SLA Division Sponsors:Sci-Tech, Engineering and Aerospace Section, Food Agriculture and Nutrition, Physics, Astronomy, and Math, Environment and Resource Management
Special Libraries Association Annual Conference, June 13-16, 2010., New Orleans, Louisiana, USA

SESSION THEME: "Future of Science Librarianship" Monday, June 14, 2010 (4:00-5:30pm)

DEADLINE FOR SUBMISSION OF ABSTRACTS: November 31, 2009.

DESCRIPTION: As SLA rolls into a new century of good times, good friends and great libraries, we ask ourselves what the future holds for science-technology libraries and individuals in the information science profession. We are looking for papers that demonstrate unique tools, reveal new and exciting possibilities, and invent the future of science librarianship. How are you creating, instructing, informing, managing, planning, providing, evaluating, or archiving information in your science-technology information environment?

• We invite papers to explore the many facets of this topic from a proactive rather than a reactive outlook.
• More weight will be given to papers that include data evaluation and analysis.
• The topic is broad in order to allow for a variety of submissions from theoretical as well as practical aspects.
• Papers will be delivered at the SLA Contributed papers session in New Orleans, or captured digitally as video presentations. For presenters unable to attend in-person, video papers can be presented from the Sci-Tech division website for people to view asynchronously.
• The printed conference proceedings will appear in the SciTech News shortly after the conference date. See http://units.sla.org/division/dst/Annual%20Conference%20Contributed%20Papers/contributedpapers.html for examples of papers given in past years.

ELIGIBILITY: Any SLA member is welcome to submit an abstract for consideration. Preference will be given to members of the sponsoring Science Divisions listed above.

CRITERIA: Criteria for review will include relevance to the session theme and evidence of scholarship and methodology.

ABSTRACT: A 300-500 word abstract should accurately convey the subject of the paper, its scope, conclusions, and relevance to the program theme.

PAPERS: If chosen, acceptance of your paper reflects a commitment on your part to:

1. Deliver a 15 minute presentation, either in-person or via pre-recorded video (asynchronously), at the SLA Annual Conference (June 13-16, 2010) in New Orleans, Louisiana.
2. Allow your paper to be formally published in the multi-Division bulletin, SciTech News and posted to the Sci-Tech division website (http://www.sla.org/division/dst/).

  
SUBMIT ABSTRACTS (and questions) TO:

Lisa Johnston
Physics, Astronomy and Geology Librarian
University of Minnesota-Twin Cities
108 Walter Library, Science & Engineering Library
117 Pleasant Street S.E.
Minneapolis, MN 55455
p: 612.624.4216                 F: 612.625.5583
Email: ljohnsto@umn.edu