- Fall 2004 ISTL is out - The Fall 2004 issue of Issues in Science and Technology Librarianship is now online. This issue's theme is Nontraditional Reference Services. As always, well worth a read....
- Engineering Reference/Instruction Librarian - University of Colorado, Boulder, CO - The University of Colorado, in Boulder, CO, is looking for an Engineering Reference/Instruction Librarian....
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November 2004
- ACRL-STS Midwinter programing - The latest issue of Signal, the Science and Technology Section of the ACRL newsletter, is out. It contains a lot of interesting committee reports as well as the Midwinter conference program in Boston for the Section....
- SLA-CHEM/ACS-CINF Web conference - The SLA Chemistry Division is co-sponsoring a web conference with the ACS CINF Division to be held from December 6th to the 12th. The conference, entitled Chemical Information Instruction, will feature five posters originally presented at the ACS National Meeting...
- Call for abstracts for SLA poster session - Excellent news for the SLA annual conference, three scientific divisions, Chemistry, PAM and Sci-Tech, are joining for a poster session program. The theme is "Better Understanding your Users". What has been done to learn about library and information users? How...
- Science Librarians Dinner at ALA Midwinter - The College Science Librarians and the Issues in SciTech Library Management Discussion Groups are again co-hosting a Science Librarians Dinner at Midwinter. The dinner will take place on Saturday, January 15 at 5:30 pm. The restaurant is to be announced...
- ACRL-STS Publications Committee Virtual Meeting - The Publications Committee of the Science and Technology Section of the ACRL is trying out a new way of holding meetings, virtually that is. Instead of meeting at ALA Midwinter, the Committee will be meeting via email the week of...
- InfoCurrent placement - Alexandria, VA - InfoCurrent is currently searching for a Reference Librarian for an engineering consulting firm located in Alexandria, VA....
- Reference and Instruction Librarian for the Sciences - Middlebury College, Middlebury, VT - Middlebury College, in Middlebury, VT is looking for a Reference and Instruction Librarian for the Sciences....
- New search engines from EEVL - The good folks at EEVL have done it again! They now offer four new search engines to search the content of over 250 freely available full text ejournals in Engineering, Mathematics and Computing, through a service called EESE. The Computing...
- ACRL-STS Call for proposals for Research Forum - The ACRL Science and Technology Section's (STS) Research Committee also invites submission of abstracts of research papers to be given at the STS Forum for Science & Technology Library Research at the ALA Annual Conference in Chicago next June. The...
- Free e-books - Making the rounds today is this post by George S. Porter about free online access to Joseph Henry Pressbooks. Joseph Henry Press is an imprint of the National Academies Press . There is a list of titles available. I like...
- ACRL-STS call for submissions for poster session - The Science and Technology Section (STS) of the ACRL is inviting submissions for its poster session at the ALA Annual Conference in Chicago. Deadline is January 10th and a short description (250 words or less) of the poster should be...
- New Royal Society journal - The first issue of the new Royal Society journal, Journal of the Royal Society Interface, has just been published. This journal covers - but is not limited to - biocomplexity, bioengineering, bioinformatics, biomechanics, biophysics, chemical biology, medical physics, bionanotechnology, nanoscience,...
- SLA-ENG Awards nominations sought - The Awards Committee of the SLA-Engineering Division is now accepting nominations for two awards: the 2004/2005 Elsevier Engineering Information/SLA Engineering Librarian Award and the INSPEC Travel Stipend Award. Deadline is March 1st for both. For nominations or more information for...
- ASEE-ELD Awards nominations sought - The ELD Awards Committee is seeking nominations for three annual awards: Homer I. Bernhardt Distinguished Service Award Best Paper Award Best Reference Work Award Send all nominations via regular and/or e-mail to: John C. Teleha, F.D. Bluford Library, North Carolina...
- Membership brochure for CINF - The ACS Division of Chemical Information (CINF) has a new membership recruitment brochure online. Print copies can be requested with Alan Engel or Silvia Lee....
- IMS articles on arXiv - Following its March decision, the Institute of Mathematical Statistics is now starting to post all IMS articles in their entirety on arXiv, the e-print archives site. IMS does not believe it will loose many subscribers even with the open access....
- Reference Librarian-Science Specialist - College of Charleston, Charleston, SC - The College of Charleston, in Charleston, SC, is looking for a Reference Librarian-Science Specialist....
- Call for nominations for SLA-PAM - The Nominating Committee of the Physics-Astronomy-Mathematics Division of SLA is requesting nominations Chair-Elect and Secretary. The deadline for nominations is January 7, 2005. The Chair of the Committee is Debra Bailey. The Chair-Elect serves: As Chair-Elect: June 2005 - June...
- Information Services Librarian - Engineering - Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA - The Georgia Institute of Technology, in Atlanta, GA is seeking an Information Services Librarian - Engineering....
- Science and Engineering Library Information Specialist - University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA - University of Southern California, in Los Angeles, CA is looking for a Science and Engineering Library Information Specialist. Sara Tompson, who announced the job on SLA-ENG, had this to share about the position: I am happy to report we have...
- ACRL STS Standards for information literacy for science and technology - continued - A new step for the ACRL STS Standards for information literacy for science and technology: the draft now awaits further review and request for approval by the ACRL Standards and Accreditation Committee. Comments and feedback are still welcomed by Virginia...
- IEEE Conference Proceedings online only in 2006 - Christina Pikas reported on her LIS Rant blog that IEEE will only be offering its Conference Proceedings online starting in 2006....
- New Thomson-ISI study on open access journals - Bob Michaelson pinpointed a new study by Thomson-ISI (October 2004) authored by Marie E. McVeigh entitled Open Access Journals in the ISI Citation Databases: Analysis of Impact Factors and Citation Patterns (look in the right-hand column under "Highlighted Essays". A...
- Science Reference Librarian/Bibliographer - Binghamton University, Binghamton, NY - Binghamton University, in Binghamton, NY continues its search for a Science Reference Librarian/Bibliographer....
- Full-Time/Part-Time Patent Searching Professional - Technology & Patent Research International, Inc, San Diego?, CA - Technology & Patent Research International is looking for a Full-Time/Part-Time Patent Searching Professional. I am not sure of the location for the position but the headquarters are based in San Diego, CA....
- Patch and toolbar for SciFinder Scholar - CAS has made available yesterday a patch for SciFinder Scholar 2004, bringing the product to SciFinder Scholar 2004 v2. Subscribers can go on the download site to procure it (as well as the complete version of SciFinder Scholar 2004 v2)....
- Math and Science Song Information website - Bob Michaelson has communicated this off-the-beaten-path website to some of the sci-tech listserves today: Math And Science Song Information, Viewable Everywhere, or MASSIVE. This is a database containing information on more than 1700 songs having a science or a mathematics...
- Information Analyst - Battelle, Dugway Proving Ground, UT - Battelle is seeking for an Information Analyst for its Dugway Proving Ground location in Utah....
- Science Librarian - York University, Toronto, ON - York University, in Toronto, Ontario, is looking for a Science Librarian for a contractually limited appointment....
- Science Librarian - Kansas State University, Manhattan, KS - Kansas State University, in Manhattan, KS, is seeking a Science Librarian (Assistant Professor)....
- Information Specialist - CISTI, Mississauga, ON - Canada Institute for Scientific and Technical Information (CISTI) is looking for two Information Specialists for its Mississauga, Ontario location....
- Senior Program Officer for Education/Outreach and Information Service - Multidisciplinary Center for Earthquake Engineering Research (MCEER), SUNY Buffalo, Buffalo, NY - SUNY Buffalo, in Buffalo, NY, is looking for a Senior Program Officer for Education/Outreach and Information Service for its Multidisciplinary Center for Earthquake Engineering Research (MCEER)....
- New supplement from RSC - The Royal Society of Chemistry has introduced a new supplement as a companion publication to Chemical Science, Chemical Technology. The supplement gets content from other RSC publications and provides succinct accounts of applications and technological aspects of research across a...
- Call for abstracts for ALA poster session in 2005 - This is open to all librarians but nothing stops you from putting your sci-tech spin on it. Applications for presenting poster sessions at the 2005 ALA Annual Conference in Chicago are now being accepted. There are (large) categories to adjust...
- New Hot Topics essays - Hot Topics, a series of original essays on cutting-edge technologies, are the brain child of Computing Reviews, a collaboration of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) and Reviews.com. Leaders in the computer science community write the Hot Topics. Since they...
- PAM Mathematics Roundtable in 2005 - Nisa Bakkalbasi and Michael Golden, co-moderators of the SLA-PAM Mathematics Roundtable at the 2005 SLA Annual Conference, are interested in hearing ideas and suggestions from PAM members as potential discussion topics for the upcoming forum. They are also interested in...
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