By Andrea McCoy

This webinar on May 17, 2013, sponsored by SLA’s Baseball Caucus, Legal Division and the Illinois Chapter featured five veteran exhibitors. Mike Gruenberg, Gayle Lynn-Nelson, Tom Poure, Fran Staples, and Tony Landolt together provided insight on how to get the most out of the exhibit hall, approach vendors, and obtain all of the cool swag. Although sponsored by the aforementioned groups, Tracy Maleeff of the Legal Division was the person who originally presented the idea for this type of panel discussion. Anne Hengehold, SLA Illinois President, served as moderator.

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What are you up to these days?

I am looking forward with optimism to the June 2013 split out of “Mallinckrodt Pharmaceuticals” from our parent company Covidien. Mallinckrodt Pharmaceuticals will operate as an independent pharmaceutical company instead of being a division of a larger multi-faceted healthcare company.

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If you’re attending, presenting, moderating, exhibiting or participating in any way at the annual conference in San Diego, we want to know!

While intuitively we know our fellow members are fantastic contributors, this is an opportunity to illuminate just how much talent from our chapter will be on the ground in San Diego.

Please send your information to SLA Illinois Chapter Communications Director-at-Large, Kristie Grzywinski. The compiled list will be published June 1^st.

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The SLA Illinois Chapter Executive Board would like to hear from members, so we’re throwing open the phone lines.

Saturday, May 18th from 9:30 – 10:00 a.m., join board members for a conversation by sharing:

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Congratulations to former SLA Illinois Chapter board member Christina Stoll who was elected to the Illinois Library Association Board. She will serve three years as  Director-at-Large beginning July 1, 2013. Election results can be found here. Blog this! Bookmark on Delicious Digg this post Recommend on Facebook Buzz it up Share on Linkedin Share with Stumblers [...]

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