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Transactions IAU, Volume XXVIIA Reports on Astronomy 2006-2009 Karel A. van der Hucht, ed.

c 2009 International Astronomical Union DOI: 00.0000/X000000000000000X

DIVISON XI I/COMMISSION 5 / WORKING GROUP LIBRARIES
CHAIR CO-CHAIR MEMBERS Uta Grothkopf, ESO Fionn Murtagh, Univ. London Christina Birdie, I IA Marsha Bishop, NRAO Laurence Bobis, Obs. Paris Donna Coletti, CfA Harvard Brenda G. Corbin, USNO (retired) Monique Gomez, IAC Halima Naimova, Obs. Ast. Lisb oa

TRIENNIAL REPORT 2006-2009

1. Intro duction
The IAU Working Group on Libraries was officially recognized for the first time in the Transactions of the IAU XXI A (Reports on Astronomy 1990), but librarians were involved in Commission 5 activities before that (largely due to the efforts of George A. Wilkins, President of the Commission from 1982-1988) (see Transactions of the IAU XX A, Reports on Astronomy 1987). Wayne Warren (Goddard Space Flight Center, USA) and Helen Knudsen (Califormia Institute of Technology) were the group's first chairpersons, Brenda Corbin (U.S. Naval Observatory) became Helen Knudsen's successor in 1990. Since 1996, Fionn Murtagh (School of Computer Science, Queen's University of Belfast, Northern Ireland) and Uta Grothkopf (European Southern Observatory, Germany) have been co-chairs. The WG on Libraries aims to facilitate better cooperation between astronomers and librarians. The publication paradigm continues to shift from printed material to electronic formats for scientific literature, leading to an evolved concept of library services and information access. Librarians are taking on new and diversified roles. While demands for traditional services continue, the importance of accessibility and archiving of older materials is widely recognized. Long-term solutions, developed cooperatively by publishers, scientists and librarians, are needed in order to guarantee future access to today's knowledge. Some pro jects of interest to both librarians and astronomers (though not developed under the auspices of this group) are the International Astronomy Meetings List, a database of Reports of Observatories, listings of IAU colloquia and astronomical newsletters, the Directory of Astronomy Librarians and Libraries, a book reviews database, digitization pro jects of historical documents, maintenance of core lists of astronomy books and astronomy and physics journals and the mailing lists Astrolib and EGAL. The IAU Thesaurus, compiled by R.M. and R.R. Shobbrook under the auspices of the IAU, may prove to be of use as a tool for automated information retrieval, provided that necessary updates can be implemented. The IAU funded the first LISA (Library and Information Services 1


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in Astronomy) conference, held in 1988 in Washington, DC (IAU Colloquium 110) and supported the second (IAU Technical Workshop, Garching, Germany, 1995). Since then, "LISA" has developed into a series of conferences which are held at regular intervals; LISA VI will be held in Pune, India, in February 2010.

2. Memb ership developments
In 2007 and 2008, we were happy to welcome two new members to our Working Group: Marsha Bishop, National Radio Astronomy Observatory, and Christina Birdie, Indian Institute of Astrophysics. The role of librarians among the IAU is becoming ever more visible: by now, five members (Brenda Corbin, Donna Coletti, Peter Hingley, Monique Gomez and Uta Grothkopf ) have been accepted by the IAU as full members rather than consultants which has previously been the typical status of librarians among the IAU.

3. Activities within the past triennium
During the IAU General Assembly XXVI in Prague, Czech Republic, August 2006, the Working Group on Libraries, organized a Business Meeting jointly with the Working Group on Publishing. Francoise Genova (CDS) described the "Use and Validation of the IAU Astronmy Thesaurus in Ontologies", a collaboration of French computing departments in the frame of the Massive Data in Astronomy pro ject. Uta Grothkopf (ESO) and Brenda Corbin (USNO) presented a summary of the LISA V (Library and Information Services in Astronomy V) conference which had been held in Cambridge, MA, in June 2006. Brenda Corbin also gave an "Overview of Observatory Archives" with a special focus on the setup and maintenance of the archives of Lowell Observatory, the National Radio Astronomy Observatory and Yerkes Observatory. Guenther Eichhorn (ADS) presented an update on the ADS Abstract Service and reported on the close "Cooperation between the ADS and Libraries", both in the early days of the ADS as well as nowadays. "The New Structure of the IAU Proceedings Series" was explained by Karel van der Hucht (SRON); after the reorganization of IAU symposia and colloquia (with the colloquia having been merged into the symposia series), the WG Publishing is now pleased to report much shorter production times for proceedings volumes. Finally, Uta Grothkopf reported on the "Use of Bibliometrics by Observatories", based on a questionnaire distributed among ma jor observatories. Slides of the individual presentations can be found at www.eso.org/sci/libraries/IAUWGLib/iau06/ Subsequent to the colloquium "Future professional communication in Astronomy", held in Brussels, Belgium, in June 2007, Terry Mahoney, Instituto de Astrofisica de Canarias, and a group of librarians, among them Karen Moran, Royal Observatory Edinburgh, Shireen Davis, South African Astronomical Observatory, and Monique Gomez, Insituto de Astrofisica de Canarias, wrote a "Declaration concerning the evolving role of libraries in research centres", also called the "Manifesto". This document "reflects the concerns of its drafters at the increasing invisibility of research libraries vis-a-vis recent accelerated changes in publishing and reader-access technology." The document is meant to raise discussion about these topics and, ultimately, the authors hope that it might be considered for adoption as official IAU policy. The declaration has been published in the December 2007 issue of The Observatory (Mahoney 2007).


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In January 2008, the ESO librarians Uta Grothkopf and Christopher Erdmann compiled a document on "Open Access - state of the art". The paper gives a brief introduction to open access (OA), helps readers to distinguish between open access and open access publishing, summarizes variations in publishers' approaches towards OA, and reports on the situation in astronomy. Recent developments in Europe and the U.S. are briefly explained. The document will be published in the July 2008 issue of the IAU Information Bulletin (Grothkopf & Erdmann 2008).

4. Closing remarks
The Working Group on Libraries intends to get involved at the IAU General Assembly XXVII, to be held in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, August 2009. Sessions may focus on data access and preservation, science metrics, and the role of librarians in fostering research. The web site of the Working Group can be found at www.eso.org/libraries/IAUWGLib/. Uta Grothkopf, Fionn Murtagh chairs of Working Group References
Grothkopf, U. & Erdmann, C. 2008, IAU Inf Bul l no. 102, in press Mahoney, T.J. 2007, Obs 127, 401