What have we achieved since the last Newsletter? The most significant progress has been with the setting up of this Web site, thanks to our US Executive Committee Member Rob Brown. This Newsletter and the last Newsletter in 1996 are freely available for anyone to look at, but in the future, the current Newsletter will be accessible only to CSA members, via password protection.
Please help us to promote the CSA by giving the URL
to any colleagues who may be interested in joining the Association.
For those of you in the UK who wish to learn more about the Internet, or who have colleagues who do not yet use Internet, the CSA is organizing a 2-day hands-on Internet Workshop at the University of Sheffield on 10th -11th April 1997. The first day will be a general introduction, and the second day will cover Chemistry and the World Wide Web. Further details of the Workshop and booking information can be found here.
The CSA Executive Committee held their first "Electronic Meeting" in September. This was not organised on the lines of an electronic conference or a video conference, but simply using e-mail and covering a period of two weeks. Between 6th and 20th September, e-mails were flying daily to and from Executive Committee members via a listserver, proving that your Committee is highly active and enthusiastic! The major advantage of an electronic committee meeting was that everyone took part (no apologies for absence, except for one member who was on vacation and came back to a deluge of messages). Contrary to a conventional meeting, many action items which arose during the course of the meeting were completed by the end of the meeting: we gathered material for the Newsletter, discussed putting it up on the Web; made contact with the MGMS, CINF and the RSC/CIG; found a new Secretary to replace David Walsh, who is now travelling round the world; reviewed our targets for the year and found a venue for the CSA Christmas meal. We would like to welcome Barbara Nicholson of Fraser Williams as our Secretary - she came forward without delay to take over the work and has already attended her first meeting in person.
If you would like to make any suggestions for improvements or additions to this Web site, please e-mail Rob Brown.
If you wish to contribute to the Newsletter, please send articles by e-mail to Janet Ash.
10th-11th April 1997, Internet Workshop, University of Sheffield
8th December, 1997: CSA AGM 4.00 pm at the Linnean Society, Burlington House, London, followed by CSA dinner at 7.30 pm