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September 22-23, 2008
Washington, D.C.
Topic: "Power Searching with the Pros"

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DEADLINE SEPTEMBER 12TH
INTERNET LIBRARIAN 2008   
October 20-22, 2008
Monterey, CA
Topic: "Beyond 2.0: User-Focused Tools & Practices"

 

 

• INTERNET LIBRARIAN
  October 29 - 31, 2007
  Monterey, CA
  Topic: "2.0: Info Pros, Library Communities & Web Tools"
  
• INTERNET LIBRARIAN
  October 23 - 25, 2006
  Monterey, CA
  Topic: "Integrated Experiences: Compelling Content Combination"
  
  
• INTERNET LIBRARIAN
  October 24 - 26, 2005
  Monterey, CA
  Topic: "Shifting Worlds!"
  
  
• SCOUG'S Summer Retreat
  July 30 - Aug. 1, 2004
  La Casa de Maria, Montecito, CA
  Topic: "What's Next?"
  

• "The New Gold Rush: Text Mining Finds the Motherlodes"
  Kellogg West Conference Center (Cal Poly Pomona)
  April 16, 2004
  Radical improvements in text mining technologies are poised to become the "Next Big Thing" in a post-search, "beyond-Google" information environment. The new tools can generate answer products that provide what all users long for - instantaneous, authoritative, complete answers. Come see the first results of the new breakthroughs - sophisticated reputation monitoring services - then stay to learn about the technologies that make them - and much much more - possible.
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• "NOTHIN' BUT NET!"       
  INTERNET LIBRARIAN 2003
  NOVEMBER 3-5, 2003 - MONTEREY, CA
  
  
• SCOUG Spring Workshop 2003
  It's a Jungle out there!
  SCOUG at the LA Zoo!
  Friday May 9th, 2003
  The Workshop explored the future of the information professional. We discussed the skills needed to provide the new services we will perform and the new ways to do the familiar tasks we may still hang onto.
  
  
• Internet Librarian 2002
  Navigating in Turbulent Waters
  Palm Springs Convention Center
  Nov. 4-6, 2002
  
  
• SCOUG'S 2002 Retreat
  Outside the Box: The Info Pro Experience
  Borderless Librarians, Boundless Information
  Casa de Maria, Santa Barbara, CA
  July 26-28, 2002
  Read Carol Ebbinghouse's account of the Retreat in SEARCHER (Nov. 2002)
  
  
• California Teaming - Long Beach, CA, April 17-21, 2002
  A joint conference of the Association of Independent Information Professionals and SCOUG.
  Partnerships & Alliances: Surviving & Succeeding Together, April 19, 2002
  View the program and speaker presentations
  
  
• Internet Librarian 2001
  SCOUG Evening Session Extraordinaire:
  Barbara Quint, Editor, Searcher magazine, leads the Southern California Online Users Group’s stimulating program, The Tasini Decision: The End of Full Text as We Know It?
  
  
• SCOUG's 2001 Retreat Winning the Future Together:
  Perfect Searchers in a Perfect World
  Read Carol Ebbinghouse's account of the Retreat in SEARCHER (Nov. 2001)
  
  
• SCOUG's 2001 Spring Workshop:
  Building Information Communities
  

SCOUG Steering Committee

Steve Anderson, West Group
Belinda Beardt, Advanced Information Management
Cherene Birkholz, R.R. Bowker
Caroline Bordinaro, Cal State U., Dominguez Hills
Patti Brown Finie, Gale Group
Barbara Busch, DTIC
Dudee Chiang, JPL
Lys Chuck, C Q & A
Steve Coffman, LSSI
Carol Ebbinghouse, Western State Univ. College of Law
Lynn Ecklund, Seek Information Service
Monica Ertel, Consultant
Latonya Jefferson, Circuit City
Merrill Lishan, Consultant
Randy Marcinko, Marcinko Enterprises
Mary-Ellen Mort, JobStar
Gloria Page, Scrappii Services
Eva Perkins, EPA Research
Barbara Quint, SEARCHER Magazine
Lorraine Raglin, Consultant
Sandra Tung, Boeing
Pearl Yonezawa, L.A. Public Library

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