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-- APOLOGIES FOR CROSS-POSTINGS -- Please join us in welcoming CLA President Alvin Schrader, who will be giving a lecture entitled Hitchiking Across Cultures from School to Work. Thursday, November 8, 2007 5:30 for a 6:00 start Executive Training Suite (Room 3087), Kenneth C. Rowe Management Building, Dalhousie University, 6100 University Avenue Co-presented by: Dalhousie's CLA Student Chapter & School of Information Management This presentation explores key differences between school and workplace cultures, and highlights the importance of attention to every new graduate's transitional phase from school to work. It offers a leadership perspective for new graduates, supervisors, and existing staff at all organizational levels who want a deeper appreciation of school-work differences and greater understanding of the role that everyone should play in new staff integration, socialization, productivity, and satisfaction. Alvin Schrader, President of the Canadian Library Association, is a professor and former director in the School of Library and Information Studies at the University of Alberta. His teaching and research interests are in the areas of library leadership, school to work transitioning, professional education, research methods, library service measurement and evaluation, intellectual freedom, and sexual minority library services and collections. Before taking his doctoral degree at Indiana University, he worked in special libraries and later as a public library deputy branch head. Dr. Alvin Schrader was consultant to the National Core Library Statistics Program sponsored by the National Library of Canada, and has written extensively about library service evaluation, most recently for a special publication in honour of the annual conference of IFLA (International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions) that will be held in Quebec City in August 2008. Warm regards, Shannon Clarke, Lise Brin, Kathleen Amos, Virginia MacLeod and Jocelyn Covert CLA Student Chapter Executive School of Information Management Faculty of Management Dalhousie University