1. IAMSLIC The International Association of Aquatic and Marine Science Libraries and Information Centers Mary J. Markland Head, Guin Library Hatfield Marine Science Center/Oregon State University mary.markland@oregonstate.edu

2. What is IAMSLIC? International organization of individuals and institutions with over 300 members from more than 70 countries. Began in 1975 in Woods Hole, MA Purpose is to promote cooperation and sharing of resources among libraries and information centers which specialize in any aspect of aquatic science – freshwater, brackish and marine. Annual conference, continuing education workshops, membership directory, listserv, digital repository, resource sharing, regional groups/meetings and special projects. All types and sizes of libraries and information centers participate, including marine and freshwater research and policy institutions, government agencies, colleges, universities, non-profit and for-profit organizations.

3. Definitely international!

4. Regional Groups AFRIAMSLIC Cyamus West Coast of North America and Hawaii http://www.iamslic.org/cyamus/ EURASLIC Latin America Pacific Islands SAIL SE U.S. Gulf Coast, the Atlantic Coast of North America – including central and eastern Canada, Bermuda, Bahamas, Caribbean, eastern Mexico, and Panama. http://www.iamslic.org/sail/

5. Resource Sharing/ILL The Z Catalog Z39.50 protocol Simultaneously searches the online catalogs of a number of member libraries It also retrieves serials holdings from the Union List of Marine & Aquatic Serials. The Union List of Marine & Aquatic Serials The Union List contains selected serials holding information, largely from libraries that do not have online catalogs that can be searched via Z39.50.

6. Aquatic Commons Repository

7. Other Benefits Small group, easy to get involved Have peer-reviewed conference papers and posters along with a published conference proceedings Annual conferences are held internationally Regional groups are great for networking Travel grants are available via regional groups and Guin fund Membership is $65/year for US librarians Partnerships with Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission (IOC), Food and Agricultural Organization of the UN (FAO), and North Pacific Marine Science Organization (PICES)

8. Cyamus North America West Coast & Hawaii Region 2016 Meeting California Polytechnic University San Luis Obispo 2017 Meeting Oregon Institute of Marine Biology March 30 – April 2 http://www.iamslic.org/cyamus

9. Selected topics from Cyamus ‘16 Tour of the Cal Poly Pier and Marine Research Facility Library Design/Space Gray Literature Sharing Data and StoryMaps Caribbean Ecosystem in Decline High Seas Fisheries Open Data and Visualization Ebook Selection Data Management Tours of the Cal Poly Dairy, Winery and Arboretum

10. Cyamus 2016

11. IAMSLIC 2015 Blue Growth: Motivating Innovations in Aquatic Information Management 41st IAMSLIC Annual Conference 16th EURASLIC Biennial Meeting 7-11 September, 2015 FAO Rome, Italy

12. Selected topics from Rome Information Needs for Inland Fisheries & Aquaculture Recent Developments in European Copyright Critical Role of Marine Information Use in Science Policy Searchable Guide to Deep-Sea Data Linked Open Data and Semantic Integration to Search Across Repositories Managing Scientific Fisheries Data from Ugandan Waters Role of Information Science in Marine Medical Research

13. IAMSLIC 2015 Attendees

14. Conference Proceedings Archive http://www.iamslic.org/publications/conference- proceedings http://www.iamslic.org/publications/conference- proceedings

15. 42nd IAMSLIC Annual Conference 16-20 October, 2016 Mérida, México http://www.iamslic.org/conf2016