28 Jan 2015 - Slides from the ITOC and TACC workshops held as part of the ICSTI 2015 Annual Members’ Meeting on 19 January in Berlin can now be retrieved for download by the ICSTI members in the Members’ Area of the website.
We thank all our speakers, sponsors, workshop chairs, and delegates who helped make this meeting a very interesting and successful event.
19 Dec 2014 - This is our Season’s gift for ICSTI Members ! We are pleased to announce that a new issue of the ICSTI Insights series is out. Authored by three colleagues of the National Research Council Canada and titled "Information Services for Business and Science Libraries", this in-depth analytical review compares some practices of special, academic and public libraries and in particular, focuses on special libraries active in supporting STEM (scientific, technical, engineering and medical) organizations, including support to business needs within these organizations. The 13-page article is available for ICSTI Members in the Members’ Area section. Happy reading !
13 Nov 2014 - SAVE THE DATE ! : ICSTI 2015 General Assembly and Workshops will take place on 4 July in Hannover, Germany. Immediately following this, from 5-9 July, the International Association of University Libraries (IATUL), which is an Associate Member of ICSTI, will hold a conference on the theme of ‘Strategic Partnerships for Access and Discovery’.
Meeting details to come soon Upcoming Events
12 Nov 2014 - In its just released Strategic Plan 2015-2018, ICSTI reaffirms four Strategic Aims, Objectives and Priorities :
1. Relevance
2. Enabling
3. Collaboration
4. Developing the ICSTI Organization and Membership Value
Strategic Plan 2015-2018
- 2015-01-30 :
Microsoft’s Danah Boyd on the Future of Social Media - (Microsoft Research)
- 2015-01-30 :
الإفلا تبني قدرات المكتبات للتأُثير إيجابَّأ على سياسة المعلومات الرقمية من خلال منحة حشد الدعم العالمية الجديدة - (IFLA) - 2015-01-30 :
ИФЛА наращивает потенциал библиотек для положительного влияния на политику электронной среды с помощью нового международного гранта - (IFLA) - 2015-01-30 :
Durch den "International Advocacy Grant" unterstützt die IFLA Bibliotheken beim Aufbau von Kapazitäten, um die digitale Informationspolitik positiv zu beeinflussen. - (IFLA) - 2015-01-30 :
L'IFLA doit renforcer la compétence des bibliothèques de manière à influencer positivement la politique en matière d'information numérique, au moyen d'un nouveau Prix International de Lobbying - (IFLA) - 2015-01-30 :
IFLA desarrolla la capacidad de las bibliotecas de influir positivamente en la política de información digital a través de una nueva subvención para la Defensa Internacional de la Profesión - (IFLA) - 2015-01-30 :
国际图联将通过新的国际宣传计划拨款，增强图书馆的能力，从而积极影响数字信息政策 - (IFLA) - 2015-01-30 :
PLS Mid-Term Program Now Available - (IFLA) - 2015-01-29 :
Call for Papers : Library History SIG in Cape Town - (IFLA)
- 2015-01-29 :
OECD Economic Survey of Belgium launches Wednesday 4 February 2015 - (OECD)
October 2014 - ICSTI congratulates Brian Hitson on his appointment as Director of the Office of Scientific and Technical Information (OSTI) , a corporate function of the US Department of Energy that is managed by the Office of Science. Brian is OSTI’s representative to ICSTI and Chair of the Technical Activities Coordinating Committee. He was central to the creation of the WorldWideScience Alliance and has recently led the implementation of the US DOE’s public access plan for scholarly publications.
August 2014 - ICSTI pays tribute to Roberta Shaffer on the occasion of her retirement : Roberta’s role as the Library of Congress (LOC) representative to ICSTI coincided with successive leadership posts that she held at the LOC – Head of FEDLINK, Head of the Law Library of Congress and Head of Library Services. Roberta was ICSTI’s President for three years during which time the organisation was the beneficiary of her broad expertise, energy and good humour. She presided over a period of change and transition for ICSTI, raised its profile and inspired new partnerships. Her contribution to ICSTI will be much missed.
September 2013 - Report of CODATA-ICSTI Task Group is out. A new report, ‘Out of Cite, Out of Mind : The Current State of Practice, Policy, and Technology for the Citation of Data’, authored by the CODATA/ICSTI Task Group on Data Citation Standards and practices, has just been published and is openly and freely available online in CODATA Data Science Journal
