The Minnesota Chapter of the Special Libraries Association invites you to attend: Annual Membership Meeting/KM Presentation

Part 1 – Membership Meeting

Required by headquarters, the annual membership meeting is where to learn what your board accomplished in 2009 and is the first time to meet the new officers for 2010. It is also a chance to learn about and volunteer for open positions on the advisory board.

Part 2 – Connecting People: Using a Web Q&A Forum to Facilitate Knowledge Transfer

This presentation will describe creation of an interactive web based question and answer forum to provide a means for a global, dispersed research organization to quickly and easily connect with each other to solve technical problems. The solution “Ask Technology” has been a success and a good complement to the more traditional expertise location database.

Anne Rogers manages the delivery of scientific and technical information services for Cargill in the U.S. Her recent work has focused on embedding Knowledge Management into standard business processes and how to best facilitate tacit knowledge transfer through use of online collaboration tools and virtual teams. A member of SLA since 1983, Anne is currently Strategic Planning Director for the Minnesota Chapter and Communications Chair for the KM Division.

11:30 a.m. – 12:00 p.m. Registration, networking, food

12:00 p.m. – 12:45 p.m. Part 1 – Membership Meeting

12:45 p.m. – 1:30 p.m. Part 2 – Knowledge Management Presentation with Anne Rogers

Box lunches will be served along with beverages.

WHERE

Sumner Library – Cargill Room
611 Van White Memorial Blvd.
Minneapolis, MN 55411
952.847.2875

See below for a link to a map and parking instructions.

COST

$10 Everyone (Association Members, Students, unemployed, retired guests, everyone else)

*Please note registration guidelines below.

REGISTRATION

Please register by Nov. 6th.

1. Email name and contact information to minnesota.sla@gmail.com

2. Make payment through PayPal OR send check payable to MN Chapter SLA

Registration details are available on the MN SLA website at:

http://units.sla.org/chapter/cmn/programs/events/e111109.htm

Please note the following registration guidelines:

· If you register, we require you to pay, even if you are not able to attend.

· There will be a $5 charge for registrations made after the registration deadline.

· Registrations made after the deadline are not guaranteed food or seating.

CONTACT WITH QUESTIONS

Deb Rash – drash@iconoculture.com – 612.730.1997

Rachel Wangerin - rachel.wangerin@ecolab.com - 651.795.5998

Kristine Spanier – kspanier@knownomads.com – 612.877.1731

MAP AND DIRECTIONS

http://maps.google.com/maps?f=d&saddr=&daddr=611%20Van%20White%20Mem.%20Blvd.+Minneapolis+55411