There has been some changes regarding host and place for the next Euraslic conference.
The 15th Biennial Conference of the European Association of Aquatic Sciences Libraries and Information Centres (EURASLIC) will take place in Varna, Bulgaria 13- 15 May, 2013
As the year is coming to its end it evokes nice memories of beautiful companionship and achievements in 2011.
- 14 Biennial Conference, Lyon, France, May 17-20, 2011
- ODINECET-MIM Workshop, Sevastopol, Ukraine, 12-14 September, 2011
- Elections for Executive Board members
- EURASLIC page at FaceBook
The New and exciting exciting year is awaiting EURASLIC! Looking forward to new challenges, we wish you:
Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year!
The last IAMSLIC conference took place in Zanzibar in Tanzania from october 16th-21st, 2011. It was the first IAMSLIC meeting in Africa. It gathered around 40 participants. This meeting was a good opportunity for African libraries to present how they share knowledge and resources. Some of them have presented their experiences with IODE, ORDINAFRICA and Aquatic commons.
There was also an interesting session concerning new roles for librarians.
During the Conference new officers were elected:
President: Sally Taylor, University of British Columbia
Secretary: Maureen Nolan, University of Washington
Zanzibar is a semi-autonomous part of Tanzania in East Africa. It is situated in the Indian Ocean, 25–50 kilometres off the coast of the mainland. This meeting gave us also the opportunity to explore the wonderful island of Zanzibar with its capital known as Stone Town, the World Heritage Site. Zanzibar's ecology is of note for being the home of the endemic Zanzibar Red Colobus Monkey and the island is well known for spices.
The next IAMSLIC meeting in 2012 will be in cold countries : it will take place in Anchorage in Alaska
Marie Pascale BALIGAND
EURASLIC Vice-President
Joint ODINECET/ODINBlackSea Workshop was held in Sevastopol (Ukraine), from 12 to 14 September 2011. Twenty two persons from eight countries participated at the ODINECET Workshop.
More detailed report can be seen at the ODINECET website http://odinecet.iode.org/
We would like to say words of thanks to Peter Pissierssens and Vladimir Vladymyrov and their teams for the great help in the Workshop organising.
Words of thanks to Pauline Simpson, Linda Pikula and Jan Haspeslagh in help of the ODINECET projects elaborating.
ODINECET coordinator
Olga Akimova
The 37th IAMSLIC Conference and the 5th AFRIAMSLIC Conference entitled
“Information Safari: Discovering and Sharing Resources”
will be held in Zanzibar, Tanzania, on the 16th to 21st of October, 2011.
We wish to all the participants succesful conference and to enjoy African adventure.