Visit Columbia University’s RDS Web page for a variety of resources available from a Research Data Symposium held on Feb. 27, 2013.ProgramThe Symposium covered managing and curating research data and a variety of other research outputs via four panels of speakers focused on:....Read more

When people talk about data management, they are often referring to the shiny, exciting new data that is promised with a newly funded grant project. Sometimes they mean a nearly completed research project where they are interested in data stewardship; less often they are talking about preserving the data on some form of nearly outdated media requested by the researcher. Rarely, however, are people talking about data sets captured in print as part of the corpus of reports and grey literature on our library shelves.....Read more

Last October the Maastricht University Library organized a seminar on data management.1 The most striking issues were the widely accepted urge to act, the movements in academic conduct, and the lack of support to assist researchers, at least the new ones, in managing their data carefully.....Read more

Paul Albert of Weill Cornell Medical College (WCMC) describes his institution’s experience in implementing VIVO. Albert joined WCMC in 2007 as Digital Services Librarian and is currently the Assistant Director of Research and Digital Services. As the VIVO product manager, he assigns and prioritizes tasks, acquires data, promotes VIVO usage, and communicates with stakeholders.Library Connect: Would you tell us about VIVO? ....Read more

CRIS-IR from the outset....Read more

In early January, an article titled “The End of History Illusion” was published in Science. The researchers, Quoidbach, Gilbert and Wilson, define the end of history illusion as the tendency of humans to underestimate the magnitude of future change.What are we — those of us whose professional purpose is to provide support for research — doing to anticipate and influence the future of research? How do we overcome the “end of history” illusion and face unwanted possibilities as well as desirable ones?....Read more

Big or small data?Research data has always been at the core of much scientific research, though the primary conduit of scientific communication has been the peer-reviewed journal article. The article summarizes, synthesizes and interprets the raw data, places the data in the context of theory and hypotheses and mechanisms, and takes a point of view on the data. However, it does not provide sufficient details on the data to facilitate integration within larger data contexts, or alternative synthesis and interpretation.....Read more

Does cinnamon smell as good during summertime as in December?Are you ready for some drastic measures to keep your tree fresh?Have you considered how many spins occur in the dreidel game?Our colleagues at ScienceDirect selected a handful of holiday articles to share with our readers. ....Read more

National University of Singapore (NUS) Libraries started using Web conferencing software to conduct information literacy sessions in August 2011. The library had previously recorded physical sessions — archived webcasts or prerecorded videos using software such as Camtasia. With Web conferencing software, we are able to host “live” sessions, allowing online questions and interaction through polls and chats.....Read more

In 2011, the University of South Australia (UniSA) implemented a digital strategy driving massive increases in e-book purchasing. This change is amplified by the building of a new primarily digital Learning Centre at our City West Campus — a move that requires the City West collection to be capped at 100,000 volumes. In June, I shared UniSA’s perspective on e-books and their integration in my presentation at the ANZ eBooks Library Exchange Forum sponsored by Elsevier Asia-Pacific.....Read more

Elsevier’s Library Connect Program is offering up to two US $1,500 travel sponsorships to be awarded to librarian committees at Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM) conferences. The goal of the sponsorship is to foster opportunities for enhanced communication among librarians and their user communities within a STEM discipline.....Read more

In the fall of 2011, the University of Minnesota’s new residency director for Neurology invited me to attend their weekly in-patient rounds. I had attended morning report, journal club, and case conference in other departments, but this would be the first time I was directly involved with patients. I was nervous and unsure of what my role would be, but I had two things working in my favor. First, many of my clinical librarian colleagues had done this and written about their experiences. I read through many articles and watched many presentations as I prepared.....Read more

Sheetal Tank is Chief Librarian at the Atmiya Institute of Technology & Science in Gujarat, India. Atmiya has approximately 5,000 students and offers undergraduate and postgraduate degrees with a focus on engineering. Most incoming students have never navigated the Internet so they have to start from scratch in terms of digital information literacy. In 2006 Tank initiated a series of information literacy programs and has had 7,000 users participate in the programs since then.....Read more

Is your library just pushing information to customers, or passive in providing a site for users to access resources? What if your library actively partnered with users rather than providing the usual passive or push relationship? Partnering means joining the team, taking a vested interest in the research, and following through together to reach a common goal.....Read more