Science, Technology, Medical Librarians Special Interest Group  

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The Special Interest Group (SIG) for Science, Technology and Medical Librarians is composed of individuals from libraries with substantial collections in the physical, life or natural sciences. Through meetings and other events, members work to identify and develop effectives strategies to promote the interests of professionals working in this area and their library organizations.

The SIG will reconvene in the Fall.  Please send to Bruce Slutsky an ideas for future meetings.

The last meeting of the METRO Science Librarians SIG will be: Monday April 23 2:00 - 4:30 PM METRO Headquarters 57 East 11th Street - 4th Floor New York, NY.  Please see the File Repository Tab for the Powerpoint Presentations

LIS Students' Perceptions of the Libraries Web Based Catalogs: Can a Better Library OPAC Make a Difference?

Please register at http://metro.org/events/184/ 

Professor Selenay Aytac will bring her students from Pratt Institute, St. John's University and the Palmer School to make brief presentations to the science librarians.  The scheduled talks are:

Pratt Institute SILS Students:

Authority Control: The Challenge of Diversity and Time for University Libraries - Gretchen Nadasky

Assessing Special Collections: Library OPACs - Alison Rhonemus 

Two Web Based Catalogs: The Harry Ransom Center at the University of Austin Texas and the New York Public Library - Boni Joi Koelliker

St. John's University

Googling OPAC - A Comparison of Two Medium-Sized Academic Libraries on Long Island - Molly Mann

Old-Timey Audio and Online Catalogs - Leslie Chen

Long Island University Palmer School of Library and Information Science

Keys to a Secret Society: The OPACs of Masonic Libraries - Scott Bisogni

Designing OPACS for the Google "Scholar": Marist College and Fairfield University - Lisa Thornell

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