"Preserving the Past - Focusing on the Future"



Date: May 9-12, 2006
Location:  Gulf Coast Research Laboratory; University of Southern Mississippi; Ocean Springs, MS
Hosts: Joyce Shaw and LaGena Fantroy


May 9, Tuesday

Register/Dorm Assignments
3:00-4:30 PM


SAIL Conference begins with Welcome Reception at Gulf Hills Hotel sponsored by Thomson Scientific. Welcome address give by Dr. Darrell J. Grimes, Provost and Vice President of Academic Affairs, USM
5:00-8:00 P.M.



May 10, Wednesday

"Lost in D Space" Susan Stover, Librarian, Mote Marine Laboratory, Sarasota, Florida
8:30-9:15 A.M.


"The Katrina Research Center at Southern Mississippi" Kay Wall, University Librarian, University of Southern Mississippi
9:30-10:15 A.M.


"What is Long Term? Preservation of Electronic Online Information" Todd Carpenter, Business Development Director, BioOne
10:45-11:15 A.M.


Lunch with Rotary Club of Ocean Springs
11:30-1:15 P.M.


"Natural History of Whale Sharks in the GOM" Dr. Eric Hoffmayaer, Associate Research Scientist, GCRL, center for Fisheries Research and Development
1:30-2:15 P.M.


"Past and Present: 50 Years of Air Quality Modeling Research and its Applications by the NOAA Atmospheric Sciences Modeling Division" Evelyn Poole-Kober, Librarian, NERL-Atmospheric Sciences Modeling Division Library, US EPA, Research Triangle Park, NC
2:30-3:15 P.M.




May 11, Thursday

SAIL Business Meeting
8:30-9:15 A.M.


"The Impact of Hurricane Katrina on Southern Mississippi Gulf Park Campus" Presented by Allisa Beck, Collection Management Librarian; Co-authors: Ed McCormack, Director, and Elizabeth Doolittle, Public Services Librarian, Southern Miss Gulf Coast Library
9:30-10:15 A.M.



"Identifying Materials for an Archival Collection" Julia Young, Director of Division of Archives and Library, Mississippi Department of Archives and History
10:30-11:15 A.M.


Roundtable Sessions: "MS Coast Libraries/New Orleans Libraries Katrina Recovery" Steve Pomes, Joyce Shaw, Julia Young, Allisa Beck
11:30-12:15 P.M.


"Whales and Dolphins in the Gulf of Mexico" Dr. Keith Mullin, Research Fishery Biologist, Southeast Fisheries Science Center, National Marine Fisheries Service, NOAA, Pascagoula, MS
1:30-2:15 P.M.



"Looking at Two Oceans: Marine Library Services in Panama" Vielka Chang-Yau, Librarian, Tropical Sciences Library, Smithsonian Tropical research Institute, Panama
2:30-3:15 P.M.



Posters
3:30-4:15 P.M.

May 12, Friday


"The Changing Tide of Scholarly Communication" Julia Brixrud, Assistant Director, Public Programs, SPARC
8:30-9:30 A.M.


Roundtable Session: "The Many R's of Volunteer Management: Recruitment, Recognition, Responsibility, Retention, Retraining, Respect, Resources..." Susan Stover, Librarian, Mote Marine Laboratory, Sarasota Florida
9:45-10:30 A.M.


SAIL Business Meeting, Part II
11:15-11:45 A.M.


Tour of MS Coast
11:45 A.M.



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