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Pictures taken at the XVI SNBU (Seminário Nacional de Bibliotecas Universitárias) event held on October, 2010 – Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
The Association of Caribbean University, Research and Institutional Libraries (ACURIL) originated as part of a movement for Caribbean cooperation at the university level, initiated in the late l960’s by the Association of Caribbean Universities (UNICA). At that moment Sir Philip Sherlock, of the University of the West Indies, at Mona, Kingston, Jamaica, was its Secretary General.
Major objectives of ACURIL are as follows:
a. to facilitate development and use of libraries, archives, and information services, and the identification, collection and preservation of information resources in support of the whole range of intellectual and educational endeavors throughout the Caribbean area;
b. to strengthen the archival, library and information professions;
c. to unite information workers in them, and to promote cooperative activities in pursuit of these objectives.
Systems Link International will be participating at this years event in Santo Domingo, Dominica Republic. It will be the 40th ACURIL’s Conference to be held 6-12 June, 2010, at the InterContinental V Centenario Santo Domingo Hotel, Dominican Republic.
The February earthquake and tsunami in Chile ravaged much of the country, killed more than 500 people and left businesses and individuals around the world wondering how they could help the survivors.
Frank and Patricia Mason have never been to Chile, but Cindas LLC, the company they own in the Purdue Research Park at West Lafayette, provides technical, electronic databases to government research facilities, corporations and universities around the world.
When the Masons met a representative from Chile’s university system at a seminar in the Dominican Republic in March, and heard of the devastation caused by the 8.8-magnitude earthquake, they quickly made a decision.
“The idea came up, ‘Why don’t we see if some of our engineering products would be useful’,” Frank Mason said. “Maybe we can make a small difference.”
Cindas has donated the use of five of the company’s web-based products to three Chilean universities. The free use of information in the databases for the next two years will assist engineers in rebuilding Chile’s infrastructure.
The fifth strongest earthquake on record hit the country’s industrial region the hardest, with the epicenter located 70 miles from Concepcion.
The web-based products donated by Cindas are Aerospace Structural Metals Database, the Thermophysical Properties of Matter Database, the Microelectronics Packaging Materials Database, the Structural Alloys Handbook and the Damage Tolerant Design Handbook.
“We just decided that was the thing to do. Maybe it will make a difference,” Patricia Mason said. “Other publishers at the meeting have followed our lead.”
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jconline.com 20 May 2010 http://www.jconline.com/article/20100520/BUSINESS/5200325/Purdue-based-company-helping-Chile-rebuild
CINDAS LLC, a West Lafayette (Indiana) based company which provides technical, electronic databases to governmental research facilities, corporations and universities world-wide has donated the use of five of its web-based products to three Chilean universities devastated by the recent earthquake in Chile. The products are the Aerospace Structural Metals Database, the Thermophysical Properties of Matter Database, the Microelectronics Packaging Materials Database, the Structural Alloys Handbook and the Damage Tolerant Design Handbook.
The donation benefits the University of Talca, which is key for the development of the Maule Region where it is located (one of the three most devastated areas by the earthquake and the tsunami). The University of Talca has 7000 students and 400 faculty
staff. Their estimated cost of reconstruction totals $9 million (USD). The second university that will benefit from the CINDAS donation is the University of Concepción, located in the Region del Bio Bio. This is the fourth largest university in the country, and probably the one that was hit the worst, not just by the earthquake, which caused a fire at the Chemistry Faculty Labs, but also by the powerful tsunami that nearly washed out its Marine Biology Department, located in Dichato. Universidad de Concepción has a population of over 21,700 students, which are enrolled in graduate and postgraduate programs. For
more than 90 years, the University of Concepción has been key for the cultural, educational, technological, and economic development of the Region. Their total estimated damage is $50 million (USD).
The third university is Universidad Santa María. Its main campuses are located in Valparaíso and Talcahuano where the campus library building suffered tremendous damage. For over 80 years USM, with a student population of 15,000, has distinguished itself as a first level university and research center in technologies. It is well-respected in the electronics and infrastructure industry for its consultants and researchers.
CINDAS LLC owners Patricia and Frank Mason of West Lafayette recently met with library representatives from Chile at an international Seminar of Innovation of Technological and Scientific Information in the Dominican Republic, sponsored by Systems Link International. After hearing about the destruction of university buildings and the loss of research facilities, projects and data, the owners decided to offer free use of their products to the three universities for two years’ time. The information in the five databases will assist engineers in rebuilding the infrastructure of the country.
Upon hearing about the offer, Systems Link International President Robert Wing said that this generous offer will no doubt help not only the benefited universities, but also the engineers in the country in their study and development of better structures that will allow reducing the damage that this type of catastrophic natural disasters can cause to the country’s infrastructure. This donation is also a reflection of the interest that the scientific publishers have in helping the development of research in the Latin American Region.
It is expected that the libraries will re-establish some internet connectivity in April and begin using the databases at that time.
CINDASdata.com 15 April 2010 https://cindasdata.com/products/updates#1271453228
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