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NERCOMP EVENT
Science Librarians in an e-Science World
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Science librarians are proactively engaging with their constituents and supporting new models of research and scholarly output. Hear from librarians and researchers who are involved in the following areas: e-science, data curation, virtual reference services, creating topical information clearinghouses, and embedding themselves in their communities in new ways.
Workshop Organizer/Host: Rebecca Reznik-Zellen and Maxine Schmidt both of University of Massachusetts - Amherst
Date/Time:
Friday, October 09, 2009
9:30am - 3:00pm
Registration begins at 8:00am
Location:
Southbridge Hotel and Conference Center
14 Mechanic St.
Southbridge, MA
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Your fee includes unlimited am and pm break service and lunch.
Pricing:
NERCOMP Members: $130
Non-Members: $255
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Event Schedule:
8:00am - 9:30am Registration & Coffee
9:30am - 9:45am Welcome and Morning Preview
Maxine Schmidt, Reference Services Librarian, Acting Head, Integrated Sciences and Engineering Library University of Massachusetts Amherst
The advent of e-science means that frontiers in traditional areas of research are advancing more rapidly than ever before and crossing disciplinary boundaries. Our morning speakers will discuss the new methods of conducting research and the informational needs that come out of them.
9:45am - 10:30am Academic Libraries and Data Curation: Mega-opp?
Speaker: Gail Steinhart, Research Data and Environmental Sciences Librarian, Cornell University
Advances in computational capacity, the accelerating rate at which digital research data are accumulating, and the associated opportunities for new ways of doing data-driven research have brought increased attention to issues of data access, integrity, and preservation. Funders, government agencies and libraries, are attempting to define roles and responsibilities with respect to the curation of research data. I’ll discuss Cornell University Library’s efforts to: explore and define its own role in this area, partner with other units on the Cornell campus to support data stewardship, and develop an experimental “data staging repository” – a platform meant to promote the sharing of research data sets while research is in progress, and to promote the publication of completed data sets to long-term repositories.
10:30am – 11:15am Nanoinformatics: Sharing Information to Advance Nanotechnology
Innovation
Speaker: Mark Tuominen, Professor in Physics, University of Massachusetts Amherst, Co-Director of the NSF Center for Hierarchical Manufacturing
Nanotechnology is a rapidly advancing, broadly interdisciplinary field with significant societal benefits. Nanotechnology bridges stakeholder efforts in fundamental science, product development, manufacturing, education, governance and economic development. Recent efforts are underway, called nanoinformatics, to provide data, information, networking and cyber-based tools to make advancements in this field more productive. Nanoinformatics involves the development of effective mechanisms for collecting, sharing, visualizing, modeling and analyzing information relevant to the nanoscale science and engineering community. It also involves the utilization of information and communication technologies that help to launch and support efficient communities of practice. Nanoinformatics is necessary for comparative characterization of nanomaterials, for design and use of nanodevices and nanosystems, for instrumentation development and manufacturing processes. This talk will discuss nanoinformatics challenges, needs and efforts from the perspective of a researcher concerned with the entire innovation lifecycle.
11:15am – 11:45am Question and Answers With Morning Speakers
11:45am – 12:30pm Lunch
12:30pm – 12:45pm Afternoon Preview
Speaker: Rebecca Reznik-Zellen, Science Librarian for the Center for Hierarchical Manufacturing, University of Massachusetts Amherst
The transition to e-Science is not entirely disruptive; we have been modifying our services to keep pace with the needs of our patrons. Our afternoon speakers will present on Science Librarianship in practice today, from exploring the changing landscape midstream, to creating new tools, programs to support researchers, to new roles for Science Librarians.
12:45pm - 1:15 The Changing Nature of Science Librarianship: Mobile, Social, & Emerging.
Speaker: Joe Murphy, Science Librarian and Coordinator of Instruction and Technology, Kline Science Library, Yale University
The everyday business of science librarians is changing. What Librarians do day-to-day to support science research is evolving alongside our information behaviors. Librarians are beginning to gear services toward web 2.0 applications and mobile devices because those technologies are playing an increasingly central role in all of our interaction with information and research. In this talk Joe Murphy of the Yale Science Libraries will outline the major current and emerging trends and pressures that are shaping science librarianship, suggest evolving skills for librarians, educators, and scientists, and draw a road map for the future of supporting science research.
1:15pm– 1:45pm Behind Bioinformatics: Elements of an Emerging Bioinformatics Support Program
Speaker: Courtney Crummett, Bioinformatics and Biosciences Librarian, MIT Engineering and Science Libraries
The MIT Engineering and Science Libraries has adapted traditional library liaison practices to support the interdisciplinary bioinformatics community at MIT through a robust instruction program, innovative collection development, and collaborative relationships with researchers and other libraries.
1:45pm – 2:00pm Break
2:00 – 2:30 Better Living Through (Animated) Chemistry
Speaker: Jen Ferguson, Research and Instruction Liaison Library & Technology Services, Brandeis University, jasf@brandeis.edu
Brandeis is seeing a wave of interest in the use of multimedia projects as deliverables in undergraduate courses. This presents both interesting challenges and opportunities for embedding with the community. As a case in point, I’ll be talking about one of our current projects: using animations to illustrate chemical reaction mechanisms.
2:30pm - 3:00pm The e-Science Web Portal Project at the Regional Medical Library, New England Region
Speaker: Donna Kafel, RN, MLIS, Project Coordinator, Regional Medical Library, University of Massachusetts Medical School
The Regional Medical Library, New England Region, in collaboration with the University of Massachusetts libraries, and the Boston Library Consortium has sponsored a number of e-Science initiatives for librarians. These initiatives have included an e-Science symposium, a stem cell workshop, and an e-Science boot camp. Recently the Regional Medical Library of the New England Region was awarded funding to develop an e-Science web portal. This web portal will integrate e-Science resources, instructional tools, and a discussion forum for librarians.
3:00pm Evaluations and End
Speaker:
Courtney Crummett
Courtney Crummett is the Bioinformatics and Biosciences Librarian at the MIT Engineering and Science Libraries in Cambridge, MA. She holds a B.A. in Geology from Guilford College, a M.S. in Geology from University of Maryland, and a MLAS from the University of South Florida. Before coming to MIT, Crummett was an Associate Fellow at the National Library of Medicine from 2006-2008.
Speaker:
Donna Kafel
Donna Kafel is the project coordinator for the development of an e-Science web portal at the Regional Medical Library for New England, at the University of Massachusetts Medical School. Donna is a recent graduate of the University of Rhode Island Graduate School of Library and Information Science. Having worked as a registered nurse in a variety of medical specialty areas including oncology, pediatrics, and maternity care, Donna focused her studies at URI on health science librarianship and recently completed an internship at the Lamar Soutter Medical Library at the University of Massachusetts Medical School. She serves on the membership committee of the Biomedical and Life Sciences Division of the Special Library Association.
Speaker:
Gail Steinhart
Gail Steinhart is Research Data and Environmental Sciences Librarian at Albert R. Mann Library, Cornell University. Her interests are in research data curation and cyberscholarship. At Mann Library, she is responsible for developing and supporting new services for collecting and archiving research data, and serves as a library liaison for environmental science activities at Cornell. She is a member of Cornell University Library's Data Executive Group and Cornell University’s DISCOVER Research Service Group, which seek to advance Cornell’s capabilities in the areas of data curation and data-driven research, respectively. She has also held the position of GIS librarian at Mann Library, managing the Cornell University Geospatial Information Repository (CUGIR), an online repository for GIS data for New York State. She holds M.S. degrees in Library and Information Science (Syracuse University) and Ecology and Evolutionary Biology (Cornell University), and worked for nearly 15 years in environmental research before becoming a librarian.
Speaker:
Jen Ferguson
Jen Ferguson works at Brandeis University, where she supports the sciences in a broad range of teaching, learning, and research activities. Jen hold an MS in biology from Boston College and an MSLIS from Syracuse University. In a previous life she worked as an instructor and researcher in molecular biology.
Speaker:
Joseph Murphy
Joseph Murphy is a Science Librarian and Coordinator of Instruction and Technology at the Kline Science Library, Yale University. Joe holds a BS in Physics from Syracuse University and received his MLIS from the University of Hawaii at Manoa in 2006. Joe was named a Library Journal Mover and Shaker for 2009.
Speaker:
Mark Tuominen
Mark Tuominen is a Professor in Physics at UMass Amherst, Co-Director of the NSF Center for Hierarchical Manufacturing, Director of the NSF National Nanomanufacturing Network. His current research includes nanofabrication, magnetism, nanoscale electron transport, polymeric proton conductors, and charge transport by bacteria. He has a bachelor's degree in Chemical Engineering and a PhD in Condensed Matter Physics, both from the University of Minnesota. He currently serves as a U.S. delegate to the ISO TC-229 Committee on Nanotechnologies and leader on the nanomanufacturing terminology project.
Speaker:
Maxine Schmidt
Maxine Schmidt is a Reference and Instruction Librarian at the Integrated Sciences and Engineering Library (ISEL) at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, and is currently Acting Head of ISEL. She holds a B.A. in Geology and M.S. in Geology (Micropaleontology) from the University of Massachusetts, and received her MLIS from Simmons College in 2005. She has been at UMass Amherst since 2006. Before coming to UMass, she served as Data Management Coordinator for the Gulf of Maine Council on the Marine Environment through the Massachusetts Office of Coastal Zone Management. She then worked for eleven years in environmental and public health at the state and local levels. She has also consulted for oil companies as a paleontologist. A member of ACRL, she is presently Co-Chair of the Academic Libraries Discussion Group of the Science and Technology Section, and the Section’s delegate to the International Federation of Library Associations (IFLA). At the 2009 IFLA Annual Meeting, she was appointed Information Coordinator for the Standing Committee on Science and Technology.
Speaker:
Rebecca Reznik-Zellen
Rebecca Reznik-Zellen is the Science Librarian for the Center for Hierarchical Manufacturing at the University of Massachusetts and Project Manager for the InterNano Clearinghouse and Digital Library. Rebecca received her MLIS from Simmons College in 2006.
Related Media Files:
SteinhartNERCOMP1007[1].pdf
FergusonNERCOMP100909.pdf
KafelNERCOMP100909.pdf
CrummettNERCOMP 100909.pdf
NERCOMP Tuominen.pdf
Contact Information:
Lisa DiMauro
860-345-2081
ldimauro@nercomp.org
Hotel Information:
Please call the Southbridge Hotel directly at 508.765.8000, the NERCOMP rate is $120.
The room block will be held until September 8, 2009.
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