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For those attending ALA Midwinter, we hope you can join us for a scholarly
communication session co-sponsored by ALCTS Collection Management Section and
ACRL Science & Technology Section.
Title: Researcher Networking and Profile Systems: Library Collections and
Liaison Opportunities
Date: Sunday, January 26, 2014
Time: 4:30pm - 5:30pm
Location: Pennsylvania Convention Center - Room 121 B
Abstract: Researcher networking and profile systems such as VIVO, Symplectic
Elements, Elsevier's SciVal Experts, and Harvard Catalyst Profiles present
interesting opportunities for libraries as they continue to address the evolving
information needs of their constituents. Such systems might offer librarians and
libraries opportunities for extensive new engagement with campus research
environments, including: increased participation in team-based research projects
and further development of born-digital collections of scholarly materials
through the leveraging of existing library collections and campus academic
support infrastructures. Speakers will discuss their experience working with
(and in some cases developing) profile systems at their institutions, addressing
library-related benefits and challenges associated with their implementation.
Speakers:
Paolo Mangiafico, Coordinator of Scholarly Communication Technologies, Duke
University Libraries
In a former role as Director of Digital Information Strategy in the Office of
the Provost at Duke, he co-chaired the Provost-appointed Digital Futures Task
Force, which developed an open access policy for Duke faculty scholarship
(adopted by the Duke Academic Council in 2010) and a set of recommendations for
developing better infrastructure and support for management, publication, and
archiving of research data. He is now working with librarians, technologists,
and faculty to implement these, and serves on both management and implementation
teams of the Library's open access and digital repository projects and the
University's VIVO-based faculty data system. Paolo has been a fellow in the John
Hope Franklin Humanities Institute at Duke, led an early digital library project
called The Digital Scriptorium and Duke Libraries' Web Services and Research &
Development groups, and has served as a consultant for universities, university
presses, and government agencies, as well as a lecturer in information science.
He recently completed a term as a member of the Board of Trustees of the Durham
County Library system. His current work focuses on how new technologies can be
adapted to further the knowledge-sharing mission of research universities, and
the intersection between social, economic, and technical systems.
Griffin M Weber, MD, PhD
Dr. Griffin Weber is an Assistant Professor of Medicine and the Chief Technology
Officer of Harvard Medical School and Director of the Biomedical Research
Informatics Core at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center in Boston. His research
is in the area of expertise mining and social network analysis. He invented
Harvard Catalyst Profiles, which is an open source website that creates research
profiles for an institution's faculty, and links these together through both
Passive Networks, which are automatically generated based on information known
about investigators, and Active Networks, which users themselves create by
indicating their relationships to other researchers. These networks have
numerous applications, ranging from finding individual collaborators and mentors
to understanding the dynamics of an entire research community. Dr. Weber is also
an investigator on Informatics for Integrating Biology and the Bedside (i2b2),
an NIH National Center for Biomedical Computing, for which he developed a
web-based open source platform that enables query and analysis of large clinical
repositories. Dr. Weber received an MD degree and a PhD in computer science from
Harvard University and has worked on numerous biomedical informatics projects,
such as analyzing DNA microarrays, modeling the growth of breast cancer tumors,
developing algorithms to predict life expectancy, and building a medical
education web portal.
Steve Adams, Life Sciences Librarian, Northwestern University
Steven M. Adams is currently the Life Sciences Librarian at Northwestern
University (NU). In this position, he is responsible for doing collection
development, instruction, outreach, and reference to several departments in the
biological, behavioral, and environmental sciences. He is currently coordinating
the reference management training workshops for Northwestern, leading an
initiative to promote cooperative collection development, and working on several
initiatives related to instruction and outreach. His current research interests
include developing new roles for science librarians, modernizing outreach and
instructional services in academic libraries, scholarly communication, and
research networking tools. Previously, Steven was the Biological and Life
Sciences Librarian (2003-2011) and Interim Psychology Librarian (2007-2011) at
Princeton University. His Princeton projects included developing Princeton's
implementation of the LibX toolbar, starting Princeton's first library blog for
departmental outreach, designing and executing several successful
curriculum-integrated instruction initiatives. Steven received a B.A in Biology
in 1998 and an M.L.S. in 2000 from Clark Atlanta University, and a certificate
in Instructional Design from Langevin Learning Services.
Received on Thu Jan 23 2014 - 05:05:57 EST