Date: May 9-12, 2006
Location: Gulf Coast Research Laboratory; University of Southern Mississippi; Ocean Springs, MS
Hosts: Joyce Shaw and LaGena Fantroy
| Tuesday, May 9 | |
| 5:00-8:00 P.M. | SAIL Conference begins with Welcome Reception at Gulf Hills Hotel sponsored by Thomson Scientific. Welcome address give by Dr. Darrell J. Grimes, Provost and Vice President of Academic Affairs, USM |
| Wednesday, May 10 | |
| 8:30-9:15 | “Lost in D Space” Susan Stover, Librarian, Mote Marine Laboratory, Sarasota, Florida |
| 9:30-10:15 | “The Katrina Research Center at Southern Mississippi” Kay Wall, University Librarian, University of Southern Mississippi |
| 10:45-11:15 | “What is Long Term? Preservation of Electronic Online Information” Todd Carpenter, Business Development Director, BioOne |
| 11:30-1:15 | Lunch with Rotary Club of Ocean Springs |
| 1:30-2:15 | “Natural History of Whale Sharks in the GOM” Dr. Eric Hoffmayaer, Associate Research Scientist, GCRL, center for Fisheries Research and Development |
| 2:30-3:15 | “Past and Present: 50 Years of Air Quality Modeling Research and its Applications by the NOAA Atmospheric Sciences Modeling Division” Evelyn Poole-Kober, Librarian, NERL-Atmospheric Sciences Modeling Division Library, US EPA, Research Triangle Park, NC |
| Thursday, May 11 | |
| 8:30-9:15 | SAIL Business Meeting |
| 9:30-10:15 | “The Impact of Hurricane Katrina on Southern Mississippi Gulf Park Campus” Presented by Allisa Beck, Collection Management Librarian; Co-authors: Ed McCormack, Director, and Elizabeth Doolittle, Public Services Librarian, Southern Miss Gulf Coast Library |
| 10:30-11:15 | “Identifying Materials for an Archival Collection” Julia Young, Director of Division of Archives and Library, Mississippi Department of Archives and History |
| 11:30-12:15 | Roundtable Sessions: “MS Coast Libraries/New Orleans Libraries Katrina Recovery” Steve Pomes, Joyce Shaw, Julia Young, Allisa Beck |
| 1:30-2:15 | “Whales and Dolphins in the Gulf of Mexico” Dr. Keith Mullin, Research Fishery Biologist, Southeast Fisheries Science Center, National Marine Fisheries Service, NOAA, Pascagoula, MS |
| 2:30-3:15 | “Looking at Two Oceans: Marine Library Services in Panama” Vielka Chang-Yau, Librarian, Tropical Sciences Library, Smithsonian Tropical research Institute, Panama |
| 3:30-4:15 | Posters |
| Friday, May 12 | |
| 8:30-9:30 | “The Changing Tide of Scholarly Communication” Julia Brixrud, Assistant Director, Public Programs, SPARC |
| 9:45-10:30 | Roundtable Session: “The Many R’s of Volunteer Management: Recruitment, Recognition, Responsibility, Retention, Retraining, Respect, Resources…” Susan Stover, Librarian, Mote Marine Laboratory, Sarasota Florida |
| 11:15-11:45 | SAIL Business Meeting, Part II |
| 11:45 | Tour of MS Coast |