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Charles Wenger (cbwenger2@aol.com), liaison to SLA Sci-Tech
SLA Annual Conference-Denver.
Report of Science-Technology Division Activities.
I.Introduction.
This is a report of the annual SLA meeting held in Denver, June 2-6, 2007 for events sponsored
by the Science/Technology Division.
The theme of SLA Denver “‘Climb to New Heights’ challenges the info pro to accept challenges
by creating innovative solutions”…“To meet the need, conference programming…included
SYNERGY sessions, which are based on the ‘unconference’ concept that participants come up
with the best results when engaged in discussion. WOW! Programs are those chosen by each
division to reflect collaboration and encourage ‘outside-the-box’ thinking”
Programs of common interest to STS and SLA-Sci/Tech included:
Computer Science Round Table
Diversity Management
E-Books
Federated Searching
Future Libraries for the next generation of Scientists—a Round Table.
Institutional Repositories
New Technologies in Instruction & Training: Poster Session (20 posters)
Online Information Literacy Tutorials for Introductory Science Courses
Scholarly Communication
Science & Engineering Resources: Atmospheric Sciences, Geology, and
Geography
Standards Update
Supporting Research with Historic Photographs and Google Earth
Contact information is provided for each professional program. STS members are
encouraged to communicate and collaborate with SLA members. Contact information is
provided.
The Association web address is www.sla.org, the Science-Technology Division web address is:
http://units.sla.org/division/dst/ . It is expected that in the weeks ahead information from all of
these presentations will be available on the Science-Technology Division web site and/or in the
SLA publication Sci/Tech News (Editor Susan Fingerman, Johns Hopkins University Applied
Physics Laboratory- susan.fingerman@jhuapl.edu ).
II. Business Meetings.
Highlights include the decision to collaborate with STS Continuing Education in
conducting a membership survey of continuing education needs, an awards ceremony, and work
on a new strategic plan.
III. Professional Programs. Readers are encouraged to contact the presenters with
their questions or for further discussion/collaboration.
1. SLA 2007 CE Workshop--Creating and Managing Institutional Data Repositories.
Michael Witt (mwitt@purdue.edu), Interdisciplinary Research Librarian/Assistant
Professor of Library Science, Purdue University.
Moderators. Ann Koopman and Dale Riordan.
Sponsored by Proquest.
A half-day workshop. Course description:
“This session explores the issues surrounding the creating of a repository structure for
institutional research data, so you can decide whether it is appropriate for you to pursue a data
repository in your organization, and how to begin work on one….As libraries seek to remain
relevant to their organizations, they need to move further upstream in the research cycle. One
component of this is curating and archiving research data.”
2. Feeding the Fledgling Repository
Speaker. Ann Koopman (ann.koopman@jefferson.edu)-Thomas Jefferson University.
Jefferson Digital Commons accessible at: http://jdc.jefferson.edu .
Sponsor. Elsevier.
“…Whether intended for faculty papers, original journals, dissertations, or special collections,
one of the challenges of building an institutional repository (IR) is recruiting appropriate content.
A presentation about the experiences at Thomas Jefferson University… and the development of
their Digital Commons was followed by discussion of strategies for successfully populating an
institutional repository in a round table environment.” The PowerPoint presentation is expected
to be available at the SLA-Science/Technology Division Website in the near future.
http://units.sla.org/division/dst/
3. Standards Update (More expected in the near future on the SLA website at www.sla.org)
Moderator-Lee Pharis (lpharis@exponent.com), Manager Information Resources,
Exponent.
Sponsors. IEEE, American Society of Civil Engineers, Thomson Scientific and Dialog.
This annual standards update provided information on what is happening in the standards world
and the latest vendor news. Participants were given an opportunity to give feedback to standards
developing organizations.
Participating vendors included:
ANSI
ASTM, International
Eastview
IEEE
IHS
SAI Global-ILI Publishing
Thomson
ASME
4.The Science of Beer.
Speaker. Charlie Barnforth (cwbamforth@ucdavis.edu) the Anheuser-Busch Endowed
Professor of Brewing Science, University of California, Davis.
Moderator. James Manasco (jemana01@louisville.edu), University of Louisville.
Sponsors. Annual Reviews, ACS Publications, CAS, Royal Society of Chemistry, Elsevier.
An introduction to the science and technology of making beer including the chemistry,
agriculture, microbiology and engineering processes. Highly informative, entertaining, and
captivating whether you drink beer or not.
5.Annual Diversity Leadership Breakfast
Managerial Leadership and Diversity: Where do you Fall?
Speaker. Dr. Camila Alire (camila.alire@cudenver.edu), the Interim Executive Director of
the Greater Western Library Alliance.
Moderator. Jeffrey Dreiblatt (jeffrey.dreiblatt@us.pwc.com), PricewaterhouseCoopers.
Sponsors. EBSCO Information Services, Thomson Scientific and Dialog.
Catalog description: “This session takes the concept of managerial/transformation leadership to
respond to questions related to diversity in libraries: Who are the managerial/transformational
leaders? Is managerial leadership color blind? How can a managerial leader help to diversity a
library organization; empower followers to embrace diversity; incorporate managerial leadership
and diversity into minority employee success, problem-solving, innovating thinking,
communications, library organizational awareness and collaboration?”
6. Federated Searching, Part 1. (More expected in the near future on the SLA website at
www.sla.org)
Presenters: Susan Fingerman (susan.fingerman@jhuapl.edu), Johns Hopkins
University Applied Physics Laboratory; Doris Small Helfer (doris.helfer@csun.edu), Chair
Technical Services, California State University Northridge; Jina Choe Wakimoto
(jina.wakimoto@colorado.edu), Head, Cataloging and Metadata Services, University of
Colorado at Boulder.
Moderator: Carol Lucke (carol.lucke@nrl.navy.mil), Reference Librarian/eJournals
Specialist, Naval Research Laboratory Research Library.
Sponsors. Open Text Corp. EBSCO Information Services.
Experiences, pro and con, of implementing and utilizing federated searching via Ex Libris
MetaLib (http://www.exlibrisgroup.com/metalib.htm) for both the California State University
System and for Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Lab were presented.
7. Federated Searching, Part 2: Vendor Update (More expected in the near future on the
SLA website at www.sla.org)
Speakers. Steve DiStasio, (Stephen.distasio@serialssolutions.com) Product Manager,
Serials Solutions; Tate Nunley, Sales Executive, Ex Libris. (tate.nunley@exlibrisgroup.com)
Moderator. Carol Lucke, (carol.lucke@nrl.navy.mil), Reference Librarian/eJournals
Specialist, Naval Research Laboratory Research Library.
Sponsor. Open Text Corporation.
Vendors representing Ex Libris and Serials Solutions discussed their products in-depth—360
Search for Serials Solutions and MetaLib for Ex Libris.
8. Computer Science Roundtable. An open discussion of issues related to computer science
information and resources.
Moderator. Danny Dotson (dotson.77@osu.edu ), Mathematical Sciences Librarian of The
Ohio State University.
Sponsor. ACM, Inc.
The following were discussed: Database issues, Serials issues, Open access journals, and
eBooks. (More in the near future on the SLA website at www.sla.org)
9. Science and Engineering Resources 101. (More expected in the near future on the SLA
website at www.sla.org)
Speakers. Mary Frances Lembo (mf.lembo@pnl.gov), Pacific Northwest National
Laboratory and James Manasco (james.manasco@louisville.edu), University of Louisville.
Sponsor. ASTM International
Overview of the most useful resources including websites, listservs, search engines, numeric,
bibliographic, and full-text databases, associations and societies, maps, reference works, books,
and journals among others in the atmospheric sciences, geology, and geography.
10. E-Books on Steroids: A Vendor Update. (More expected in the near future on the SLA
website at www.sla.org)
Speakers. Cyntia Cleto (Cynthia.cleto@springer.com), Springer; Christopher Warnock
(Warnock@ebrary.com), CEO, ebrary; Chris Forbes (cforbes@knovel.com), CEO,
Knovel; Todd Fegan (todd.fegan@il.proquest.com), VP of publishing for ProQuest CSA.
Moderator. Sara Tompson (sarat@usc.edu), Interdisciplinary Team Leader, Science and
Engineering Library, University of Southern California.
Sponsor. CrossRef, ProQuest CSA, Safari Books Online, ebrary and Knovel.
Many forward-looking vendors of electronic books provide dynamic and interactive access to the
contents of their resources. Representatives from ebrary, Knovel, Safari and Springer discussed
their e-book platforms.
11. Future Shock! Libraries for Next-Generation Science & Scientists: the Academic
Science Librarians’ Roundtable.
Moderated by Ruth Gustafson (ragustafson@ucdavis.edu), Reference Librarian,
University of California, Davis.
Sponsors. IEEE, Annual Reviews, Thomson Scientific and Dialog, Springer.
Facilitated discussions focused on academic libraries and their roles in leading-edge science and
the new generation of scientists. Discussions included the following topics:
NextGen Science Patrons, Interdisciplinary sciences, Are science reference desks endangered?,
and Collections in an age of escalation.
12. Sci-Tech Contributed Papers Session.
Responding to the New in Sci-Tech and Engineering Libraries
Moderated by Roger Beckman (BeckmanR@indiana.edu), Head Life Sciences Library and
Chemistry Library, Indiana University.
Sponsored by Nature Publishing Group.
More complete information available at:
http://units.sla.org/division/dst/Annual%20Conference%20Contributed%20Papers/2007papers/2
007papers.html
Papers included:
A. Electronic Books: Search and Download in the Life Sciences? by Barbara Greenman,
Associate Faculty Director Science Library, University of Colorado at Boulder,
Barbara.greenman@colorado.edu
B. Tracking Climate Change in the 21st Century: Supporting Research with Historic
Photographs and Google Earth by: Allaina M. Howard (alhoward@nsidc.org), Lisa M.
Ballagh(vtlisa@nsidc.org),Gloria J. Hicks (ghicks@nsidc.org), Donna J. Scott
(dscott@nsidc.org), National Snow and Ice Data Center (http://nsidc.org/) University of
Colorado, Boulder, Colorado.
C. Making It Theirs: Online Information Literacy Tutorials Designed Specifically to
Introductory Science Courses by:Eric Resnis (resnisew@muohio.edu), Engineering
Librarian and Jen-chien Yu (yuj@muohio.edu), Electronic Information Services
Librarian, Miami University, Oxford, Ohio.
13. New Technologies in Instruction & Training: Poster Session.
Moderated by William Armstrong, Sciences Collection Development Coordinator,
Louisiana State University and Irene Laursen, Wellesley College.
Sponsored by: Elsevier and ACM, Inc.
Twenty posters. From the catalog: “Blogs, wikis, podcasts, webinars, RSS feeds, and personal
response systems (clickers) are just some of the technologies…Learn how your colleagues are
actually using new technology to communicate with and educate their patrons.”
Readers are encouraged to contact the presenters with their questions and/or join the Web
Conference October 1-16 which will feature contributed posters from the Denver conference.
Sponsored by SLA Chemistry, PAM, and Sci-Tech Divisions--October 1-16, 2007 at:
http://forum.lib.lsu.edu/slachem/. Registration is free but is required in order to participate. For
more information contact: William Armstrong at notwwa@lsu.edu
This poster session featured the following:
A. Analyzing the Student Research Cycle with ella: the Mount Holyoke College
Electronic Learning Arena by Sarah K. Oelker soelker@mtholyoke.edu and Mary Glackin
(mglackin@mtholyoke.edu )
B. Bioterrorism at UF: Exploring and Developing a Library Instructional Video Game for
New Students. by Sara Russell Gonzalez (sargonz@uflib.ufl.edu) and Valrie Davis
(vdavis@ufl.edu), Marston Science Library, University of Florida. Additional team
members are Cindy Frey, Kathryn Kennedy, Carrie Newsom, and Laurie Taylor.
C. Blogging Faculty Publications by Julie Arendt, Science Librarian, Southern Illinois
University. jarendt@lib.siu.edu
Demonstrated by the Weblog at http://Newshound.de.siu.edu/scilib
D. Connecting with the Millennials by Peggy Dominy (dominymf@drexel.edu ); Jay Bhatt
(bhattjj@drexel.edu ); Josh Roberts (akk25@drexel.edu ); Tim Siftar (siftar@drexel.edu ).
Drexel University.
E. Enabling Technologies in the Corporate World. Presented by Maureen Langstretch
(maureenlongstreth@rohmhass.com) and Sue Jones (susanjones@rohmhaas.com) of Rohm
& Haas. Written by presenters with minor editing.
F. Hands on Remote Training and Self-Paced Learning in Chemical Information by Peg
Renery (prenery@mdl.com)
G. Information Competencies for Chemistry Undergraduates: the elements of information
literacy. by the Ad Hoc Committee on Information Literacy of the SLA Chemistry
Division. Document is available at: http://units.sla.org/division/dche/il/cheminfolit.pdf
H. Leaving a Train of Bread Crumbs by Pat Viele of Cornell University. Written by Pat
Viele (ptv1@cornell.edu)
I. The New Library Newsletter by Nancy Allmang (nancy.allmang@nist.gov); Laurie
Davis-Covin (laurie.davis-covin@nist.gov); Ruth Osbourne (ruth.osborne@nist.gov).
Technology Services, Information Services Division, National Institute of Standards and
Technology, U.S. Dept. of Commerce.
J. Wikis and Podcasts for Training, Communication and Collaboration by Keith Martin
(keith.martin@nist.gov )and Nancy Allmang (nancy.allmang@nist.gov), Research Library,
National Institute of Standards and Technology, U.S. Dept. of Commerce.
K. Remote Desktop Technology by Dolly Goulart (dgoulart@qualcomm.com), Staff
Librarian, QUALCOMM, Inc.
L. Teaching in Two Places at the Same Time by Pam Enrici (penrici@d.umn.edu), U.
Minnesota-Duluth.
M. Make it a Challenge! The Use of StudyMate to Ccreate an Interactive Review of
Chemical Information Seeking Skills by Meris Mandernach (manderma@jmu.edu),
Science Librarian, CISAT Library, James Madison University.
N. Use of Educational Technologies by Science-Engineering Faculty
Sai Chinnaswamy (chinnaswamys@u.library.arizona.edu), Elizabeth Kline
(klinee@u.library.arizona.edu), Jim Martin (martinj@u.library.arizona.edu) - ScienceEngineering Team, University of Arizona Library
O. Use of Wikis and MacroBreeze in Chemical Information and Cheminformatics
Instruction at Indiana by Gary Wiggins (wiggins@indiana.edu), Director of the Chemical
Informatics Program, Interim Director of the Bioinformatics Program, Adjunct Professor
of Informatics, Indiana University. The presentation may be accessed at:
http://www.chembiogrid.org/presentations/Wiggins_SLA_2007.ppt
P. Using Screen Captures Technology to Create a Video Catalog of Frequently Asked
Questions by Dana Antonucci-Durgon (dana.antonucci@stonybrook.edu), Biology and
Chemistry Librarian, Stony Brook University.
Q. Using SurveyMonkey for an Attitude Adjustment by Cory Craig (cjcraig@ucdavis.edu),
Physical Sciences & Engineering Library, University of California at Davis.
R. Utilizing a Classroom Personal Response System for Academic Libraries: Instruction in
the Sciences by Peter Kirlew (pkirlew@vcu.edu), Reference Librarian for the Sciences and
Engineering, Research and Instructional Services, Virginia Commenwealth University
Libraries.
S. WISPR-Blended Library Instruction and Inquiry Based Learning by Claudette Cloutier
ccloutie@ucalgary.ca , K.Alix Hayden, ahayden@ucalgary.ca , Shauna Rutherford
srutherf@ucalgary.ca , and Paul R. Pival ppival@ucalgary.ca of the U. Calgary
T. Using Tegrity for Instruction & Training: A Pilot Project and Results by Bing Wang
(bing.wang@library.gatech.edu), Library and Infomation Center, Georgia Tech.