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  • GSIS Mary B. Ansari Distinguished Service Award Nominations Open

    The Geoscience Information Society (GSIS)  Mary B. Ansari Distinguished Service Award Committee is now accepting nominations for the 2026 award. Please help us honor a deserving colleague by submitting a nomination to the selection committee.

    Recognizing and honoring significant contributions to the geoscience information profession, the award consists of a monetary gift and certificate which will be presented at the GSIS Annual Business Meeting on October 30, 2026. The award was established in 2005 through the generosity of Mary B. Ansari. She was an ardent supporter of the society serving as GSIS President in1990 and spending her professional career as a librarian and library administrator at the University of Nevada, Reno Libraries.

    Membership in GSIS is not a requirement to receive the award. A list of previous award recipients is available at: https://geoinfo.org/about/awards/distinguished-service/.

    Nominations should be submitted by September 15, 2026, to the chair of the committee electronically at cpmcleod@wustl.edu or by mail to:

    Clara P. McLeod
    Dept of Earth, Environmental and Planetary Sciences
    MSC 1169-204=110
    Washington University
    1 Brookings Drive
    St. Louis, MO 63130-4899 

    Please provide the following information:
    — Your name and contact information
    — The name, title, and contact information of the person you are nominating
    — A résumé or curriculum vitae of the nominee
    — A statement explaining why the nominee is deserving of this award
    — Two additional letters of support from individuals endorsing the nomination

    GSIS Mary B. Ansari Award Committee
    Clara P. McLeod, Chair
    Cynthia Prosser
    Robert Tolliver

    Renee Schofield

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  • GSIS Winter Newsletter Now Available

    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

    Amanda Bielskas

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  • GSIS Fall Newsletter Now Available

    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!
    Amanda Bielskas

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  • 2025 Geoscience Librarianship 101

    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.

    Renee Schofield

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  • Call for Nominations: Mary B. Ansari Distinguished Service Award

    Nominations are being sought for the 2025 Geoscience Information Society (GSIS)  Mary B. Ansari Distinguished Service Award. The submission deadline is September 26, 2025.

    Established in 2005 to recognize and honor significant contributions to the geoscience information profession, the award is named for the late Mary B. Ansari. She formerly served as the society’s President and was employed as a librarian and library administrator at the University of Nevada, Reno Libraries for twenty-five years. The award is presented at the annual meeting and is accompanied by a monetary gift. More information about the award and a list of awardees is listed on the Society’s website: https://geoinfo.org/about/awards/distinguished-service/

    To submit a nomination, send your name and contact information as the nominator along with the name, title, and contact information for the person you are nominating to: Clara P.  McLeod, Earth & Planetary Sciences &Environmental Studies Librarian (retired) / WashU Libraries | Washington University in St. Louis | cpmcleod@wustl.edu  /314.935.4817.

    Nominators should provide a written statement indicating why the candidate is deserving of this award (significance, quality and impact of contributions) and include a resume or curriculum vita of the nominee.  Please also solicit two additional letters of support for your nominee, if possible.

    Membership in the Geoscience Information Society is not a requirement for the award or the nominator.

    GSIS Mary B. Ansari Award Committee
    Clara P. McLeod, Chair
    Marie Dvorak
    Cynthia Prosser
    Robert Tolliver

    Geoscience Information Society

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  • Summer GSIS Newsletter Issue

    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

    Amanda Bielskas

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