Understanding eScience:Reflections on a Houston Symposium

• Purpose: A new and emerging opportunity for librarian/patron research support

• What is eScience?

• What have we, as librarians, done with it?

• What can you do with it?

Take Away…

What is eScience?

• Data-driven

• Multi-disciplinary & multi-institutional

• Fuels the Research Life Cycle

eScience is…

Research Question

Research Design

Data Collection

and Description

Data Processing

and Analysis

Data Archiving

Results Disseminati

on and Publication

Data Preservation

Data Available

Research Data Life Cycle

Librarians and eScience–Why?

Hosting a symposium

The Texas Medical Center Library

Neil

Neil Rambo, MLISDirector, NYU Health Sciences Library

Layne Johnson, PhDTranslational Science Information Specialist,

University of Minnesota

Neville Prendergast, BGSc DipEd MLS

Director, Rudolph Matas Medical Library, Tulane University

Jen Ferguson, MS MLISData Services Librarian, Northeastern University

CHALLENGES

SUCCESS

!

Survey Says…

79% -- "A” grade for Overall Effectiveness

75% -- Met Audience Expectations

69% -- Provided useable skills and knowledge

Down the Road…

66% -- Visited The TMC Library eScience website

59% -- Planning their own eScience events

35% -- Our symposium directly influenced their work in eScience

What are we doing now?

http://www.library.tmc.edu/escience/

http://www.library.tmc.edu/escience/

http://escholarship.umassmed.edu/jeslib/

Our Future Goals

Where can librarians take this?

• Educate yourself

• Establish eScience skillsets

• Immerse your organization

2012 Association of Research Libraries/Digital Library Federation (ARL/DLF)/DuraSpace E-Science Institute

Defining eScience Roles for Librarians

• Data Managers• Consulting with researchers on use of data

management tools

• Liaison• Gathering information, setting up

communication between stakeholders

• Promoters• Providing information on eScience events

and news

• Purpose: A new and emerging opportunity for librarian/patron research support

• What is eScience?

• What have we, as librarians, done with it?

• What can you do with it?

Take Away…

{QUESTIONS?

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Thank You!Joanne Romano,MLS joanne.romano@exch.library.tmc.eduAllen Lopez, MSIS allen.lopez@exch.library.tmc.edu Maianh Phi, MLIS maianh.phi@exch.library.tmc.edu

Data Management & Planning. Oregon State University Libraries. Accessed 10/8/12, http://ica.library.oregonstate.edu/subject-guide/1346-Data-Management-Planning?tab=515626

eScience Portal for NewEngland Librarians. Accessed 8/14/12, http://esciencelibrary.umassmed.edu/escience

Hey, Tony, and Jessie Hey. “e-Science and Its Implications for the Library Community.” Library Hi Texh 24, no. 4 (2006): 515-28.

Jones, E. 2008. E-SCIENCE TALKING POINTS FOR ARL DEANS AND DIRECTORS. October 24, 2008. Association of Research Libraries. http://www.arl.org/rtl/escience/

“SoutteReview” 2010. Newsletter of the Lamar Soutter Library, University of Massachusetts Medical School. December 2010, Issue 34, page 1.

TMC Library eScience website. http://www.library.tmc.edu/escience/

Bibliography

This project has been funded in whole or in part with Federal funds from the National Library of Medicine, National Institutes of Health, under Contract No. HHSN-276-2011-00007-C with the Houston Academy of Medicine-Texas Medical Center Library.”