The email Joe posted on Canadian Federal Library Closures contains misinformation. Environment Canada IS NOT closing any libraries. The Canadian Library Association has revised its press release (http://www.cla.ca/AM/TemplateRedirect.cfm?template=/CM/ContentDisplay.cfm&ContentID=12920) and apologized to the Head Librarian of EC.

-Janet Webster

Please welcome the following new IAMSLIC members :

Williamson, Kelsey(SAIL)

Library: Naval Undersea Warfare Center (NUWC), Division Newport, Newport, USA

Peckover, Rachel (SAIL)

Library: American Society for Microbiology, Washington, USA

Otero , Alessandra

Library: Sea Grant Program, University of Puerto Rico, Mayaguez, Puerto Rico

Kovatcheva, Pavlinka (AFRIAMSLIC)

Library: University of Johannesburg, Kingsway Campus, Auckland Park, South Africa

Yusta, Sara (Latin America)

Library: Universidad Catolica de Temuco, Temuco, Chili

Posted by : Marie Pascale Baligand on behalf of the Membership Committee

The problem of journal prices is an old one, but it was interesting to read that even Harvard is finding the current situation untenable.  Check out this Faculty Advisory Council Memorandum on Journal Pricing.

http://isites.harvard.edu/icb/icb.do?keyword=k77982&tabgroupid=icb.tabgroup143448

Joe Wible

Hopkins Marine Station

Dear colleagues,

Below is the IODE OceanTeacher Academy Training Course announcement. Please note that the deadline for submitting applications is extended until April 20th 2012.

Best regards,
Maria Kalentsits

Dear colleague,

 We are pleased to inform you that the period for applications for the following Training Course is open between 5 March and 20 April 2012:

 • Grant writing (for digitisation projects), which will be held in Ostend, Belgium, between 17-21 September 2012.

We therefore invite you to share this information amongst potential interested candidates in your country.

The courses’ description, topics covered, learning outcomes and prerequisites are available at www.oceanteacher.org and www.iode.org.

 Interested candidates can register for the course by following the instructions described at OceanTeacher Academy website, under Registration.

 Registration implies the submission of the following documents:
- Application form
- CV
- Endorsement letter (in case of asking for sponsorship)

Both full- and co-sponsoring are available for a limited number of participants. Sponsored participants will receive one or a combination of the following cost items: 1) air ticket, 2) living and accommodation support, 3) tuition fee and 4) medical insurance.

 The selection of participants who will be sponsored will take into consideration:
- Applicant country’s development status (preference will be given to LIFDCs)
- Endorsement of the candidate’s application by his/her employer and any co-sponsoring
- Expected impact of the training for the applicants’ institution
- Possibility of any co-sponsorship

 Co-sponsorship is an asset for selection.

Complete applications should be sent by e-mail directly to the OceanTeacher Academy Training Coordinator within the deadline. We underline that the deadline for registration for the aforementioned course is 13 April, 2012.

Kind regards,

Claudia Delgado
Ocean Teacher Coordinator, IOC Project Office for IODE
Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission of UNESCO (IOC)
Wandelaarkaai 7/61
8400 Oostende
BELGIUM
Tel: +32 59 34 01 58
Fax: +32 59 79 52 20 or Fax: +32 59 34 01 52
E-mail: claudia.delgado@iode.org

Dear colleagues,

The planning for the 38^th IAMSLIC Conference in Anchorage, Alaska is progressing well. Our Programm Committee has already received a good number of interesting paper and discussion workshop proposals and  some additional proposals can still be considered by the Committee for inclusion into the Conference Programme.

We would like to inform you that the deadline for presentation submissions has been extended until April 30. For those of you who have considered submitting but haven’t yet done so, now is the time.

For complete details, including what to include in your proposal, see the conference website.

We are looking forward to receiving some more presentation proposals and meeting you at the conference.

Best regards,

 Maria Kalentsits & The Program Committee

Stanford University Libraries and Academic Information Resources (SULAIR) is looking for a Metadata Analyst to help curate datasets from selected domains, with a primary focus on describing these information resources to enable management, preservation, discovery and re-use. The goal of this hands-on position is to advance SULAIR’s capacity and the Stanford response to the NSF Data Management Plan mandate by developing strategies through practice to curate data efficiently and effectively. The candidate will, over the course of a 2-year term project, work across the Digital Library Systems and Services group, other staff in the Metadata Unit, and user-facing library personnel to create and sustain a general workflow for submission of science and engineering data into the Stanford Digital Repository. Working with pilot data sets and use cases from GIS and other domains, the selected candidate will help produce and enter the metadata necessary to populate the repository and access systems. In doing so, s/he will also produce a landscape view of the metadata needs, roles, tools, standards and processes necessary to provide and scale data services throughout the Stanford University Libraries. Standard operating procedures and best practices for dealing with non-MARC metadata in the context of scientific data are ideal outcomes. The position will be supervised by the Science Data Librarian.

Throughout the life of the project there will be opportunity for interesting sub-projects that will include: creating, remediating and working on ingest models for the Stanford Geoportal, an online search engine for geospatial data, and its supporting Spatial Data Infrastructure; working with Stanford faculty and researchers to acquire, transform and ingest the metadata for their data into the Stanford Digital Repository; working with other metadata experts on in-depth examination of data-set- and domain-specific schema, mappings and crosswalking amongst standards; and data transformations across library systems. For each of these, the Metadata Analyst will apply expertise, methods and tools to digital materials deposited by Stanford researchers into the Stanford Digital Repository. S/he will also help identify requirements and specifications for, and validate development of, a next generation metadata toolkit for the description of data sets and geospatial resources. S/he will also assist in specifying the fields and attributes for domain-specific forms for the deposit of digital resources into a Hydra-based Stanford Digital Repository user interface. Projects will be decided based on faculty interest, subject specialist availability, the interests and skill set of the applicant, and needs as they emerge.

To apply for the position, please go to jobs.stanford.edu and search for Job ID 46849.

Joe Wible

Hopkins Marine Station

Dear colleagues,

If you are considering paper or poster at the IAMSLIC conference in Alaska please note that the submission deadline is quickly approaching. The Planning Commitee is looking forward to receive your submissions for proposed papers and panel discussions by March 30, 2012 (the deadline for poster proposals is extended until April 30, 2012).  A list of some suggested topics is available on the conference website .

We hope you will be able to join us in Alaska.

Best regards,

Maria Kalentsits

Chair/Convenor IAMSLIC 2012

SAIL is holding its annual conference on April 10-13 at the Massachusetts Maritime Academy in Buzzards Bay, MA.
Carla Robinson, SAIL Representative

Dear colleagues,

We would like to remind you that the Call for Conference Presentations is open until March 30, 2012.

The submission deadline for poster presentations is extended until April 30, 2012.

Proposals for panel discussions are also welcome.

For complete details, including what to include in your proposal, please see the conference website.

Thank you very much and looking forward to seeing your proposals.

Sincerely,

Maria Kalentsits & the Program Committee

The US NBII is scheduled for termination as of January 15, 2012. http://www.nbii.gov/portal/server.pt/community/termination_of_nbii_program/2057 This has been a collaborative US project to provide access to information and data on natural resources. The datasets involved are varied. Some will be maintained by partner institutions ; for example, the Seabird Ecological Assessment Network is housed at the University of Wisconsin. Others will be dropped such as the Marine Habitats Website. Time will tell if we loss access to important data.