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Job Posting – Knowledge Manager, Marine Protected Areas Monitoring Enterprise

The Marine Protected Areas Monitoring Enterprise is seeking a Knowledge Manager to lead the design, development, and implementation of an online information management system including online products and tools that will serve diverse user needs and interests. The ideal candidate will combine a solid and broad understanding of information technologies with the capacities to think big, innovate, and work collaboratively. The Knowledge Manager will play a critical role in the MPA Monitoring Enterprise’s work to develop innovative, effective, and sustainable approaches to monitoring and evaluating California’s statewide network of marine protected areas, currently being implemented under the Marine Life Protection Act. This unique position will be based in Oakland, California, in the offices of the California Ocean Science Trust. Starting date is as soon as possible, preferably by March 1, 2010. Applications will be accepted until the position is filled. Review of applications will begin January 4, 2010. Salary will be commensurate with experience and is expected to be in the range of $75,000 – $95,000. Generous benefits (including medical, dental, vision, and retirement) are included in the full compensation package.

Joe Wible

Hopkins Marine Station

http://www.calost.org/Knowlege_Manger.pdf

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December 6, 2009 · Filed under Announcements

Stanford dissertations no longer going into Dissertation Abstracts

Stanford is finally going to move to digital submission of dissertations and theses.  I know most of your institutions made the switch a long time ago.  We were waiting for our registrar to retire to get this moving.

What is probably different for Stanford Univeristy is we are not planning to submit them to ProQuest for deposit.  We are going handle their distribution ourselves.  On the one hand I think this is great.  It probably means you won’t have to pay to have access to Stanford dissertations and theses.  My main concern is that it appears that the citations and abstracts will not be in Dissertation Abstracts unless the student is willing to pay to have this done.  In the past I believe University Microfilms added this information for free, and only charged to make the microfilm copy for distribution.  Back when I got my degree, University of Southern California (along with Harvard) did not deposit their dissertations with University Microfilms.  I could have had mine added, but I would have had to pay as USC was not paying for this.  I declined, but it is now in the Aquatic Commons along with several other USC dissertations we have scanned.  I checked Dissertation Abstracts and it appears Harvard and USC are now both depositing their dissertations with ProQuest.

I have always used dissertation abstract to confirm if/when someone got their Ph.D., but if Stanford (and others?) are not even submitting the citation and abstract for its graduates, this means you can no longer rely on Dissertation Abstracts for this purpose.  Maybe our ProQuest colleagues (Craig & Vicki) can verify whether or not ProQuest charges even to submit just a citation and abstract.

If you want to read about how Stanford plans to handle dissertations, there is a URL to the news story below.  You will find embedded links to download the PowerPoint slides used by the University Librarian when he presented this plan to the Faculty Senate.  You can also download the full Faculty Senate minutes with all the details including the faculty questions and discussion that followed the presentation.

Joe Wible
Hopkins Marine Station

http://news.stanford.edu/news/2009/october26/electronic-dissertation-pilot-102909.html

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October 29, 2009 · Filed under Announcements

Dates and place of 36°IAMSLIC CONFERENCE 2010

 

The next 36° IAMSLIC ANNUAL CONFERENCE and 2nd LATINOAMERICAN REGIONAL GROUP MEETING will be held in Mar del Plata, Argentina during OCTOBER 17 to 21.

We share with you the information announced during Brugge, on behalf of Marcia Croy-Vanwely (DFO, Vancouver, Canada) – President elect (on holidays until mid-November) and myself Guillermina Cosulich (INIDEP, Argentina) – Host IAMSLIC 2010.  

A year from now !! Include it in your Agenda !!

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October 16, 2009 · Filed under Announcements, Conference News

IAMSLIC Election Results

For President-Elect the winning candidate is Amy Butros of the Scripps Institution of Oceanography Library .

For Secretary the winning candidate is Kathleen Heil of the University of Maryland, CES, Chesapeake Biological Laboratory.

Congratulations to our new executive members and many thanks to Geoffrey Salanje of the University of Malawi who agreed to run as a candidate for President-Elect.

Thanks also to Natalie Wiest and the Nominating Committee for finding excellent candidates and to Steve Watkins and Kristen Metzger for assisting with the electronic voting system.

– Elizabeth Winiarz, IAMSLIC President 2008-2009, University of Massachusetts Dartmouth, Science Librarian

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October 13, 2009 · Filed under Announcements

Institute of Ocean Sciences, Sidney, BC, Canada – New Librarian

Pamela Wilkins is the new librarian at the Institute of Ocean Sciences, Fisheries and Oceans Canada (DFO). Pam took charge of the IOS library in September and will be joining IAMSLIC soon.  She received her MLIS from the University of British Columbia and came to Fisheries and Oceans Canada from the British Columbia Ministry of Forests and Range library.
The previous librarian, Pamela Olson, who operated the IOS library since 1997, retired after a 25 year career with Fisheries and Oceans Canada.  Pam O. had the opportunity to work in all three DFO Pacific Region libraries, beginning with Regional Headquarters in Vancouver, moving on to Pacific Biological Station in Nanaimo, then to IOS in Sidney.  The Institute of Ocean Sciences library hosted the IAMSLIC 2000 conference held in Victoria, BC.

Link to IOS Library: http://www.dfo-mpo.gc.ca/libraries-bibliotheques/pacific-pacifique-eng.htm#sidney

Posted by Pamela Olson

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October 7, 2009 · Filed under Announcements

Tracking the Conference

For all you social networkers out there, IAMSLIC 2009 will be all over the web.  Facebook and MySpace both have groups.  You can join one or both.  Those of you who like to keep up-to-the-minute can follow the conference on Twitter.  Each year, these groups will be changed to reflect the new conference location as the home location.

Those of you on Facebook, we even have the conference listed as an event and you can RSVP.  I know most of the attendees already have by paying their conference fee, but it’s fun to say maybe.

Facebook : http://www.facebook.com/home.php?#/group.php?gid=97187258540
We’ll be posting to the wall or generating discussions during the conference.

MySpace : http://tinyurl.com/nq75bf
Same as Facebook.

Twitter: @IAMSLIC2009
I’ll be posted where we are in the program and what we’re doing next. Personally, I use Tweetdeck (http://tweetdeck.com/beta/) to manage my Twitter accounts.

As usual, I will be posting daily blogs about the conference events to summarize the presentations and the day for all those stuck at home.

Stay connected,

Lenora
StreamNet Regional Librarian
Columbia River Inter-Tribal Fish Commission
http://www.fishlib.org

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September 14, 2009 · Filed under Announcements, Conference News

IFLA Conference sessions on open access

For those of you who are not attending the IFLA Conference, there are at least two sessions on open access to science and technology information.  One is sponsored by the  Science and Technology Libraries Session  and the other by the Agricultural Libraries Session .

Full text of  papers may be accessed at IFLA website at:
http://www.ifla.org/annual-conference/ifla75/programme2009-en.php
The papers are linked under the appropriate place in the program so the STL ones are Tuesday afternoon and the Ag Libraries are on Monday afternoon.

-Janet Webster

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

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August 11, 2009 · Filed under Announcements

Center for Ocean Solutions is looking to hire a Science Director

The Center for Ocean Solutions here in Monterey is looking to hire a Science Director.  The URL below provides more details on the job.  Please share with your institution.

Joe Wible,  Hopkins Marine Station

http://www.nature.com/naturejobs/science/jobs/103967-Science-Director-Center-for-Ocean-Solutions

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July 20, 2009 · Filed under Announcements

Library Layoffs at Stanford

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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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

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June 19, 2009 · Filed under Announcements

Pacific Ocean Synthesis: Scientific Literature Review of Coastal and Ocean Threats, Impacts and Solutions

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

report cover

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May 20, 2009 · Filed under Announcements

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