The Maryland Chapter of the Special Libraries Association (SLA) invites you to save the date for this upcoming program:

Impact and Productivity Measurements in a Changing Research Environment: Potential Roles for Information Professionals
Thursday, October 20th 2011
6:00 - 8:30 pm.
The Inn at Brookeville Farms, Brookeville, MD

When Eugene Garfield envisioned the citation index in 1955, he wanted to improve information retrieval by showing relationships between articles based upon their citation and reference history. A potential side benefit of the index was to monitor the growth and structure of scientific knowledge. This benefit is now within our grasp due primarily to the work of large-scale indexes like Thomson-Reuter's Web of Science, Elsevier's Scopus, and the National Library of Medicine's (NLM) PubMed.

Information professionals are in an ideal position to develop a set of valuable services that define and defend the organization's value. To do this effectively, it requires an understanding of the scientific and business need of their organization, an agreement on the organization's preferred measures of success, a clear understanding of the strengths and weaknesses of the various measures available, and a clear understanding of how the metrics are best applied.

Join James King, Information Architect at the NIH Library (and Past President of DC/SLA) and Ann Kushmerick, Manager of Research Evaluation and Bibliometric Data at Thomson Reuters as they explore the possibilities, tools, and metrics now available for this type of service.

Sincerely,
Joyce Garczynski
Publicity Chair
Maryland Chapter SLA
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