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Early IAMSLIC registration rates end soon

Register now for the upcoming IAMSLIC Conference before registration fees increase on 1 September!

Early registration is open until 31 August for the 42nd Annual IAMSLIC Conference and 3rd Latin American Regional Group Meeting to be held 16-20 October in Mérida, Mexico. Please visit the Registration page on the conference website for further information about costs and options before registering.

You should also make your hotel reservations as soon as possible.

We look forward to seeing you in Mérida soon!

–Steve Watkins, 2016 Conference Convenor

–Irene Beltran, 2016 Conference Local Host

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August 24, 2016 · Filed under Conference News

2016 Conference registration is now open

Registration is now open for the 42nd Annual IAMSLIC Conference and Latin American Regional Group Meeting to be held 16-20 October in Mérida, Mexico. Please visit the Registration page on the conference website for further information about costs and options before registering.

Because October is a busy conference month in Mérida, please consider making your hotel reservations as soon as possible, even if you are not yet registering for the conference at this time.

If you have applied for an IAMSLIC travel grant, please do not register for the conference until you have received notification regarding the award of a grant from Kris Anderson, IAMSLIC President. Most travel grants will cover conference registration but decisions on the awards are not yet final.

We look forward to seeing you in Mérida this year!

–Steve Watkins, 2016 Conference Convenor

–Irene Beltran, 2016 Conference Local Host

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June 30, 2016 · Filed under Conference News

Call for Proposals for 2016 IAMSLIC Conference

Dear IAMSLIC Colleagues,

I am pleased to announce that the Call for Proposals for the 42nd IAMSLIC Annual Conference is now open. The conference theme is Traditional Knowledge and Modern Information Practice and we welcome presentations of all types related to the theme, as well as other topics related to libraries and information centers.

Some potential topics:

  • The role of traditional knowledge in modern information practice
  • How historical data can inform decisions
  • Cultural elements of fisheries information and management
  • Managing scientific data
  • Innovations in library user services
  • Creative uses of technology
  • Channels for sharing ideas and innovations
  • Keeping IAMSLIC relevant
  • Successful library partnerships

Please send your abstracts by April 30, 2016.

  • An abstract is required for consideration by the Program Committee.
  • Oral presentations are typically allotted 20 minutes, not including questions.
  • Submissions may be for papers, posters, workshops or panel sessions.
  • NEW THIS YEAR: You may also propose a topic on which you would like to lead a 30-minute small group discussion during breakout sessions.
  • Conference registration is required in order to present an accepted paper.
  • All submissions will be reviewed for relevance to the conference theme, potential interest of the topic for members, and appropriateness of format.
  • Abstracts must be received by April 30, 2016 to receive priority consideration with the committee’s responses following in approximately 30 days.

Submit your proposal using the Proposal Submission Form or visit the Call for Proposals page on the 2016 Conference website.

We look forward to receiving your proposal and hope you will be able to join us in Mérida in October.

Steve Watkins
IAMSLIC President-Elect and Conference Convener

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March 21, 2016 · Filed under Announcements, Conference News

Water, Water, Everywhere: Defining and Assessing Data Sharing in Academia

Amanda Whitmire has a paper out in PLOS ONE on data sharing at OSU.  It is open access and the link to the full-text is below.

Congratulations Amanda!

The paper provides some good background for the discussion Amanda is facilitating “Data and Technology in the Marine and Aquatic Library” at the Cyamus meeting being held in a couple weeks at Cal Poly in San Luis Obispo (Cyamus 2016 Conference).

–Joe Wible, librarian emeritus

http://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371%2Fjournal.pone.0147942

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February 19, 2016 · Filed under Announcements, Conference News, Regional group activities

Twitter round up of the 41st Annual Iamslic & 16th Biennial Euraslic 2015 Conference

Submitted by Stephanie Ronan

I have collated all the tweets from the 41st Annual Iamslic & 16th Biennial Euraslic 2015 Conference and created a ‘story’ using storify.com.

You can view the story here: https://storify.com/StephanieRonan/new-story-55f3244492765f6408ac8ed2

This story makes it a lot easier to view all the tweets specific to the conference, and using the hashtag #iameura15, than trying to view all the tweets on twitter. It is an interactive story, so you can favourite and retweet from within the story. Once a tweet goes live, you cannot make any edits to it (except delete it), so apologies for any typos, or word substitutes that my phone’s predictive text made e.g. substituting the FAO building for FYI building 🙂

We created an official twitter account for Iamslic: @IamslicOrg, so please use this handle in all your tweets. I tweeted 218 tweets from the Iamslic account, took 53 photos, favourited 63 other tweets, followed 18 accounts and gained 22 followers for the account! I also tweeted about another 50 from my own account. So hopefully I managed to share some interesting and relevant information and photos from the conference.

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Enjoy the story.

S

 

 

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September 17, 2015 · Filed under Announcements, Conference News

Proceedings of the 40th Conference at Noumea, available

IAMSLIC Conference Proceedings are archived in the digital repository, WHOAS (Woods Hole Open Access Server).

Now find available on the IAMSLIC website: the Proceedings of the 40th Conference, held last year in Noumea, New Caledonia, 2014.   You can download the entire Proceedings, browse by Author, Title or Keyword, or search.

The direct link is http://darchive.mblwhoilibrary.org/handle/1912/7367

Once again, thanks to the excellent work done by our Editor, Dorothy Barr. If you have any doubts when preparing your paper for our Conference Proceedings, please contact her.

Guillermina Cosulich

IAMSLIC President 2014-2015

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August 6, 2015 · Filed under Conference News

Last but not least: Our 40th Anniversary and the Conference

Dear IAMSLIC’ers:

Once a again, we had an unforgettable Conference in a beautiful place, a very impressive building the Secretariat of the Pacific Community (SPC) in Noumea -you can see some of my photos of the Conference in Flickr - https://www.flickr.com/photos/128204998@N06/,  with a Library that resembles an upside down canoe, surrounded by wonderful trees and flowers by the seaside, and getting to know very friendly and active librarians from the Pacific Region. In the IAMSLIC blog, Kris explained with great detail, smells and flavours the Conference day by day.

I believe we had an excellent Conference because we had TWO solid axis (ejes)….the Planning Committee and the Hosts! Thank you again to the hosts SPC and Mary-Clare and her family, and the fantastic PIRG Group ! Bula!!  Thank you Sally for passing me over everything nice and clear! Thanks to the Sponsors!

We celebrated the 40th IAMSLIC ANNIVERSARY and we had “the” cake and our PIN; I share now that “Corner” products with you all: the Guin Auction poster thanks to Barb Butler, and the ppt photos that were shown during the whole Conference. Find them in OUR STORY http://www.iamslic.org/about-us/our-story and in the Conference website. Enjoy them!
40th ANNIVERSARY PHOTOS-  REMEMBRANCES
40th ANNIVERSARY GUIN AUCTION POSTER

For the Association, and our way forward in the near future, it was very important Janet Webster’s presentation during a Special Session; she just send it to all of us: 2014 MEMBERSHIP SURVEY http://hdl.handle.net/1957/52395 , please read it and send your comments. Thank you Janet for this important collaboration!

Start thinking and write me if you would like to VOLUNTEER to be in an IAMSLIC COMMITTEE!
Don’t forget to share your activities, why IAMSLIC is valuable for your library, your institution, your region?

I will be back from the ASFA Bd Meeting that is going to be held next week in Beijing hosted by the NMDIS, and I’ll get in touch with you during the International OPEN ACCESS WEEK, October 20-24 http://www.openaccessweek.org/.

All the best!
Guillermina

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October 8, 2014 · Filed under Conference News

New Caledonia photos

I just returned home after four weeks of wonderful travel, culminating in the IAMSLIC Conference in Noumea, which was a gem. I selected some photos from the conference and the field trip and posted them on Flickr to add to those that have already been sent out by others. New Caledonia is a beautiful country and it was a joy to meet so many of our PIRG colleagues. Can’t wait to return to visit another country in the region in 2020.

https://www.flickr.com/photos/47089962@N00/sets/72157647783201616/

–Steve Watkins

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September 21, 2014 · Filed under Conference News

Blogging about the conference

I have been blogging about both my pre-conference vacation in New Zealand and the IAMSLIC conference in New Caledonia. I still have several more blogs to post for New Caledonia, but if you want to see more pictures from the conference, check it out at:

http://nznclibrarian.blogspot.co.nz

You can also sign up to receive new posts via email.

Joe Wible
Hopkins Marine Station

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September 20, 2014 · Filed under Announcements, Conference News

Celebrating the 40th Birthday

Lovely!

Lovely!

Daryl Superio, official cake bearer

Daryl Superio, official cake bearer

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September 18, 2014 · Filed under Announcements, Conference News

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