The other popular AIPs in Google are the American Institute of Physics, the American Institute of Philosophy, Alaskan Independence Party, and Astrophysical Institute Potsdam. Not too much cross-over there.

While SLA may have mean Symbionese Liberation Army then (and I do remember it), now (to quite a few folks) it means Service Level Agreement. When I went to the library school at UNT a few years ago I have to admit to being in the dark about what a Special Library was and what one did there. As it turns out, while I was in school getting a Masters in Information Science, many Special Libraries were closed down by the company because, you know, everything is online and it isn’t hard to control documents and content, is it?

Be that as it may, renaming to something with Information Professional probably covers it better these days than the word library, which, unfortunately, is primarily thought of as a community place to borrow books, and now other media. I don’t think you could win the language wars by trying to change that now.

Laissez Les Bon Temps Roulez! I’ll eat a beignet in honor of the New Orleans conference.