2010 Conference - THANKS

Another great round of CE courses, presentations, posters and networking came and went last week in (hot and humid) New Orleans at the 2010 SLA Conference. Reports from the various sessions will be published in the next issue of Sci-Tech News. And if you have additional feedback on this year’s programs or suggestions for next year’s conference, please send them to Bill Armstrong (notwaa@lsu.edu), next year’s DCHE Chair.

THANKS to everyone who helped make this year’s Chemistry Division programming at the SLA Conference a success:

• Cory Craig and Jack Bashian, my program co-planners. They arranged our four sessions that involved speakers (Mobile Devices, Vendor Update, Renewable Materials and Polymer Information), and generally helped me keep my sanity.
• Ted Baldwin for organizing the CE courses, and Judith Currano, Dawn French and Bartow Culp for teaching those courses.
• Our session presenters, including Ann Bolek, Marie Fraties-Block, Dr. H.N. Cheng, Antony Williams, Joe Murphy and Robin Dasler. Also to ACS Pubs, RSC, CAS and Nature for participating in our Vendor Update.
• Cory, Jack and Norah Xiao for moderating those sessions.
• Ben Wagner, Luti Salisbury, Theo Jones-Quartey for moderating our breakfast roundtables.
• Ye Li for organizing our No-Host Dinner, and Judith for helping me organize our Newcomers Lunch.
• Loren Mendelsohn, for securing most of our sponsorship this year, as well as Jack and Luray Minkiewicz for their additional assistance in reaching out to potential sponsors.
• Our Poster Committee, who along with liaisons from 5 divisions, organized another great poster session (20+ posters). And Irene Laursen for providing so much assistance with the reception.
• The FAN, Sci-Tech and PAM Divisions, for taking the lead on organizing the Science of Hot Sauce, Collection Intelligence and Data Curation sessions.
• Bob Buchanan for his treasurer reports, Lee Pedersen for taking minutes (and introducing us to a smartpen), and Bill Armstrong for printing and bringing the evaluation forms and the large poster session sign.
• Bullitt Darlington at webuybooks.net for making our ever-popular ‘dance cards.’
• Kristin Foldvik and Akisha Edogun at SLA Headquarters, who provide endless support to all the conference planners.
• All DCHE members who attended our programs at the Conference.

And an additional THANK YOU to our sponsors, whose financial support helped make our programs possible:

• ACS Publications
• CAS (Chemical Abstracts Service)
• Elsevier
• GLTaC, Inc.
• Knovel
• Nature Publishing Group
• ProQuest and Dialog
• RSC Publishing
• Springer
• SRI Consulting
• Wiley

Conference Meeting Documents Posted

The 6/12 Board Meeting Agenda, Nomination Report, and minutes from the 2/4 Board Meeting (held by teleconference) have been posted to the Reports & Minutes section of the DCHE website.

DCHE Survey on SLA's 2009 Proposed Name Change

DCHE Survey Results and Analysis
Answers to Question 5
Answers to Question 7
Answers to Question 9
----answers to questions 5,7 and 9 sorted to display alphabetically

As you may remember, the SLA membership was asked to vote for or against a proposed name change (Association of Strategic Knowledge Professionals) late last year.

During the debate and voting period, I sent out a survey to the Chemistry Division to get your opinion on the name. Regardless of the final vote, we felt it was important to have a record of what the DCHE membership thought at the time, including how our division’s voting would compare with the larger association.

We also asked about your knowledge of the Alignment Project, how you kept up with the debate and discussion before and during the vote, and how you felt SLA had handled the process.

My thanks to the Executive and Advisory Boards for their feedback, as well as everyone who took the time to complete the survey.