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	Issues in Science and Technology   Librarianship
	Fall 2001

	DOI:10.5062/F4MG7MGW



      

    Conference Reports
    Science & Technology Section Celebrates 40th Anniversary in San   Francisco
  ALA Annual Conference, June 15-18, 2001
      Julia Gelfand
  Chair, STS 2002 Program Planning Committee
  Applied Sciences Librarian
  University of California, Irvine
jgelfand@uci.edu        


     The San Francisco conference was several months ago, and I am now feeling a sense  of great fulfillment having chaired the Program Planning Committee for the 40th  Anniversary celebration. We had a terrific committee who shared great enthusiasm  for the occasion and each of them love the vitality, collegiality and their  personal affiliation with the section. We had programs, parties, and trips;   brought together partners and friends; and truly reflected and celebrated. San  Francisco was among the perfect places to do it. This celebration reinforced the  sense of community and special attributes of the ACRL Science & Technology   Section. 

    Julie Hurd, chair of the Section, launched the conference and anniversary  festivities when she called to order the first Council meeting Friday evening. The  usual committee meetings and discussion groups met and on Sunday evening, we  celebrated as "ISI Salutes STS on 40 Years" got underway at the Merchants Exchange  Building. San Francisco's Bay Bells greeted us and this event brought together the  Section membership, ACRL leaders and the special corporate friends and partners. 

    The Institute of Scientific Information (ISI) hosted an elegant reception.   Following introductions of the ISI top management and ACRL leadership, STS  presented Jacqueline (Jay) Trolley, Director of Corporate Communications, with a  gift and salutation, "ACRL Science & Technology Section Honors Jacqueline Trolley  for her innovative spirit, support and being a Special Friend. San Francisco, 17  June 2001." 

    The section program, "Quantum Leaps by Decade: Forty Years of Science Librarianship  Through Collaboration," was on Monday, June 18. The program was a series of serious  and anecdotal reflections by thematic issues that have defined and contextualized  each decade of the past forty years. Five distinguished speakers provided  informative and entertaining presentations:

    

	
The 1960s: "From Sputnik to the World Wide Web: A  Retrospective View of Citation Indexing," by Dr. Eugene Garfield, Information  Scientist & Chairman Emeritus, Institute of Scientific Information,  


	
The 1970s: "Partnerships for Education: Libraries, Museums and  New Forms of Scholarly Communication," by Dr. Marian Cleeves Diamond, Professor of  Integrative Biology, University of California, Berkeley,   


	
The 1980s: "The Digital Age," by Dr. John Warnock, Chief  Technology Officer, Adobe Systems, Inc.,   


	
The 1990s: "Sustaining the Networked Environment and Building  Virtual Communities," by Dr. Clifford Lynch, Executive Director, Coalition for  Networked Information,  


	
The New Millennium: "The Crystal Ball: Relationships of the  Past and for the Future," by Eugenie Prime, Director of Libraries, Hewlett Packard.   


    On Tuesday, June 18, STS members had the chance to visit the Stanford Linear  Accelerator on an all-day field trip. A report of the trip by James Crooks is  included in this issue. 

    As we begin another period in the Section's history, I remain convinced that we are  on the right track with our commitments and pledges to create new models of  scholarly communications, refine our strategies for information literacy, increase  our collaborations with partners in industry and publishing to make science  librarianship the exciting and rewarding career that it is. We will do this with  programs and activities such as those at the San Francisco conference to guide and  support us. 

    

  

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