
Send a brief note to John Adams, SLA’s publications director, at jadams@sla.org.

Annual Conference in Seattle, Washington, June 2008
Seattle: Annual Conference and Housing Registration now OPEN!

Maximize your membership benefits by signing up early for SLA 2008 Annual Conference
and INFO-EXPO (http://www.sla.org/content/Events/conference/ac2008/registration/index.cfm)
and save US$ 300 off the regular member onsite registration amount. Register
today at http://registration.expoexchange.com/ShowSLA081/Default.aspx!
As always, hotel rooms are sure to fill up quickly so make sure you reserve
your space today in one of the conference hotels through the official SLA Housing
Office (http://event.expobook.com/?eventid=125).

Want to know which companies are exhibiting in Seattle? Visit the Virtual INFO-EXPO
Center – http://www.sla.org/veh08.

2008 Click U Live! @ Annual Conference
Craft your own impact strategy at SLA’s Click University pre-conference, hands-on
seminars and tutorials, and get noticed when you get back to the office. Register
early…so your program will not be cancelled! Early Bird registration ends
1 April. Learn more at http://sla.learn.com/learncenter.asp?page=63.

SLA Historical Resources for 2009 Centennial
As we are moving into the new year, many chapters and divisions may be working
on their own celebrations of the 2009 SLA centennial. SLA has its own association
history section on its Web site (http://www.sla.org/content/SLA/AssnProfile/History/index.cfm).
If you have any questions about the information on the site, please contact
John Latham at jlatham@sla.org. If you
have questions about centennial celebrations please contact the Centennial Commission
at 100@sla.org.

Career Matters
Career Center
Employment Opportunities
Find the right job in the information industry. Search for jobs in SLA’s Career
Center (http://sla.jobcontrolcenter.com/search/)!

Seeking Qualified Candidates? Post employment opportunities to SLA’s Career
Center (http://sla.jobcontrolcenter.com/hr/jobs/)!

Virtual Advisors
SLA Virtual Advisors provides you with 24/7 e-mail access to career advice and
guidance from experienced information professionals willing to volunteer their
time to help you! Whether you’re trying to figure out your next career move
or are moving to another part of the world, Virtual Advisors gives you insights
you need to get ahead. Log in to Virtual Advisors at http://careercenter.sla.org/website/12242/advisory/index.cfm.

Coaching
To help you advance in your career, SLA has formed a partnership with career coach Marshall Brown & Associates. Whether you are seeking to transition into a new position today or thinking about it for tomorrow, Marshall Brown & Associates can assist you. Marshall has been SLA’s featured career coach at several conferences and has had numerous articles published in Information Outlook.

Upcoming courses:
17 April 2008
Marketing Brand You!
Presenter: Marshall Brown, Marshall Brown & Associates
http://sla.learn.com/learncenter.asp?id=178412&sessionid=3-34BDC693-81C8-4E2B-9727-B10CA5463367&mode=preview&page=3

Career Smarts: Q & A with Kim Dority
Information careers can be rewarding, exciting, well-paying, and, occasionally, really confusing. Should you take that new job, or stay put? Ask for that raise, or hope someone else offers? Hope the downsizing doesn’t hit you, or start working on your exit strategy now?

SLA member Kim Dority, author of Rethinking Information Work: A Career Guide
for Librarians and Other Information Professionals, has written and presented
extensively on being an information professional, and is now answering career
questions on an individual basis for SLA members grappling with these and other
career questions. Send Kim your question at http://www.sla.org/content/jobs/qaform.cfm

Click University
Check out what’s happening at Click University (http://sla.learn.com/learncenter.asp?page=200).
This online learning system is an exclusive SLA member benefit and is the foundation
for all of SLA’s educational and professional development programs. Please log
in when prompted.

CLICK U Live!
Missed a LIVE! Seminar? You can still purchase a Replay! Go to http://sla.learn.com/learncenter.asp?page=23
for more information.

2008 Click U Live! Course Schedule
Start planning your next semester today! Take a moment to check out what is
happening on campus this year: the 2008 Click U Live! Schedule can be found
at http://sla.learn.com/learncenter.asp?page=277.

SLA wants to thank you for your past support of Click U Live! programs with a special offer. When you purchase a package of six or more 2008 programs, you will receive a 15% discount for each program. The regular price for each webinar is US$ 129.00; with the 15% savings, each program will cost US$ 109.65. On six programs, you’ll save US$ 116.00!

Remember, you can purchase programs for yourself or for your chapter or other group…all for the same price.

Consider yourself lucky! Now is a great time to be an SLA member! Did you know
that a few of the neat and valuable benefits available to members from SLA Headquarters
(http://sla.org/) include:

• A FREE course of the month and podcasts and webcasts from CLICK U,
• Over 900 FREE eBrary e-books on management and leadership topics, and
• Many Factiva newsfeeds on topics of interest to librarians.

Let’s not keep this to ourselves! Feel free to share this with Information
Professionals in the Toronto area who are not members of SLA Toronto Chapter
and encourage them to go to SLA’s website, where they can join SLA online or
by mail or fax, or contact me at clysnes@gmail.com
for further details.

Welcome to New Members!

Please join me in welcoming the following members who joined our Chapter in January 2008:

I look forward to seeing each of you at a future SLA Toronto event!

Message to Graduating Students
DID YOU KNOW? Students pay only $35 USD for a full membership! If you are graduating this year, be sure to get your membership before leaving school to benefit from this fantastic discount of over $100 USD off the regular price. Entering the professional work force is the ideal time to take advantage of the networking opportunities available to SLA Toronto members. Don’t miss your chance!

Update on the Association Management System
In mid-2007, SLA updated its Association Management System, and as I understand
it, they are still working toward full integration. Good progress has been made;
however, some members may have trouble renewing their membership. If so, please
contact me at clysnes@gmail.com
with details, and I will follow up with HQ on your behalf.

Claire Lysnes
SLA Toronto Chapter Membership Chair
clysnes@gmail.com

Here are some of the upcoming events presented by SLA Toronto Chapter. See
the Toronto chapter website for details. (http://units.sla.org/chapter/ctor/).

Canadian Copyright Law
Lesley Harris
Begins April 14th.
Further info is at: www.acteva.com/go/copyright

Part 2: E-library Collection Strategies, Organization, and Maintenance
April 23, 2008
2:00 PM – 3:30 PM
MaRS Centre, 101 College Street, Room
CR-5 Vizualization

Social Networking Tools Inside the Organization
May 21, 2008
2:00 PM – 3:30 PM
Ontario Legislative Assembly, Committee Room 2

SLA Annual Conference 2008
June 15, 2008
Washington State Convention Center
Seattle, Washington, USA

Best Practices for Setting Up a Wiki
September 11, 2008
2:00 PM – 3:30
PM MaRS Centre, 101 College Street, Room CR-5 Vizualization

The Year in Web Searching: News, Updates, and Changes at Google, Yahoo!,
Live, and More
October 8, 2008
2:00 PM – 3:30 PM
Ontario Legislative
Assembly, Committee Room 2

Winter Social
SLA Toronto’s New Information Professionals group kicked off 2008 with a winter social at the Bedford Academy on February 28th. A mix of FIS students and new information professionals enjoyed making new connections as well as reconnection with friends and colleagues.

Facebook Group
The NIP Facebook group is growing strong and now has over 30 members. We know
that there are more out there, so feel free to take a look: http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=5423394034

Future Events
Since the winter social gathering was so enjoyed by its attendees, we’re brainstorming for a warm-weather social gathering. Stay tuned for more details.

We are also planning to sponsor a reception for FIS, to help achieve our objective of enriching connections between new information professionals and students. Please feel free to contact me with any suggestions.

Happy Spring!

Laura Warner is a graduate of Dalhousie University’s MLIS/MPA program and is a Reference Librarian for the CBC.

Sophia Apostol began a new position as Training and Group
Knowledge Resources Manager in November 2007 with Coutts Information Services.
This opportunity is new to Coutts and represents the company’s commitment to
emerging technologies, instructional strategies, and knowledge management initiatives.
Sophia can be reached at sapostol@couttsinfo.com
and at 647-346-7674.

Daniel P. Lee will be awarded the SLA DLDP Award at the Annual Conference of the Special Libraries Association in Seattle, WA in June 2008. This award is awarded to an SLA member who represents a group traditionally under-represented in the Association. Recipient must have an interest and potential for leadership with SLA.

People on the Move will be a regular column highlighting the achievements of our members and help keep us all in touch. Please share your career changes, retirements, life changes, volunteer work.

Submit your news to Frances Wong at FWong@blgcanada.com
or Radikha Jaggernauth at rjaggernauth@hsf.on.ca

Memorial: Zenovia Szanc-Smarsh

SLA Toronto has been advised of the death of Zenovia Szanc-Smarsh.

Zenovia Szanc-Smarsh, of Reston, Va. and formerly of Toronto, Canada and Cohoes N.Y., died Saturday, November 24, 2007 after a 3 month battle with lung cancer at the Capital Hospice in Arlington, Va. Born in Dilingen, Germany, she was the daughter of the late Konon and Ewhenia Habal Szanc and beloved wife of John T. Smarsh of Reston. Zenovia was a resident of Canada for 28 years and most recently lived in Reston for almost three years. She received her Bachelor’s and Master’s degrees in Russian Language from SUNY Albany and also a master’s degree in library science from the University of Toronto in 1992. Zenovia was a teacher and librarian and was a former communicant of Sts. Peter & Paul’s Ukrainian Catholic Church in Cohoes.

Contributions in Zenovia’s memory may be made to PLAST Toronto, 2199 Bloor St. West, Toronto, ON M6S 1N2.

Did You Know??

• In the Toronto chapter, our discussion list is the main communication vehicle
• Since January 2008, we have had 30 new subscribers to the discussion list
• As of March 25th 2008, there are 594 subscribers in total
• You can change your settings online

Communicating electronically saves our trees and our environment and keeps our users informed in real time. Here are some tips for using the opportunity productively.

(TIP: This information can also be found on the chapter website at: http://units.sla.org/chapter/ctor/resources/listinfo.asp)

1. What can I post?
   Items should be of interest to members of the Toronto Chapter of SLA. This may include:

• Notes on topics of interest to information professionals and special librarians – everything from day to day problems to issues that pertain in an information society and the future of librarianship
• Announcements of Chapter meetings and other activities
• Sharing of Toronto SLA committee information
• Job announcements
• Looking for work notices (put LFW in the subject line)
• Continuing education opportunities
• Member news
• Announcements forwarded from SLA Association Office or from other SLA Chapters/Divisions
• Important press releases from member vendors

2. What are the commands for managing the list via email?

• To subscribe: Send the message subscribe sla-ctor your-name to lists@lists.sla.org
• To unsubscribe: Send the message unsubscribe sla-ctor to lists@lists.sla.org
• To temporarily turn off mail delivery: Send the message set sla-ctor mail postpone to lists@lists.sla.org
• To turn mail delivery back on: Send the message set sla-ctor mail ack to lists@lists.sla.org
• To contribute to the discussion: Send your message to SLA-CTOR@lists.sla.org

3. How do I change my personal settings online?

• Go to http://sla.lyris.net/read.login and enter your email which is your user id.
• Once logged in, you may change your settings to all of your SLA lists (not just SLA Toronto).
  
  
  Example: You are going on vacation and want to set the list to “No Email”:

  

For help with any aspect of managing the list, please feel free to contact me at pcasey1@cogeco.ca.

Pam Casey is currently the Discussion List Manager for SLA Toronto Chapter and a past-president.