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Volume 68
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Issue 2Volume 68, Issue 2
Spring 6-1-2014
SciTech News 68(2) - 2014
Jeremy Cusker
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The Official Bulletin for the Chemistry, Engineering, and Science-Technology Divisions and the Aerospace Section of the
Engineering Division and the Materials Research and Manufacturing Section of the Chemistry Division
of the Special Libraries Association
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ISSN 0036-8059 Volume 68, No 2 (2014)
Sci-Tech News, Vol. 68 [2014], Iss. 2, Art. 1
Volume 68, Number 2 (2014)
ISSN 0036-8059
Columns and Reports
From the Editor .........................................3
SciTech News Call for Articles ......................4
Division News
Science-Technology Division ........................5
Chemistry Division ...................................13
Engineering Division ................................16
Aerospace Section
of the Engineering Division ..................19
Reviews
Beyond the Chemistry Web .......................20
On the Cover Sci-Tech Book News Reviews .....................21
Despite its exquisitely realistic look, this
is in fact not a real mushroom but only a
papier-mache model of one, created in the
late 19th century by the French scientific
model-maker Dr. Louis Auzoux.
A collection of such botantical papier-
mache models is currently on display at
the Wagner Free Institute of Science in
Philadelphia: http://www.wagnerfreeinsti-
tute.org/syllabi%202013-14/Mushroom-
Models.html
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Issue Number 1 ..............Feb 15
Issue Number 2 .............April 15
Issue Number 3 ............. Aug 15
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Volume 68, Number 2 (2014)
ISSN 0036-8059
Editor Assistant Editor
Jeremy Cusker Christine Malinowski
103B Carpenter Hall Lewis & Clark College
Cornell University 0615 SW Palatine Hill Road
Ithaca, NY 14850 Portland, OR 97219
[email protected] [email protected]
Chair of the Review Board Business Manager
Bonnie Osif Nevenka Zdravkovska
Pennsylvania State University University of Maryland
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[phone] [phone]
[email protected] Fax: [phone]
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Department Editors
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From the Editor Jeremy Cusker
Greetings everyone. there are now two archives.
The first is the established
For anyone who has been keeping track, I’ve archive on Jefferson Uni-
been populating the covers of the newest versity, which covers from
editions of SciTech News with science- and 1987 to the present. This archive is stable
technology-related images from Flickr. I’m and is intended for long-term preservation.
able to use these images without too much It is accessible here: http://jdc.jefferson.
difficulty because they have been tagged edu/scitechnews/.
with Creative Commons Attribution licens-
es, which permits credited, non-commercial One change made in that archive has been to
re-use of content. Merely doing a search of begin uploading just a single file for each is-
Flickr with keywords like “science” and se- sue: A complete-issue PDF rather than many
lecting only content with non-commercial CC individual PDFs for reach article as well as
licenses applied to them turns up a wealth one for the complete issue. We felt this was
of content. Creative Commons has of course necessary for a savings of time and effort.
been around for a while but for anyone un-
familiar with the concept, I urge you to take But we have also started a second, more
a look: https://creativecommons.org/licens- ‘lightweight’ archive on the division Word-
es/. Press site itself. This covers the past 10 years
(2004 to 2014 as of the time of this issue)
To update everyone on the progress of the ar- and is accessible here: http://bit.ly/1klXcHa.
chive (archives, actually) for SciTech News:
as mentioned in postings on the WordPress We look forward to seeing everyone in Van-
site for the Science-Technology division, couver in June!
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What have you been doing lately?
SciTech News wants to know! Please
send us information about your awards, Do you have a research project?
promotions, professional publications
and presentations or other recognition. SciTech News is interested in publishing
We’ll publish your activities in SciTech refereed research articles on library sci-
News, bringing your news of our mem- ence topics. If you would like to submit
bers’ accomplishments to the wider such an article for consideration for pub-
SLA and library communities. lication in SciTech News, please contact
the editors for details on formatting and
Send such information to Jeremy Cusk- creating an anonymized manuscript for
er, [email protected] by August referee review.
15 for publication in the next issue of
SciTech News.
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News from the Science-Technology Division
Science-Technology Division Nevenka Zdravkovska, Chair
The objectives of the Science-Technology Division shall be to draw together those members of the Special Libraries Association having an
interest in the role of library and information science as applied to the recording, retrieval and dissemination of knowledge and informa-
tion in all areas of science and technology, and to promote and improve the communication, dissemination and use of such knowledge
for the benefit of libraries and their users.’
Greeting Colleagues, amazing slide show celebrating
the 90 years of our Division.
Hope you have already registered for the Enjoy finger foods and drinks while network-
Vancouver Annual Conference, at the early ing with your colleagues.
discounted rate that ended April 11, 2014,
and you are making preparations for your At the event we will be celebrating our award
trip. We have a great program for you this recipients. The Awards Committee, chaired
year. As of this writing, room assignments by Janet Hughes, has already selected win-
have not been finalized, but hope they will ners for two of the awards, Bonnie Hilditch
be soon. We will post the final program on International Librarian and Diane F. Foster
the SciTech website. The Annual Conference International Library Student. See below de-
is a great opportunity to network with your tails on the award recipients.
colleagues, to learn some new skills, and to
lean about the new trends in our profession. Each year we award the following awards:
Hope to see many of you in Vancouver. • The Bonnie Hilditch International
Librarian Award, sponsored by the
As announced earlier, this year the SciTech Science-Technology and Engineering Di-
Division will conduct its first online Business visions, is presented to a librarian out-
meeting on May 15th at 12:00 pm (noon) side of the United States and Canada.
EST. If you haven’t registered already, The purpose of the award is to provide
please do so by going to the Registration an opportunity for a librarian outside of
Web Link: https://www1.gotomeeting.com/ the United States and Canada to attend
register/919922056. Hope many of you will the annual Special Libraries Association
be able to join us to hear about the Division’s (SLA) conference.
finances, plans, and to contribute with ideas • The Diane F. Foster International Stu-
for the future of our Division. In the past we dent Award provides an opportunity for
had conducted these meetings during the a student outside of Canada and the Unit-
Annual Conference, but we decided this time ed States enrolled in a graduate level LIS
to try this venue. program or an early career librarian from
the collaborating SLA Chapter to attend
As you make your plans in selecting pro- the annual Special Libraries Association
grams you wish to attend at the Confer- (SLA) conference. In 2014 we partnered
ence in June, I would like to bring your at- with the Australia/New Zealand Chapter.
tention to the SciTech Reception and 2014 Sponsor: Annual Reviews
Awards Ceremony. The reception will take • The Ann Koopman Sci-Tech Achieve-
place on Sunday, June 8, 7:30-9:00 pm ment Award is the highest annual award
at Mahoney & Sons (at the Convention presented by the Science-Technology Di-
Centre). We have two generous spon- vision and is reserved for those recipi-
sors – IEEE and Elsevier. At this free ents whose professional work is marked
event for DST members we will celebrate by distinction and dedication to scientific
the 90th anniversary of our Division. and technical librarianship. The purpose
Roger Beckman (DST Archivist) and his as- of the award is to recognize those Divi-
sistant Meg Knapke have put together an sion members who have made outstand-
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ing contributions to the Division and/or in Psychology, 2006, both from the Univer-
to the literature of science and technol- sity of Otago, New Zealand. She has worked
ogy librarianship in the past 1 to 5 years. in libraries since 2009, and is working at the
The 2014 recipient will be the first one to Parliamentary Library of New Zealand, using
get this award after being renamed to the ideas from her classes and readings in her
SciTech distinguished member Ann Koop- day-to-day job. She has wide ranging inter-
man. In 2014, two of our valued mem- ests, but is interested in using her science
bers were selected to be winners. See be- background to offer new ways of thinking as
low an excerpt of the nomination. 2014 an information professional.
Sponsor: ASTM
• The S. Kirk Cabeen Travel Stipend 2014 Ann Koopman Sci-Tech Achieve-
Award is offered to a library school stu- ment Award Winners – Mary Frances
dent or first time conference attendee. Lembo and James Manasco
This award is to be used toward expenses
of attending the SLA Annual Conference. Mary Frances Lembo is a senior research
2014 Sponsor: SPIE Librarian at the Pacific Northwest National
• Longevity Award to long term SciTech Laboratory – a multi-science research labo-
Members. ratory operated by Battelle for the US De-
partment of Energy. Her responsibilities at
2014 Bonnie Hilditch International Li- the PNNL Technical Library include providing
brarian Award winner – Niamh Tumelty information and research assistance to PNNL
staff in the areas of chemistry, materials sci-
Niamh Tumelty is a Librarian in the Depart- ence, national security, nuclear engineering
ment of Engineering Library at the University and physics. She also provides training to li-
of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom, brary and laboratory staff with a number of
since September 2013, but has worked in li- library and other resources, including End-
braries since 2003. She earned an MSc in Note.
Econ Information and Library Studies from
Aberystwyth University in 2013. She also has Mary Frances has been a member of SLA and
an H Dip in Education from Trinity College, the Science-Technology Division since 1994.
University of Dublin, 2003 and a BA in Mu- She has served on the Student Relations
sic with German from the National University Committee, chaired the Sci-Tech Division in
of Ireland, Maynooth, 2002. Ms. Tumelty is 2005-2006, and currently is chair of the Pro-
a member of SLA and the Chartered Insti- fessional Development committee.
tute of Library and Information Professionals
(CILIP) and is currently the New Profession- Mary Frances graduated from the University
als Support Officer for CILIP East Members’ of Washington with a master’s in Library &
Network, for which she has organized sev- Information Science. She has a BA in Ele-
eral events. She has presented at confer- mentary Education also from the University
ences and workshops and has published on of Washington. Prior to joining PNNL in 1999,
topics such as TeachMeet and merging CILIP Mary Frances was a science reference librar-
branches and groups. ian at the University of New Orleans in New
Orleans, Louisiana.
2014 Diane K Foster International Li-
brary Student winner – Beth Wishart James E. Manasco is the Engineering and
Physical Sciences Librarian at the University
Beth Wishart is a Master of Information of Louisville. He previously served as Head
Studies student at the Victoria University of of Collection Development (2006-2013) af-
Wellington, Wellington New Zealand, since ter serving in both the Department of Spe-
March 2012. She has a BSc in Psychology and cial Collections and the Kornhauser Health
Zoology, 2005, and a postgraduate diploma Sciences Library (2003-2006). Prior to com-
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ing to UofL, James served the University of ences, Nuclear Engineering, Mining and
Kentucky as Head of the Robert E. Shaver Meteorology, Materials Sciences, National
Library of Engineering for four years and as Security, Agriculture. By popular demand,
Natural Sciences Liaison Librarian at The Col- some topics have been repeated due to
orado College in Colorado Springs for three changes in the field and new resources.
years. James got his start in Science Librari- Both fee and free resources are evaluated
anship by serving as Head Technician at the and those attending the sessions are en-
UK Chemistry/Physics Library from 1991- couraged to contribute their knowledge
1996. James holds both his MSLS and his BA and information about resources relevant
in American History from the University of to the topic. In addition, James and Mary
Kentucky. James has worked in libraries for Frances maintain a blog “Sci/Tech 101”
over 26 years. linked from the Sci-Tech Division web
page where session presentations are
James has served as President of the Ken- posted along with links to additional re-
tucky Chapter (twice) and Chair of the Sci- search sources.
ence-Technology and Information Technology
Divisions. He served as Chair of the asso- 2014 S. Kirk Cabeen Travel Stipend
ciation’s 2010 Conference Advisory Council. Award Winner – Alesia Rudnitskaya
He has also served as Chair of the Associa-
tion’s Nominating and Bylaws Committees. A recent MLIS graduate from McGill Univer-
James received the 2007 Outstanding Chap- sity, Alesia Rudnitskaya has been leading
ter Member Award and the 2003-2004 Pro- the implementation of a digital asset man-
fessional Award from the Kentucky Chapter. agement solution at Canadian National Rail-
He received the 2010 Impossible Award from way Company in Montreal. She also holds
the Science-Technology Division for editing a B.A. in Education and Modern Languages
the multi-divisional bulletin Sci-Tech News. from a leading university in Belarus. Alesia
James was named a Fellow of SLA in 2010. has worked in Europe and Canada for ma-
jor universities (McGill and Concordia) and
From Helen Josephine’s nomination letter: corporations (CN and PwC). Her versatile
Over the past 10 years Mary Frances and professional experience spans teaching in
James have developed and presented the schools and at the university level, conduct-
Science and Engineering 101 program at ing competitive intelligence research and
the annual SLA Conference. These pro- data analysis, developing taxonomies and
grams have included in-depth and com- metadata schemas. A life-long learner and
prehensive information for both new sci- passionate teacher, she is enthusiastic about
tech librarians and seasoned professionals imparting knowledge and facilitating infor-
presented in an engaging and interactive mation discovery. Her interests span meta-
format. Topics have included Alternative data and user-centered design as tools for
Energy, GIS/Remote Sensing, Marine Sci- enhanced access to information.
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A Special Dedication to Ann Koopman
by Sheila L. Rosenthal
When our Sci-Tech Division Chair, Nevenka Chair, I was the recipient of several of Ann’s
Zdravkovska asked if I would like to write an suggestions for improving the Awards and
article about Ann Koopman for Sci-Tech News called upon her for advice on numerous oc-
I was delighted and replied that I would love casions, which she always cheerfully pro-
to write a tribute to Ann. I had first met Ann vided. One of her first award improvement
Koopman when I joined the Sci-Tech Division suggestions was to add two additional Award
in 2005 and she was Chair-Elect. I remem- categories to our previously established list
ber thinking what a nice friendship she had and they were the awards for “longevity”
with Mary Frances Lembo who was the Chair and “retirement”. Ann had a very keen sense
of our Division in 2005. It was obvious to of how important it is to acknowledge peo-
all of our Division members how much Mary ple and how much it means to them to at-
Frances appreciated the enthusiastic help tain these acknowledgements. The two new
and support she received from Ann during award categories were very well received by
her position as Chair. When I became Awards our members and many of them wrote back
Chair in 2007 and Ann was Division Chair to me with messages of appreciation.
she could tell how nervous I was and she
really stood by me in my new role. When The next few paragraphs contain examples
I first arrived at the Awards breakfast cer- of Awards related questions sent to Ann and
emony I was told I would be given time to the valuable advice that she provided, as fol-
talk about the winners before presenting lows:
them with their awards. I panicked when I
realized I had never asked them to send me In 2010 our Division Chair, Hilary Davis sent
their biographies. As soon as Ann learned of the following message to Ann and several
my dilemma she immediately came to my other members of our Division:
rescue by offering to go around with me to Sheila Rosenthal and I are a bit at a loss
each winner asking them to write down a few about something. One of our longevity
words about themselves for my biography award recipients this year (43 years as a
speeches. She also moved the award pre- Sci-Tech member, we think) has indicated
sentation announcements to the end of the that he expects to receive a pin during the
ceremony’s program to give me more time conference. Sheila and I are not aware of
to prepare. Another panic point for me was a special pin that can be given to him. I’ve
the pronunciation of the name of our 2007 asked the Leadership listserv, but haven’t
Bonnie Hilditch International Librarian Award heard from anyone with anything defini-
winner from Ethiopia, Demisssew Tsigemelak tive, but someone suggested that there
Gebreyohannes. She pronounced the name might be some sort of “generic SLA pin.”
several times for me until I was comfortable Sheila has very nice certificates for all of
enough to make the attempt myself in front the longevity award recipients (and other
the audience. award recipients) that we intend to dis-
tribute one way or another. So, my ques-
I grew in my role as Awards Chair which tion to you all: are you aware of a past
thanks to Ann’s support and encouragement practice for giving away pins and if so, do
I gained the confidence to continue to serve you know if that’s something that we still
in for seven years. At the end of 2013 my do/should be doing?
confidence had grown to the point where I
decided to apply for and won the position of Ann replied as follows:
Chair-Elect of our Division. I also attribute Christine is right - we’ve never given out
this additional gain in confidence to Ann’s any pins as awards, only certificates.
friendship. All during my work as Awards We’re cheap.
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