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Annual Meetings


Meeting, Bamfield Marine Science Centre, Bamfield, British Columbia
March 27 – March 31, 2019

The 31st Annual Cyamus Spring Meeting, 2019 was held March 28-March 31 in Bamfield, British Columbia. Local hosts were Beth Rogers from the Bamfield Marine Science Centre and Sally Taylor from the University of British Columbia.

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Meeting, University of California San Diego (UCSD) and NOAA/Southwest Fisheries Sciences Center (SWFSC), La Jolla, CA
March 26 – March 28, 2018

The 30th Annual Cyamus Spring Meeting, 2018 was held March 25-March 28 in La Jolla, CA. Local hosts are Amy Butros from UCSD and Debra Losey from NOAA/SWFSC.
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Meeting, Oregon Institue of Marine Biology (OIMB), Charleston, Oregon
March 30 – April 2, 2017

The Spring 2017 Meeting was held March 30-April 2, 2017 at the University of Oregon’s Institute of Marine Biology (OIMB) in Charleston, OR.
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Meeting, California Polytechnic University, San Luis Obispo
March 2-6, 2016

The Spring 2016 Meeting was held March 2-6, 2016 at the Kennedy Library at Cal Poly San Luis Obispo.
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Meeting, NOAA Western Regional Center & University of Washington
March 11-14, 2015

The 2015 Annual Meeting was held March 11-14, with hosting duties shared by the NOAA Western Regional Center and the University of Washington, both in Seattle, Washington.
Program | Meeting Summary | Attendees | Group Photo


Meeting, Bodega Marine Lab & California Academy of Sciences
March 19-22, 2014

The 2014 Annual Meeting was held March 19-22, with hosting duties shared by the UC Davis Bodega Marine Laboratory in Bodega Bay and the California Academy of Sciences in San Francisco.
Program | Attendees | Group Photo (Bodega) Group Photo (Cal Academy)


Meeting, Santa Catalina Island, California
March 18-20, 2013

The Spring 2013 Meeting was held March 18-20, 2013 at the Wrigley Marine Science Center on Santa Catalina Island.
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Meeting, Anchorage, Alaska
August 24-25, 2012

The 2012 Meeting was held in conjunction with the 38th Annual IAMSLIC Conference in Anchorage, Alaska.
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Meeting , Newport, Oregon
March 10 – 13, 2011

The Spring 2011 Meeting was held March 10 – 13, 2011 at the Hatfield Marine Science Center in Newport, Oregon.
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Meeting, Bamfield, British Columbia
March 26-30, 2010

The Spring 2010 Meeting was held March 26-30, 2010 at the Bamfield Marine Sciences Centre on the west coast of Vancouver Island, British Columbia
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Conference photos are available from:

Group Photo
flickr Sally Taylor
flickr Steve Watkins
photoshare Eric Marshall
picasa Sonja Kromann


Meeting, Pacific Grove, California
March 1-4, 2009

The Spring 2009 Meeting was held March 1-4, 2009 at the Asilomar Conference Grounds in Pacific Grove, California.
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Meeting, San Juan Island, Washington
March 26-29, 2008

The Spring 2008 Meeting was held March 26-29, 2008, at the Friday Harbor Laboratories of the University of Washington on San Juan Island, Washington.
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Meeting, San Pedro, California
March 21-24, 2007

The Spring 2007 Meeting was held March 21-24, 2007, at the Cabrillo Marine Aquarium in San Pedro, California.
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Meeting, La Paz, Baja California Sur, Mexico
March 5-9, 2006

The Spring 2006 Meeting was held March 1-4, 2006, in La Paz, Baja California Sur, Mexico.
Meeting Summary


Meeting, La Jolla, California
March 9-12, 2005

The Spring 2005 Meeting was held March 9-12, 2005, in La Jolla, California.
Meeting Summary (from IAMSLIC Newsletter #97, p. 2-3) | Group Photo


Meeting, Vancouver, British Columbia
March 5-6 2004

The Spring 2004 Meeting was held March 5-6, 2004, in Vancouver, British Columbia.
Meeting Summary (from IAMSLIC Newsletter #91, p. 5-6) | Group Photo


Meeting, Kailua-Kona, Hawaii
March 5-8, 2003

The Spring 2003 Meeting was held March 5-8, 2003, hosted by the University of Hawaii Libraries. Conference Information is still available.
Program | Meeting Summary (IAMSLIC Newsletter #87, p. 2-3) | Attendees | Photos


Meeting, Oregon Institute of Marine Biology
March 21-24, 2002

The Spring 2002 Meeting was held March 21-24, 2002, hosted by the Oregon Institute of Marine Biology in Charleston, Oregon. Conference Information is still available.
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Meeting, Moss Landing Marine Laboratories and Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute
March 7-11, 2001

The Spring 2001 Meeting was held March 7-11, 2001, hosted by Moss Landing Marine Laboratories in the Monterey Bay region of California. Conference Information is still available.
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Meeting, CICESE, Ensenada, Baja California, Mexico
March 9-12, 2000

The Cyamus Regional Group held its Annual Meeting March 9-12, 2000, at the Centro de Investigation Cienti­fica y de Educacion Superior de Ensenada in Baja California, Mexico. The meeting, hosted by Amelia Chvez Comparn, was the largest Cyamus meeting to date, with 34 attendees. Holding the meeting in Ensenada enabled nine Mexican librarians to participate, part of a continuing Cyamus intiiative to expand IAMSLIC membership and involvement of librarians from Baja California and the western coast of Mexico. With the generous support of a $595 grant from IAMSLIC, an interpreter was able to attend, which greatly enhanced the effectiveness of the program and information sharing.Several key topics were addressed at the Annual Meeting, including: the licensing, acqusitions and support of electronic publications; a needs assessment exercise lead by Susan Berteaux which identified training ideas (see http://scilib.ucsd.edu/sio_instruct/iamslic/cyamus2000.html) that were forwarded to the IAMSLIC Training Committee; and resource sharing strategies. The resource sharing discussions led to an agreement that more interlibrary borrowing requests would first be sent to Cyamus members before being requested on the IAMSLIC listserv. A task force was formed to examine alternatives for the transport and delivery of duplicate materials among Cyamus libraries, particularly materials needed by Mexican member libraries. A grant proposal was submitted to IAMSLIC by Melissa Wong on behalf of the task force and was funded for $675 to support a pilot project. Janet Webster, as a member of the IAMSLIC Council of Singers, led a fruitful discussion of the mission and future of IAMSLIC as an organization, as well as ideas for the structure and content of IAMSLIC conferences.

Following the meeting, a set of links to the online catalogs and serials lists of all Cyamus member libraries was added to the Cyamus Web site to facilitate resource sharing.

(Excerpt from the 2000 Cyamus Annual Report. Conference Information is still available.)
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Meeting, Hatfield Marine Science Center, Newport, Oregon
March 11-14, 1999

The Cyamus Regional Group held its Annual Meeting March 11-14, 1999, at the Hatfield Marine Science Center in Newport, Oregon. Janet Webster hosted a very successful meeting with 25 Cyamus members in attendance. Partial financial assistance from remaining funds granted by IAMSLIC to the Cyamus Regional Group in 1997-98 supported the participation of three of the four members attending from Baja California Sur, Mexico. Dr. Lavern Weber, Director of Hatfield Marine Science Center and incoming president of the National Association of Marine Laboratories (U.S.), joined the group for a discussion and consultation on possible strategies for NAML to facilitate marine education at the elementary and secondary levels. Among the ideas addressed were potential partnerships with other marine education programs and mechanisms for students to direct inquiries about marine topics to a volunteer pool of marine scientists and librarians via the Web. Other topics of discussion at the Meeting included digitization projects; support for services to adjunct and affiliated users; links to special collections and grey literature throughout the region; managing public printing and photocopying; personal bibliographic database management software; and round-robin updates from each member library. Susan Berteaux led a focused discussion session on library and bibliographic instruction in marine science libraries.

(Excerpt from the 1999 Cyamus Annual Report. Conference Information is still available.)
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Meeting, Bodega Marine Lab, Bodega Bay, California
March 12-15, 1998

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Meeting, La Paz, Baja California Sur, Mexico
April 10-13, 1997

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Early meetings for which limited or no information is available:
1996 Meeting Pacific Biological Station, Nanaimo, BC | Meeting Summary (IAMSLIC Newsletter #59, p. 7)
1995 Meeting Wrigley Marine Science Center, Santa Catalina Island, California | Meeting Summary (IAMSLIC Newsletter #55, p. 6) | Group Photo | Attendees
1994 Meeting Friday Harbor Marine Laboratories, Friday Harbor, Washington | Meeting Summary (IAMSLIC Newsletter #51, p. 3)
1993 Meeting Oregon Institute of Marine Biology, Charleston, Oregon
1992 Meeting Monterey, California | Meeting Summary (IAMSLIC Newsletter #44, p. 2)
1991 Meeting Bodega Bay Marine Lab, Bodega Bay, California (this was the meeting at which the Cyamus name was decided upon, based on Alan Baldridge’s suggestion) | Meeting Summary (IAMSLIC Newsletter #39, p. 4)
1990 Meeting Bodega Bay Marine Lab, Bodega Bay, California | Meeting Summary (IAMSLIC Newsletter #35, p. 16)
1988 informal gathering at Monterey Bay Aquarium, Pacific Grove, California