{"id":5,"date":"2011-05-20T17:54:10","date_gmt":"2011-05-20T21:54:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/slanews\/wordpress\/?page_id=5"},"modified":"2012-05-03T07:07:30","modified_gmt":"2012-05-03T11:07:30","slug":"about-the-news-division","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/slanews\/aboutthissite\/about-the-news-division\/","title":{"rendered":"About the News Division"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This section tells you a little about the Special Libraries Association News Division, such as the objectives of the News Division, the officers, information on joining the NewsLib mailing list, News Division awards and winners, and the benefits of joining SLA.<\/p>\n<p>The News Division is the section of the Special Libraries Association that focuses on librarians and libraries dealing with news media in such settings as newspapers, magazines, broadcast organizations, and nontraditional news settings. To join the News Division, add it as a division to your SLA membership. For more information about special libraries in general, please visit the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sla.org\/\" target=\"_window\">Special Libraries Association Web site<\/a>.\u00a0 To visit the current News Division Web site, go <a title=\"SLA News Division Current Web site\" href=\"http:\/\/news.sla.org\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"about\/objectives.html\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial;\"><strong>News Division Objectives<\/strong><\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"about\/ndawards.html\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial;\"><strong>News Division Awards<\/strong><\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/parklibrary.jomc.unc.edu\/newslibraries.html\" target=\"_window\"><strong>Barbara Semonche&#8217;s Pages about the News Division<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"about\/officers0311.htm\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial;\"><strong>2011 Officers, Committees, and Leaders<\/strong><\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"about\/pastofficers.html\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial;\"><strong>Past Officers<\/strong><\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/slanews\/NewsLib\/newsliblyris.html\" target=\"_window\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial;\"><strong>About the NewsLib Discussion List<\/strong><\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/lists.unc.edu\/read\/?forum=newslib\" target=\"_window\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial;\"><strong>Direct link to the NewsLib Discussion List<\/strong><\/span><\/a> (You may need to login to gain access to the list.)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/newslibmini.pbwiki.com\/\" target=\"_window\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial;\"><strong>newslib mini<\/strong><\/span><\/a>, a wiki for those working solo or in small news libraries (Access is restricted. Please contact <a href=\"mailto:aholcomb@kalamazoogazette.com\">Anne Holcomb<\/a> for a password.)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sla.org\/content\/community\/who\/index.cfm\" target=\"_window\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial;\"><strong>Special Libraries Association Membership Directory<\/strong><\/span><\/a> (Access is restricted to SLA members.)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sla.org\/content\/memberservice\/joinsla\/index.cfm\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial;\"><strong>How to Join SLA<\/strong><\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sla.org\/content\/membership\/mbrbenefits\/\" target=\"_window\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial;\"><strong>Benefits of SLA Membership<\/strong><\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman;\"><em>Last Update: 03\/01\/11<\/em><br style=\"font-family: Times New Roman;\" \/><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This section tells you a little about the Special Libraries Association News Division, such as the objectives of the News Division, the officers, information on joining the NewsLib mailing list, News Division awards and winners, and the benefits of joining &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/slanews\/aboutthissite\/about-the-news-division\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":65,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-5","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/slanews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/slanews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/slanews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/slanews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/slanews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5"}],"version-history":[{"count":39,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/slanews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/slanews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5\/revisions\/28"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/slanews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/65"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/slanews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}