I attended the GIS Preservation Meeting, GIS Poster Session, GIS Collection Development Issues session and the Geoscience Information Topical Session. The Preservation Meeting examined the importance collections of field notebooks and other raw data have for geoscientists, particularly those interested in the history of geology. I also learned that large brittle maps can be copied by scanning them into a digital format and printing the scanned image. The major discussion topic at the Collection Development Issues session was the future of the geoscience journal and publisher package deals. Many are concerned that the electronic journals often leave out information available in the printed journals.
Advertisements can be important even to geoscientists and geoscience information providers.
He updates this list yearly, and will publish a longer version in the December issue of the Geoscience Information Society Newsletter. The GIS poster sessions and talks covered a variety of topics from archival geology collections to a statistical analysis of the longevity of geoscience information. Full reports will be published next year in the GIS Proceedings volume. When I wasn't attending GIS meetings, I browsed through the GSA exhibits, poster sessions, and a saw a presentation on the recent earthquakes in Turkey, Taiwan and Arizona. The exhibits feature a huge GSA Bookstore booth plus vendors selling everything from books and minerals to x-ray diffractometers.