–Steve Watkins

Reference and Instruction Librarians (2)

The Tanimura and Antle Family Memorial Library of California State University, Monterey Bay (CSUMB) seeks two (2) full-time, tenure-track Reference and Instruction Librarians. The positions offer creative opportunities for forward-looking, pragmatic, motivated individuals who seek opportunities and experience across a variety of professional responsibilities, while developing areas of focus with the potential to take on leadership roles.

CSUMB is a comprehensive public university committed to serving the diverse people of California, especially the working class, historically under-served, and low income populations. The library’s mission is to help prepare knowledgeable, resourceful and responsible citizens for California and the global community by facilitating active exploration, discovery and synthesis of information. As a teaching library, its faculty librarians manage and deliver active, outcomes-based instructional programs. The design of the library co-locates library services with campus programs that support student learning, including writing, peer-tutoring, advising and undergraduate research.

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We are in the process of finalizing the program for the 39th IAMSLIC Annual Conference “Visualizing a Bright Future” but are pleased to announce that registration is now open!

Please review the information on the registration page before registering. Note that guests must be registered separately.

http://www.iamslic.org/conf2013/registration/

If you have questions about registration, please contact the IAMSLIC registration team at iamslicreg@gmail.com

After you’ve registered, don’t forget to book your accommodation at the Hollywood Beach Marriott.

On behalf of the planning committees,

Sally Taylor, Conference Convener
Jaime Goldman, Local Host

 At the 39^th IAMSLIC Conference in Alaska, a proposal was made by Peter Pissierssens, Head of the IODE Project Office and Linda Pikula, GE-MIM Chair, to establish the Joint IODE/IAMSLIC Group of Experts on Marine Information Management (IODE/IAMSLIC GE-MIM).  Following the recommendation by the established Task Force, this proposal has been approved by the Executive Board and by the membership. Participants of the 12^th session of GE-MIM (January 2013, Miami, FL, USA) have discussed and addressed major points of concern raised by the Task Force and drafted the Recommendation for Establishment of the Joint IODE/IAMSLIC GE-MIM (Recommendation_IODE-XXII.1). This Recommendation has been adopted by the IOC Committee on IODE at its 22^nd Session (March 2013, Ensenada, Mexico) and will be submitted to the Session of the IOC Assembly (June 2013) for approval. The Recommendation contains the Terms of Reference for the joint GE-MIM (please find attached an extract from the IODE Session Report ).

 The Executive Board is now looking for four (4) IAMSLIC members having expertise in marine information management  who are willing and able to serve for the Joint IODE/IAMSLIC GE-MIM:

 ·         2 short-term members with 2-year term of service (2013-2015);

·         2 members with 4-year term of service (2013-2017).

 This is your chance to apply your professional knowledge and expertise contributing towards identifying and addressing marine information issues at international level.

 You can propose yourself or another IAMSLIC member. We would be grateful to hear from you  by Monday, June 3^rd. Please contact me at maria.kalentsits@fao.org

Maria Kalentsits

IAMSLIC President 2012-2013

This is a quick reminder that the Call for Grants has been announced with a deadline of 27 May 2013.

IAMSLIC members who are thinking of a small project that would improve library’s services or have submitted a proposal for a paper or poster for our next conference in Dania Beach, FL, USA  are now encouraged to apply for funding help.

 For proposal details and format please see our website at: http://www.iamslic.org/activities/grants

 Proposals should be sent to IAMSLIC President at: maria.kalentsits@fao.org

 Best regards,

 Maria Kalentsits

The program committee is now accepting a second round of proposals until May 31, 2013.

The following themes are of particular interest.

• Graphical information – data visualization, geo-referencing, information graphics, mash-ups, presenting statistics or survey results
• Changes in collection management – demand driven acquisitions, ebooks, shared print repositories
• Changes in publishing – mergers, Open Access, Open Data
• Embedded librarianship – e.g. member of research team, library skills integrated into curricula
• Mobile environments/technologies

Please review the conference home page and the Call for Proposals and then send your proposal to sally.taylor@ubc.ca

Message from the Oregon Library Association:
To: Oregon State University Libraries
From: Oregon Library Association Honors, Awards and Scholarship Committee
Re: Press Release regarding Oregon Librarian of the Year Award
Date: April 29, 2013

OLA Distinguished Service Award
The Oregon Library Association has awarded Janet Webster, Hatfield Marine Science Center Head Librarian, the 2013 OLA Distinguished Service Award. This award is given to an Oregon librarian or library staff member for exceptional service over many years. Webster is being recognized for her decades of outstanding leadership in a wide array of community and library organizations. She has been a particularly effective advocate for federal, state and local policy and legislation which allows libraries to better serve their communities. The OLA awards are announced each year at the association’s annual conference (held this year as a joint conference with the Washington Library Association). OLA is the state association of library professionals comprised of 1200 members pursuing a mission to promote and to advance library service through public and professional education and cooperation.

Congratulations, Janet!

Barb Butler

This is a call for Conference Travel Support proposals and Project-related Grant proposals. Please kindly note that Project-related Grant proposals will be accepted from members not affiliated with a regional group.

The total funding available for Guin Travel Grants this year is US$ 5,000.
The total funding available for 2013 Project Grants is US$ 1,000 only.

Since the IAMSLIC would like to support several participants, we encourage you to apply for partial (up to US$ 1,500) rather than full support. Please make sure that you check with your Regional Representative (http://www.iamslic.org/people/regional-groups) first regarding the availability of regional grants.

For proposal details and format please see our website at: http://www.iamslic.org/activities/grants
The deadline for submitting your proposal is 27th of May 2013.

Best regards,

Maria Kalentsits
IAMSLIC President 2012-2013

The program committee has received some excellent proposals but we need more! As it’s a joint conference, we would like especially to have participation from members in the SAIL region.

Please review the conference home page and the Call for Proposals and submit your proposal to sally.taylor@ubc.ca

Thank you!

This year’s theme Visualizing a Bright Future offers limitless possibilities for presentation topics, including:

• New roles for libraries and librarians (e.g. data curation, digital preservation, digitization, scholarly communications)
• Communicating the value of service to the organization
• Consolidation of physical libraries to respond to fiscal realities – can this scenario present new opportunities?
• Importance of partnerships and collaboration
• Embedded librarianship
• Graphical information – data visualization, geo-referencing, information graphics, mash-ups, presenting statistics or survey results
• Changes in collection management – demand driven acquisitions, ebooks, shared print repositories
• Changes in publishing – mergers, Open Access, Open Data
• Re-purposing library space
• Mobile environments/technologies
• Other innovations and new initiatives

Don’t delay! Review the conference home page and the Call for Proposals and then send your proposal to sally.taylor@ubc.ca

Looking forward to hearing from you!

Guillermina Cosulich, INIDEP Library, Argentina

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Digital Access to the Publications (1944-2008) of Professor Enrique Balech

Available at http://goo.gl/PyZQg

This initiative led by Dr. Rut Akselman and supported by IOC UNESCO, provides public access to most of the planktological studies published by the late Professor Enrique Balech. Some of them are little known and others are hard to find, even in specialized libraries. The great advantage is their availability in digital format and to have all of them in the same place. Our intention is to incorporate more papers in successive stages.

While E. Balech is mainly known for his taxonomic studies of dinoflagellates, especially those related to the genus Alexandrium, a producer of paralytic shellfish toxins, many of his publications (more than a hundred) focused on floristic studies of plankton communities, which he applied to improve biogeographical and hydrodynamic knowledge. Planktonic communities were thoroughly characterized in Balechs studies, because he could identify most of the species of the taxonomic groups present in each sample, from diatoms, dinoflagellates and tintinnids, to coccolithophorids, radiolarians or heliozoans, when present, thus taking into account both the phytoplankton and zooplankton .

We hope this initiative will be of value to the scientific community.

Henrik Enevoldsen
Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission of UNESCO
Head, IOC Science and Communication Centre on Harmful Algae
University of Copenhagen- Marine Biological Section- Denmark
E-mail: h.enevoldsen@unesco.org Skype: henrik.oksfeldt.enevoldsen
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