Please consider attending this fast-approaching event!
Next Generation Science Librarianship
Panel presentation hosted by
National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) Library
November 17, 3:00 to 5:00 p.m.
Location: Foothills Lab-2, Room 1001
The introduction of technology has had disruptive effects in all
facets of society and the conduct of science has proved to be no
exception. With the application of distributed computer networking and
processing capability, a new type of science is emerging--known as
eScience--which is changing the types and scale of information
resources that scientists are creating and working with on a daily
basis. The challenge to the role of the science librarian operating to
support scientists at their institutions is complex: existing forms of
science publishing have largely moved online, but remained intact.
Discussions about economics models and digital rights focus on the
proper access to journal articles to ensure scientific progress and
communication of results to society. Meanwhile, attention is starting
to shift away from the materials librarians are used to supporting,
towards data sets and other digital objects originating from the
technical, practical environment of eScience. The librarian largely
lacks access and experience in this environment, yet the need for
their information management expertise grows ever more apparent to
prevent these resources from overwhelming the scientists' daily
workload. Just as with scientific articles, these resources should
also be made available to a broader community as part of scientific
progress.
This event will highlight solutions in developing skills and products
appropriate for this changing, highly technical environment of
eScience. It is also to bring together participants from different
types of libraries and from librarianship education to engage in a
discussion about the needed skillset, project designs, and service
approaches for successful information resource management solutions
that support scientists' research efforts. Following the discussion, a
reception will be held to allow for more informal conversation.
Panelists:
Dr. Jian Qin
Associate Professor and
Advisor for the Certificate for Advanced Studies in Digital Libraries
School of Information Studies
Syracuse University
Syracuse, N.Y.
Training New Types of Information Professionals for New Forms of
Information Work: It's About Skills and Products
The IMLS-funded eScience Librarianship (eslib.ischool.syr.edu) project
is a three-year effort to train an initial cohort of librarians with
the skills needed to work alongside researchers from the full range of
disciplines representing Science, Technology, Engineering, and
Mathematics (STEM). Eight students with STEM-education and
professional experience were selected to enroll in a funded masters
degree in LIS program. At the same time, three special courses are
being developed to give them skills in data management as an
information resource crucial to eScience, as well as courses to train
them in both collaborative technologies and scientific workflows, as
well as project management to pull together eScience Librarianship
services. Advanced products that require these same skills are being
explored in another project, with support from Syracuse University
doctoral student Miao Chen. A small-scale experiment using linked-
entity metadata records converted entities and their relationships
into an interlinked semantic web of ecological datasets for the
Hubbard Brook Ecosystem Study (HBES) covering the Northeast of the
U.S. The experiment suggests a methodological feasibility in
incorporating linked entity data into metadata records to enhance
access to scientific data.
Jamaica Jones
Special Projects Librarian
NCAR Library
Supporting Scientific Communication: The Case of OpenSky
With this year's launch of OpenSky, the institutional repository
serving UCAR, NCAR, and the UCAR Community Programs, the NCAR Library
has expanded capability to support the institution's role in providing
facilities, research, models, and tools that advance atmospheric and
geoscience on a global scale. The repository was designed to advance
NCAR research while also providing access to articles by the UCAR
community as well as scientists, educators, and students worldwide.
Pursuing this goal required the coordinated efforts of staff with
diverse skills and management expertise. Examples from the
repository's introduction and refinement highlight the new roles of
the science librarian amid the changing landscape of scholarly
communication.
Jack M. Maness
Assistant Professor and Director of the Engineering and Math-Physics
Libraries
University of Colorado at Boulder
Using Design Personas to Understand the Role of Academic Libraries in
Supporting e-Science
Two recent ethnographic studies at the University of Colorado at
Boulder have identified several "personas" that librarians can use
while making decisions about the content and functionality needed in
institutional repositories and data archives. Scientists working in
tenure-track academic institutions often have disparate backgrounds,
needs, and goals, and these studies utilize structured interviews,
observations, and analytic methodologies in human-computer interaction
and user-centered design disciplines to articulate these seemingly
divergent needs and levels of receptivity to third-party involvement
in data curation and scholarly communications.
Map and Directions available at
http://www2.ucar.edu/campus/foothills-laboratory-0-1-2-3
For more information:
John D'Ignazio
303.497.1186
dignazio (at) ucar.edu
Speaker Bios:
Jian Qin has been a Library and Information Science (LIS) professor
for nearly fifteen years, researching and teaching in the areas of
knowledge modeling and organization, ontologies, metadata, Web content
management, and scientific communication. Her recent publications
based on this research have appeared in the journals Library Metadata,
American Society for Information Science & Technology, and Scholarly
Publishing. Her 2008 book Metadata, coauthored with Dr. Marcia Zeng,
serves as the definitive textbook for learning about and applying
metadata in diverse information organization and representation
contexts. In the past four years she has served as principal
investigator on projects funded by both the National Science
Foundation and the Institute for Museum and Library Services related
to science information skill education to prepare professionals for
the digital age. She earned her Ph.D. from the University of Illinois
at Urbana-Champaign, her M.L.I.S from University of Western Ontario,
and her B.A. from Wuhan University.
Jamaica Jones helped to facilitate the passage of UCAR's Open Access
policy, lead the development of OpenSky, and also is working to
implement other initiatives that advance scholarship and scientific
communication across the atmospheric and geosciences. Jamaica came to
NCAR by way of New York, where she worked to develop a digital archive
at the National September 11 Memorial Museum. She holds an M.A. from
New York University, and a B.A. from Antioch College.
Jack M. Maness is the author of several articles on the evolving
virtual and physical spaces and services academic libraries provide
students and faculty. He is active in the Science & Technology Section
of the Association of College & Research Libraries, as well as the
Engineering Libraries Division of the American Society for Engineering
Education, and is a manuscript referee for the journals Webology and
College & Research Libraries. The American Library Association awarded
him the Marshal Cavendish Scholarship in 2002 and named him an
Emerging Leader in 2008. He holds an M.L.S from Emporia State
University and a B.A. from the University of Colorado.
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John D'Ignazio
IIS visiting doctoral student
NCAR Advanced Study Program
School of Information Studies
Syracuse University
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