Yuriem is another of our presenters from our host region for #IAMSLIC2022, Grupo Latinoamericano.

Yuriem has worked for 26 years as Chief Librarian at the Center for Marine Research of the University of Havana, Cuba. She has finished all the courses of a master's degree in social development and is currently preparing her master's thesis.

She likes to study and improve herself professionally, but she also enjoys her family and good friends, plus music, dance, cinema, reading and learning about other cultures.

Yuriem will be presenting at #IAMSLIC2022 on "La Revista de Investigaciones Marinas: transformations towards sustainability. What are we thinking for the immediate future?". She will be at the conference in person, so please do connect with her about this, and any of her other interests.

Next up we have presenter, and IAMSLIC Treasurer, Geoff Timms!

Geoff is the Librarian for Marine Resources at the Marine Resources Library in Charleston, SC, USA. He has been at the library for seven years, and serves both the College of Charleston, South Carolina Department of Natural Resources, and the NOAA/NIST Charleston laboratories. He is a tenured member of the faculty of the College of Charleston. Geoff was formerly Systems Librarian at Mercer University in Macon, GA. He has been a member of IAMSLIC and SAIL for seven years, attending every IAMSLIC and SAIL conference since fall 2019. He currently serves as IAMSLIC Treasurer, interim website manager, and on the IAMSLIC 2022 Conference Planning Committee and the IAMSLIC Resource Sharing Taskforce. (Thank you, Geoff!)

Geoff's presentation for #IAMSLIC2022 is titled "Assume Nothing! Investigating New Marine Biology Graduate Student Information Literacy and Research Practices to Inform Training".

Geoff’s current research interests include bibliometrics and information literacy. Outside of work, he loves fishing, gardening, cooking, any excuse to run a chainsaw, and being creative. Feel free to chat to Geoff during the conference about any of this and more - particularly the chainsaw :-)

Next up, let's meet our #IAMSLIC2022 conference presenters Julia Demasi Zavala & Elvira Demasi Zavala.

We are thrilled to have Julia speak to us, as she is President of the Asociación de Bibliotecólogos del Uruguay. She is a graduate of the Universidad de la República LIS program, with a dissertation on library history. From 2000 to 2013 she worked in engineering college libraries in Uruguay (Facultad de Ingeniería) and for 18 months in the US (University of Minnesota Walter Library). Since 2013 she works in a K12 school library in Montevideo. For the past 20 years she has also worked free lance as a virtual reference librarian, a knowledge organization specialist, an information literacy tutor, and assisting with moving and selling personal libraries. Julia believes there's strength in numbers so she joined the ABU as soon as she could, and loves organizations where the question is not what they do for you but what you can do thanks to them.

Joining Julia is Elvira, who has the fabulous job title of Tourismologist. Elvira graduated from the University of Costa Rica with a BSc and a MSc in ecotourism, specializing in environmental management and ecotourism. She has participated in numerous consultancies and research projects related to ecotourism, nature tourism and alternative tourism, trying to emphasize strategies to approach the objectives of sustainability. She currently works as a teacher in the Bachelor of Tourism at Universidad de la República and in the Bachelor of Educational Recreation and the Bachelor of Tourism Business Management at Universidad Católica del Uruguay. In addition to teaching, she dedicates part of her time to conducting research that addresses tourism from different perspectives.

Julia and Elvira will be presenting at #IAMSLIC2022 on "Environmental sciences libraries as a force for good in a world of skepticism and disillusion".

As might be obvious from their backgrounds, Julia is interested in library history and information literacy and Elvira is interested in sustainable tourism, territorial processes, and sustainable development. Please do chat to them at the conference about these things, and more!

Santiago will be introducing us to our host institution DINARA, where he is the Director of Institutional Communication, Library and IT.

Santiago is a veterinarian, oriented towards food technology, with a thirty five-year long career. At present he is in charge of the communication area of the governmental agency for fisheries management. Previously he was a technical adviser of an international organisation, where he was responsible for promotion, relationships, communication, project design, consultancy, conferences addresses, redaction of technical articles, publication editing, personnel supervision and general management. He has experience with the design of quality assurance plans, fishing plants inspection, and sanitary control of internationally traded fishery products.

We look forward to hearing more from Santiago during the conference!

Over the next week or so we'll be spotlighting some of our #IAMSLIC2022 conference presenters.

Joyce and Megan are from the University of Southern Mississippi, where Joyce has been Head of Gunter Library at the Gulf Coast Research Laboratory (Ocean Springs, MS, USA) since December 1995. In 2008 Joyce was invited to join the faculty of University Libraries (The University of Southern Mississippi) as an associate professor, awarded tenure in 2009, and promoted to Professor in 2015. A 26-year member of IAMSLIC, in 2013-2015 she served as the SAIL Representative on the IAMSLIC board. She has served four terms as Chair of the Special Libraries Section of the Mississippi Library Association and is in her second term as chair of Atmospheric Science Librarians International. She is a graduate of Rosary College (now called Dominican University, River Forest, IL, USA) with an MLIS and Roosevelt University (Chicago, IL, USA) with an MA in Urban Studies. In 2022 she received The University of Southern Mississippi Excellence in Librarianship award. Megan is a recent MLIS graduate student of the University of Southern Mississippi, and is starting to train as a reference librarian.

Joyce and Megan will be presenting on "Books for children and young people to increase science information literacy about ocean pollution".

In her spare time Joyce is an active volunteer, with membership in and past president of the Rotary Club of Ocean Springs, an associate member of North Bay Civitan Club, and Co-Zone Captain for the Mississippi Coastal Clean-Up. Professionally, she is interested in scholarly communication, emergency and disaster preparedness, mentoring, and the history of the Gulf Coast Research Laboratory. Personally she is interested in volunteering, and collecting Matchbox, Hot Wheels, and other toy work vehicles, especially concrete mixers. Megan on the other hand has an interest in film studies, so please do talk to either of them about their interests (or anything else) during the conference!

The IAMSLIC 2022 Conference Planning Committee has extended the deadline to register for the conference.

• Registration for in-person attendance in Montevideo must be completed by Monday, October 3, 2022
• Registration for virtual attendance must be completed by Monday, October 17, 2022.

We look forward to seeing you!

Our 2022, 48th IAMSLIC annual conference and 4th Latin America Regional Group meeting planning is coming together! We now have a DRAFT program available for preview on the conference website.

Don't forget to register for the conference!

The FAO ASFA Secretariat and AquaDocs (IOC-IODE and IAMSLIC) would like to invite you to a joint training programme on the use of OpenASFA and AquaDocs. The training will run from 29th August - 2nd September and cover the basics of using OpenASFA and AquaDoc, as well as Advanced Cataloguing sessions that will help improve the quality of records on both systems. There will be five training sessions, each to last no longer than 2 hours. You are
welcome to register for all five sessions, or only those most relevant to you- there is no obligation to attend all five courses. Should you wish, a short test will be circulated after each training session and certificates given to any participants who pass.

Each session will be held at 13:00 - 15:00 UTC/ GMT. Sessions will be recorded and can be circulated after each session. If you wish to attend, please register using the links below. It is necessary to register for each training session you wish to attend.

The training sessions are open to all, it is not necessary to be familiar with either OpenASFA or AquaDocs, or be a member of ASFA or IAMSLIC.

For any questions, please email: tamsin.vicary@fao.org

Monday 29th August - Introduction to OpenASFA
Introduction to AquaDocs and OpenASFA and differences between the two systems. Detailed look at OpenASFA; How to create a Journal Article record on OpenASFA. Training given by: Tamsin Vicary, FAO ASFA Secretariat.

To register: https://fao.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJUkcu-vrzwqEtPP6H42rEhLRrDIE3Ev1vNw

Tuesday 30th August - Introduction to AquaDocs
Creating a collection and submitting records to AquaDocs repository.
Training given by: Ekaterina Kulakova, VNIRO.

To register: https://fao.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJEoceGvrD0uH9OUcozh2eNZcJw2brNUiUmc

Wednesday 31st August - Keywords
Purpose of subject, geographic and taxonomic keywords. How to select keywords on OpenASFA and AquaDocs. Training given by Maria Kalentsits (FAO ASFA Secretariat)

To register: https://fao.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJ0of-qpqzgqE9W170J3_tUWn72kgVbNo8cJ

Thursday 1st September - Advanced cataloguing 1
Ensuring records are error free; advanced features for AquaDocs and
OpenASFA (Generator for sub/superscript; duplicating records).
Common mistakes, hints and tips. Training given by Maria Kalentsits (FAO
ASFA Secretariat) and Ekaterina Kulakova, VNIRO).

To register: https://fao.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJEudOytrzgsHNxkVZjeSdKpCFnxs2EUxOkU

Friday 2nd September - Advanced cataloguing 2: Author and Institution names
Importance of entering authors correctly, particular reference to
non-English languages. Training given by Maria Kalentsits (FAO ASFA Secretariat) and Ekaterina Kulakova, VNIRO).

To register: https://fao.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJMpc-2srDsjGd2wR1cCTtzzDIWr3luk_ZSj

About AquaDocs
AquaDocs https://aquadocs.org/ is the joint open access repository of the UNESCO/IOC InternationaI Oceanographic Data and Information Exchange (IODE) and the International Association of Aquatic and Marine Science Libraries and Information Centers (IAMSLIC) with support from the FAO Aquatic Sciences and Fisheries Abstracts (ASFA). It is a thematic repository covering the natural marine, coastal, estuarine /brackish and freshwater environments and includes all aspects of the science, technology, management and conservation of these environments, their organisms and resources, and the economic, sociological, and legal aspects.

About ASFA
Established in 1971, ASFA is an international partnership of over 100 aquatic science, fisheries and aquaculture institutions who each contribute to the ASFA database. AFSA Partner records are freely available to view and search on the OpenASFA search interface: https://www.fao.org/fishery/en/openasfa The full ASFA database is available via subscription on the ProQuest platform.

At IAMSLIC we all work in celebrating, facilitating and communicating the science involved with our ocean. Some of us work in tiny solo libraries, some of us are set in huge universities or organisation, all of us are providing world class services. 

Let's celebrate our work together this year at our 48th Annual Conference #IAMSLIC2022 18-21 October, 2022. This is our 1st HYBRID conference, so we hope to see and hear from as many of us as possible.

We are accepting proposals to present at our conference either in person in Montevideo, Uruguay or virtually. Get your proposal to us by the 21st August:  https://iamslic.wildapricot.org/conf2022/proposals

Are you wondering what to present on? Are you thinking, who wants to hear about the everyday work I do in my specialist library? We do! We thrive on learning from each other, we take our conferences as a valuable CPD opportunity, so any learning you can share with us, no matter how small will be valuable. 

We want to hear about the importance of libraries in the sustainability of aquatic resources.

Furthermore, we want to hear about your experiences in working with data. How about the ethics of sharing data, have you come up against any obstacles? 

Close to all of our hearts is Ocean and Climate Change literacy, what is your library or institute doing here?  How can we help to get the message out for a safe sustainable future of our oceans?  

We especially want to hear about library leadership and the nitty gritty of library administration. We library staff are nerds when it comes to this stuff, share your library hacks with us! 

Last year we hear about the SDG's and how the library works in this space, have you incorporated any of those lessons into your library through the year or have you planned to embed the SDGs into your library strategy? Please tell us about it!

Information literacy, we are all looking for the latest tool or technology to help our patrons with this, have you had a successful experience in IL recently? Share it with our IAMSLIC colleagues.

Finally, do you find the bulk of your library budget is going to publishers? Have you brokered a big deal, have you moved to OA, have you news to tell us about your publishing and publisher interactions? We'd love to hear about this, especially if it means we can adjust our library budgets!! 

Remember just 5 more days to get those proposals into us here: https://iamslic.wildapricot.org/conf2022/proposals

We would like to inform you that the deadline for submitting abstracts for the IAMSLIC 2022 hybrid conference, originally scheduled for 9 August 2022, has been extended and the new deadline is 21 August 2022. 

• To submit a proposal: https://iamslic.wildapricot.org/conf2022/proposals. Deadline: 21 August 2022.
  
• To apply for a grant: https://iamslic.wildapricot.org/Grants. Deadline: 21 August 2022.
• To renew your IAMSLIC membership, if you have not already done so, and to encourage your friends and colleagues to become members: https://iamslic.wildapricot.org/Membership-Application

Please keep up to date with more information about the conference on our Website.

We kindly encourage you to register, and to encourage your colleagues to do the same. We hope to see many of you in Uruguay in October 2022!

And be sure to follow us on Facebook and on Twitter @IamslicOrg  #IAMSLIC2022