Astronomy News
Pete Banholzer
Springer's (formerly Kluwer's) Astrophysics and Space Science Library, evidently has now been split into two series. The former ASSL will now be strictly monographs and there is now a new series, Astrophysics and Space Science Proceedings (ASSP) that will carry the proceedings titles that were formerly in ASSL. At least so far, Springer has not contacted standing order customers to ask if they wish to receive both series, but Sarah Stevens-Rayburn has been in touch with them.
On November 27th, Michael R. Blake joined the staff of the Wolbach Library & Information Resource Center at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics as Electronic Resources/Assistant Librarian. Before coming to the Center for Astrophysics, Michael was Associate Director of the Library and a faculty member at Phillips Academy Andover. He has held positions at Ex Libris as Implementation and Project Librarian, at Harvard as a Reference Librarian in the Cabot Science Library, and the Countway Library of Medicine. He also worked at Massachusetts General Hospital's Treadwell Library and has held positions in the corporate libraries of Bain & Co. and Shell Oil Company. Michael started his professional career as a reference librarian at the Houston Public Library. He can be reached by email at mblake@cfa.harvard.edu, and by phone at 617-496-7601.
And as recently announced on PAMnet, Jill Lagerstrom has been selected to become the new chief librarian at the Space Telescope Science Institute. At the time of this appointment she worked at the NASA Goddard Space Flight Center as a Science Reference Librarian and was previously employed as the Science/Technology Librarian at Catholic University in Washington DC. She is experienced in many areas that are important for the maintenance and advancement of the ST library and is a member of the SLA and PAM.
There will be two round-table sessions in Denver: one that will focus on vendor/publisher issues and the other topics of interest to astronomy librarians. Please send your suggestions and ideas for specific discussion topics to Sara Gonzalez (sargonz@uflib.ufl.edu).
