Greetings Colleagues:  Three and half days of  meetings in Dallas at the 2013 Leadership Summit started with the planning kick-off for the 2014 Vancouver conference, followed by reports on the state of the association and concluded with Division and Chapter Cabinet meetings.

2014 Vancouver Conference Planning

The theme of the Vancouver Conference (June 8-10, 2014) as announced by our first non-North American President, Kate Arnold is Beyond Borders.  The Annual Conference Advisory Council is making some changes in the format of the program schedule to allow for more varied time slots 60, 90, 120 minute sessions as well as “Quick Take” 15 minute slots for hot topics.  Three themes have been announced for further exploration by all divisions in spotlight sessions, Sunday: Embedded  Information Services, Monday: Digital Content and Big Data, Tuesday: Leadership in the Human Age.

Nevenka Zdravkovska, as Chair-elect, is the lead for conference programming for our division and your ideas and suggestions for topics are welcome.  In addition, if you work in the Vancouver area, your local expertise is valuable to us.  The Sci-Tech division holds our Newcomers Lunch off-site and we would also like to host a tour on Wednesday, the last day of the conference.  As in the past we are partnering with the Engineering Division, and the other “science divisions” on joint programs and the All Sciences Poster Session and Reception.  Contact Nevenka (nevenka at umd dot edu) if you would like to help with planning programs, have an idea for a program or can help with local arrangements.

State of the Association

The sessions on Thursday and Friday morning were a series of  report outs to the division and chapter leadership on the state of the association.  We heard financial reports, PR reports, membership reports and conference planning reports.  Headquarter staff reported on improvements to the website and Information Outlook.  The new website will go live in March and has several features that will make it easier for members to connect with each other and to find out information about the association.  In particular, an association-wide calendar of events that all divisions and chapters can use to post events is a welcome improvement.  This calendar will allow all of us to find out about programming offered by other divisions and chapters so that we can take advantage of webinars, develop programming ideas and partner on presentations.  The new formation for Information Outlook was also highlighted. Starting with the first issue in  2013, Information Outlook is now produced in digital format.  Take a look at the inaugural issue and all of the options available to you. SLA members will receive an e-mail notification when a new issue is published. Links to each issue will be included in the notification and on SLA’s Website.

John Digilio the SLA Treasurer assured us in his report that the association will break–even in 2012 and that revenues and expenditures in 2013 are projected to also be in balance in 2013. He reminded us that we are one association and that the fiscal accountability of each division and chapter is critical to our financial health.  The Annual Conference provides 63% of the overall annual revenue of the association with 21% provided by member dues. Growth in revenue for the association is needed and membership continues to decline. Both of these issues were areas of concern for Headquarters staff and the other members of the SLA Board.  Recruitment and retention of new members is an issue that all of the divisions and chapters were asked to set as a goal for 2013.

The slides of John’s presentation  and the other presentations from the 2013 Leadership Summit are available here: (member login required for access) http://www.sla.org/content/resources/leadcenter/LeadershipSummit/13leadsummit/slides.cfm

President Deb Hunt and the Strategic Agenda

Throughout the Leadership Summit, Deb Hunt repeated the five strategic agenda areas that all divisions and chapters should embrace and incorporate into their action plans for 2013.  These are:

1. Strengthen and improve the Annual Conference as a source of revenue for the association and as a source of professional development and continuing education for our members.
2. Provide more professional development opportunities for our members throughout the year using local, regional, national, international and virtual events and venues.
3. Creating richer volunteer experience to develop in-demand skills.
4. Opening new markets through collaboration.
5. Growth through diversity of professional activity.

Our division’s communication activists, the members of the PR Committee and the Communications Committee will be working with me to help promote and implement discussion on the SLA Strategic Agenda.

Division Cabinet and Joint Cabinet Sessions

No new business was undertaken in either Division Cabinet or the Joint Cabinet Sessions.  Awards were given to the CI Division, the Taxonomy Division and the Solo Division for adding the most new members in 2012.  Several Divisions reported on the success of webinars as professional development opportunities for their members throughout the year. If you have ideas for webinar topics that would be of interest to Sci-Tech Division members, please send them to me.  I would like to plan one or two professional development webinars in 2013, send me a note (helenj at Stanford dot edu) if you are interested in helping.

2013 San Diego Conference

The Leadership Summit concluded with a message from Deb Hunt encouraging us to attend the conference in San Diego.  Deb is sponsoring a contest for member recruitment with the winners joining her for lunch at the beautiful Hotel Coronado on the beach in San Diego.  Details on the contest will be available soon.

If you have any questions or comments about the Leadership Summit, please contact me.

See you in San Diego,
Helen Josephine
2013 Chair
Science-Technology Division

The theme for the  2013 SLA Conference in San Diego  is Connect, Collaborate, Strategize.  The programs offered by the Sci-Tech Division are a combination of our traditional events such as the Newcomers Lunch, Annual Breakfast, Science and Engineering 101, and  “Science of” series plus some new topics and formats that will allow you to connect and collaborate with colleagues, energize your career and provide strategies for improving your areas of expertise.  Early-bird registration is now available through April 12, 2013.  If you have already registered for the full-conference, now is your opportunity to add ticketed  events. http://www.sla.org/content/Events/conference/ac13/reg.cfm

The program line up for the Sci-Tech Division at the San Diego Conference includes:

SATURDAY, June 8, 2013
8am-5pm CE Course, Patent Research: The Next Level
Ticketed event $299 members/$199 students-retired/$399 non members.
Limit to 50.  Bring your laptop for the hands–on portion of the session.  A limited number of computer workstations will be available onsite.
Workshop lead by Chris Vestal, Government Specialist, Lexis/Nexis  and Maria Krieser, Patent Researcher/Information Specialist with ASRC Management Services
Sponsored by Proquest/Dialog

11:30am- 1:00pm Newcomers Lunch (by invitation only)
Sponsored by IEEE

5:00-7:00pm DST Board Meeting
All members of the division are welcome to attend.

SUNDAY, June 9, 2013
11:45am- 1:15pm: Content and Interfaces, What’s New?  
Lightning talks from content providers, database producers, search engine developers with time for Q&A.  Confirmed attendees include: Deep Web Technologies, Elsevier, Microsoft Research, ProQuest/Dialog, Springer, Thomson Reuters.
Sponsored by Elsevier, Springer

MONDAY, June 10, 2013
7:30 am-9am: Annual Business Meeting and Awards (Breakfast)
Ticketed event $25 member/$20 student-retired/$35 non-member
Join us for our annual awards breakfast.  This is your chance to connect with other members of the SciTech Division and share in congratulating our award winners;
Sponsored by IEEE

10-11:30am: Next Generation Science Librarians (co-host, CHEM lead)
The role of the sci-tech librarian is changing – it’s not just reference assistance and cataloging anymore. The sci-tech librarian of the future is an analyst using citation and publication data to demonstrate the impact of their customers’ research, and in turn the parent organization. Librarians will share practical information about how they serve customers in this new non-traditional role.
Sponsored by CRC/ Taylor & Francis

12-1:30pm: Big Data, Big Challenges  (Spotlight Session)
The data deluge is here–data intensive science, social science and information networks. A panel of librarians and researchers will discuss the types of new data services offered and the new roles for information professionals
Panelists:
Britt Mueller, Qualcomm – Speaker
Amy Affelt, Director of Database Research, Compass Lexecon – Speaker
David Minor, Head of Digital Preservation Initiatives, UC San Diego – Speaker
Richard Moore, Deputy Director and Project Manager, Research Cyberinfrastructure, San Diego Supercomputer Center – Speaker
Helen Josephine, Head of the Engineering Library, Stanford University Libraries – Moderator
Sponsored by ACS, Wiley, World Scientific

4-5:30pm: Science and Engineering 101
Topic for 2013:  Research Resources for Transportation and Mining, Geology, Metallurgy.
Presenters: Mary Frances Lembo and James Manasco
Sponsored by SAE International
5:30-7:30pm: All Sciences Poster Session (co-host, BIOMED lead)

TUESDAY, June 11, 2013
8:00 -9:30am: Tips and Tricks for Developing and Using Research Apps
Developers of research apps and librarians who have deployed these apps will discuss current trends.
Panel to include Michael Habib, Scopus/Elsevier and Gayenel Rice, 3M

10:00-11:30: Computer Science Roundtable (co-host, IT Division lead)
Moderators: Helen Josephine and Ruth Kneale
Unconference format, bring your ideas and questions.
2-3:30pm: Science of Wine (co-host, BIOMED lead)

WEDNESDAY, June 12, 2013
8:30am-4:30pm SciTech Division Tour:  Qualcomm and UC San Diego Geisel Library and Calit2 Star Cave
Ticketed event: Member $40/student retired $25/Non-member $60
Limit to 30
Our hosts:  Britt Mueller, Qualcomm and Susan Shepherd, UC San Diego
Sponsored by IEEE

Here is the popular pocket schedule (PDF) that you can fold to put into your name badge.

Below are the sessions that are arranged by the Sci-Tech Division of SLA.  We have also included the major SLA events and sessions.

Sunday, July 15, 2012

11:30 am-1:00 pm
Sci-Tech Newcomers Lunch.  Location provided to those with an RSVP.  Sponsored by the IEEE.

1:00-3:00 pm
Science-Technology Division Advisory Board Meeting. Hilton, Joliet Room.

3:00-5:00 pm
Taste of Chicago Welcome Reception. All conference attendees are invited to celebrate the start of the SLA 2012 Annual Conference & INFO-EXPO.

5:15-7:15 pm
Sunday General Session and Awards Presentation. Join us as we honor our 2012 Award Recipients and outstanding conference partners before featured speaker, Guy Kawasaki, takes the stage of the impressive Arie Crown Theater.

Monday, July 16, 2012

7:30-9:00 am
Science-Technology Division Business and Awards Breakfast. Annual business and breakfast meeting of the Sci-Tech Division. Come have some breakfast, network with your colleagues old and new, and find out what the division is doing. Sponsored by IEEE & Knovel. CC, S402A

10:00-11:30 am
Collections in Transition: Impact of eResources on Collection Development and Management (Academic as lead with DSOC, EDU Div, Sci-Tech Div) As library collections move from the print to the electronic world, libraries face new opportunities and challenges that require thinking about critical issues such as how the practice of collection development has evolved in an electronic world. In this session you will learn how libraries are evolving their collection development practices and policies to address the proliferation of electronic books, including making acquisitions based on patron demand. As well, learn about the complexity of creating, managing and selling ebooks from a publisher perspective; information that will provide librarians with valuable insight into ebooks from press to desktop.  Sponsored by the ACS. CC, E351

2:00-4:00 pm
INFO-EXPO Magnificent Mile Networking Refreshments

4:00-5:30 pm
Computer Science Roundtable (Sci-Tech as lead with PAM) The CS Roundtable topic discussion will be  on new software tools and apps to streamline the research workflow.  Representatives of Mendeley, Elsevier and Thomson Reuters will be on the panel and we will have plenty of time for your questions.  We will have AV support in the room, so the vendors can do live demos if they choose.  Sponsored by the ACM and Morgan & Claypool. CC, S403B

Tuesday, July 17, 2012

8:00-9:30 am
DENG Standards Update (ENG Div as lead with Sci-Tech).  Learn about the latest product innovations from many of our technical standards publishers and vendors.  Sponsored by World Scientific. CC, E264

Noon-2:00 pm
INFO-EXPO Lincoln Park Networking Lunch

2:00-3:30 pm
How and Why Things Fail – Forensic Engineers & Information Specialists (Sci-Tech as lead with ENG Div, Trans Div, Insur Div, Chem Div) Real Forensic Engineering not made for TV. Librarians, information researchers, and libraries of all types and forms are essential to the field of forensic engineering. Come hear Michael Stevenson of ESI talk about what forensic engineering really is and how the gathering of information is key to the field.  Sponsored by INSPEC. CC, E253C

4:00-5:30 pm
Open Access to Federal Science Technology Information (Sci-Tech as lead with ENG Div) The session will address Open access through the Federal Science Repository Service (FSRS) and the collaboration between NTIS and the scientific and engineering communities. Learn the what, why and how of this collaboration and find out how it is working and what it can do for you.  Sponsored by the ACS. CC, E253C

Also 4:00-5:30 pm
Science of Beauty Care (DCHE as lead with Sci-Tech, BIO)  Back by popular demand, this session will focus on the science and chemistry of popular skin care products. Scientists will provide insights into the benefits of skin care products old and new, and experts from the industry will address the cultural side of skin care trends. Product samples will be available. CC, E258

6:00-8:00 pm
All Sciences Poster Reception (SciTech Div as Lead with BIO Div, CHEM Div, ENG Div) This event highlights multiple themes representing innovation, creativity, and change, with support from multiple divisions. Join your colleagues for food, drink, and networking, and learn new ideas to take back to your library.  Sponsored by the CAS and Elsevier. Hilton, Williford Room BC

Wednesday, July 18, 2012

8:00-9:30 am
Science and Engineering 101: Nuclear Science & Engineering (Sci-Tech as Lead with ENG Div.) Mary Frances Lembo and James Manasco are going to talk about Physics and Nuclear Science & Engineering and how to locate information in those subject area. Sponsored by Dialog & Proquest Market Solutions. CC, E264

2:00-3:00 pm
SLA Annual Business and Membership Meeting. Come hear SLA CEO Janice R. Lachance deliver the annual state-of-the association presentation. In addition, SLA President Brent Mai and Treasurer Dan Trefethen will report on the successes and planned initiatives of the association. CC, E450

3:00-4:00 pm
Future Now: A Panel Discussion. Join us for a new and exciting panel presentation by leading information pros who will discuss and debate topics that were popular during the conference and will continue to be important throughout 2012. This highly engaging event will build on the momentum created by conference sessions and attendee interactions and will include content posted on social media platforms by conference attendees.  Facilitated by Donna Scheeder, an SLA past president, this expert panel will address provocative and radical questions about our profession, our services and our value. You’ll explore challenging perspectives and ideas for our future, and you’ll walk away excited, inspired and re-invigorated about the profession’s possibilities. CC, E450

4:30-6:30 pm
Closing Reception. The Kentucky Chapter invites all conference attendees to join us in putting the icing on the cake of another successful conference. We hope you will take this chance to bid adieu to your friends and colleagues before you travel back to your place of origin. We also hope to ease your parting tears by including a drink ticket and a chance to win a little taste of Kentucky. Hilton, Williford Room A

All Sciences Poster Session – June 2011 Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

SESSION CO-SPONSORS: Biomedical & Life Sciences, Chemistry, Engineering, Food Agriculture and Nutrition, Physics-Astronomy-Mathematics, and Science-Technology Divisions

Conference theme this year is “FUTURE READY”

Your poster presentation could help your colleagues immeasurably as we all seek to cultivate or enhance scientists’ knowledge management skills and to demonstrate the value of our services to our parent organizations or potential clients. The poster session provides an informal and lively venue for sharing your innovative ideas on an important topic.

ELIGIBILITY: Any SLA member is welcome to submit an abstract. In the event that a greater number of submissions are received than can be accommodated, members of the sponsoring science divisions will be given first preference.

GUIDELINES and LAYOUT: Guidelines for materials and layout of poster presentations are available on the SLA Chemistry Division website at http://www.sla.org/division/dche/poster.html

SUBMISSION of ABSTRACT: DEADLINE is February 1,2011 Please submit your name, institution, email address, poster title, and description (250 words or less) by email to SLAposter2011@gmail.com

NOTIFICATION of ACCEPTANCE: All applicants will be notified re: poster proposal acceptance on or before March 1, 2011.

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