Shared Catalogues and Cataloguing Tools: Information and Communication Technology as Catalyst

To provide coverage and insights about the annual meeting of the AAAS where this year's theme was “Science and Technology for Sustainable Well‐Being.”

Environmental scan of annual national meeting. Of particular interest due to the range of backgrounds different attendees from all avenues of the scientific community.

Sustainable well being has wide applications in different arenas but the informatics component was not as strong as at past conferences.

Much of the conference focused on intersections of theory and application and new ways of responding to sustainability. Particularly strong in the physical sciences.

Provides information of value to information professionals.