New library consortium

This might be of interest to some. Access to information is problematic for many non-profit environmental libraries. Perhaps this is a way to address the issue.
-Janet Webster
Oregon State University
Introducing the…
International Environment Library Consortium
Bringing resources within reach for non-profit special libraries

Research needs, library budgets, and resource costs far exceed budgets, and resource price increases regularly outstrip budget increases. To address this challenge, the libraries of the World Wildlife Fund, World Resources Institute, Wildlife Conservation Society, and The Nature Conservancy joined forces for 2010 to achieve greater purchasing power and formed the International Environment Library Consortium. The purpose of the IELC is to provide research resources in the areas of environment, ecology, wildlife, natural resources, business, and economics. Together we are able to expand and enhance access to the major scholarly publishers, and plan to undertake new development projects for products and services that would benefit consortium members over time.

Who can apply for membership? The IELC is open to not-for profit 501(c)(3) organizations or government agencies working in environmental conservation. To join for 2011, please contact us as soon as possible. Commitments for 2011 subscriptions will be made early November 2010. Contact the IELC Administrator for details:

Dawn Pointer McCleskey * Librarian * World Wildlife Fund * (202) 495-4636 * library@wwfus.org

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September 23, 2010 · Filed under Announcements

Print journals dropping like flies?

There is an editorial in the current issue of Proceedings of the California Academy of Sciences stating that they will no longer be producing a print version of the journal.  I also got word from my serials acquisitions department that they received notification from ASLO that their journal Limnology & Oceanography would no longer be available in print starting in 2011.

UPDATE/CORRECTION:  I have since learned that the print for Limnology & Oceanography is not being dropped by ASLO.

Joe Wible

Hopkins Marine Station

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September 20, 2010 · Filed under Announcements

IAMSLIC 2010- only 3 days!!

Do not miss the pre-registration deadline – Friday 17th September 2010,  prices increase after that date!  For registration: http://www.iamslic.org/conf2010/?page_id=14

For programme information: http://www.iamslic.org/conf2010/?page_id=17 

Any questions for the hosts: Guillermina gcosulich@inidep.edu.ar  / Gabriela gsilvoni@inidep.edu.ar

Marcia Croy-Vanwely, Chair/Convener IAMSLIC 2010  Marcia.croyvanwely@dfo-mpo.gc.ca

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September 14, 2010 · Filed under Announcements

Reminders before coming to Argentina -Sept. 2nd/ Ayuda memoria para venir a Argentina/ 2 Sept.

Dear All:

We are already only one month and half ahead of the 36º Conference !

We get very exited each time we see a new one registered and we are
following up your hotel reservations.

If you still think you can come, make your reservation ASAP or any doubts
contact Ana Inés, our Arrival Help Desk anainescosulich@yahoo.com.ar

Remember we told you Mar del Plata is full of conferences and events
during October: -Hotel Los Angeles, is fully booked already, and -Hotel
Las Rocas has rooms reserved for our Conference till the 21 st…. if you
want to stay longer the have only a few suites left. We are sorry about
this inconvenience.

To organize yourself better, the ASADO Banquet is at midday Thursday
21st.

You can return from the Estancia-Ranch at 4.00 PM or 6.00 PM. An option
is to use that night to travel by bus to Buenos Aires city, or any other
place.

Check again for Hotel options at the Conference website.

And Read again ‘HOW to get THERE’ where we included Very Important
information regarding shuttle buses Tienda León in
‘How to get from Buenos Airport to Mar del Plata’. E-mail them to book
your seat from Ezeiza to our place !

Hurry UP!

We are waiting for you !!

(when preparing your suitcase do not forget a beautiful handcraft

or souvenir for the Guin Auction)

Muchos cariños para todos de las anfitrionas !

G&G&G (Guillermina & Gabriela & Gladys)

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Ayuda memoria para venir a Argentina/ 2 Sept.

Estimados todos:

Estamos a sólo un mes y medio de la 36º Conferencia !

Nos entusiasmamos mucho cada vez que leemos que alguien nuevo se
inscribió y estamos siguiendo de cerca las reservas que van haciendo.

Si piensas que podrás venir, por favor hacer la reserva de hotel a la
brevedad o ante cualquier duda contactar a Ana Inés
–anainescosulich@yahoo.com.ar.

Recuerden que les avisamos que Mar del Plata está repleta de conferencias
y eventos durante el mes de octubre: -el Hotel Los Angeles, ya está
completo, y el Hotel Las Rocas tiene habitaciones reservadas para
nosotros hasta el 21….si desean quedarse más tiempo en ese hotel sólo
les quedan unas pocas suites. Lamentamos este inconveniente.

Para que se organicen mejor, el ASADO final será al medio día del Jueves
21.

Se podrá volver de la Estancia tanto a las 4.00 como a las 6.00 de la
tarde.

Una posibilidad para alguien que quiera ahorrar una noche, es viajar a
Buenos Aires u otro destino durante la noche del 21.

Miren las opciones del Hoteles en el sitio web.

Miren también en ‘How to get there’ una información Muy
Importante que hemos agregado ahora con respecto a los buses
Tienda León (How to get from Buenos Aires Airport to Mar del Plata). Para
los que tomen esta conexión, tienen que escribirles un e-mail reservando
un asiento desde Ezeiza hasta Mar del Plata.

Los estamos esperando !

No se demoren!

(recuerden incluír en la valija una bella artesanía o souvenir para el
Remate: the GUIN Auction)

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September 2, 2010 · Filed under Conference News

Final call for Conference travel grants

Grant proposals are accepted until the 6th August 2010.

http://www.iamslic.org/activities/grants

Please send your proposal to:  Ruth Gustafson, President 2010-2011  ragustafson@lib.ucdavis.edu

Marcia Croy-Vanwely

IAMSLIC 36th Conference chair

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August 4, 2010 · Filed under Announcements

New website is now live

Dear IAMSLICers,

As some of you may have noticed if you have visited the IAMSLIC website today, the name servers have been redirected so that http://www.iamslic.org now points to the new website. Because it can take a day or two for these changes to propagate worldwide, some of you may still be taken to the old website, but this should change over time. In the meantime, because many of the internal links in the new website still show the temporary dreamhosters.com address, here are some direct links to several of the key sections of the new website that you may wish to bookmark:

IAMSLIC Home Page:  http://www.iamslic.org or http://iamslic.org
IAMSLIC News & Events Blog:  http://www.iamslic.org/blog
2010 Conference Website:  http://www.iamslic.org/conf2010
2010 Conference Registration:  http://www.iamslic.org/conf2010/?page_id=14

–Steve Watkins
Chair, Website & Communications Committee

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July 13, 2010 · Filed under Announcements, Committee news

One in Four Citations in Marine Biology Papers is Inappropriate

This is the title of a paper by P.A. Todd et al. in v.408 2010 of Marine Ecology Progress Series. The abstract of the paper is below.

Joe Wible
Hopkins Marine Station

ABSTRACT: Citing sources that do not support the assertion being made can misinform readers, per- petuate mistakes and deny credit to the researchers who should have been acknowledged. To quan- tify citation fidelity in marine biology, we retrieved 198 papers from 2 recent issues of 33 marine biol- ogy journals. From each paper we randomly selected 1 citation, recovered the source material, and evaluated its appropriateness. We discovered that the assertion was ‘clearly supported’ by the cita- tion in only 75.8% of cases, the support was ‘ambiguous’ in 10.6% of cases and the citation offered ‘no support’ to the original statement in 6.0% of cases. The remaining 7.6% of cases were classified as ‘empty’ (citations to secondary sources). We found no relationship between citation appropriate- ness and the position of the assertion in the paper, number of authors, number of references, article length and Journal Impact Factor. That 1 in 4 citations in marine biology should be viewed with scep- ticism is alarming and has important ramifications for both scholarship and bibliometrics.

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July 9, 2010 · Filed under Announcements

Stanford job – Branner Earth Sciences Library

Position Title: Head Librarian and Bibliographer   (search reopened)
Branner Earth Sciences Library

The Stanford University Libraries invite applications and nominations for the Head Librarian of the Branner Earth Sciences Library. This is an Academic Staff appointment, rather than a faculty-tenured position.  Applicants should apply via: http://jobs.stanford.edu/find_a_job.html.  Please supply a cover letter, a complete statement of qualifications, a full resume of including education and relevant experience, and the names and addresses of three references with knowledge of one’s professional qualifications for this position.

Stanford University’s School of Earth Sciences focuses on the study of the planet Earth – “its mantle and crust, atmosphere, climate, oceans, land and water systems, and its resources.”  The School is actively pursuing new roles in research and education in Earth, energy and environmental sciences.  If you are a subject specialist in environmental sciences and research, consider joining a cutting edge team of science and engineering librarians during this exciting time of change and challenges as we create dynamic science libraries for the 21st century.

The Libraries seek a candidate who will develop and manage collections in support of the four departments and two programs in the School of Earth Sciences: Geological & Environmental Sciences, Geophysics, Energy Resources Engineering, and Environmental Earth System Science as well as the Earth Systems Program and the Emmett Interdisciplinary Program on Environment and Resources (E-IPER).
The Head Librarian is responsible for the day to day operations of the Branner Earth Sciences Library and oversees 2.25 FTE Library Specialists and 1.0 FTE student workers.  The Librarian will work closely with the Assistant Director of Cartographic, Geospatial and Scientific Data & Services who oversees the Branner Library Map Collections and Geospatial Resources. S/he is a member of the Science and Engineering Resource Group (SERG) and participates actively in the Group’s programs.  SERG’s focus is to remake the traditional science libraries into more responsive, dynamic, and flexible information centers.  This is being carried out through a series of initiatives in which the Earth Sciences Librarian will be an integral part.  Innovative ideas and an ability to adapt to and create change are highly valued skills for the person in this position.  In short, the Librarian for Earth Sciences will be an energetic and flexible colleague who is looking towards the futu! re and wants to be an integral part of creating a new model of digital librarianship.

A full job description with specific job responsibilities and qualifications is available at:http://jobs.stanford.edu/find_a_job.html and type in number 37356.

Joe Wible

Hopkins Marine Station

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July 8, 2010 · Filed under Announcements

IAMSLIC website moves next week

Dear Colleagues,

The IAMSLIC Website and Communications Committee has been working jointly with the EURASLIC Web Committee since the past conference in Belgium to investigate alternatives for the hosting platform for our various web services and resources. Last week, the IAMSLIC Executive Board approved our proposal to relocate the IAMSLIC website to a commercial hosting service rather than purchasing a new server to replace the obsolete server that has been hosted by the Marine Biological Laboratory in Woods Hole. Since then, Sally Taylor and I have been working to replicate all of the IAMSLIC website and blog content on the new host platform and we have completed that work. In fact, this is the first posting from the new IAMSLIC blog to be broadcast to the IAMSLIC Discussion List.

We anticipate that the Internet address (www.iamslic.org)  for the website will be redirected to the new host starting on Tuesday or Wednesday next week, 13 or 14 July, 2010.  Once that occurs, I will send out a followup message with the specific URL addresses of the main IAMSLIC website, the News & Events blog, the 2010 conference website, etc. In the meantime, you may preview the new website at its temporary address:
http://iamslic.dreamhosters.com

Steve Watkins
Chair, Website and Communications Committee

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July 8, 2010 · Filed under Announcements, Committee news, Executive Board news

Annual summary of resource sharing statistics

In July of each year, I collate and summarize the resource sharing statistics from the IAMSLIC Distributed Library project. 2009/10 represents the eighth complete year of the resource sharing program. A total of 4977 requests were submitted during 2009/10, the highest volume of activity recorded to date and an increase of 15% over 2008/09. A total of 28,176 requests have been submitted via the system since its inception in 2002.

The resource sharing program continues to be broadly international in scope, with 74 different IAMSLIC lending libraries in 23 countries receiving borrowing requests from 119 IAMSLIC libraries in 42 countries, very similar to previous year’s numbers. 35 (47%) of those 74 lending libraries are in the United States and they received 60.1% of the total requests, while Mexico, Australia, Canada and Germany collectively received 29.5% of the borrowing requests.

The Hatfield Marine Science Center of Oregon State University (U.S.) was the top lending library again this year, followed by the Alfred Wegener Institut in Bremerhaven (Germany), the University of Hawaii (U.S.),  the Bedford Institute of Oceanography (Canada),  and Hopkins Marine Station (U.S.).

There were no significant shifts from the past year in the proportions of lending and borrowing across the Regional Groups. The Latin American region continues to make active use of the resource sharing program while contributing a substantial amount of lending in return, including an significant percentage of requests filled within the region. EURASLIC still conducts much of its regional interlibrary loan activity via its discussion list, so the number of transactions via the Distributed Library does not reflect the full volume of resource sharing in the region, however a growing number of EURASLIC libraries are active users of the system. The volume of activity remains low in Africa and moderate in the Pacific region.

The complete set of data is available on the Distributed Library website via the Resource Sharing Statistics link at http://library.csumb.edu/iamslic/ill/. It includes a spreadsheet for each year that offers charts and additional analysis of lending and borrowing patterns. I encourage you to look at the 2009/10 numbers and will be glad to answer any questions you may have about the data.

Steve Watkins
California State University, Monterey Bay, Library
steve_watkins@csumb.edu

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July 7, 2010 · Filed under Announcements

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