http://www.starterlibrarian.com/2010/01/23/goals-for-2010/ for the new and emerging librarian Tue, 09 Mar 2010 09:13:54 -0800 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 hourly 1 http://www.starterlibrarian.com/2010/01/23/goals-for-2010/comment-page-1/#comment-207 Caitlin Fri, 05 Feb 2010 18:42:25 +0000 http://www.starterlibrarian.com/?p=136#comment-207 Hey Starter Librarian-- I'm a member of two of those groups, so I just wanted to point out that there are student memberships for both SLA and ASIST that are quite affordable, and being a member qualifies you to apply for their travel scholarships for the annual conferences. Personally, I think ASIST has better publications and more interesting membership, especially with your background as a software engineer. I think you will find that you can run pretzels around most of SLA as far as your tech skills go, and that you will find a lot of their publications sound like other people playing "catch up" to you. However, the annual conference is great for networking if you can go on a scholarship. Good luck! Hey Starter Librarian–
I’m a member of two of those groups, so I just wanted to point out that there are student memberships for both SLA and ASIST that are quite affordable, and being a member qualifies you to apply for their travel scholarships for the annual conferences. Personally, I think ASIST has better publications and more interesting membership, especially with your background as a software engineer. I think you will find that you can run pretzels around most of SLA as far as your tech skills go, and that you will find a lot of their publications sound like other people playing “catch up” to you. However, the annual conference is great for networking if you can go on a scholarship.
Good luck!

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