SDLA Executive Board Session: “Incoming and Outgoing Members.” (The 2006 Board is pictured above.)
Notes from this session:
I attended this session as an incoming member of the Intellectual Freedom Committee. The session began with introductions of the incoming and outgoing board and committee members.
Mary Bushing, the keen “question-asker” that is infamous at our library and many other libraries around the world, initiated dialogue about our membership. Why do people join SDLA? Why do people choose not to join SDLA?
Several thoughts came up. Some librarians may not understand the difference between SDLA, SDLA, MPLA…etc. Other librarians feel like SDLA is not “for them” or does not have anything to offer their type of library (academic, school, etc). There have been strong marketing campaigns, but perhaps SDLA needs to take a more active approach toward recruiting new libraries. At the RCPL, new employees get a year of free membership. Mentoring is also a good draw for SDLA. We should facilitate mentorship and support new members of the library community, when known. We could contact them initially, maybe by mail, electronically, or with an in-person visit. They need to know what we have to offer and what SDLA is, specifically.
Why do people join SDLA? It’s not just a “pass the crown” organization. Some shared that they had joined for networking, others were new to the library community and it brought them “into the loop.” Mary Bushing pointed out that Conference attendance may not be a direct benefit since you can attend if you are not part of SDLA. Others noted that they enjoyed the committee work. Some join professional associations in general, and pay dues because they want to “give something back” to organizations that have advanced their careers.
MB also brought up the issue of our 101-page bylaws, and if we may want to consider if we could “simplify.” In general.
Then, the outgoing Board took care of their business, as to be announced, we took a photo, and the new year was ushered in!
June 24, 2007 at 1:01 pm
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November 16, 2007 at 3:30 am
Two new studies show why some people are more attractive for members of the opposite sex than others.
The University of Florida, Florida State University found that physically attractive people almost instantly attract the attention of the interlocutor, sobesednitsy with them, literally, it is difficult to make eye. This conclusion was reached by a series of psychological experiments, which were determined by the people who believe in sending the first seconds after the acquaintance. Here, a curious feature: single, unmarried experimental preferred to look at the guys, beauty opposite sex, and family, people most often by representatives of their sex.
The authors believe that this feature developed a behavior as a result of the evolution: a man trying to find a decent pair to acquire offspring. If this is resolved, he wondered potential rivals. Detailed information about this magazine will be published Journal of Personality and Social Psychology.
In turn, a joint study of the Rockefeller University, Rockefeller University and Duke University, Duke University in North Carolina revealed that women are perceived differently by men smell. During experiments studied the perception of women one of the ingredients of male pheromone-androstenona smell, which is contained in urine or sweat.
The results were startling: women are part of this repugnant odor, and the other part is very attractive, resembling the smell of vanilla, and the third group have not felt any smell. The authors argue that the reason is that the differences in the receptor responsible for the olfactory system, from different people are different.
It has long been proven that mammals (including human) odor is one way of attracting the attention of representatives of the opposite sex. A detailed article about the journal Nature will publish.