Reinventing Science Librarianship: Models for the Future ARL/CNI Meeting Oct , 2008 Arlington VA Reinventing Science Librarianship: Models for the Future Arlington VA, Oct , 2008 Reactor Panel: Supporting the Virtual Organization Panelists have been asked to pose questions for the speakers and audience to discuss and to highlight examples of services in support of virtual organizations. Medha Devare, Life Sciences and Bioinformatics Librarian, Mann Library, Cornell University D. Scott Brandt, Associate Dean for Research, Purdue University Libraries
Reinventing Science Librarianship: Models for the Future ARL/CNI Meeting Oct , 2008 Arlington VA Thinking about things in new ways Discovery DisseminationPreservation Search & retrieval Navigating/browsing Archiving Citing & Persistence Publishing Curating Organizing Cataloging Rights Protection Sharing Managing Standards
Reinventing Science Librarianship: Models for the Future ARL/CNI Meeting Oct , 2008 Arlington VA Context: identifying needs through research Purdue Libraries' interdisciplinary research initiative distinguishes between research and service Embed librarians in research to help scientists do new things, identify library science related issues/solve problems related to organization, access, etc. Supporting VO equates to problem solving Research collaborations critical to grow partnerships, participating in research projects, and forging new roles for librarians as services are developed We learn needs by engaging in problems…
Reinventing Science Librarianship: Models for the Future ARL/CNI Meeting Oct , 2008 Arlington VA Purdue Libraries supporting VOs DiscoveryPreservationDissemination a hybrid controlled vocabulary to lower barriers of participation for tagging resources/objects (blog posts, tutorials, tools, etc.) in discipline specific portal accessibility of “small science” datasets by automating metadata to make sharing/ingesting easier an OAI-PMH interface to expose metadata from a web enabled research database to harvesting persistent identifier system (e.g. D.O.I.) for citing resources and preserving linkages that will not break
Reinventing Science Librarianship: Models for the Future ARL/CNI Meeting Oct , 2008 Arlington VA Support: does it depend on the VO? Single PI w/ grad student(s) Organization, Archiving Campus wide center/group Access, Dissemination Inter-institutional group Discovery, Rights
Reinventing Science Librarianship: Models for the Future ARL/CNI Meeting Oct , 2008 Arlington VA Discovery DisseminationPreservation How to define user community? How to redefine content? Library as computational centers Emphasis on computation over center? Librarian as middleware Develop systems and tools to bridge too? “Helping PIs do data curation” How open to education as partnership Reaction