Cyamus Regional Group of IAMSLIC
Annual Meeting
Kailua-Kona, Hawai'i
5-8 March, 2003

Conference Program

Tuesday, March 4 (Optional Library Tour on Oahu)

9:00 a.m. Meet at National Marine Fisheries Library - contact Ani Au via email at ani.au@noaa.gov

Ani Au will give a tour of her library at NMFS Honolulu Lab. Attendees will then stroll up East-West Rd, with a view of the Japanese Garden, to UH-Manoa's Hamilton Library where Jane Barnwell will give a tour. Lunch may follow.

Wednesday, March 5

5:00 - 8:00 Welcome Reception/Pupus

Bring photographs of your library/institution and highlights of what's new

Group photo

Thursday, March 6 Meetings will be held at the Royal Kona Resort

7:00 - 8:15 Breakfast

9:00 - 10:00 State of the Worlds Turtles and Enhancing Instruction with Turtle Studies - Marc Rice, Hawaii Prepratory Academy

10:00 - 10:30 Endangered Hawaiian Monk Seals - Jan Kamiya, NOAA and current library school student

10:30 - 10:45 Break

10:45 - 11:30 A Friendly Discussion on Small Resource Libraries: What to buy, what to toss, where to keep it - Moderator: Janet Yasumatsu

11:30-12:00 CSA Update - Christie Glasby

12:00 - 1:00 Lunch

1:00 - 1:30 Review of the IAMSLIC Website and IOC Gateway - Ruth Gustafson

1:30 - 1:40 Creation of a library specialized on agricultural and marine sciences at CIIDIR-IPN, Unidad Sinaloa, Guasave county, Sinaloa Mexico - Catalina Puente

1:40 - 1:50 Discard in the libraries of the Superior Education Institutions (SEI) - Teresa Barriga, CICIMAR-IPN

1:50 - 2:00 Commercial Projects in Mexico - Aline Flores, P.I.A.S.A ( Promotora Industrial Acuasistemas, S.A. de C.V. ) La Paz

2:15 - 2:45 A friendly discussion on strategies for teaching Library research skills to researchers. - Moderator: Joan Parker

2:45 - 3:00 Break

3:00 - 4:00 Science and Publishing - Mike Parsons, University of Hawaii at Hilo

4:00 - 4:30 The Universal Biological Indexer and Organizer: A taxonomic thesaurus for libraries - David Remsen

4:30 - 5:00 Panel discussion: Networking with other Professional Groups; IAMSLIC presence at professional meetings. Moderator: Gordon Miller

Friday, March 7 Meetings will be held at the Natural Energy Lab

7:00 - 8:15 Breakfast

8:30 - 9:30 Reef fishes and marine protected areas - Dr. Bill Walsh

9:30 - 10:30 Community Based Marine Resource Management in Action - Sara Peck, UH Sea Grant Extension

10:30 - 10:45 Break

10:45 - 11:45 Overview of the Hawaii Natural Energy Lab, an OTEC project

12:00 - 1:00 Lunch and Group Photo 2 (yes, 2!)

1:00 - 2:00 Tour of Cyanotech

2:30 - 3:30 Tour of Common Heritage Corporation

4:30 - 7:00 Sunset Picnic on the beach

Saturday, March 8

Optional field trip to Hilo and Volcanoes National Park

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Last Updated 25 March 2003