Several talks are on tap from our colleagues already, regarding the Online Astronomy Preprints database, LISA III, current work of the IAU's Working Group on Astronomical Libraries, ASDS--Astronomical Software & Documentation Service, and other projects. Dr. Michael Kurtz of the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics will present an update on ADS, the Astrophysical Data System.
We've scheduled more time than usual, to allow for discussion of everything from the databases to questions on practice. If you have a topic in mind that I haven't mentioned and would like to be on the schedule for a brief talk, please email me at emily.poworoznek@unh.edu soon.
My background: I began attending the annual meetings of SLA in 1993 (Montreal!), right after I finished my MLIS (Univ. of Rhode Island). I had already, happily, discovered PAMnet, as I was running the UNH Physics Library. At Montreal, I became hooked on PAM roundtables. In 1995, I became a professional librarian in the Science & Engineering Branch Libraries at UNH. I supervise, do collection development, some reference work, and bibliographic instruction for three branch libraries with subject specialties of: Physics (with Astronomy), Chemistry, and Mathematics-Computer Science-Engineering (Chemical, Civil, Electrical & Computer, and Mechanical). I also have a master's degree in botany, and keep up a bit in that area by doing the annual index for a journal, The Bryologist, with another librarian/botanist here at UNH. UNH is active in space science, including work on the Compton Gamma-Ray Observatory and Cluster, so I am always trying to keep up with astrophysical information. I attended the mentoring lunch at the last SLA conference, and, when Liz Bryson was looking for volunteers, jumped at the chance to be involved with the Astronomy Roundtable. Next year, as part of this commitment, I will be soliciting astronomy news for the PAM Bulletin; please put me on your mailing lists.
So, please get in touch if you'd like to be on the schedule for a talk, and in any case I hope to see you in June. It's great to work with such active, warm, and committed people as I've met in PAM.
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