SLA 2014 Annual Conference & INFO-EXPO

Newcomers will be hosted for dinner with current members who will be paying for their dinner. The location will be withing walking distance of the convention center and will be determined by the beginning of May. Please RSVP here by April 20th: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1whD-sGvlFcxco9LhuOBo-u8kyzbzkaOgNWtqDdk6roc/viewform.

Please contact Ye Li (liye@umich.edu) or Amanda Schoen   (amanda.schoen@sherwin.com) with any questions.

Program Take-Aways

1. Participants will get to meet new members.




2. New members will get to know about DCHE and enjoy a good meal (free). 

This program will begin with a full breakfast, followed by a brief business meeting of the Chemistry Division. The rest of the session will focus on the major chemistry vendors and publishers, representatives of which will inform participants of new developments of importance from each of their perspectives.

Program Take-Aways

1. Participants will enjoy a full, plate breakfast.






2. Participants will hear a brief update on the activities and financial status of the Division.






3. Participants will learn of the latest developments in chemistry research dissemination from each of the major chemistry and chemistry related vendors and publishers.

All major officers of the division present their reports to the membership in which the previous year's progress is reviewed, current year's agenda confirmed, and the outlook for the coming year is projected. Suggestions for next year's convention programs are taken from the floor. Annual Awards are presented. Calls for candidates for next year's officers are issued.

Open access generates much debate and discussion in the academic, publishing, government and library communities; the level of passion and acrimony surrounding this topic tends to produce more heat than light. Come and find out from some of the leading scientific open access visionaries from the academic, publishing, government and library communities what the future may hold---are any of the current open access publishing models viable, how advances in technology going to change open access, how are libraries going to be able to deal with the explosion of open access materials. Major groups involved with open access are librarians, publishers, scientists and institutional repositories. Each of these groups want something different from open access and bring their particular view point. Hence the title, MY View."

Program Take-Aways

1. Participants will gain an understanding of the current status of open access, the challenges facing libraries, universities, academics and publishers in dealing with this issue and the future direction of open access.




2. Participants will gain an understanding of the differing perspectives of information professionals, publishers, and academics on this issue. 

Are you confused or unsure about the multitude of scitech resources that are suddenly available? In the spirit of the famous “60 resources in 60 minutes” SLA sessions, two experts will help you discover what’s new and important in this area by covering 30 scitech open access resources in 60 minutes. Emphasis will be placed on items which have experience significant changes or are new or lesser known.

Program Take-Aways

1. Participants will gain an understanding of 30 scitech open access resource including subject content coverage, organization, accessibility, strengths and weaknesses. 


2. Participants will learn about new scitech open access resources as well as major changes in existing ones as well.

Posters contributed by members of the science-oriented divisions of SLA are presented by their authors. Come learn from the best and enjoy hors d'oeuvres to match.

Electronic Laboratory Notebooks, or ELNs are more than a simple alternative to the traditional paper laboratory notebook. Current technologies make ELN critical for R&D collaboration, knowledge management and productivity. Although well established particularly in the pharmaceutical world, ELNs by providing a variety of research solutions, are quickly moving into the mainstream for all industry and many disciplines in academia. Some of the questions to be addressed include the following.What are ELNs? With the many choices, how do we decide what ELN is right for our organization? What is the librarian’s role in the transition to and implementation of the ELN.

Program Take-Aways:

1. Participants will learn what are ELNs and their capabilities.


2. Participants will learn what ELN is right for their organization whether academic or corporate.


3. Participants will learn what is the librarian's role in the transition to and implementation of the ELN.

Visualization techniques find ample source material in bibliographic, patent, or information-rich web content.  Librarians and Information Professionals are being called on to provide content and an understanding of context to create large data sets for evaluation.  For example, a well defined search on a technology may result in many thousands of patents and technical papers.  Data visualization can assist technical experts detect trends or opportunities in this technology space.  This session brings the three perspectives:  1) corporate information professional, 2) solution provider, and 3) library student’s examination of available analysis tools.

Program Take-Aways

1. Participants will gain an understanding of the role of a technical librarian in creating analysis datasets include patent portfolios, competitive landscapes, and white space (discovery) projects.


2. Participants will see the interactive features, dashboard access, and visualizations from an Intellixir analysis project.


3. Participants will hear about the major players and products for analysis and visualization and take away a handout comparing product features."

Board Meeting to review 2014 Program and Plan for 2015

Program Take-Aways

1. Participants will review 2014 sessions.




2. Participants will help plan for 2015 sessions.