Useful Resources

Professional Organizations

• Special Libraries Association (SLA), http://www.sla.org

• PAM (SLA Physics-Astronomy-Math division),
  http://pantheon.yale.edu/~dstern/pamtop.html (1)

• PAM International Relations Committee (incl. access to the PAM International Travel Award),
  http://www.sla.org/division/dpam/irc/index.html (1)

• International Astronomical Union (IAU), Commission 5: Documentation and Astronomical Data, Working Group on Libraries,
  http://www.inasan.rssi.ru/iau/iau5/indexspec.html (1)

Mailing Lists

• Astrolib. Moderated mailing list for astronomy librarians. Contact person: Ellen Bouton, NRAO Library, library@nrao.edu

• PAMnet. Unmoderated mailing list of SLA-PAM. Contact person: David Stern, Yale University, david.e.stern@yale.edu

• PAM-APF. Unmoderated mailing list of the SLA-PAM Asia Pacific Forum. Contact person: Jeanette Regan, Australian National University, Astronomy Branch Library, jeanette.regan@anu.edu.au

Contact Persons and Conferences

• PAM publisher liaisons,
  http://www.sla.org/division/dpam/manual/staff.liaisons.html (2)

• Directory of astronomy librarians,
  http://www.eso.org/libraries/astro-addresses.html

• LISA conferences, http://www.eso.org/libraries/lisa.html

• SLA annual conferences,
  http://www.sla.org/content/Events/conference/index.cfm

(1) Modified May 29, 2002
(2) link disabled May 6, 2004 (UG)