Panel for library skills harnessed in nontraditional environments.

1. Beyond Traditional
Libraries
An Exploration of Special Libraries

2. Library Hall of Fame

3. Competencies
1. Information and Knowledge Services
2. Information and Knowledge Systems and Technology
3. Information and Knowledge Resources
4. Information and Data Retrieval Analysis
5. Organization of Data, Information, and Knowledge Assets
6. Information Ethics
https://www.sla.org/about-sla/competencies/

4. Panel
• Michelle L. Chrzanowski, NASA Scientific and Technical
Information (STI) Program Support Services
• Easter DiGangi, Portsmouth Public Library
• Julie Beamer, United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth
Circuit
• Trish Little Taylor, retired corporate librarian

5. From Public to Special:
A Special Library Adventure
• Over 10 years in public and academic libraries
• During library school, discovered a love of metadata
• Found an internship with SAE International via I Need a Library
Job group on LinkedIn
– Became a indexing and taxonomy consultant
– Began adding to my library bag of tricks with linked data and algorithm
training
• At a VLA social, networked and found a position with NASA
Scientific and Technical Information (STI) Program

6. Opportunity Knocks: A Funny Thing
Happened When I moved to New
Jersey

7. The Accidental Special Librarian

8. SLA Resources
SLA Homepage
https://www.sla.org/
Information Outlook
https://www.sla.org/access-membership/io/
SLA Virginia Chapter
http://virginia.sla1.org/
SLA Connect
https://connect.sla.org/home

9. Questions?