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Wednesday, 1 February 2006
	8:30 AM, Wednesday Registration and Coffee
	8:55 AM, Wednesday Welcome Address
Chair: Madeleine Needles, ALSI, Chair 2006, Westford, MA
	9:00 AM-10:30 AM, Wednesday, A310 Session 1 Librarians and Information-Seeking Behavior
Moderator: Madeleine Needles, Librarian, MIT Haystack Observatory, Westford, MA
9:00 AM ALSI Roundtable Discussion: ALSI memebers will describe their libraries and unique collections.   9:45 AM 1.2 What an Environmental Scan and Content Analysis tells us about the Current and Future Direction of Library and Information Studies Education (Invited Presentation)   Edwin-Michael Cortez, Director/Proffessor, Univ. of Tenn., School of Information Sciences, Knoxville, Tenn 10:15 AM Break
	10:30 AM-1:30 PM, Wednesday, A310 Session 2 Digitization and Access
Moderator: Evelyn Poole-Kober, NERL-ASMD Library, USEPA, Research Triangle Park, NC
10:30 AM 2.1 How Data in Library Holdings can be used to Improve Climate Databases (Invited Presentation)   Joey Comeaux II, UCAR, Boulder, CO 10:50 AM 2.2 Where's the Data? Finding Atmospheric Data Sets for Research   Gene Major, Global Change Master Directory, SSAI, Lanham, MD 11:10 AM 2.3 NCDC Publications—Where and How?   Linda Preston, National Climatic Data Center, Asheville, NC 11:30 AM 2.4 Alternative Resources for Meteorological Research   Linda Musser, Librarian, Penn State Univ., State College, PA 11:50 AM 2.5 Market Your Library with a BLOG   James LaMee, Reference Librarian, Belmont Abbey College, Belmont, NC 12:10 PM 2.6 To BLOG or not to BLOG   Brian Voss, Librarian, NOAA Seattle Regional Library, Seattle, WA 12:30 PM Lunch Break
	1:30 PM-2:45 PM, Wednesday, A310 Session 3 The Weather and Its Aftermath
Moderator: Susan Tarbell, Librarian, Air Force Weather Technical Library, Asheville, NC
1:30 PM Break   1:45 PM 3.1 Season on Edge: The Historic 2005 Atlantic Hurricane Season   Christopher C. Hennon, Univ. of North Carolina, Asheville, NC 2:15 PM 3.2 Air Force Meteorologist in Afghanistan   Ann Gravier, USAF/AFCCC, Asheville, NC
	2:45 PM-3:46 PM, Wednesday, A310 Session 4 Anniversary Years
Moderator: Maria A. Latyszewskyj, Environment Canada Library, Head, Downsview, ON Canada
2:45 PM 4.1 50th Anniversary of the Collaboration between the U.S. Dept. of Commerce's National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) and the U.S. Evironmental Protection Agency (EPA)   Evelyn Poole-Kober, NERL-ASMD Library, USEPA, Research Triangle Park, NC 3:05 PM 4.2 International Polar Year (IPY) - History of the IPY   Judie Triplehorn, Keith B. Mather Library, Geophysical Institue, International Arctic Research Center, Fairbanks, AK 3:25 PM 4.3 Imaging Project and Bibliography of IPY Material   Doria B. Grimes, NOAA Central Library, Silver Spring, MD 3:45 PM Exhibits Open until 7:30 p.m.
	3:45 PM, Wednesday Sessions end for the day (W)
	5:30 PM, Wednesday Pre-AMS Banquet Reception in the Exhibit Hall
	6:00 PM, Wednesday Annual Group Dinner
Thursday, 2 February 2006
	8:45 AM-9:00 AM, Thursday Coffee
	9:00 AM, Thursday, A310 Panel Discussion 1 World Meteorological Organization (WMO) Products—Their Uses
Panelists: Evelyn Poole-Kober, NERL-ASMD Library, USEPA, Research Triangle Park, NC; Maria Latyszewskyj, Librarian, Environment Canada, Downsview, ON Canada; Linda Musser, Librarian, Penn State Univ., State College, PA Moderator: Susan Tarbell, Librarian, Air Force Weather Technical Library, Asheville, NC
	10:15 AM-10:30 AM, Thursday Break
	10:30 AM-3:30 PM, Thursday, A310 Session 6 AMS Publishing and Product Updates
Organizer: Jinny Nathans, AMS, Boston, MA
10:30 AM 6.1 Welcome Address   Keith Seitter, Director, AMS, Boston, MA 10:40 AM 6.2 AMS Publishing/BAMS Update   Kenneth F. Heideman, AMS, Boston, MA; and J. Rosenfeld 11:00 AM 6.3 Meteorological and Geoastrophysical Abstracts   Michael Miyazaki, Cambridge Scientific Abstracts, Bethesda, MD 11:20 AM 6.4 Vendor Updates   Alexa Dugan, Wiley Interscience 12:00 PM Lunch Break   1:00 PM Break   1:15 PM 6.6 Introducing WEATHER   Richard Pettifer, Royal Meteorological Society, Reading, Berkshire, United Kingdom
	3:30 PM, Thursday, A310 Session 7 ASLI Business Meeting
Moderator: Madeleine Needles, Librarian, MIT Haystack Observatory, Westford, MA
	5:00 PM, Thursday Sessions end for the day
Friday, 3 February 2006
	8:00 AM-5:30 PM, Friday Annual ASLI Field Trip—Visit libraries of CNN, Georgia Tech, and the EPA in Atlanta

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