Member’s Corner

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Posted on 07 November 2012.

Article 9 of 10 in PAM Bulletin Vol 40, No 2

PAM Bulletin Vol 40, No 2

by Alison Verbeck

The IAU General Assembly Commission 5 Working Group Libraries (Marsha Bishop (NRAO/USA) and Robert Hanisch (STScI/USA), co-chairs) kicked off its first multi-day meeting on the 23rd of August 2012 in Beijing, China. This meeting was designed to bring astronomy librarians and scientists together to create a synergistic environment for librarians and their customers to better understand the needs and challenges faced by each group. The series of discussions and talks focused on issues related to astronomy libraries and the role they play in supporting astronomical research. The meeting began with a panel discussion, “Scientists’ Need for Libraries in the Age of the Internet.” Panelists included astronomers Ronald Taam (Taiwan), Ray Norris (Australia), and Pieter Degroote (Belgium), and librarians Christina Birdie (India), Eva Isaksson (Finland), and Sally Bosken (USA). We hope the next meeting, scheduled for 2015 in Honolulu, generates even more interest and participation.

Michael Blake, Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, Joe Kraus, University of Denver, Jane Holmquist, Princeton University, Zari Kamarei, University of Rochester, and several other PAM members will be attending the STELLA unconference in Brooklyn, NY in mid-November. More to come on this in the next issue.Intrepid traveler Donna Cromer, University of New Mexico, is taking the whole month of November to explore Queensland, and will be in Cairns on November 14 to view the total eclipse of the sun over the Great Barrier Reef.

Robin Dasler has recently accepted a position as Engineering/Research Data Librarian at the University of Maryland College Park. She started her new job on November 5.

Ruth Kneale, Systems Librarian for the Advanced Technology Solar Telescope project, has been invited to be a Keynote Speaker at the New Librarians’ Symposium 6, in Brisbane Australia, in February 2013. More information can be found at http://newlibrarianssymposium.com/. She will be talking about the power of and opportunities for special librarianship (amongst other things).

Emily L. Poworoznek, Engineering & Physical Sciences Librarian at University of New Hampshire, is now also serving as the interim Biological Sciences Librarian due to the untimely death of her colleague, David Lane.

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2 Responses to “Member’s Corner”

Kate Burke says:

January 10, 2013 at 1:59 pm

Hello,
I am a SLA member but now want to join this division. How do I go about doing that?

Thank you,
Kate Burke

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- admin says:
  
  January 10, 2013 at 4:10 pm
  
  Hi Kate,
  
  You can add PAM to your SLA membership on the SLA website (www.sla.org). Go to Membership > Change/Add Units and download the form linked there. Fill it out and send it in to SLA. Alternatively, you can just add PAM as a division the next time you renew your membership. In the meantime, go to http://pam.sla.org/manual/pamnet-information/ for info on signing up for the PAM listserv, which is the Division’s primary means of communication.
  
  Welcome on board!
  
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