Web Conference Opens Today!

Don't forget, the web portion of our wonderful All-Sciences Poster Session begins today:

Location: http://forum.lib.lsu.edu/slachem
What: Posters and presenters from the SLA All Sciences Poster Session event in New Orleans

Three Themes:
I. New Strategic Alignments
II. Survival and Success Beyond an Economic Recession
III. Information Literacy, User Instruction and E-Learning: New Methods, New Participants, New Tools

SLA Division Sponsors: Biomedical & Life Sciences; Chemistry; Engineering; Food, Agriculture, and Nutrition; Physics-Astronomy-Mathematics; and Science-Technology

Dates: October 14 - November 1, 2010
Registration: free
Format: asynchronous discussion, open 24 hours a day

Chemical Info for the Non-Practitioner (10/19 Webcast)

The SLA Chemistry Division is pleased to co-sponsor an upcoming webcast, featuring the Division’s very own Judith Currano. This educational webcast will teach you the basics of locating chemical information.

“Chemical Information for the Non-Practitioner” begins at 6:00pm EST on Tuesday, October 19. This webcast is free, although advanced registration is required (by Monday, October 18 at noon EST). Note: the onsite program is held in Philadelphia, and includes a tour of the Chemical Heritage Foundation prior to the webcast. More details follow.

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DESCRIPTION:
This session will provide sources and insight into the process of locating chemical information for those without a science background. Even if you’re a seasoned professional, this session will demonstrate some new approaches to age-old questions in the chemical field.
By the end of the session, attendees will be able to:

• Understand the organization of the chemical literature and the unique access points that it offers
• Identify key sources or types of source for various types of chemical reference questions,
• Be aware of the specialized search techniques that exist to answer particular types of question.

Sponsored by the SLA Philadelphia Chapter and SLA Chemistry Division. The webcast will also be recorded and archived.

2011 Chair-Elect, 2011-2012 Treasurer

At the Business Meeting last month in New Orleans, the Nominating Committee's report was accepted. Congratulations to:

• Marie Fraties-Block (BASF)
  2011 DCHE Chair-Elect
• Yan He (Georgetown University)
  2011-2012 DCHE Treasurer

Marie and Yan will be joining Bill, Lee and I on next year's Executive Board.

Future of Science Librarianship - Contributed Papers

The first video presentation from this year's Sci-Tech Contributed Papers session is now online: (DCHE Member) Dana Roth's The Future of Librarianship in Science & Technology Libraries. The remaining videos will be up shortly.

Polymer Information Resources: Bibliography

Ann Bolek's bibliography of polymer information resources is online at http://gozips.uakron.edu/~bolek/polymer.html.

Collection Intelligence: Presentations

The presentations for the Collection Intelligence session at SLA are now online:

• Hilary Davis, NCSU
• Mary Lane, Lorillard Tobacco Company
• Mathew Willmott, MIT
  

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.

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.