2010 Sparks Award for Ye Li

2010 Marion E. Sparks Award for Professional Development

The SLA Chemistry Division (DCHE) is pleased to announce: Ye Li is the winner of the 2010 Marion E. Sparks Award for Professional Development. Ms. Li is the Chemistry Librarian at the Shapiro Science Library at the University of Michigan. She obtained her Masters degree in Library Science and her PhD in Chemistry at the University of Iowa in 2009.

DCHE will present Ms. Li with a $1500 check and award certificate to support her attendance at the 2010 SLA Annual Conference. Presentation will take place during the DCHE Annual Business Meeting/Breakfast in New Orleans, LA on Tuesday June 15th.

The Sparks Award is named to honor Marion E. Sparks, a pioneering and influential chemistry librarian who worked at the University of Illinois from 1913 through 1929.

Sci-Tech News - Issue #2 Online

The second online issue of Sci-Tech News—the official bulletin of the SLA Chemistry, Engineering, & Sci-Tech Divisions—is now available: http://www.sla.org/scitechnews.

Included in this issue:

• Message from the Chemistry Division Chair, with profiles on new members Hope Leman and Khue Duong. Hope also contributed another article and (yes!) poetry.
• Message from the MRM Section Chair.
• Bob Buchanan’s ‘Beyond the Chemistry Web’
• Conference report from the American Chemical Society Meeting, held this spring in San Francisco.
  

The next one will focus on the upcoming conference, with an August 1 deadline for all submissions. I’m sending out a call later today for conference reporters.

• If you would like to contribute an article for this next issue, including a report from another conference you’re attending this summer, please contact Kiem Ta (kiem.ta@okstate.edu) and me.
• If you want to be included in the next Membership Corner section, please contact Dana Roth (dzrlib@library.caltech.edu).
  

Chemistry Division Breakfasts at SLA Conference

If you're attending SLA this year in New Orleans, don't forget to order your breakfast tickets.

ROUNDTABLES - Join your DCHE colleagues for breakfast, networking and a spirited discussion on current topics and concerns.

• Academic Roundtable Breakfast (Monday, 6/14, 7:30-9:30am, $10, Ticket #400)
  --Sponsored by ACS Publications
  --Moderated by Ben Wagner and Luti Salisbury
  
  
• Corporate Roundtable Breakfast (Wednesday, 6/16, 7:30-9:30am, $10, Ticket #700)
  --Sponsored by GLTaC, Inc.
  --Moderated by Theo Jones-Quartey

BUSINESS MEETING - Networking breakfast and reports from the Executive and Advisory Board about DCHE activities. It's a chance to talk to Board members about getting involved in the Division. We'll also honor this year's Sparks Award winner.

• Chemistry Division Breakfast & Business Meeting (Tuesday, 6/15, 7:30-9:30am, $15, Ticket #500)
  --Sponsored by ACS Publications
  --Moderated by Teri Vogel
  

Nominations Announced

The SLA Chemistry Division’s Nominations Committee is pleased to announce their candidates for Treasurer and Chair-Elect (terms starting in 2011).

Chair-elect: Marie Fraties-Block

Treasurer: Yan He

To suggest additional candidates, send a petition with the names of 10 members along with the written consent of the proposed candidates to either Luray M. Minkiewicz, Cathy DiPalma or Mary Ann Mahoney by May 25.

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Marie Fraties-Block
Marie is currently the senior librarian for BASF Corporation and has been employed there since 1990. Previously she was employed at Bon Secours Hospital in Grosse Pointe, MI as the medical librarian. Marie received an MLS from the University of Pittsburgh and a B. A. from Central Michigan University.

Marie has been a member of SLA since 1992. As a Chemistry Division member she was the co-chair of the 2007 conference planning committee and was part of the 2008 nominating committee. In addition, Marie will participate at the 2010 annual conference at a panelist for the session on “Resources for Polymer Information” Marie has been involved with the SLA Michigan Chapter for many years and most recently as the Hospitality Committee Chair.

Marie notes that she takes the opportunity to attend SLA’s annual conferences because she gains practical work-related information, connects with informative and influential people, and develops lasting business contacts.

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Yan He

Yan obtained her B.S. in Chemistry from Beijing Normal University and M.S. in Organic Chemistry from Peking University in China. After she came to the states, she finished all PhD coursework in Organic Chemistry at University of Minnesota (Twin Cities) and she obtained her M.L.S. with Chemical Information Specialization from the School of Library and Information Science at Indiana University (Bloomington) in 2006. Yan was the winner of the SLA Chemistry Division Marion E. Sparks Award for Professional Development in 2006. Yan has been the Science Reference Librarian and Chemistry and Mathematics Bibliographer at the Blommer Science Library of Georgetown University since 2007. She has coordinated several recent SLA Chemistry Division No-Host Dinner events at the SLA Annual Conferences.