Conference Photos

Collections of photos from the recent conference! Also check the Facebook page for more.

The Photo Group: http://www.thephotogroup.com
Click on Online Images, enter access code: sla09

Joe Kraus': http://picasaweb.google.com/jokrausdu/SLA2009#

Jeff Bond's: http://www.flickr.com/photos/24397090@N00/sets/72157619860326453/

Ruth Kneale's: http://www.flickr.com/photos/desertlibrarian/sets/72157619596380629/

Have a set to share? Add in the comments!

Social networking stuff at the conference

If you are using Twitter at the conference

• The general Twitter hashtag for the SLA conference is #sla2009 (case sensitive), the hashtag for the PAM Division is #slapam.
• Twitter accounts to follow, http://twitter.com/sla2009 for general conference postings, also follow Joe Murphy (libraryfuture on Twitter) and other PAM members for updates about the conference, such as Joe Kraus, Ruth Kneale, Christina Pikas, Carol Hutchins, Catherine Lavallée-Welch, Randy Reichardt, Sara Tompson, SLA Headquarters, others?

SLA PAM on Facebook

• The SLA PAM Division Facebook Group is a great place to share or check events info and discussions and to post photos.

Joe Murphy will be available to assist in social networking at the conference and beyond.
joseph.murphy@yale.edu, http://twitter.com/libraryfuture

Schedule of PAM events

Here is the schedule of PAM events for the 2009 SLA Conference in Washington, DC.

Data Curation and Special Libraries: Education, Trends, and Developments

While you're finalizing your DC schedule please don't forget about the Computer Science Roundtable (and complimentary lunch), Tuesday, June 16th, 11:30am-1pm. Co-hosted by PAM and Sci-Tech. The complimentary lunch comes as a result of our wonderful co-sponsors ACM and IEEE.

Agenda:
Data curation panel presentations and discussion with:
>>> Richard Huffine, National Library Coordinator, US Geological Survey
>>> Jane Greenberg, Associate Professor and Director, SILS Metadata Research Center, School of Information and Library Science, University of North Carolina
>>> P. Bryan Heidorn, Associate Professor, Graduate School of Library and Information Science, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Open forum and discussion regarding CS being incorporated into SciTech
Note: IEEE and ACM plan to have representatives available to answer questions during the open forum.

Do not miss the chance to talk to experts in the field of data curation.
Some of the questions that they will be addressing:
What is data curation? What are the current trends in the field?
What can people do to train their organizations and self-educate?
What are the community standards?
What resources are needed (e.g. funding, staff expertise and technological infrastructure)?
What policies and processes need to be in place?
What are some of the challenges (e.g. technological change, sustainability)?

If you have any questions please contact me!

Jeanine Scaramozzino
College of Science and Mathematics Librarian
California Polytechnic State University
jscaramo@calpoly.edu

LISA VI Call for Papers

Library and Information Services in Astronomy VI
"21st Century Astronomy Librarianship: from new ideas to action"

hosted by the Inter-University Centre for Astronomy and
Astrophysics (IUCAA) Library and the National Centre for
Radio Astrophysics (NCRA) Library

Pune, Maharashtra, India, February 14-17, 2010

The LISA VI Scientific Organizing Committee cordially invites you to submit contributed talks and poster presentations. Papers are solicited in particular, but not exclusively, on the following topics:

* Future of Librarianship
* Web 2.0/3.0
* Use, Access and Metrics
* Resource Management & Intellectual Property
* Preservation, Archiving and the Virtual Observatory

The conference Keynote Speaker will be Professor Jayant V. Narlikar, Founder-Director, IUCAA, internationally known for his work in cosmology. He is also well known as an author and populariser of science.

If you are interested in giving an oral and/or poster presentation, please submit an abstract in English using the proposal submission mechanism at the conference website. The full Call for Papers can also be seen there. Submission deadline will be May 30, 2009.

Information about previous LISA conferences is also available.