Call for Proposals for IAMSLIC 2010 closes the 9th May 2010.
Ensure you have your abstract to me before the deadline. For full information check the Call for Proposals link on the Conference website. http://www.iamslic.org/?section=231
Marcia Croy-Vanwely, Chair Iamslic 2010 “Netting Knowledge: Two Hemispheres – One World”
Dear Colleagues,
The planning for the 36th IAMSLIC Conference is well underway. But we need one crucial element — you!
We invite submissions of proposals for papers, posters, workshops, and panel session.
Since the theme is Netting Knowledge: Two Hemispheres-One World , we are looking for your insights on sharing and managing marine & aquatic science data, information and knowledge and its retrieval, renewal and use. How are we adopting, negotiating, repelling, embracing and developing strategies to provide the best possible knowledge and information services to our clientele?
Some potential topics:
For complete details, including what to include in your proposal, see the conference web site.
Please email conference proposals to Marcia.croyvanwely@dfo-mpo.gc.ca by April 9, 2010.
We look forward to receiving your proposal and hope you will be able to join us in Argentina in October.
Marcia Croy Vanwely, Chair/Convenor IAMSLIC 2010
CASSI, the CAS Source Index is now freely available on the web and it contains more than just chemistry titles, so if you need a source for titles/abbreviations you might want to take a look:
http://cassi.cas.org/search.jsp
Barb Butler
At last week’s conference, a number of speakers touched on issues related to open access publishing. Here is a link to a concise set of tips for using various situations as opportunities to discuss and inform on open access issues and related topics. Interesting — and useful!
http://www.acrl.ala.org/scholcomm/node/43
–Steve Watkins, California State University, Monterey Bay, Library
After traveling for a year and a day, I and my daughter, Lily, joined the rest of the “Wild Things” in Brugge, Belgium. Some of you know the wild, hair-raising details of me shepherding a 15 year old through the wilds of continental Europe, others don’t need to know. Thank you to Marcel Branneman, who we met on the platform in Brussels, for a calming, interesting and enlightening conversation (all on his end, I’m a blond) then helping get my darling child to the hotel in Brugge. We’re here and we’re ready for action.
Ok, so the IAMSLIC membership is not really “Wild Things”, but we are quite a rambunctious lot of librarians who are ready to take on all things aquatic, marine and library-related in order to serve our customers better and improve the return-on-investment for our various institutions. Some of us have so little investment to begin with, this trip is pure profit for our organizations.
I look forward to tomorrow with the walking tour of Brugge, though I may send just my daughter with my camera as my body is in revolt from the stress of the past 36 hours of travel. If nothing else, I’ll be getting the Guin Auction ready for bidding action and helping with registration. Can’t wait to meet all my new friends and see all my returning friends.
PS For those who are unfamiliar, “Where the Wild Things Are” is a children’s book by Maurice Sendak. The movie adaptation is due to be released in the U.S. on October 16, 2009.
I have now deposited three dissertations into the Aquatic Commons along with a number of student papers. In doing this, I have modified the form the Aquatic Commons had for obtaining copyright permission. Their original form was written from the perspective of an organization giving permission. In the materials I have been dealing with, I am working with individual authors. Stephanie has taken my template and posted it on the IAMSLIC web page (URL link is below). It is a MS Word document that I edit and then save as a PDF to send to the author to sign. Once I have a signed copy, I send the PDF to Lisa Raymond to keep on file at the IAMSLIC archives at Woods Hole.
Joe Wible
Hopkins Marine Station
Those IAMSLIC members who visited Hobart, Tasmania for the conference in 2004 may remember the library as it was then.
In early 2005, space constraints in the Division initiated a review of the library space. It has taken a long time, much planning and discussion and a great deal of work in the collection, but the library refurbishment is now complete.
The library has been reduced in size by about one third, which necessitated a great deal of reduction of the collection. We disposed of a great deal of material, either by offering to other libraries within CSIRO, Australia generally or overseas. Some items were identified for disposal and offered to staff, which was a very very popular move. Staff regularly visited out “give-away” table and items were eagerly snapped up.
We now have a smaller, but more functional work space for the staff, and we were particularly pleased that we retained the general study and reading areas for staff to use. We also have an area allocated for virtual training and team meetings.
Meredith Hepburn
Joel MacKeen
Angela Webb
Worth a read:
Electronic Publication and the Narrowing of Science and Scholarship
James A. Evans
Science, 18 July 2008 321: 395-399
http://dx.doi.org/10.1126/science.1150473
Cheers!
Joey
Dear Colleagues
For those of you with CDS/ISIS databases the following paper might be of interest and has been published in the Electronic Library 26(3) 2008 p. 411-421
The article is also available at
ftp://ftp.fao.org/docrep/fao/010/ai156e/ai156e00.pdf
“Achieving OAI-PMH compliancy for CDS/ISIS databases”
The FAO Library catalogue is a CDS/ISIS application
The author, Stefka Kaloyanova, worked with Fred Merceur at IFREMER to enable harvesting of FAO fisheries / aquatic metadata by AVANO
http://www.ifremer.fr/avano/Jean Collins
FAO Fisheries Library
