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The Winter, 2026 issue of the GSIS Newsletter is now available!

Highlights include many regular columns from GSIS Leadership, Member News, Musings, and Committee Reports from the Annual Meeting.

This is our last issue as GSIS editors! It has been a pleasure to edit, coordinate, and read all of the news and articles you have all been willing to contribute your time and effort to for the GSIS Newsletter these past many years. Thank you all for all the contributions you have sent in. We have been editors since 2017 and thought it was time to give someone else a chance 🙂 We are pleased to be leaving you in great hands with two incoming co-editors Holly Dean and Matt Hudson! Thank you to them both for stepping up to volunteer, I’m sure they will welcome your submissions and will be starting with the next issue in the spring.
Amanda & Michael

The Fall, 2025 issue of the GSIS Newsletter is now available!

This is an abbreviated newsletter issue, that is mainly a reminder of the GSIS Meeting and Geoscience 101 workshops being held next week. This newsletter is documenting the schedule and agenda for the online sessions. We will be back to our more complete newsletter for the Winter edition with GSIS Committee reports. 

There are a couple of the other regular columns including GeoWonders, Member News, and the Vice President’s Column.

As always, if you have any content you would like to share for a newsletter, please send it our way!  We are always looking for content like:

• GSIS updates, news, or announcements
• News or updates from your library/institution
• Interesting insights from your meetings, conferences, or readings
• Member news
• GeoWonders – Cool Geological stuff you have come across in your travels or otherwise
• Other topics or articles welcome!

Registration is now open for the 2025 Geoscience Librarianship 101 Workshop!

You can register here: https://guides.library.csupueblo.edu/gl101/home.

See the schedule here: https://guides.library.csupueblo.edu/gl101/schedule_2025

The Geoscience Information Society annual free two-day virtual workshop, Geoscience Librarianship 101, introduces library/information science students, new librarians, and information professionals to some areas of geoscience librarianship, earth science information resources, and their organization. The Geoscience Information Society will hold a business and awards meeting on Thursday, October 30th.

The Summer issue of the GSIS Newsletter is now available on the GSIS website.

Highlights from this issue include:

•     Many of our regular columns and updates including:
  Member News & GSIS Election Results
•     GeoWonders & Virtual Collection of Mineral Specimens from the Colorado School of Mines Library
• A call for Presenters for Geoscience Librarianship 101
•     Other announcements, news, and more!

Thanks as always to everyone that contributed content to this issue!
Amanda Bielskas & Michael Noga
co-editors

Volunteers and nominations are sought for the positions of Treasurer and Vice President of the Geoscience Information Society. 

The Treasurer serves for 2 years as a member of the GSIS Executive Board (EB) and manages the society’s funds, advises the Executive Board on managing and investing our funds, and prepares our financial report. This is a great way to play a more active role in the organization and see how things work from the inside.

The Vice-President has a three-year term, moving from the vice president role to president to past president, and serves on the GSIS Executive Board. As VP, you do program planning; as president you convene and lead the Executive Board and annual meetings; as past president you serve on the Nominating Committee. In these roles, you play an important part in setting the agenda for the organization, both now and for the future. If you want to gain leadership experience, this is an excellent opportunity!

If interested, please contact Bob Tolliver at pastpresident@geoinfo.org by July 11, 2025 with your name and brief biographical information. 

Feel free to contact Bob or any other current officer for more information.