Liaison Reports 2004

Organizational Liaison Reports 2004

• ACRL/SPARC Forum from ALA Midwinter - Kate Thomes (January 2004)
• 25th Annual IATUL Conference, Krakow, Poland - Jay Bhatt (May/June 2004)
  • Summary of Jay's ELD Liaison Address at the General Assembly Meeting, IATUL 2004
• Special Libraries Association (SLA) Sci-Tech Division Annual Meeting - Virginia Baldwin (June 2004)
• Special Libraries Association (SLA) PAM Division Annual Meeting - Karen Andrews (June 2004)
• American Chemical Society, Chemical Information Division Annual Meeting - Ibironke Lawal (August 2004)
• International Federation of Library Associations (IFLA), Science & Technology Section Annual Meeting - Julia Gelfand (August 2004)

Meeting Liaison Reports (Meetings by organizations for which no official ELD Liaison exists)

• No reports this year.

Summary of Jay Bhatt's ELD Liaison Address at the General Assembly
IATUL Conference, Krakow, Poland 2004

Hi all,

I have prepared a brief summary of my talk at the General Assembly meeting during the IATUL conferenceregarding some activities that both ASEE and IATUL members can collaborate. The first part of my email is the summary of my presentation to the IATUL membership.

I have also created a summary of some of the sessions I attended. Enjoy!

Part 1

Summary of my presentation to the General Assembly meeting to the entire IATUL members:

25th IATUL Annual Conference, Library in the Changing Environment, May30-June3, 2004 Krakow, Poland

IATUL/ASEE ELD Activities

Main agenda items:

1.     ELD - Introduction; New initiatives
  Basic introduction about ELD and ASEE to IATUL members.

2. ELD Punch list - Electronic Resources
 (Email sent to the IATUL List)
http://www.lib.ucdavis.edu/eld/PunchListapproved.pdf

Recently, the members of the Engineering Libraries Division of the ASEE voted for the best practices dealing with the electronic resources. As a result, ELD Punch List of Best Practices for Electronic Resources has been unanimously endorsed by the ASEE - ELD membership. We want this to be a document that gets used and that generates productive conversations around the issues. So we encourage members to share the Punch List within your home libraries and to use it as appropriate in your conversations with content providers.

Send feedback to me: bhatt@drexel.edu

3.   Engineering Information Retrieval Pilot tutorial that we just finished designing in partnership with Elsevier, Drexel faculty and students, library staff, and graphic designers. I will also be talking about this at ASEE. We are identifying members who are interested in working with us to test and improve the tutorial further. This tutorial will be available to all ASEE/ELD and IATUL members with access to Engineering Village2.
See abstract:
http://www.biblos.pk.edu.pl/IATUL/programme.php3

4. Identify at least three or four members who are willing or considering to work with ELD members on some activities; That means, we will need to identify ELD members who will also be willing to work together with those IATUL members. Once the members are identified, contact information is posted on both lists for further dialog and project development .

5. Information Literacy Task forces (both IATUL and ELD)– status
We have now three members on IATUL list who are keen to be on the committee. We are looking for global representation and therefore members representing various regions. So far, we have one member each from US, UK, and India . Sue Holloway from UK will be heading this group. We hope to establish a formal ELD group task force during the ASEE conference in Salt Lake City, Utah later in June.

6. Standards for information literacy for science and technology,developed by the ALA/ACRL/Science & Technology Section Task Force on Information Literacy for Science and Technology, have been posted to the Task Force Web Site at :
http://sciencelibrarian.tripod.com/ILTaskForce/ILIndex.htm

For any other information, and questions, Please contact:

Jay Bhatt
Information Services Librarian (Engineering)
Hagerty Library, Drexel University
TEL 215-895-1873
FAX 215-895-2070
EMAIL bhattjj@drexel.edu

Part II

IATUL – Summary of some sessions

IATUL Conference website:

http://www.biblos.pk.edu.pl/IATUL/

Major themes of this year’s conference:

Main theme of this year’s conference was the ‘Library Management in the Changing Environment’. Within this this theme, there were various categories where presentations on those subtopics were organized. The subcategories included: Elements of Library Management, Regional Library Co-operation, Traditional Collection and E-resources Policy Dilemma, and Public Relations; User Oriented Services. Within Public Relations: User Oriented Services category were several interesting presentations dealing with information literacy. One session of particular interest for ELD members is the presentation and paper on Engineering Ethics and Information Literacy by Alice Trussell.

Here is the document containing a summary of selected sessions.

Click on 25th IATUL Conference
http://library.ucsc.edu/science/ELD/2004/IATUL2004.doc

Jay Bhatt
Information Services Librarian (Engineering)
Hagerty Library, Drexel University

Last update 8/26/2005
Liz Mengel