Reinventing Science Librarianship: Models for the Future ARL/CNI Meeting Oct. 16-17, 2008 Arlington VA Reinventing Science Librarianship: Models for the.

Reinventing Science Librarianship: Models for the Future

ARL/CNI MeetingOct. 16-17, 2008 Arlington VA


Arlington VA, Oct. 16-17, 2008

Reactor Panel: Supporting the Virtual OrganizationPanelists 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



Thinking about things in new ways

Search & retrieval

Navigating/browsing

Archiving

Citing & Persistence

Publishing

Curating Organizing

Cataloging

Rights

Protection

Sharing

Managing

Standards



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…



Purdue Libraries supporting VOsDiscovery PreservationDisseminatio

n• 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



Support: does it depend on the VO?

• Single PI w/ grad student(s)Organization, Archiving

• Campus wide center/groupAccess, Dissemination

• Inter-institutional groupDiscovery, Rights



• 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

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