Science, Technology, Medical Librarians
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The Special Interest Group (SIG) for Science, Technology and Medical Librarians is composed of individuals from libraries with substantial collections in the physical, life or natural sciences. Through meetings and other events, members work to identify and develop effectives strategies to promote the interests of professionals working in this area and their library organizations.
About the Participants of the SIG
Next Meeting: Monday April 26, 2010 1:00 PM
The meeting originally scheduled for Wednesday February 10 is rescheduled for Monday April 26 at 1 PM
Location - METRO - 57 East 11th Street - 4th Floor
The theme will be Trends in Sci-Tech Medical Publishing. The speakers will be at METRO but the Upstate Group will attend the meeting through web conferencing software. Tentative Speakers:
Kris Fitzpatrick - IEEE
Allen Barnett - IOP Publishing (Institute of Physics)
Elizabeth Perill - Elsevier
Please contact: Bruce Slutsky (slutsky@njit.edu or 973-642-4950) if you want to come to the meeting or to register for the web conference.
Last meeting: Wednesday September 30, 2009 10 AM - 12 Noon - Joint Meeting with Library 2.0 SIG
Location - METRO - 57 East 11th Street - 4th Floor
Topic - Social Networking Literacy Competencies for Librarians by Joseph Murphy of Yale University
Brief description: The social networking literate librarian possesses the necessary skills for providing services in and with online social networking sites. Twitter & Facebook have transitioned from popular portals to essential elements in our information experience. Explore with Joe Murphy (Yale Science Libraries) the evolving roles of librarians in the swiftly changing information landscape where Twitter is the new centerpiece to scholarly communication. Learn what new skills librarians need for interacting with patrons and with information over online social networks, and discuss how we can best gain these skills and help our colleagues learn them.
Twitter: @libraryfuture (Joseph Murphy) - follow this meeting at #SNLIT. A summary may be found at http://bit.ly/3W0tpB
Questions - Contact: Bruce Slutsky (slutsky@njit.edu or 973-642-4950)
Previous meeting: Thursday June 11, 2009 1:30 PM
Location METRO - 57 East 11th Street - 4th Floor
Topic - Information Literacy in the Sciences: Where do we stand and where are we going - A Roundtable Discussion
Questions - Contact: Bruce Slutsky (slutsky@njit.edu or 973-642-4950)
Previous Meeting: Friday March 6, 2009
Location METRO - 57 East 11th Street- 4th Floor, 1:30 PM
Scheduled Speakers:
Robert Olley - Conducting Academic Research in the Fields of Zoology and Conservation
Jill Cirasella - Quirky, Not Quacky: Quantum Computing For Librarians Powerpoint
Valerie Tucci and Naveen Maddali - Future of A&I services and Scitopia
Previous Meeting: Friday November 7, 2008, 1:30 PM. Please note the change in location for this meeting. I am also ask that people RSVP for this meeting since we need to provide a list of attendees to security at Baruch College. Contact: Bruce Slutsky (slutsky@njit.edu or 973-642-4950)
Location - Baruch College, William and Anita Newman Library, 4th Floor Conference Room, 151 East 25th Street, New York, NY
Topic - Updates on Digital Projects in Science Libraries
Scheduled Speakers:
Ron Jantz - Rutgers University - An Institutional and Architectural Framework for Creating and Preserving Authentic Digital Objects
Mike Luby - National Science Digital Library - Updates to the NSDL
Please meet at the 4th floor conference room in the library (http://newman.baruch.cuny.edu/help/buildingmaps.html) at 12 noon if you want to come to lunch or 1:30 PM for the meeting
Previous Meeting: Monday May 12, 2008, 1:30 PM
Location METRO - 57 East 11th Street- 4th Floor, 1:30 PM
Topic: Abstracting and Information Services: Managing the Flow of Scholarly Communication-Past Present and Future
Speaker Bonnie Lawlor Executive Director of NFAIS (National Federation of Advanced Information Services)
Questions - Contact: Bruce Slutsky (slutsky@njit.edu or 973-642-4950)
Previous Meeting: Friday, February 8, 2008, 1:45 PM
Location: METRO - 57 East 11th Street - 4th Floor
Topics:
- Chemical Abstracts Service Webex Meeting - Databases from CAS: Not Just For Chemists. If you can not come to the Meeting you may participate by going to https://casevents.webex.com/casevents/j.php?ED=90656192&RG=1
- How wikipedia Really works: Behind the Scenes at Wikipedia by David Goodman
Questions - Contact: Bruce Slutsky (slutsky@njit.edu or 973-642-4950)
Previous Meeting:
Date: Friday October 12, 2007
Time: 1:30 PM
Location: METRO
Topics:
*Aditi Bandyopadhyay - A comparative study of the Biological Abstracts on two vendor platforms Powerpoint *Selenay Aytac and John Regazzi - Author-perceived quality characteristics of STM journals Powerpoint *Flora Grabowska -How to Encourage Open Access Publishing to the faculty
Contact: Bruce Slutsky (slutsky@njit.edu or 973-642-4950)
Past Activities:
Thursday, June 7, 2007
Topics: A Survey of Thesauri in Science and Medicine – Bella Hass Weinberg, Professor of Library and Information Science, St. John's University
Facebook as an Outreach and Marketing Tool for Academic Libraries – Shannon Kealey, Coles Science Center, NYU Bobst Library
January 12, 2007 Topic: Management Trends in Sci/Tech and Medical Libraries Speakers: David Stern of Yale University and Kris Alpi of the Weill Cornell Medical Library October 26, 2006 Topic: Information Literacy in Sci/Tech Libraries: Innovations at the Reference Desk Speakers:
* Heather Huey – Assessment of Information Literacy at the New Jersey Institute of Technology * Leah Massar – Library Instruction in a General Education Science Program * David Goodman – Wiki at the Reference Desk
June 6, 2006 Topic:Helen Ann Brown of the Weill Cornell Medical Library demonstrated Medline searching using PubMed, Ovid, and Knowledge Finder. Robert Olley of the Bronx Zoo Library gave a talk titled “Gnu at the Zoo: Gathering and Disseminating Information in Zoology and Conservation Biology.”
February 10, 2006 Topic: Publisher and Librarian views on Open Access and Institutional Repositories View the speakers PowerPoint presentations - David Goodman and John Regazzi
December 15, 2005 Topic: EPA Online Resources
November 18, 2005
June 3 2005 Topic: Career Development
January 21, 2005
October 4, 2004
June 11, 2004
February 27, 2004
October 24, 2003
May 29, 2003
February 11, 2003
October 25, 2002
Convenor: Bruce Slutsky Technical Reference Librarian New Jersey Institute of Technology Robert Van Houten Library 323 Martin Luther King Blvd. Newark, NJ 07109 TEL: (973) 642-4950 EMAIL: Bruce Slutsky
