What's Happening Really: Digital Research Support, and other Hot Topics
Association of Academic Health Sciences Libraries Annual Meeting
Saturday, November 5, 2011, 1:00 PM – 5:00 PM
Hyatt, Denver, CO - Room Centennial A/B
1:00 PM Introduction: Marianne Burke, Library Associate Professor and Director, Dana medical Library, Univ. of Vermont, Moderator
1:05 to 2:45 PM Panel and Discussion: E-Science and the Academic Medical Library: Supporting the Research Enterprise
Elaine Martin, Director, Lamar Soutter Library, University of Massachusetts Medical School
“Preparing Librarians for New Roles in E-Science Librarianship”
Jake Carlson, Data Services Specialist and Associate Professor, Purdue University Library
“An Introduction to the Data Curation Profiles Toolkit”
Jake Carlson is one of the architects of the Data Curation Profiles Toolkit developed at Purdue and the Graduate School of Library and Information Science at the University of Illinois.
Jen Ferguson, Data Services Librarian, Northeastern University
“A Tale of Two Projects: The Hands-on of Data Curation”
Jen will address two projects: 1) The Harvard School of Public Health's Bioinformatics Core project to annotate and contextualize gene expression microarray data deposited in conjunction with published articles, and 2) Northeastern University’s project to develop and support a university-wide digital repository.
Holly Buchanan, CIO and Executive Director, Health Sciences Library and Informatics Center, and Professor, School of Medicine, University of New Mexico
“Strategic Planning for E-science in Academic and Medical Libraries.”
This presentation will discuss challenges and opportunities for academic and medical libraries in supporting e-Science initiatives, and some suggestions on how to address these through strategic planning.
2:45PM to 3:15PM BREAK
3:15 PM to 5:00PM Emerging topics and debates: You asked for it
Title: Who Should Pay for Open Access Authors’ Fees
Presenters: Karen Butter, University Librarian and Assistant Vice Chancellor, University of California, San Francisco and Jane Blumenthal, Director, Health Sciences Libraries Univ. of Michigan
Title: Teaching Data Management to Health Science, Science & Engineering Students
Presenter: Donna Kafel, e-science project coordinator, Lamar Soutter Library, University of Massachusetts Medical School
Title: iTouch Technology to Medical Students
Presenter: Nadine Dexter , Director, Harriet H. Ginsburg Health Sciences Library, University of Central Florida
Title: Doing More with Less
Presenter: Dorothy A. Spencer, Ph.D., Director, William E. Laupus Health Sciences Library, East Carolina University, Greenville
Title: New Relationships with University Deans
Presenter: Pat Thibodeau, Associate Dean for Library Services,Medical Center Library, Duke University
Title: Library Dashboards
Presenter: Bret Kirkpatrick, Director, Moody Medical Library and Associate Vice President for Academic Resources, University of Texas Medical Branch at Galvestondue University Library.
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