{"id":846,"date":"2017-07-06T16:14:36","date_gmt":"2017-07-06T16:14:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.iamslic.org\/blog\/?p=846"},"modified":"2017-07-06T16:25:18","modified_gmt":"2017-07-06T16:25:18","slug":"27th-annual-sail-meeting-in-madison-wisconsin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.iamslic.org\/blog\/?p=846","title":{"rendered":"27th Annual SAIL Meeting in Madison, Wisconsin"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The 27<sup>th<\/sup> annual meeting of the SAIL Regional Group of IAMSLIC was held May 16-19 at the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus. Anne Moser of the Aquatic Sciences Center (UW-Madison) and Alisun DeKock of the Shedd Aquarium (Chicago) co-hosted the conference for 26 IAMSLIC-SAIL members, speakers, and guests. Madison welcomed us with traditional Midwestern weather \u00e2\u20ac\u201c we needed shorts and t-shirts the first day, umbrellas the next, pants and jackets by the end. Spring weather aside, the conference kicked off with a Wisconsin-style BBQ dinner on Tuesday evening with a presentation and tour of the Aquatic Sciences Center.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_849\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-849\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-849\" src=\"http:\/\/www.iamslic.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/SAIL-Group-Final-300x226.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"226\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.iamslic.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/SAIL-Group-Final-300x226.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.iamslic.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/SAIL-Group-Final-768x580.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.iamslic.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/SAIL-Group-Final-1024x773.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-849\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">SAIL conference 2017 attendees overlooking Lake Mendota<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Wednesday and Thursday included two full days of excellent and informative conference sessions from members and guest speakers, the SAIL business meeting, and State of the Union\u00e2\u20ac\u201cSAIL Libraries. Thursday was capped off\u00c2\u00a0 with a tour of the Madison capitol building by our most erudite local guide, Anne Moser, and a dinner \u00e2\u20ac\u0153on the square\u00e2\u20ac\u009d with a view of the capitol dome over local beer, freshly caught whitefish from Lake Michigan and, of course, cheese curds.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_848\" style=\"width: 235px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-848\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-848 size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/www.iamslic.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/MadisonCapitol-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.iamslic.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/MadisonCapitol-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/www.iamslic.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/MadisonCapitol-768x1024.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-848\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The inside of &#8220;the people&#8217;s house&#8221; better known as the Wisconsin capitol building.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>On Friday, a smaller group remained in the city for a tour of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.aldoleopold.org\/visit\/the-leopold-center\/\">Aldo Leopold Center<\/a>, just north of Madison. Leopold is considered by many to be the father of wildlife ecology and the US\u00c2\u00a0wilderness system. We were thrilled to visit \u00e2\u20ac\u0153the Shack\u00e2\u20ac\u009d where he did so much of his ecological observation and wrote many of the essays that comprise <em>A Sand County Almanac<\/em>.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_847\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-847\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-847 size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/www.iamslic.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/LupinsAldoLeopold-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.iamslic.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/LupinsAldoLeopold-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.iamslic.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/LupinsAldoLeopold-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.iamslic.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/LupinsAldoLeopold-1024x768.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-847\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Lupins were in full bloom in Wisconsin!<\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"attachment_850\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-850\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-850 size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/www.iamslic.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/shackgroup-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.iamslic.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/shackgroup-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.iamslic.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/shackgroup-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.iamslic.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/shackgroup-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.iamslic.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/shackgroup.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-850\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">SAIL visits &#8220;the Shack&#8221; at the Aldo Leopold Center<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Many thanks to our sponsors Wisconsin TechSearch, UW Press, WT Cox, Springer Nature, DEMCO and ProQuest for their support of this year\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s conference.<\/p>\n<p>If you\u00e2\u20ac\u2122d like to learn more about this year\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s SAIL conference and its sessions, check out the program at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.iamslic.org\/sail\/sail-2017-great-lakes-great-libraries\">http:\/\/www.iamslic.org\/sail\/sail-2017-great-lakes-great-libraries<\/a><\/p>\n<p>-Alisun DeKock<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The 27th annual meeting of the SAIL Regional Group of IAMSLIC was held May 16-19 at the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus. Anne Moser of the Aquatic Sciences Center (UW-Madison) and Alisun DeKock of the Shedd Aquarium (Chicago) co-hosted the conference for 26 IAMSLIC-SAIL members, speakers, and guests. Madison welcomed us with traditional Midwestern weather \u00e2\u20ac\u201c [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3,11],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iamslic.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/846"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iamslic.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iamslic.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iamslic.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iamslic.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=846"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.iamslic.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/846\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iamslic.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=846"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iamslic.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=846"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iamslic.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=846"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}