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Conference
July 7-9, 1999
Hosted by Pat Yeudall in Saskatoon Saskatchewan
Schedule of Speakers
Wednesday, July 7, 1999
Ken Born
Introduction and History of Last Mountain Lake
National Wildlife Area.
Dean Nernberg
Short Grass Prairie and Seed Collection
The best way to learn about this area is to explore it. Dean Nermberg
provided a guided tour of the Last Mountain Lake National Wildlife
Area, the first federal bird sanctuary reserved in North America (est.
1887).
Al Smith
Bird Banding Station
Last Mountain Bird Observatory is part of a Canada-wide network of
observatories that have been established to keep track of our forest
birds.
Thursday, July 8, 1999
Todd Brant
Saskatoon and Saskatchewan Overview
Mark Johnston
Climate Change and Forests: What We Know and
What It Means
Climate change is expected to affect forest ecosystems, especially
those in northern latitudes, in several important ways. With a warmer
and dryer climate, forests currently on the margins of moisture
availability will probably be replaced by grasslands. Areas that
continue to maintain forests will probably experience increases in fire
frequency and intensity, and greater severity of insect outbreaks. The
aggregate impact of these impacts will be large changes in the area
covered by forests, and shifts in the geographic distribution of
individual tree species. There will also be changes in other components
of forests, including wildlife habitat, water quantity and the ways in
which humans interact with forest ecosystems. Human society needs to
begin actions to both mitigate climate change and adapt to some climate
change that is inevitable.
Dr. Mark Johnston, Forest Ecosystems Branch, Saskatchewan
Environment and Resource Management, Box 3003, Prince Albert, SK Canada
S6V 6G1; tel: 306-953-2491; fax: 306-953-2360; e-mail:
johnston@derm.gov.sk.ca
Dianne Pammett
CISTI Overview
Dianne Pammett has been Head of the NRC Information Centre in Saskatoon
since October 1996. The Centre's collection concentrates on the areas of
plant biotechnology, plant molecular biology, and plant genetics. Prior
to coming to Saskatoon, she worked as MEDLARS co-ordinator at CISTI. In
that role, she was responsible for providing reference and search
services and client assistance to Canadian searchers of National
Library of Medicine's databases, and developed and presented training
sessions on MEDLARS databases, and Grateful Med software. Prior to
being MEDLARS co-ordinator, she worked as Reference Librarian at CISTI
in Ottawa.
Dianne Pammett, Information Specialist, NRC Information Centre
Saskatoon, 110 Gymnasium Place, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, S7N 0W9;
306-975-5256; e-mail: dpammett@pbi.nrc.ca
Carla Heister
"The World Wide Web is a lot like a flea market" says ALA
(http://www.ala.org/parentspage/greatsites/criteria.html). This
presentation will bring information to the conference participants on
some of the current best natural resource sites on the web.
Participants are encouraged to add their own personal favorites. The
final list will be used within the new webpage being developed at the
Quinney Library.
Carla Heister, Quinney Library, 5260 Old Main Hill, Utah State
University, Logan, UT 84322-5260; tel: 435-797-4053; e-mail:
heister@cc.usu.edu
Geoffrey Yeadon
Overview of Reference Services Databases
The Fish and Wildlife Reference Service (FWRS) maintains databases and
collections of reports produced by State fish and wildlife agencies from
research studies supported by Federal Aid in Sport Fish and Wildlife
Restoration Act(s), reports produced by the Anadromous Fish
Conservation Program, the Endangered Species Grant Program, and the
Cooperative Fish and Wildlife Research Units. Internet users now have
access to five of the FWRS databases: Bibliographic Database;
Survey/Inventory Database; Black Bass Database; Boating Access
Database; Clean Vessel Act Database. The databases are maintained using
Inmagic DB/Text WebPublisher text retrieval software and may be
accessed via the FWRS Homepage http://fa.r9.fws.gov/r9fwrs. A summary
of these databases is provided, and search procedures are demonstrated.
Geoffrey Yeadon, The Fish and Wildlife Reference Service; tel:
301-492-6403; 1-800-582-3421 (U.S. only); e-mail:
geoffrey_yeadon@mail.fws.gov
Friday, July 9, 1999
Ann Hedrich and Alison Welch
Library Outreach Programs
How do we contact people outside of our libraries to let them know what
we have to offer? Are different forms of outreach used by different
types of libraries? Do we need to do outreach? Is outreach more, or
less, important in this information age? This will be a panel session
made up of librarians from three different types of libraries:
academic, government, and corporate. Each panelist will describe
her/his situation and discuss outreach tactics that have worked and
those which haven't. Following the short (5-10 minutes) presentations
by panel members, the session will be opened up for general discussion.
Anne Hedrich, Reference Librarian, SciTech Library, 3100 Old Main
Hill, Utah State University Logan, Utah 84322-3100; tel: 435-797-2165;
e-mail: annhed@cc.usu.edu
Alison Welch, Librarian, Northwest Territories Resources, Wildlife,
and Economic Development Library, Govt. Of the Northwest Territories,
600, 5102 50th Ave., Yellowknife, NT X1A 3S8; tel:
867-920-8606; e-mail: alison_welch@gov.nt.ca
Eric Woodsworth
Data Management Guidelines for PNWRC
This paper will describe a first rigorous attempt at a standardised
data management protocol for the Prairie & Northern Wildlife
Research Centre which will describe and advertise data holdings via the
departmental intranet and the Green Lane, ensure physical availability
and security ensure consistency of archive format, maintain currency of
media and software formats and integrity of data ensuring reliable
links to non-electronic holdings, identify materials missing from the
system, eliminate redundant information, capture scientific expertise
and knowledge not represented in the above, foster compatibility with
national and international standards, and catalyse recognition by
managers of the human resource requirements of an effective DM system.
These measures recognise the importance of research data as our primary
product, upon which new knowledge is based.
Eric Woodsworth Prairie & Northern Wildlife Research Centre,
Environment Canada, 115 Perimeter Rd., Saskatoon, SK S7N 0X4; tel:
306-975-4023; fax: 306-975-4089; e-mail: Eric.Woodsworth@ec.gc.ca
Gretta Siegel
The Landscape of the Literature of the
Endangered Species Act - Looking Beyond Natural Resources
The natural resources and environmental sciences literature is
well-populated by material relevant to the Endangered Species Act, from
the species status reviews and other ecological literature which tries
to identify threatened or endangered species to the plethora of
recovery plans, written in accordance with Section 4 of the ESA.
Presented here is a bibliometric study which seeks to explore both the
quantity and the qualities of the literature of some less obvious
disciplines. The usefulness of these results should be (1) to expand
the context in which those doing endangered species work can frame
their arguments; (2) to provide a more holistic understanding of the
complexity of the act; (3) to provide additional ideas of places to
look for information on the ESA and its impacts.
Gretta Siegel, Science Librarian, Branford P. Millar Library,
Portland State University, PO Box 1151, Portland, OR 97207-1151; tel:
503-725-4708; e-mail: siegel@lib.pdx.edu
Joe Dillard (unable to attend, sent full-text paper(scan and
link paper))
Missouri Watershed Information Network (MoWIN)
The Missouri Watershed Information Network (MoWIN) is being established
within the University of Missouri's Outreach and Extension Division to
assist individuals, governmental and private agencies, schools and other
groups in locating and accessing natural resources information and data.
MoWIN is a partnership of 23 state and federal agencies,
non-governmental organizations, and natural resource interest groups.
Initiated on April 1, 1998, MoWIN has a director and part-time staff, a
website http://outreach.missouri.edu/mowin/, and ongoing projects to
gather, compile and distribute watershed information. The goal of MoWIN
is to help citizens increase their knowledge about current watershed
conditions and best watershed management practices and strategies to
improve Missouri's water quality. MoWIN will provide information about:
current watershed events and meetings, ongoing projects, local contacts,
human resources, financial assistance, technical assistance, educational
resources, and natural resource facts, reports and data. The information
will be provided via the Internet, phone, fax, mail, e-mail and personal
visit. MoWIN is a good example of a conservation partnership that will
provide many benefits to the natural resources of Missouri, and a higher
level of service to all Missourians.
Joe G. Dillard, Director, Missouri Watershed Information Network,
University of Missouri Outreach and Extension, 232 Agriculture
Engineering Building, Columbia, MO 65211; tel: 573-882-0085; fax:
573-884-5650; e-mail: DillardJ@missouri.edu webpage: http://outreach.missouri.edu/mowin
Paul Wilson
Is There a Crisis in Wildlife
Research?
A presentation at the 1998 Wildlife Society conference in Buffalo,
New York, stressed the need to market wildlife research, because state
wildlife agencies were cutting back or eliminating their research
biologist positions. A decrease in numbers of research biologists
may explain recent decreases in the Fish and Wildlife Reference Service
(FWRS) workloads. The FWRS workload
peaked in 1993 with 7000 orders received, 23,700 documents shipped, and
over 900,000 pages photocopied. By 1995, the number of orders had
decreased to less than 6500, with 620,000 pages copied for 24,400
documents shipped. These numbers remained relatively stable
through 1996 and 1997. However, in 1998, the number of orders
dropped to 5900, the number of documents sent (18,000) was 14% less,
and the number of pages of photocopies dropped by over 12%.
Extrapolated data for 1999 indicate additional decreases of 10-15% in
FWRS orders, which suggests less research is being conducted by state
agencies to support their management of fish and wildlife populations.
NRIC 1999 Business Meeting
Gretta Siegel facilitating in absence of any Alaska conference
planners.
Pat Yeudall
Webpage statistics and general wrap up
Pat Yeudall, Library, Canadian Wildlife Service, 115 Perimeter Road,
Saskatoon, Saskatchewan S7N 0X4; tel: 306-975-4096; fax: 306-975-4089;
e-mail: pat.yeudall@ec.gc.ca
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