Technical Information Services
The TIS Department is part of the Computing Division and Office of the Chief Information Officer, a division of the Operations Directorate of SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory.
The Department includes the Archives and History Office, InfoMedia Solutions, the SLAC Research Library and SPIRES-HEP Databases, the Unix-SPIRES Collaboration, responsibility for managing the Lab's scientific and technical information, and shared responsibility for the Web at SLAC.
Archives & History Office
Ensures that the Laboratory's history is identified, collected, preserved and made accessible to the SLAC and Stanford communities, to researchers and to the public.
- Provide SLAC with a reliable and dynamic institutional memory.
- Document SLAC's discoveries and contributions.
- Serve constituent communities.
- Communicate SLAC's important contributions.
InfoMedia Solutions
Promotes the universal exchange of scientific and technical information by providing Document, Visual Media, and Website Services.
- Leverage digital publishing technologies to manage and disseminate SLAC research.
- Develop communication and collaborative tools for the Internet.
- Create professional art and designs for all forms of visual media.
- Accelerate productivity through process development and systems integration.
Research Library
Provide essential information services to the SLAC research programs in photon science, particle and astroparticle physics and other subjects as
they support the Laboratory's primary scientific and technical mission.
- Manage and coordinate all aspect of collections.
- Provide high-quality, in-depth reference and information services.
- Provide an optimum physical library environment.
SPIRES/INSPIRE
Provide comprehensive search and access to literature and related information for the worldwide particle physics community.
- Manage an information resource used daily by most particle physicists.
- Provide jobs, names, conference and other searches in addition to literature.
- Provided by global SPIRES/INSPIRE collaboration with CERN, DESY, Fermilab and SLAC.