Elaine R. Martin, DA Director of Library Services

University of Massachusetts Medical School December 6, 2011

Highlights

Librarian Needs Assessment Researcher and Student InterviewsNER Program DescriptionsChallengesLessons LearnedNew Projects in ProgressFuture Planned Educational Opportunities

E-Science Role Definition Questions

What roles can librarians play in helping researchers and students manage and preserve data?

What knowledge and skills do practicing librarians need?

What are the new competencies for librarians in e-science roles?

What are the new jobs?How can we create a community of E-Science

librarians in the New England Region (NER)?How can NER help?

NER Librarian Needs Assessment

Brainstorming session at regional E-Science symposium in April 2009

Follow-up Survey Monkey regional needs assessment conducted summer 2009

“What are the biomedical and science librarians E-Science web portal user needs and web 2.0 preferences in order to support the development and strengthening of libraries’ E-Science initiatives and collaborations?”

Researchers and Students Needs: Data Interview Questions

How are data in the lab or research environment used?How do researchers manage, preserve and store data?How easy would it be to share the data with another

researcher who needed or wanted access (e.g. data sharing plan)?

What is the role for the library? IT? Other groups on campus?

Case study development

Source: IMLS grant, 2010-11

Student and Researcher Findings

Data were scattered and poorly managedCurriculum needed to teach data

management to researchers and their students

Assistance with NSF data management plans

Librarian Needs: Education and Collaboration

Online tutorials for both E-Science related tools and background/content knowledge for librarians

Continuing education (science disciplines as well as with respect to data management) for librarians

Support from the library community (University of Massachusetts, Boston Library Consortium, and NN/LM,NER) for librarian sharing of role definition

Source: JMLA 99(2):153-56, Apr 2011

Regional Program Response Initiatives bringing health sciences and science

librarians together:E-Science Bootcamp focused on building science

discipline knowledge One day workshops on scientific or data

management topics based on existing research at campuses (stem cell; nanotechnology; data curation and management)

E-Science Symposium (4th annual)NER Portal ProjectE-Science Librarian Community of Interest (COI)

E-Science Web Portal Projectesciencelibrary.umassmed.edu

Regional Initiative with UMass Med in the lead

Build a one stop shopping website for librarians to learn about science and data management

E-Science Web Portal Projectesciencelibrary.umassmed.edu•Educate Librarians about Science (tutorials)

http://esciencelibrary.umassmed.edu/biochemistry-video

E-Science Web Portal Projectesciencelibrary.umassmed.eduInclude current news and initiativesHighlight current projects and best practicesCreate collaborative using advisory and

editorial boards to identify, link to existing and create original content

Engage the librarians in New England (blog) to foster a community of learning

Data Management Curriculum Development

IMLS grant to bring data management skills to student researchers (UMass and WPI); develop learning objectives and lesson plans for data management curriculum

Identify data repository requirements for student projects (student data repository)

Develop tutorials for web-based case-based data management curriculum

Data Management Course

Module 0: Introduction and NeedModule 1:Data: Types, Stages, and Formats

Module 2: MetadataModule 3: Data Backup, Storage

Module 4: Legal and Ethical ConsiderationsModule 5: Data Sharing and Reuse Policies

Module 6: Archiving and Preservationhttp://library.umassmed.edu/imls_grant.cfm

NSF Data Management Plan: Library Impact

Foster discussion around the implications for libraries and librarians

Share model services in plan developmentData Management Curriculum developmentTrack changed librarian job descriptions Provide information on the portal, at the

symposium and other NER venuesNER creates opportunities for sharing plans,

lessons learned, etc.

Challenges for E-Science Librarians

Debate: How much science do librarians working with researchers need to know?

For NER-How do you manage the collaboration?

How do you teach data management? How do you engage the research community? Faculty? Students? Clinical Researchers?

NSF Data Management Plan—impact on grant funding? What kind of assistance can the library provide?

Lessons LearnedWe need to partner (with science majors, science

librarians, main campus computing centers, library schools, health science librarians, researchers, IT, etc.)

We need to re-tool our staff with new skills in science (basic science knowledge and scientific process)

We need to develop staff with skills in data management, preservation, metadata, etc.

We need new kinds of staff – new job descriptionsNN/LM, NER can create venues for collaboration

and education

NER Research Projects (In –Progress)

What are the librarian competencies needed to work in E-Science?

What are the educational programs available to train E-Science librarians? Where are the gaps? Where can NER fill those gaps?

What is the vocabulary for E-Science librarianship? (What are the knowledge domains?)

Follow-up and response to the article E-Science Librarianship: Undefined; Can we define it?

How will data management instruction take place?

Upcoming Regional Activities and Events

Seek regional partners for implementation of data management curriculum

Launch the Journal of E-Science Librarianship (anticipated January 2012)

Assist NER Network members in creating a new professional identity focused on data management and preservation via educational offerings

April 4, 2012E-Science Symposium

E-Science BootcampScience Bootcamp at Tufts, June 13-15,

2012

Astronomy session, Science Boot Camp 2011

E-Science Professional Days

Spring 2012 and Fall 2012Introduction to Metadata (May 9, 2012)Examples of uses of metadata by local area

librariansKeynote speaker: Diane Hillman, Director of

Metadata Initiatives, SyracuseInstitutional Repositories (November 2012)

Journal of E-Science Librarianship

First issue –symposium papers and postersOpen call for papers Editors are UMMS librariansReviewers are members of E-Science COIB-Press online publishing and reviewer

systemComing soon!