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LISA V - Library and Information Services in Astronomy:
Common Challenges, Uncommon Solutions

June 18-21, 2006, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA
http://www.cfa.harvard.edu/library/lisa/index.html



The fifth Library and Information Services in Astronomy meeting will be
hosted by the Wolbach Library at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for
Astrophysics and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
Libraries.  This First Announcement is meant to provide general information
about the meeting.  Additional details will be given in the Second
Announcement, to be distributed in January 2006. Please forward this
information to colleagues who may be interested.

Venue

The meeting will be held at Harvard University and the Massachusetts
Institute of Technology, in Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA, which is minutes
away from the historic city of Boston.

Proceedings

The proceedings will be published electronically. Further instructions will
follow in the Second Announcement.

Fees

Registration:  US $300
Early Bird (before March 15, 2006): US $250
Single day: US $100
Student/Retired: US $50/day

Registration opens in January.   Registration will be available for the
entire conference or for individual days.


Traveling to Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA

 - Visas

Visa requirements for travel to the U.S. vary from country to
country.  Please check the travel office at your institution to determine
whether you need a visa.

 - Air travel

Logan International Airport (BOS) in Boston, Massachusetts USA is located
just a few miles from Cambridge, Massachusetts. Boston and Cambridge may be
reached from Logan Airport by public transportation (subway blue line:
Airport station) or by taxi.
http://www.massport.com/logan/

 - Train travel

Amtrak travels to Boston's South Station, from which one can easily access
Cambridge and Boston by public transportation (subway red line: South Station).
http://www.amtrak.com

 - Local public transportation

Local public transportation is provided by the Massachusetts Bay
Transportation Authority (MBTA). Subway fare is $1.25; bus fare is $0.90.
The subway is usually referred to as "the T" as in, "take the T from South
Station to Harvard Square."
http://www.mbta.com


Accommodations

Conference attendees are responsible for their own accommodations. Discount
arrangements have been made with the Fenway Summer Hostel and the Days
Hotel.  The LISA V web site includes a list of additional accommodations at
http://www.cfa.harvard.edu/library/lisa/travel.html#accommodations .


Preliminary Program


1. THE VIRTUAL OBSERVATORY AND WHAT'S IN IT FOR LIBRARIES
   * The role of libraries and librarians in the era of the Virtual
Observatory
   * Metadata and interoperability
   * Bibliometric studies using the Astrophysics Data System (ADS)
   * Dataset and facility identifiers - easier retrieval of papers based
on observational data
2. THE E-JOURNAL SWAMP
   * Pricing aspects:
   * E-only vs. print -- does cancellation of print actually achieve savings?
   * Consortia models -- experiences from astronomy libraries
   * Difficulties in leaving "Big Deals" with major publishers
   * Access considerations:
   * Are we buying or renting? Access to e-journals after cancellations
   * Copyright issues
   * Reasons to keep print; is there a future for print?
   * When is full text not full text?
3. THE CHANGING PUBLISHING SECTOR
   * Open access and institutional repositories
   * Open Archive Initiative (and how it differs from open access)
   * Future of traditional journals
   * Pre-publication vs. post-publication peer-review
4. PRESERVATION AND ARCHIVING / HISTORICAL SESSION
   * Technological aspects of electronic preservation
   * Digitization projects in astronomy
   * Migration -- preserving the integrity of the scientific record
   * Paper copies as backups for e-journals
   * How to use e-tools to set up an archive
5. BEYOND ADS AND GOOGLE -- CIRCUMSTANCES UNDER WHICH WE USE DATABASES
OTHER THAN THE OBVIOUS
   * Who needs commercial databases? Case studies on ISI Web of Science,
Scopus, Scitation, et al.
   * "Invisible literature" -- what IS NOT indexed
   * ARIbib -- where is it and where is it going?
   * Retrieval of non-English language literature
   * Who's afraid of the big bad Google? Google Scholar, Google Print and
more
   * Which search engines for which purpose?
6. CUTTING EDGE TECHNOLOGIES
   * E-metrics - how to measure library e-resources and services
   * Bibliomining -- data mining for libraries
   * Online library catalog -- does it have a future?
   * Blogs and wikis and podcasts, oh my!
7. THE CREATIVE LIBRARIAN
   * Widening fields of activities, e.g., public outreach, education
   * Marketing in the astronomy setting
   * Webpages -- the library's business card
   * Disaster management
   * Libraries as publishers / providers
The conference Keynote Speaker will be Dr. John Huchra, Vice Provost for
Research Policy, Harvard University, and Robert O. & Holly Thomis Doyle
Professor of Cosmology, Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics,
Cambridge, MA, USA.


Important Dates

Second Announcement: January 2006
Early bird registration and fee due: March 15, 2006
Late registration and fee due: May 15, 2006


Scientific Organizing Committee (SOC)

Christina Birdie, co-chair - Indian Institute of Astrophysics (IIA),
Bangalore, India
Uta Grothkopf, co-chair - European Southern Observatory (ESO), Garching,
Germany

Alberto Accomazzi - USA; Donna Coletti - USA; Tatyana Dorokhova - Ukraine;
Eva Isaksson - Finland; Charles Lada - USA; Jessica Moy - USA; Francois
Ochsenbein - France; Donata Randazzo - Italy; Sandra Ricketts - Australia;
Sarah Stevens-Rayburn - USA


Local Organizing Committee (LOC)

Donna Coletti, chair
William Claspy, William Graves, Jennifer Harter, Madeleine Needles, Donna
Thompson


Contact Information

For questions about local and travel arrangements, registration,
accommodation and payments, contact:

Mailing Address:

LISA V
John G. Wolbach Library & Information Resource Center
Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics
60 Garden St., MS-56
Cambridge, MA 02138

E-mail: lisavloc@cfa.harvard.edu

Phone:  617.496.5769

Fax:  617.495.7199


LISA V home page: http://www.cfa.harvard.edu/library/lisa/index.html

LISA home page: http://www.eso.org/libraries/lisa.html


Information from the Friends of LISA Committee regarding assistance grants
to librarians from developing countries
has been distributed recently on these mailing lists. For further
information, contact Ellen Bouton at ebouton@nrao.edu .