IAMSLIC news & events

Mario Espejel

Colegio de Postgraduados, Biblioteca Central

Km. 36.5 Carr. Mex. - Texcoco, Montecillo

Texcoco, Mexico 56230

Mexico

Telephone: 0015558045900 x1129

Email: bibliocp@colpos.mx

Ariel: 200.23.27.248

URL: http://www.colpos.mx/biblioteca/

Ekaterina Kulakova

Southern Scientific Research Institute of Marine Fisheries and Oceanography (YugNIRO) World Ocean Fisheries Resources

Department

2 Sverdlov Street

Kerch, Crimea 98300

Ukraine

Telephone: (380-6561) 2-10-12

Fax: (380-6561) 6-16-27

Email: katia_faust@mail.ru

Eloisa de Sousa Maia

Instituto Oceanografico (IO/USP), Universidade de Sao Paulo

Praca do Oceanografico, 191 Cidade Universitaria-Butana

Sao Paulo, CEP 05508-900

Brazil

Telephone: (0055)(0xx11)3091-6590

Fax: (0055)(0xx11)3091-5040

Email: eloisamaia@usp.br

URL: http://dedalus.usp.br:4500/ALEPH/POR/IOC/IOC/IO

Fabiola Riquelme

Instituto Antartico Chileno Library

Plaza Munoz Gamero 1055

Punta Arenas, Region de Magallanes y Antarti 620-9100

Chile

Telephone: 56-61 298144

Fax: 56-61 298149

Email: friquelme@inach.cl

URL: www.inach.cl

Dan Schill

Idaho Department of Fish and Game

PO Box 25, 600 South Walnut

Boise, ID 83707

United States

Telephone: 208-287-2777

Fax: 208-334-2114

Email: dschill@idfg.idaho.gov

Kristen L. Metzger,  Membership Database & Committee Chair

Here is a writeup about the library layoffs that happened last week at Stanford.  The Miller Library did not lose any permanent staff, but it did give up its entire budget for hiring students for shelving, projects, etc.

Joe

Miller Library

Hopkins Marine Station

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ReMix
News from the
Stanford Libraries

Welcome to ReMix, News for Library Donors and Friends

June 19, 2009, Issue No. 17

SULAIR, Decimated

In a little over a century, libraries at Stanford have survived earthquakes, floods, relocations, effects of depression and wartime, campus unrest, and other disturbances. To this litany, we add another blow: on 10 June 2009, 32 SULAIR staff – representing hundreds of years of service and every level and division – learned their jobs are vanishing. Thanks to a hiring freeze, 26 other positions had been left unfilled and have now been eliminated. Six surviving positions have been reduced in hours. In all, 64 positions were affected. We have truly been decimated: more than one of us in ten is hors de combat. The official account is posted at the Stanford News Service.

This layoff, if not its details or extent, was anticipated for months; the university began warning of budget cuts for the 2010 budget year in November. As the campus budget news became more dire through the winter and into the spring, library directors had to revisit the layoff plan several times to accommodate progressively severe reductions. Many efforts were made to limit the number of layoffs, starting with the hiring freeze. Every other budget area was also cut: services, hours, repairs, publications, facilities, etc. are reduced to survival levels. Even the once-sacrosanct library materials budget has been trimmed, a decision sure to be controversial. Those “unaffected” by the layoffs will find their work more demanding than ever; the loss of institutional memory is profound. Our near-term challenge is to reconsider and revamp our services, operations, and reader expectations to match our means, and, in so doing, hope for creative solutions and outcomes.

This raises afresh the question of what is a library. It reminds us that, besides the buildings and collections, a library is a community, in our case comprising staff, students, faculty, other researchers, alumni, and friends. That community persists, of course, but it is wounded. SULAIR will survive this too, but not soon, and not without lasting effect. Please join me in wishing us all well, particularly those being put out of work, but also those who soldier on and those who depend on the work we do.

Doggedly,

Andrew Herkovic

I wanted to let you know that Stanford has cataloged this pdf internet resource. Copy cataloging is now available through WorldCat.

Joe
Hopkins Marine Station
Stanford University

I am forwarding this for Freda Lin at Occidental.   Does anyone have a good contact at Inter-Reserch for getting usage statistics?  At OSU, we get ours through Serials Solution and these are not precise.

Thanks.
-Janet

Janet Webster
Head Librarian, Guin Library
Oregon State University
Hatfield Marine Science Center
2030 Marine Science Drive
Newport, OR  97365  USA

—— Forwarded Message
From: Freda Lin <lin@oxy.edu>
Date: Mon, 18 May 2009 15:16:43 -0700
To: <janet.webster@oregonstate.edu>
Subject: Seeking help with contacting Inter-Research, publisher of Marine Ecology Progress Series

Dear Ms. Webster,

I work for Occidental College Library in Los Angeles. I was wondering if someone from IAMSLIC might be able to help me with a question?

Are members of IAMSLIC able to obtain institutional usage data from Inter-Research? If so, who do they need to contact at Inter-Research to set that up?

Our institution subscribes to Marine Ecology Progress Series (published by  Inter-Research) — print with online access. This journal is the most expensive of all our single journal titles and so we’d like to obtain usage data for it. However, I have not been successful in reaching the publisher by the email provided at their website and our subscription agent only has the email address for the content website manager, who has nothing to do with institutional usage data.

I am just trying to find out if there is another way of going about this before I have to put out a letter or call to Inter-Research offices in Germany for help. I am only a part-time, temporary staff person so any pointer/suggestion you can offer that would save time will be very much appreciated(!).

Thanks so much for your consideration,

Sincerely,

Freda Lin
Electronic Resources Assistant
Occidental College Library
323-259-1314
lin@oxy.edu

For those of you at the Cyamus meeting who heard Meg Caldwell’s talk, she mentioned publishing the results of the comprehensive literature review done by the Center for Ocean Solutions. The docment’s goal was to indentify and synthesize all the major threats facing the Pacific Ocean. It is now available for free as a PDF. A link to the document along with information about the Pacific Ocean Scientific Consensus Statement signed by more than 400 leading scientists from nearly two-dozen countries can be found at:

http://www.centerforoceansolutions.org/initiatives_poi.html

Joe Wible
Hopkins Marine Station
Stanford University

Since the launch of the Aquatic Commons repository in July of 2007 both the deposits and downloads have increased steadily.  From 27 documents, the repository has grown to 2,160 items in April 2009.  In April, there were 6,096 downloads.  Of the top 35 downloads,  26, or 75%, were classed as Aquaculture or Fisheries.   These 26 items accounted for 1,320 downloads.  Aquaculture Asia issues were heavily used.  Browsing by Issuing Agency now indicates that we have publications from 44 organizations.  Metadata is harvested by Avano, Google, Google Scholar, BASE, and OAIster.

Join us in sharing information about the aquatic environment.

• Use Aquatic Commons to help promote and preserve your research
• Partner with other researchers and organizations to allow them to share research
• Use Avano to access more than 179,000 full text documents from repositories world-wide

Submitted by Stephanie Haas on behalf of the AC Board and the AC Working Groups

The First Meeting of the Network was held under the auspices of the European Association of Aquatic Sciences Libraries and Information Centres (EURASLIC) and was hosted and supported by the Marine Science Institute of Andalusia (CSIC) in Cadiz, Spain from 17 to 18 November 2008. Rich and informative presentations from Libraries in Croatia, France, Greece, Italy, Lebanon, Spain and Tunisia were given, as well as special presentations on the work of MED POL, IAMSLIC, EURASLIC, Aquatic Commons and open access sources in the marine sciences that are applicable to the region. There was a lot of enthusiasm to develop the Network as a tool for exchanging information on new projects, training and technology in the region. Much of this will be achieved through an online Portal that is currently being developed in English, French, Spanish and Arabic, and to work together with the European and International Associations of Marine Science Libraries. For further information don’t hesitate to contact Ms Margaret Watts at: mwatts@unepmap.gr or library@unepmap.gr

A copy of the Report of the Meeting, including an executive summaries and summaries of presentations, in english, french and spanish can be downloaded from http://195.97.36.231/dbases/MedLibs/Final_Report_Cadiz.pdf

Is Springer being put up for sale? Candover and Cinven, the private
equity companies that own Springer, are believed to have
appointed UBS and Goldman Sachs to sound out potential bidders

http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/2009/03/springer-on-block.html

and

http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2009/mar/26/publisher-springer-put-up-for-sale

Joe Wible
Hopkins Marine Station

The OUS Libraries Faculty adopted an open access mandate for our work earlier this month.  Here’s the wording of the policy as well as some comments.

-Janet Webster

The policy and guidelines are now posted to ScholarsArchive -
http://hdl.handle.net/1957/10850

Peter Suber and Steven Harnad have reported about it on their respective
blogs:

Peter Suber (Open Access News) -
http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/2009/03/oa-mandate-for-library-facult
y-of-osu.html

Steven Harnad (Open Access Archivangelism) -
http://openaccess.eprints.org/index.php?/archives/548-Planets-1st-Librar
y-Faculty-Green-OA-Mandate-7th-US-Mandate,-68th-Worldwide.html