- RSS feeds for Physics - Looking for RSS feeds related to physics? The website of the SLA's Physics-Astronomy-Mathematics Division is now sporting some of those links on the physics resources page....
- ASEE-ELD - volunteering opportunity - The ASEE-ELD has a position open for a liaison to the advisory board of the National Digital Science Library. The responsibilities, as the ELD is concerned, include attendance at the meetings, writing reports of the meetings to ELD, and looking...
- Librarian - Alexandria, Va, via ASRC Federal - ASRC Federal is looking for a Librarian for a client located in Alexandria, VA. A background in biology or chemistry is desirable....
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September 2005
- At SARC III - I am leaving this morning for the SARC III conference in Williamsburg, VA. I will be presenting a session tomorrow morning, entitled "Jumping on the Blogwagon: A Librarian's Perspective." My thanks to the Sci-Tech Division of SLA for their sponsorship...
- Katrina displaced library workers - University of California-Irvine, Irvine, CA - The University of California-Irvine, in Irvine, CA has several temporary full and part-time positions for librarians and support staff displaced by hurricane Katrina. A post on ELD-L gives more details in the full entry....
- SLA-PAM - volunteering opportunity - I am a bit late for this but maybe a volunteer is still needed. The Physics-Astronomy-Mathematics Division of SLA is looking for a new keeper of the Astronomy subject page. Contact Ruth A. Kneale if interested....
- Call for papers for Science and Technology Libraries - A special issue of Science and Technology Libraries is planned for Summer 2006 on the theme of recruitment and retention of science librarians. Submissions for contributions are now accepted....
- Engineering Librarian - Princeton University, Princeton, NJ - Princeton University, in Princeton, NJ, is looking for an Engineering Librarian....
- Temporary Librarian Position For Librarian Displaced by Hurricane Katrina - University of California-Fresno, Fresno, CA - The University of California-Fresno, in Fresno, CA is generously offering a Temporary Librarian Position For a Librarian Displaced by Hurricane Katrina. Conditions are very good and applications from librarians with experience in any aspect of librarianship, including reference, instruction, technical...
- Digital Services Librarian - University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI - The University of Wisconsin-Madison, in Madison, WI, is seeking a Digital Services Librarian for the Kurt F. Wendt Library in the College of Engineering and Departments of Computer Sciences, Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences, and Statistics....
- Geo-spatial portal now online - EDINA, a national datacentre hosted by the Edinburgh University Data Library, has launched a free portal named Go-Geo! Go-Geo! offers geo-spatial datasets and GIS-related resources within Great Britain tertiary education and beyond....
- CSA efforts to help Katrina victims - Cambridge Scientific Abstracts (CSA) is taking several measures to help users displaced by Katrina. Among them: make CSA databases accessible to displaced users directly for up to 6 months through a registration process on the CSA website extend affected customer...
- Scientific Publishing Conference - Lehigh University, in Bethlehem, PA wil host a one-day conference entitled Scientific Publishing: What does the Future Hold?. Students, faculty, researchers, scientists, engineers, librarians, publishers are invited to attend. It will take place on Saturday, November 12 and it is...
- RSC - training on chemical information - On October 11th, the Royal Society of Chemistry's Chemical Information Group, the Chemical Structure Association Trust and the University Science and Technology Librarians Group will repeat their joint one-day training event on chemical information. The training will take place at...
- ACS and PubChem discussion - The American Chemical Society created some controversy when an announced public discussion at the latest conference in Washington, DC had no room scheduled to discuss the conflict between the Society and PubChem. The ACS has announced that the topic (including...
- Living Reviews - Proving that you can learn something new everyday, especially in your job, I recently learned about Living Reviews via George Porter. Living Reviews in Relativity and Living Reviews in Solar Physics are open-access, peer-reviewed e-journals published yearly that review research....
- ASEE-ELD 2006 - Call for abstracts - October 5th is the deadline to submit abstracts for a paper, presentation or poster session for the ASEE-ELD annual conference in June 2006 in Chicago. Roughly mapped out are five topics: Assessment, Mentoring, Scholarly Communication, Technology, and Unusual/Unique Resources. Other...
- Bioengineering Librarian & Marketing Coordinator - University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI - The University of Wisconsin, in Madison, WI, is seeking a Bioengineering Librarian & Marketing Coordinator for the Kurt F. Wendt Library....
- APS offers help to Katrina affected members - The American Physical Society offers its help over the coming weeks and months as you seek to rebuild your departments, laboratories and workplaces. If we can assist you in any way in your efforts to recover from this devastating tragedy,...
- IoP access following Katrina - The Institute of Physics offers login information to displaced hurricane victims: "(...) we have put systems into place to ensure that professors, researchers, librarians and students affected by this tragedy can gain access to all IOP journals for at least...
- ASCE's Katrina website - The American Society of Civil Engineers has a full new section on Hurricane Katrina relief both for affected members and to inform its members and the public at-large. This section right now actually remplaces the normal homepage. Maybe more specifically...
- IEEE-USA's response to Hurricane Katrina - IEEE-USA is taking steps to help in the recovery from Hurricane Katrina. Among others, the Society has announced it made a financial donation to the American Red Cross and will make available Professional Activities Committee (PACE) project funds to organized...
- SIAM's response to Katrina - The Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics will provide username/password access to every SIAM electronic journal to any faculty member, staff member, or student at any institution that has suffered damage. This username and password will be effective until December...
- Science Reference and Electronic Resources Librarian - Washington State University, Pullman, WA - The Washington State University seems to be still looking for a Science Reference and Electronic Resources Librarian....
- Librarian (Science & Mathematics) - Georgian Court University, Lakewood, NJ - The Georgian Court University, in Lakewood, NJ, is still seeking a Librarian (Science & Mathematics) ....
- Knowledge Management Coordinator - Construction Specifications Institute, Alexandria, VA - The Construction Specifications Institute (CSI) is looking for a Knowledge Management Coordinator for its Alexandria, VA location....
- Manager, Scientific Information Services - Symyx, Santa Clara, CA - Symyx, in Santa Clara, CA, is still(?) looking for a Manager, Scientific Information Services. Local candidates are preferred....
- Information Services Librarian - Petroleum Institute, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates - The Petroleum Institute, in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates, is searching for an Information Services Librarian. Search for "Library Positions" off the main menu on the Institute's website....
- Acquisitions Librarian - Petroleum Institute, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates - The Petroleum Institute, in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates, is searching for an Acquisitions Librarian. Search for "Library Positions" off the main menu on the Institute's website....
- Technical Services Librarian - Northwestern University, Evanston, IL - Northwestern University, in Evanston, IL, is looking for a Technical Services Librarian for the Transportation Library....
- Research Librarian - University of South Florida, Tampa, FL - The University of South Florida at Tampa, in Tampa, FL, has three positions for Research Librarians. Among the possible backgrounds desired is natural and environmental sciences, and engineering. See the ALA's post and the description on the library's website....
- PAM Fall Bulletin in online - The Physics-Astronomy-Mathematics Division of SLA just published its Fall bulletin. The issue offers notes from the round tables and other PAM activities at the last SLA annual conference in Toronto. There are also two interesting tidbits: - the Division will...
- ASCE page on hurricane-related issues - Jay Bhatt has reported on the usual newsgroups a useful page put up by the American Society of Civil Engineers on Hurricane Events Analysis, Response and Mitigation. It is comprised of published journal and magazine articles and proceedings papers and...
- Institution Archivist/Records Manager - Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole, MA - The Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, in Woods Hole, MA, is looking for an Institution Archivist/Records Manager....
- Elsevier's efforts for hurricane relief - Elsevier announced a donation to the American Red Cross and plans to match employee donations to the Red Cross and all eligible disaster relief organizations. Also, "in addition to ongoing financial aid in the ensuing weeks and months, Elsevier will...
- AMS to give access to its products to displaced NO mathematicians - The American Mathematical Society is providing alternative access to MathSciNet and their journals to displaced mathematicians from the eight New Orleans universities (University of New Orleans, Tulane University, Loyola University, Xavier University of Louisiana, Southern University at New Orleans, Our...
- List of universities/colleges accepting displaced students - This is a list of colleges and universities that are accepting displaced students. It is updated regularly....
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Brick and Click: How Computers Changed Libraries Inside and OutJumping on the Blogwagon: A Librarian's Perspective
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Katrina displaced library workers - University of California-Irvine, Irvine, CA
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Digital Services Librarian - University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI
Bioengineering Librarian & Marketing Coordinator - University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI
Science Reference and Electronic Resources Librarian - Washington State University, Pullman, WA
Librarian (Science & Mathematics) - Georgian Court University, Lakewood, NJ
Knowledge Management Coordinator - Construction Specifications Institute, Alexandria, VA
Manager, Scientific Information Services - Symyx, Santa Clara, CA
Information Services Librarian - Petroleum Institute, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates
Acquisitions Librarian - Petroleum Institute, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates
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