STS committees are comprised of standing and ad hoc committees. Standing committees are established to consider matters of the Section that require continuity at attention by the members. Ad hoc committees may be established at any time for the performance of a particular assignment. Committee Procedures (Under Revision) and STS Meeting Planning (For All Chairs).
Composition: The Executive Committee shall be the Officers of the Section.
Powers and Duties: The executive committee provides direction for the attainment of the objectives of the section. The Executive Committee conducts the business of the section during the period between Section meetings in accordance with the rules and guidelines of ALA and ACRL.
Composition: All members of the Executive Committee as well as chairs of Committees, Discussion Groups and Taskforces shall serve on the STS Council.
Powers and Duties: The STS Council serves as an advisory body to the Chair and the Executive Committee, acting as a channel of information and discussion to the committees and membership at large. Matters of policy or operations requiring Council action shall normally be referred first to the Executive Committee.
Charge:Provides focus, direction and leadership in the key areas of assessment for the Section. Identifies and maintains communication with other committees and units in ALA focusing on assessment. Sponsors and supports activities, programs, or discussion groups in efforts to inform and provide perspective on assessment. Compiles and updates templates for the assessment of STS programs and discussion groups as well as templates for outgoing/incoming chairs of STS committees and discussion groups.
Charge: The Conference Program Planning Committees plan and organize the Section's Annual conference programs. Committee members review past program topics and formats, choose a timely topic of interest to Section members and also to a broad spectrum of ALA members, recruit the best available speakers on the chosen topics, present the program in the most appropriate format, and evaluate the program based on responses from those who attend. The Conference Program Planning Committee is also responsible for the section reception. The vice-chair/chair-elect works closely with the committee to solicit and obtain funding for the reception. Local library and museum tours are also coordinated by this committee.
Web sites for current and past programs are available
Committee Roster - Washington, DC 2010
Committee Roster - New Orleans, LA 2011
Charge: To coordinate, promote and encourage all continuing education efforts within the Science and Technology Section.
Interested in finding an experienced science/technology librarian who can provide advice, guidance or consultation? Are you willing to share your expertise, or serve as a mentor for a less experienced librarian? If so, contact the committee co-chairs for information about the STS Sci/Tech Library Mentors program. The Sci/Tech Library Mentors is a list of experienced sci/tech librarians who are willing to serve as mentors and/or resource persons to other librarians in need of assistance. Check out the STS Continuing Education web site to get further information or to volunteer.
Charge: To serve as a focus for STS member concerns about science and technology legislative issues and to cooperate with other ACRL and ALA legislative groups as appropriate.
Charge: To provide, evaluate and/or develop resources for advancing information literacy in science and engineering (e.g. models for assessing student performance, teaching methods, instructional design, and tips for working with faculty on instruction-related issues); to serve as a liaison to other instruction-oriented groups as appropriate (e.g. IS, ILAC, etc.) The committee chair serves as liaison to the ACRL Information Literacy Advisory Committee and is a member of the STS Council.
The STS Science Information Literacy Wiki is now available. Please use and contribute to it!
Charge: To promote and coordinate the work of the STS Liaisons to different professional groups with which STS has established formal and informal relationships and to provide information sharing within the Section that may lead to collaboration and exchange. Liaisons will be chosen by the two committee co-chairs and a third member who is not currently acting as an STS liaison.
Many organizations are involved in science & technology librarianship. In an attempt to enhance the exchange of new ideas and shared concerns, STS has drawn from its membership to create a liaison program with other library and science organizations.
Charge: To maintain a history of members' participation and maintain lists of volunteers for the nominating committee's use and for the vice-chair to assure a balance of appointments, both in the number of appointments of each individual member and in percentages of experienced versus new members. Create and update a recruitment brochure. Publish the list of committees and their members for the Executive Committee and STS council.
Charge: Create a slate of candidates for the Executive Committee. Recruit the best possible nominees for section officers. ACRL states that this committee is "an important key to not only selecting qualified candidates, but also for informing potential candidates of responsibilities of the office."
Charge: To solicit nominees for, and select the winner of the Oberly Award for Bibliography in the Agricultural Sciences.
Charge: Provide long-range direction for the section by assessing implementation of strategic plan activities, reviewing suggestions from the membership, and proposing new activities for the section. Solicit ACRL strategic plan activity reports from STS committees and discussion groups. Members of the committee serve as liaisons to other STS committees and discussion groups for evaluation of strategic plan activity. In conjunction with the STS Chair, review strategic planning activities within STS and draft the annual Strategic Plan Activity Report to submit to ACRL. Provide a yearly report and recommendations on the section's strategic planning activities to STS Executive Committee and STS Council. Propose changes in governance procedures and revise the section manual as necessary.
Charge: To coordinate the section's publishing activities. This the section newsletter, STS Signal, the section's electronic journal, ISTL, and other documents produced by the Section as a whole, regardless of their format. To serve as a resource for the publishing needs of STS committees.
The committee also manages STS-L, the Section's Discussion List.
Minutes of the Midwinter 2006 virtual meeting of the Publications Committee.
Check out the STS Audio Streaming Demonstration Project by David Atkins and Philip Herold. Guidelines for the STS web site, approved July 10, 2000.
Find out more about opportunities in the Publications Committee.
Charge: To plan conference forums for ALA meetings. Investigate and provide a forum for science and technology librarians to share ideas about new directions in science librarianship, research in progress and current topics of interest. Sponsor of the STS Forum for Science and Technology Library Research and the STS Poster Session at the ALA Annual Conference.
Charge: To provide a forum for exchange of information relating to bibliographic access to science and technology materials, and of use to librarians (Column in STS Signal, discussion groups). Serve as a channel/clearinghouse for concerns, problems, issues. For issues that can be resolved, propose projects, present them to the Planning Committee.
College Science Librarians: Provides a forum for discussion of issues of concern to college science librarians.
Group Co-Chairs
Hot Topics:Provides a forum for and facilitates discussion of current issues of concern to science and technology librarians.
Group Co-Chairs
Publisher & Vendor Relations: Serves as a channel for exchanging information between science and technology publishers and vendors and science and technology librarians.
Group Co-Chairs
Please send comments & questions to the STS Web Editor
Last updated November 11, 2009