The Executive Board and the International Relations Committee are pleased to announce that Mr. Narendar K. Wadhwa has been selected as the 2012 International Membership Award Recipient.  Mr. Wadhwa works as Scientist-in-Charge at the Knowledge Resource Centre (KRC), National Physical Laboratory (NPL) in New Delhi.  Besides supporting information needs of research scientists at the KRC, he [...]

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Plans are well underway for SLA’s 2012 Conference in Chicago. The PAM division is putting together ideas for many events including the roundtable sessions. This Conference’s Physics Roundtable will be held on July 17th from 2:00 until 3:00, and we invite you to join us! Michael Chesnes, an LAC contractor for NASA Goddard Space Flight [...]

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by Ruth Kneale Well, here we are facing the end of another year full of excitement, learning, and travel. This will be my last message to you as Division Chair, and I want to start off by saying a huge THANK YOU. I have had a fantastic (and sometimes frazzling) time as Chair, and it’s [...]

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by Barbara Kern 10/31/2011 Account Balance ASSETS Cash & Bank Accounts PAM Division current balance $ 12,811.28 SLA Pooled Fund Q2 $ 25,673.16 TOTAL Cash & Bank Accounts $ 38,484.44 TOTAL ASSETS $ 38,484.44 LIABILITIES Outstanding SLA11 invoices $ 999.35 OVERALL TOTAL $ 37,485.09 6/9/2011-10/31/2011 INFLOWS Dues Allotment received in Fall 2011 $ 2,580.00 Sponsorships [...]

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The Nominations and Elections Committee is pleased to announce that, in the October 2011 online vote, PAM members elected Stella Ota as Chair-elect (Jan-Dec 2012) and Michael Chesnes as Treasurer (Jan 2012 through Dec 2013). Stella  Ota (skota@stanford.edu) is Physics Librarian at Stanford University  and has served as a session moderator and on the PAM [...]

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by Martha Bishop and Margaret Lam Astronomy Education Review Celebrates 10th Anniversary http://aas.org/press/pr2011Oct11 PAM Author Uta Grothkopf, Head Librarian at the European Southern Observatory, has written a chapter titled “Astronomy libraries – your gateway to information” in the proceeding book, Scientific Writing for Young Astronomers Part 1, which was edited by Christiaan Sterken. ISBN: 9782759805068; [...]

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by Jane Holmquist and Andy Shimp 2012 Journal Pricing American Mathematical Society (PDF) Cambridge University Press (XLSX) Duke University Press and Project Euclid Elsevier European Mathematical Society (PDF) De Gruyter International Press of Boston Mathematical Sciences Publishers (PDF) Oxford University Press SIAM Springer Taylor & Francis (PDF) Turpion Wiley (XLS) World Scientific Mathematicians Receive Presidential [...]

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This year the PAM Wide Roundtable will be on July 16th from 10:00  to 11:30 am (1.5 hours).  We will have a totally traditional roundtable!  You will be talking about your institutions, cool projects, budget woes and whatever professional news that will help your colleagues in their institutions to move forward.  We will limit ourselves [...]

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by Muhammad Shahid Soroya, PAM International Membership Award Winner 2007 A few years back, I often wondered why organizations give awards to people and sometimes spend reasonable amounts on travelling grants as well. I could understand the efforts behind such activities, especially when the team of volunteers are people working behind the scenes. What is [...]

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by  Alison Verbeck Uta Grothkopf, European Southern Observatory Library, has a chapter titled “Astronomy Libraries – Your Gateway to Information” in the book Scientific Writing for Young Astronomers, EAS Publication Series, 2011. For the past two years Shaun Hardy has been working with Ruth Duerr at NSIDC on a project to digitize Carnegie’s extensive data [...]

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