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Subject: Call for Abstracts: GSA Houston
Date: Tue, 29 Apr 2008 12:19:48 -0500
From: Lisa Johnston <[log in to unmask]>
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*Call for Abstracts: 2008 GSIS – GSA Topical Session
Submission Deadline: June 3, 2008
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Abstracts are currently being accepted for the Geoscience Information
Society's (GSIS) oral and poster topical sessions of this year’s
Geological Society of America meeting in Houston, Texas October 5-9,
2008. https://www.acsmeetings.org/2008/
Abstracts for oral, poster, or both can be submitted online at
http://gsa.confex.com/gsa/2008AM/index.epl
*2008 Oral Session Theme:*
T198: “Libraries in Transformation: Exploring Topics of Changing
Practices and New Technologies"
<http://gsa.confex.com/gsa/2008AM/index.epl.>
**How Geoscience information is created, disseminated, organized,
accessed, used and archived is rapidly changing. This session will
discuss the practical, theoretical and technological way in which
libraries have “transformed” in response to this change?
Questions to consider:
* How are data issues in the Geosciences being addressed?
* What new technologies will help libraries organize data better?
* How are print archives of books, maps, and journals being
preserved and made accessible in new ways?
* Do electronic databases and digital sources change the teaching,
learning, and understanding of information?
* How are researchers and information seekers adapting to the
changing practices of the Geoscience library?
* How has your library transformed itself to stay in touch with your
users needs?
*2008 Posters Session Theme:*
T199: “Moving Mountains: Data Mining and Digital Repositories in the
Geosciences” <http://gsa.confex.com/gsa/2008AM/index.epl.>
Researchers in the Geosciences are continuously uncovering important
discoveries in their quest toward understanding our planet. We address
the issues of storing and accessing the vast amounts of information from
the past, present, and future.
Examples of efforts include the creation of an institutional repository;
the digitization of archives and journals, books, maps; the management
of data sets and/or GIS information; the mining of digital libraries,
databases and web pages; or the reuse/recycling of Geoscience data for
new research and learning.
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Lisa Johnston
Physics, Astronomy and Geology Librarian
Walter Library 108
University of Minnesota
p: 612.624.4216 F: 612.625.5583
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