I’ve just returned home from New Orleans and the Special Libraries Association 2010 Annual Conference. It was an informative and entertaining event, and I enjoyed meeting new people and getting re-acquainted with familiar friends and colleagues.
But SLA, like many other institutions, is going through serious challenges – financial shortfalls that are triggering a major organizational restructuring. In her remarks in the closing session on Wednesday, SLA Executive Director Janice LaChance devoted her address to the challenges facing SLA in the near and long-term. I hadn’t expected to record any of the session, but I decided to try to capture her remarks in whole rather than tweet a summary.
Here are Janice’s remarks in the closing session regarding the state of SLA …
Feel free to pass along to fellow SLA members.
If you’d like to read a summary of the Closing General Session, Jill Hurst-Wahl has several posts about the conference at her blog, Digitization 101. If you see other blog posts that discuss the SLA 2010 closing session, or the general state of the association, please feel free to leave a link via a comment. Thanks!
