Chemistry Division Special Libraries Association

CALL FOR PAPERS

The 7th quadrennial Trisociety Symposium^* will be held Sunday, June 9, 2002 during the Special Libraries Association Annual Conference in Los Angeles.

The theme for the symposium will be: Electronic Chemistry Collections: Dealing with Chemistry Resources in Electronic Formats

Possible topics include:

• Migration of chemistry references sources and journals from print to electronic;
• Digital library operations;
• Electronic resources -- presentation and instruction;
• Structure searching of WWW databases;
• User perception and acceptance of electronic resources
• Transitioning from print to digital library;
• References Service issues;
• Archival issues related to electronic materials -- years, decades or centuries.

Researchers are invited to submit proposals for a paper to be presented at the Trisociety Symposium. Submit a 200-400 word abstract which includes the papers topic and scope by January 15,2002. Presenters will be notified by March 1, 2002 if their paper has been selected.

Abstracts, e-mail preferred, should be sent to :
    Marilynn Dunker
    The Procter & Gamble Company
    6300 Center Hill Avenue
    Cincinnati, OH 45224
    dunker.mj@pg.com

^*The Trisociety Symposium is a joint venture of the American Chemical Society Division of Chemical Information, Chemistry Division of the Special Libraries Association and the American Society for Information Science and Technology Special Interest Group on Scientific and Technical Information Systems. Its aim is to advance co-operation among the chemical information professionals of the three participating societies by holding a joint one day symposium on a topic of mutual interest every four years. This will be the seventh symposium.

For More information on the SLA Annual Conference, please visit Conference Home Page

Thank you for your attention,

Marilynn Dunker

SLA Chemistry Division Chair