Number 276, December 2017 ISSN: 0046-5801 CONTENTS President’s Column 1 Musings 9 Geoscience Information Society 2016 Officers 2 52nd AESE Annual Meeting 10 Vice President’s Column 3 GSIS Exhibit Hall Booth: Fake Science Activity 11 Conference Sessions Highlights 4 New Geoscience Open Access Publications & OA News 12 History of the Former Geology Library at UIUC 5 Member Publications 14 Harriet Evelyn Wallace Scholarship 7 Geologic Field Trip Guidebooks : new and newly identified 14 Overheard at GSIS/GSA 7 Highlights from the 2017 GSIS/GSA Conference: A Photo AGI and GSIS Launch a Revised and Enhanced Geologic Essay 18 Guidebook Database 8 GSIS Budget 23 Upcoming AGI Webinar 9 President's Column By Robert Tolliver I hope everyone has had a good year and is looking Society of America, the Geological Society of forward to the coming year. Although somewhat London, GeoScienceWorld, the Society of stressful at times, I enjoyed working on the GSIS Economic Geologists, the Society of Exploration meeting planning and hope that everyone who was Geophysicists, and Springer. We wouldn’t have been able to attend got something out of our sessions and able to put together such a good program without had the opportunity to meet with colleagues and their support. Thank you. friends. You can find reports on the meeting here in this issue of the newsletter. Speaking of support, I would like to welcome our new GSIS officers for 2018. Chris Badurek is our I would like to thank everyone who helped to make new Vice-President/President Elect and will be the annual meeting a success this year. Thanks go to doing the planning for next year’s annual meeting in Clara McLeod and the Geoscience Librarianship 101 Indianapolis. Bridget Thrasher is our new Treasurer. instructors for putting together another great Thank you to Lori Tschirhart for serving as our workshop; Chris Badurek for organizing our topical treasurer this past year. sessions; Cynthia Prosser for organizing the GSIS Common Read; and Linda Zellmer for taking care of GSIS is making one change to our Executive Board. the GSIS booth. I also want to thank our executive In addition to the elected officials of the organization board and various GSIS members for helping me (past president, president, vice-president, secretary, with ideas and support for all or our vents. Special and treasurer), the Executive Board also has most thanks to Matt Hudson, our past chair, for being my recently had two ex officio, non-voting members: planning mentor and sounding board throughout the the GSIS Newsletter Editor and the Publications year. And, or course, thank you to everyone who Manager. Over the last couple of years, with the attended. move of all of our publication online, we have determined that there is no longer a need for the I also want to thank our sponsors who helped make organization to have a publication manager. Our our meeting events possible this year. They include: current Publications Manager, Richard Huffine, was the American Geophysical Union, Elsevier, the very involved in these discussions and supports the Gemological Institute of America, the Geological 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 December issue should be received no later than March 16, 2018. Please send submissions by e-mail to the Newsletter Co-Editors Amanda Bielskas [email protected] or Michael Noga [email protected]. Vice President’s Column, continued 2 decision to drop this position. We will replace this I know that this column has been primarily a big ex officio position on the Executive Board with the thank you to everyone who has been involved in GSA Topical Session Convener. With that, I would GSIS in one way or another, but that’s a good thing like to thank Cynthia Prosser for volunteering to be to do. Everyone who volunteers for positions in in our GSA Topical Session Convener for 2018 and the organization, attendees our workshops and welcome her to the GSIS Executive Board. meeting sessions, contributes to GEONET discussions, and otherwise engages with the GSIS On the topic of positions in GSIS, with a new year community contributes to our success as an beginning, it’s time to fill empty position on our organization. I hope that everyone can find a way various committees. If you are interested in that they feel they can contribute. If you have any volunteering in some capacity to GSIS or would like ideas or would like some ideas on ways to to continue on in a current position, please let me contribute, please feel free to contact me. know. Happy Holidays! Bob Vice Presidents Column: Trends in Geoscience Research Data By Christopher A. Badurek Late December is the time of year when we look beneficial collaboration among scientific and back on the year and are offered ranked lists of library groups is rooted in cost sharing, flat the top events and trends of the year. In budgeting, and the expanding interest from reviewing the GSA 2017 conference program as geoscientists in data curation and well the topics that have come up at other library/information science skills to enhance meetings I attended in 2017, in particular research activity. At the 2017 GSA Meeting, ASIST’s 2017 Research Data Access and Bob Tolliver and I agreed to GSIS partnering Preservation (RDAP) conference, I propose the with Denise Hills and Leslie Hsu of the following as the top trends of 2017 in Geoinfomatics Division of GSA in developing geoscience data resources. multiple sessions highlighting data, information 3. Geoscience Data Rescue resources, and careers using geoinformatics 2017 started off with a bit of panic as the skills, including library and information science impacts of the Trump administration’s potential careers. We also jointly held our respective reduction to access to scientific data and Business Meetings that were highlighted by government funding mandates were unknown. awards presentations to members recognized for In response, data rescue efforts to harness their contributions. GSIS also maintains a strong government data of many kinds began and relationship with AGI activities as noted by the gained increased attention from the library significant proportion of GSIS members at the community. Data rescue events were held at AGI Reception at the 2017 GSA Meeting. universities across the country, many being led 1. Geoscience Research Data Here to Stay by university libraries. The data rescue At the 2017 RDAP Meeting, also held in Seattle, movement has been chronicled across an anxious librarian asked the assembled panel government, industry, and media sources of experts from the publishing industry what including reports ranging from the USGS, they would do with their research data efforts if Elsevier, and the New York Times. the federal government suddenly pulled all data 2. Collaborative Relationships sharing mandates related to funding sources as In 2017, I noted significant coverage of many had feared. A calm response from the collaborative and consortial relationships in the panel was that they would simply continue on as publishing industry, research data community, they had been doing as ‘the research data train and large scale geoscience research initiatives. has left the station.’ Publishers and related The trend towards developing mutually research data curation businesses have 3 assembled the foundation for data curation forward regardless of the often sparse federal infrastructure and business model for linking guidelines. research data with publication. With this I expect geoscience research data to be even infrastructure, there is not much chance of going more of a hot topic for 2018 and look forward to back at this point.