UMass Libraries 2009 Maxine Schmidt Integrated Sciences and Engineering Library Head University of Massachusetts Amherst, MA

The Map Integrated Sciences and Engineering Library N 300 m0150

The Cross Section Integrated Sciences & Engineering Library Floor Directory EASTFLOORWEST Periodicals A-QC 3 Periodicals QC-Z Reference Q - Z 2 Reference A - PN Current Periodicals Books A-QE 75 1 Books QE 75 - QH Books QK - Z Basement Horizon of Abundant Librarians Construction discontinuity

N Outlier librarian, Thursdays from 10am – 11:30am 300 m0150

E-Books Funding database ScholarWorks RefWorks Interlibrary Loan (ILLiad) E-Science Budget News from the Libraries

E-Books Constantly growing collection Searchable– you don’t have to read the book online Bookmark useful sections “My Copy” – Springer e-books program Potential for online textbooks?

E-Books

COS Funding Opportunities Grants database For US citizens and others Register to track grants, get search alerts Profile becomes part of Community of Science On Libraries Database list by title

ScholarWorks Doctoral dissertations written at the University of Massachusetts Amherst Doctoral dissertations You can have your own personal PagePage Crawled by Google There is a departmental pagedepartmental page

RefWorks Collects, stores, and organizes citations from books, articles from databases, web sites, and other sources Automatically converts citations into properly formatted bibliographies Write-N-Cite!! Workshops

Interlibrary Loan The article you want isn’t at UMass? ILL will deliver an electronic copy to your desktop, within 48 hours (often much faster), free! Books might take a little longer

Interlibrary Loan By early next semester, WorldCatLocal will be implemented Will display local content, then content from consortia, then from the WorldCat database Will speed ILL delivery of books (and articles?)

E-Science a/k/a/ Cyberinfrastructure large scale science distributed (global) collaborations very large data collections very large scale computing resources high performance visualization “Team Science”

From Borgman, 2005

E-Science 2005: Long-Lived Digital Data Collections: Enabling Research and Education in the 21st Century NSF established Office of Cyberinfrastructure (OCI)

E-Science Online access to complete credentialed, archival literature Stewardship and curation services for enormous collections of scientific data Long-term, federated digital repositories Continuing retrospective digitization The Cyberinfrastructure Advisory Panel’s report calls for

E-Science

Libraries have traditionally maintained and cataloged print data Along with information specialists, libraries are preparing for a similar role in e-science Who will archive and curate these datasets?

E-Science Science librarians from the five University of Massachusetts campuses met in May 2008 Conducted e-science “boot camp” for librarians Establishing an e-science portal for librarians

Budget FY 2009 ~ level-funded FY 2010 ~ level-funded FY 2011 we encounter The Cliff – 8 to 10% cut in total budget – Staff is already lean

Budget The Libraries are streamlining workflows moving more resources to electronic platforms consolidating some service points tightening the organization