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Post Conference Issue. Vol. 76, #3 Summer 2004
Letter from the Chapter President
Happy New Year!!
By Tom Pellizzi
No, I’m not kidding! For the Association, and our Chapter, the year begins in June, after the Annual Conference. The new Chapter Board is now in place,and we are already working to plan a successful year for you. The new Boardincludes:
Thomas Pellizzi
,
 President 
;
Gwen Loeffler
,
 President Elect 
;
 Agnes Mattis
,
 Past President 
;
Miguel Figueroa
,
Secretary
;
Susan Gormley
,
Treasurer 
;
Catherine Ciaccio
,
Director of Professional Development 
;
Bert Schachter
,
Director of Finance
;
Michael Gruenberg
,
Director of Publications 
Gwen, Miguel, Catherine and Bert are new to the Chapter Board this year.Some Board positions are for one year only. Susan and Michael are in the2
nd
 year of their two-year terms. Agnes, Gwen, and I are all in a longer cycle of 4 years (the Past-Past President serves on the Nominating Committee that findsnew volunteers for board service).Board positions are not the only way to help the Chapter, of course. To a largeextent, the Chapter depends on many other volunteers, some of whom commitonly a day, or even half-day of their time per year. Our Annual Career Day, forexample, couldn’t happen without additional volunteers helping the Career Day Chairperson. Our Holiday Party and our Chapter Programs couldn’t happen without additional volunteers helping the Arrangements Chairperson. There areso many ways for our members to become involved with Chapter activities,to network with peers, and to learn more about how the Chapter operates.I encourage you to get more involved. Whatever amount of time you have tooffer, we can put to good use for the Chapter. At the present time, the Chapter already has thirteen volunteers to fill Chairpositions on the Chapter’s Advisory Council, and we are still looking to fill fivemore. Many of these Chairpersons could use additional help, which wouldinvolve lesser time commitments by other volunteers. Please contact me if you’dlike to get involved with the Chapter. I can be reached most easily via email at:tapdsn@earthlink.net As a volunteer for the Chapter, I can only say that my experience has been fantastic,and I’m looking forward to serving as your President.On that note, the Chapter had the unusual luck of having Agnes Mattis servetwo concurrent years as President. We all owe Agnes a debt of gratitude andI personally thank her for her leadership and mentoring over the years. I wouldalso like to thank the other Board members of the Chapter, past and present.I look forward to hearing from you! Enjoy a great summer! Thomas Pellizzi
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Post Conference Issue.
 Volume 76,#3 Summer 2004
IN THIS ISSUE
Message from the President..........1Message from theDirector of Publications.............3Chapter Announcements:Dun & Bradstreet Award............5Southern Comfort in Stores.......5The Conference froma Candidate’s Point of View.......7 Access to Information:How much is too much?............9 And The Award Goes To.............10SLA Special InterviewRena Shannon.........................11Exhibit in Nashville.......................13Museums Arts and HumanitiesDivision Hosts Pulitzer Author..14Touring the Vanderbilt TelevisionNews Archive...........................15Metadata at theSLA Annual Conference...........16Professional Development...........17
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Dialog.............................................6Donna Conti Career Resources.....3EBSCO...........................................7EOS International...........................8Gatta Design & Co.......................15Global Securities Information, Inc...4InfoCurrent.....................................2Pro Libra......................................10Wontawk......................................12
 
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Vol. 76, #3 Summer 2004
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Message from theDirector of Publications:
By Michael Gruenberg
N
ashville has always represented to me country music, Vanderbilt University, country cooking andthe Grand Ole Opry. I have been to the Opry, beento Vanderbilt, ate some excellent Southern style food andhave a soft spot in my heart for Dolly Parton. So, it was with great expectations that I went to Nashville for this year’s annual meeting. The site of the meeting was the Opryland Hotel, one of the largest and most successful hotels in the UnitedStates. The hotel has close to 3,000 rooms and they areusually booked to capacity. The hotel is a mainstay for weddings, meetings and conventions much like ours. The rooms are clean; the food is tolerable and not inex-pensive. Perhaps the most striking element of the hotel isthat it is comprised of a number of sections that are con-nected by walkways surrounded by lush gardens and waterfalls. All of this beauty is enclosed under glass. Inother words, if you ever wondered what it was like to bethe “pheasant under glass,” this place would give you anindication of what that is like. When I walked in and stared at the greenery, waterfallsand pools enclosed by a glass dome many stories abovemy head, I was immediately reminded of the Bruce Dernfilm that was released in 1972 called “
Silent Running 
.” The central theme to this film was that, in times of adversity, mankind must have the ability to save itself.Dern is adrift in a spaceship appropriately named the“
Valley Forge
” which is part of a fleet of ships whichcontain a floating Garden of Eden. These sophisticatedgreenhouses containing lush greenery were designed torefurbish the earth with foliage in the event of nuclearholocaust. They are charged with circling the earth untilsuch time as their plants are necessary for rebuilding thegreenery that would be destroyed by war. When an orderis given from earth to destroy these greenhouses, Dernmust make the decision on whether to obey the directiveor not. If the hotel could be lifted into space, it wouldhave made a perfect set for this film. The worth of a conference is not so much in the hotelamenities and scenery, but more so in the relevance of the programs presented. As a vendor, the worth of theconference is in the amount of traffic that flows to andfrom the booth and ultimately from the business derivedfrom that traffic. The programs at the 2004 Conference were well attended,the exhibit hall had a steady flow of visitors and, althoughthere were less people at this conference than in New York the previous year, all parties seemed satisfied with the results.
 Michael Gruenberg
 is the Strategic Accounts Manager  at OneSource Information Services. He can be reached atMichael_Gruenberg@onesource.com or 516.576.1575.
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