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1 President's Column I Hope Everyone Is Off to a Good Start to 2018 Number 277, March 2018 ISSN: 0046-5801 CONTENTS President’s Column 1 Musings 9 Geoscience Information Society 2016 Officers 2 Member Publications 11 Vice President’s Column 4 Call for nominations for Guidebook Awards 11 Mapathons as a Geoscience Library Event 5 Call for AESE Award Nominations 11 Join or renew your GSIS membership! 8 First Call for GSIS Papers at the GSA 2018 Meeting 13 New Geoscience Open Access Publications & OA News 10 President's Column By Robert Tolliver I hope everyone is off to a good start to 2018. which can be found on our website at GSIS is off to a good start to our planning for http://www.geoinfo.org/represent.html. If you our 2018 annual meeting in Indianapolis this fall are a member of any of the organizations on this and I hope many of you will be able to make it list and attend their meetings, please consider to the meeting. Chris Badurek, our vice- being a representative and give us an occasional president, is planning our meeting this year, report back on what these organizations are along with Cynthia Prosser, our topical sessions doing that might impact geosciences convener, and everyone else who contributes to information and librarianship. If you’re involved our activities at the Geological Society of with any organizations not listed on our website America Annual Meeting. that are relevant to our members, or if you attend any meetings or workshops that are of The beginning of the year for me with GSIS has interest, please consider contributing a report to been partly spent with our committee chairs, the GSIS Newsletter. members, and potential members to make sure we have enough committee members to do the Our GSIS committees and committee work that supports GIS. I think we’ve finally members for 2018 are: got a full roster of committee members and committees. If you do see a committee that you Archives would be interested in serving on, please let me Anne Huber or the committee chair know and we would be glad to have your help. We do have a number of open positions for representative to other professional societies, Continued on page 3 1 Geoscience Information Society 2017 Officers President Publicity Robert Tolliver Shaun Hardy Head, Science & Engineering Carnegie Institution for Science Stony Brook University Libraries DTM-Geophysical Laboratory Library N2001B Frank Melville Jr. Memorial Library 5241 Broad Branch Road, N.W. Stony Brook University Washington, DC 20015 Stony Brook, NY 11794 Phone: 202-478-7960 Phone: 631-632-1122 e-mail: [email protected] e-mail: [email protected] Treasurer Vice President (President-Elect) Lori Tschirhart Christopher A. Badurek, PhD, GISP Science Librarian Assistant Professor University of Michigan Department of Geography 3026E Shapiro Science Library Co-Director, SUNY Cortland Regional GIS Laboratory Ann Arbor, MI 48109 231A Old Main Phone: 734-936-3079 SUNY Cortland email: [email protected] PO Box 2000 Cortland, NY 13077 Web Site: http://www.geoinfo.org/ e-mail: [email protected] Courtney Hoffner Science and Engineering Librarian Immediate Past President University of California - Los Angeles Matt Hudson 8251 Boelter Hall Publications Manager, Box 951598 Geological Society of America Los Angeles, CA 90095-1598 Phone: 303-357-1020 Phone: 310-825-0190 e-mail: [email protected] email: [email protected] Secretary Newsletter Co-Editor Samantha Teplitzky Amanda Bielskas UC Berkeley Columbia University Libraries Physics and Astronomy Library 1190 Amsterdam Ave. 351 Le Conte Hall 601 Schermerhorn Berkeley, CA 94720 New York, NY 10027 Phone: 510-664-7158 Phone: 212-854-6767 e-mail: [email protected] e-mail: [email protected] Publications Manager Newsletter Co-Editor Richard Huffine Michael Noga Phone:202-253-3511 MIT Libraries e-mail: [email protected] 14S-222 77 Massachusetts Ave E-mail List: Cambridge, MA 02139-4307 https://lists.princeton.edu/cgi-bin/wa?A0=Geonet Phone: 617-253-1290 Moderator: Louise F. Deis e-mail: [email protected] The GSIS Newsletter is published quarterly, in March, June, September, and December by the Geoscience Information Society. It is now published Open Access and is supported by GSIS memberships (individual or institutional). All correspondence regarding dues, membership status, and address changes should be directed to the GSIS Secretary. GSIS members are encouraged to contribute content for publication. Material for the June issue should be received no later than June 15, 2018. Please send submissions by e-mail to the Newsletter Co-Editors Amanda Bielskas [email protected] or Michael Noga [email protected]. 2 Continued from page 1: Amanda Bielskas GSIS committees and committee members Cheri Folkner for 2018 are: Dwight Hunter Mark Jackson Best Paper Award Lura Joseph Kay Johnson (chair) Monica Pereira Chris Badurek Thelma Thompson Elise Gowen Michael Noga Carl Olson Membership Monica Pereira Clara McLeod (chair) Bob Tolliver Amanda Bielskas Louise Deis Best Research Resource Shaun Hardy Rusty Kimball (chair) Matt Hudson Amanda Bielskas Dorothy McGarry Jozef Laincz Cynthia Prosser Bridget Thrasher Samantha Teplitzky Mary Ellen Vedas Nominating Chair Distinguished Service Award Matt Hudson Louise Deis (chair) Clara McLeod Thanks to all of our committee members and Edward Lener chairs for serving on these committees this year. If you see a committee you’re interested in, if I Exhibits left you off a committee, or if I listed you on a Linda Zellmer (chair) committee you’re not on, please let me know. Lisa Dunn Bob Tolliver Guidebooks GSIS President Linda Musser (chair) 3 Vice Presidents Column: Updated Position Statements on Data Access and Preservation By Christopher A. Badurek To start 2018, GSA published an update to geoscience community to give appropriate several position statements in the January recognition and data citation to those edition of GSA Today. At the 2017 Meeting in organizations and individuals who serve as Seattle, the GSA adopted a new Position geoscience ‘libraries and librarians.’” (GSA Statement on Geoscience and Energy Policy as 2017, p. 2) The extended GSA Position well as making minor edits to the Position Statement on Data Access describes the GSA’s Statements on Visas for Foreign Students, support for making data open to the public, Improving Natural Hazards Policy, Data Access, increasing links between publications and data and Geoscience Data Preservation. The brief sets, and improvements to metadata standards statements on geoscience data access and and discovery systems. In addition, the GSA preservation in the article (GSA 2018, p. 48) are encourages all in the geosciences to promote worth highlighting here: open access efforts in their communities of “Data Access practice and in particular to promote dialog with GSA strongly supports open access to scientific publishers to move towards more open access data to promote advancement in research, efforts. support education, and improve the economic progress, health, and welfare of society. Although these statements are preaching to the choir of the GSIS community, it is encouraging Geoscience Data Preservation to see this increased visibility and recognition of GSA supports the preservation of geoscience the work of the library and informatics samples and data sets for the public good and community. These publications may signal urges public and private sector organizations greater opportunities for collaboration between and individuals to routinely catalog and preserve libraries and geoscientists with interests in data their collections and make them widely preservation at academic institutions as well as accessible.” provide additional rationale for building and supporting unique geoscience collections (e.g., These Position Statements reinforce the samples, data, analog publications, archives) at importance of the efforts of libraries and a variety of institutions. geoscience departments to increase access to data collected through research activities of GSA. 2018. New and Revised Position faculty and students as well as the need to push Statements. GSA Today, 28(1): p. 48. for greater open access publishing. The GSA. 2017. GSA Position Statement: Data extended GSA Position Statement on Access. Retrieved from: Geoscience Data Preservation suggests physical https://www.geosociety.org/documents/gsa/posit samples and support documentation such as ions/pos7_dataAccess.pdf analog documents, maps, photographs, and field notes are in critical need of substantial GSA. 2017. GSA Position Statement: preservation effort. In addition, discovery tools Geoscience Data Preservation. Retrieved from: and metadata are also a critical needs. To further https://www.geosociety.org/documents/gsa/posit reinforce the value of libraries and organizations ions/pos9_dataPres.pdf providing access, the GSA “urges the broader 4 GSIS Newsletter | Number 275 | September, 2017 Mapathons as a Geoscience Library Event By Mr. Carl P. Olson, Librarian for Geography & Environmental Planning and Ms. Eden Parks, Librarian for Outreach & Student Engagement Towson University Libraries in the Internet age have long sought to Craigslist to embed Google Maps within their expand their offerings by hosting community online platforms, former GM users have found events. The challenge has always been to that OpenStreetMap has developed into a viable choose those events that best match the library’s alternative, at least for many places in the world. available resources and facilities. Dance recitals, Bing Maps has partnered with the foundation to for example, were tried at our institution, but provide its older imagery as a base map for use mainly resulted in complaints from irate patrons by OSM contributors. who felt their concentration was being disturbed. Most academic libraries, however, now possess What is a Mapathon? computer resources and space facilities to host Mapathons are coordinated events, similar to technology-related events. Just within this last hackathons, but using geospatial data creation decade, a new kind of event, called a Mapathon, tools. In 2009, volunteers walked the streets of has arrived among corporations and non-profit Atlanta, GA with GPS devices, to better refine agencies.
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