1. AAPT and Me Pat Viele SLA PAM Roundtable June 5, 2007

2. Time Line Joined 2001 Presented at 11 national meetings so far. Arranged for two panel discussions, and am planning another for the winter meeting 2008. Served 3 years on the Committee for Graduate Education in Physics Am currently serving on the Professional Concerns Committee

3. “The TFGE recommends that departments require communication training and information literacy/fluency in their graduate programs.” p.20 Report of the Joint APS-AAPT Task Force on Graduate Education in Physics 10/05 http://www.aps.org/about/governance/task- force/upload/2006_Grad_Ed_Report_Revised_Final. pdf

4. Attended a discussion for directors of graduate education at the March, 2006 meeting of the APS.

5. Appointed to the Subcommittee on Classification and Information Retrieval (SCIR) for AIP Publishing. I attended my first meeting in April, 2007. This is a three year commitment.

6. Physics Information Fluency Blog http://physicsinformationfluency.blogspot.com /

7. Pat Viele ptv1@cornell.edu