PAM Sessions at SLA

Cross-posted to my blog, here are my writeups of SLA PAM events (sorry they're late!)

• SLA Days One and Two. Includes the Newcomer's Lunch and my thoughts on the opening session.
• Day Three. PAMwide Roundtable, Book Group, and the USNO Tour.
• Day Four. Business Meeting, History of PAM session (look for a big writeup in the next Bulletin!)
• Day Five. Astronomy Roundtable and the closing session.

Hoping to see writeups from others!

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

PAM-wide Round Table Proposal

Here is what I propose for the PAM-wide RT.

See http://wiki.sla.org/display/SLAPAM/PAM-wide+Round+Table+2009
(If you don't feel like signing up for this wiki, just give me [jokraus at du dot edu] your text, and I will slap it onto the wiki for you.)

I would like to propose that we take a good amount of time to introduce ourselves at the beginning of the session. In past years, the names of people and institutions would just "fly by".

As librarians, we are affiliated with our institutions, but the institution and the job does not define who we are.

For each person, we would like to hear:

• Your name
• Where you happen to work
• A hobby of yours
• Something that is on your mind (maybe something you are worried about, thinking about, or something you would like to learn at this session/conference.)

Once the introductions are done, then we can start to discuss the challenges of the day. Please keep your "presentations" to 5 minutes or less. In order to keep the presentations short, I would like to recommend oral presentations of topics. I would like the session to be "conversational" instead of "presentational".

If you need to present some slides (3 slides or less) for visual enhancement of your topic, please post them to a website or to the SlideShare event page ahead of time. This way, the "computer jockey" (volunteers?) can display the slides or provide the URL.

Here are some proposed agenda items for the second half of the meeting.

• E-Science
• Institutional Repositories that are worth their expense
• Science Library Services through Mobile Applications for iPhones and other smart phones.
• Budget issues
• Academic librarians reaching out to K-12 teachers
• Put your topic here...
• Etc., etc., etc.

How does all this sound?

Please let me know what other agenda items you think might be hot topics.

Joe

IOP Stipend for New Librarians

The Institute of Physics generously continues its commitment to libraries by providing financial support for new physical sciences librarians to attend their first SLA annual conference. IOP will give a stipend of $750 to each of four candidates who meet the following criteria:

• Is a recent graduate of a library science graduate program;
• Is in her/his first year of professional librarianship;
• Works in a physics, astronomy, mathematics, or computer science library or is a library's subject specialist for one or more of these disciplines;
• Has never before attended the SLA Annual Conference.

Applicants should submit a brief letter outlining how they meet the criteria, and include a copy of their resume or curriculum vita. Stipends will be awarded to the first four applicants who meet all of the criteria.

Applications can be submitted via email to Jane Kinkus, PAM professional development chair, at jkinkus@purdue.edu or Michiko Tanaka, PAM mentorship chair, at mtanaka@bnl.gov. Applications will be accepted until all of the stipends have been awarded.

If you do not meet these criteria, please pass this information along to somebody who does.

--Jane, on behalf of the Professional Development and Mentoring Committees

Centennial Video Contest

Go to the SLA Wiki page for more information on the video contest.

The founders of SLA had a vision for how to fill the networking and educational needs of special librarians. With the forming of SLA in 1909, these fabled past leaders created an amazing professional association. For 100 years SLA has grown and transformed itself, and the association that started as one idea, by one person, now serves a global market of over 11,000 information professionals, librarians, and their partners.

In 2009 SLA celebrates its 100th birthday and as we look toward a second century of service, we are asking the questions:

• What will the next 100 years of connecting people and information look like?
• Can you peer into the future and see SLA's leaders of tomorrow?
• Do you have an inspired vision of how SLA's members will change in 25, 50, or even 100 years?

Celebrate SLA's Centennial with your video representation of SLA's information professional of the future.

Promotion

• Promotional flier (pdf)
• YouTube promotional video

Rules and Guidelines

• Abridged rules (pdf)
• Complete rules (pdf)
• Interactive entry form (pdf)
• Permission form (pdf)