Making Waves for Change
26th Annual SALIS Conference, April 20-24, 2004
Berkeley City Club, Berkeley, CA
Presentations: Some presenters were not able to provide a copy of their slides. Check the complete conference program for summaries and contact information for all of the presentations. All the presentations below are in PDF.
Wednesday, April 21
Samantha Helfert, Web/Network Manger, Northrop Grumman IT Health Solutions: Linking Science to Service Through Web Technology – The SAMHSA FASD Center for Excellence
Jorunn Moen, Head of Library, Norwegian Institute for Alcohol and Drug Research (SIRUS), Norway: Documentation on Tobacco in Norway
Hana Sovinova, MD, Head – Department for Prevention of Addiction, National Institute of Public Health, Czech Republic: The Role of Information in Czech Tobacco Control
Tom Greenfield, PhD, Director and Senior Scientist, Alcohol Research Group: Who Drinks Most of the Alcohol and Hazardous Amounts: the Policy Implications
Thursday, April 22
Clare Imholtz, Librarian, Center for Substance Abuse Research, University of Maryland: The Invisible Internet
Sheila Lacroix, Library Coordinator, Centre for Addiction and Mental Health: ATOD Information Services at the Crossroads: Maintaining our Autonomy in a Changing World
Friday, April 23
James F. Mosher, JD, Center for the Study of Law and Enforcement Policy, Pacific Institute for Research and Evaluation: Underage drinking and the Alcohol Policy Information System (APIS): Knowing How to Use the Resource (Note: This file is very large and takes awhile to open.)
Dagobert Soergel, PhD, Professor, College of Information Studies, University of Maryland: The Many Uses of Enriched Thesauri and Ontologies in the ATOD Field
Judith K. Appel, JD, Acting Director of Legal Affairs, Drug Policy Alliance: Making Sense of Student Drug Testing: Why Educators Are Saying No
Christine Goodair, BA, MCLIP, Head of Information Services, DrugScope, UK: Copyright from the other side of the Pond: The impact of the Internet
Diane van Abbe, Information Coordinator, Ontario Tobacco Research Unit: Current Abstracts on Tobacco: Transferring Research
Eric Helmuth, Editorial Director,, Join Together Online, Join, Together / Boston University School of Public Health: E-Mail Newsletters: Doing it Right
Saturday, April 24
Craig Reinarman, PhD, Professor of Sociology and Legal Studies, University of California, Santa Cruz, and Visiting Scholar, Center for Drug Research, University of Amsterdam: Librarians as Subversives: Truth is the First Casualty of Drug Wars, Too