December 4th - Lunch with DOW Chemical Information Professionals to discuss career opportunities as well as potential opportunities for a tour of DOW's information centers. This will include three DOW representatives, two SI staff, some SLA officers, a Student Archives Association representative, and possibly one or two SLA members. December 15th - Our SLA chapter will subsidize SLA members who would like to attend the Michigan chapter's Holiday party at the Edsel and Eleanor Ford House, featuring a tour and dinner. Hearing alumni speak was very popular, as well as having brown bags that talk about careers, how our curriculum would be a match for the field, and how the guests worked their way to their present positions. We will plan similar events.
Ideas discussed include a law firm library, television library, and business or science library.
We also intend to continue to support member involvement in Michigan Chapter events by helping to sponsor member participation. We are discussing the possibility of another T-shirt sale with a new design and are working to make our web page more functional, such as adding links from our calendar of events to a page describing the event. We would also like to encourage attendance at the SLA national conference and hope to be able to help student attend with funds of some amount, earned from T-shirt sales. We also have as a goal to create a form that will enable us to record event information, such as number in attendance, type and quantity of refreshments provided, guest information, etc. This will allow us to better plan events in the future.