Kristen Burgess
Assistant Director for Research and Informatics
University of Cincinnati
Ted Baldwin
Director, Science and Engineering Libraries
University of Cincinnati
Leslie Schick
Associate Dean of Library Services, Science and Health Sciences
University of Cincinnati
Greg Raschke
Associate Director for Collections and Scholarly Communication
North Carolina State University
Deanna Marcum
Managing Director
Ithaka S+R
Preparing Research Librarians for Transformed Libraries: Professional Education and Communities of Practice (Raschke, Marcum)
Libraries are engaging the research and teaching enterprises of their parent organizations in emerging areas. At the same time, library spaces and technologies are being adapted to support interdisciplinary collaboration, immersive learning environments, life-cycle support for research, and digitally centered scholarship. A key challenge and opportunity in realizing and fully leveraging this strategy is the transformation of the roles of subject specialists and academic technology librarians to support deeper collaboration around these emerging services and add value across the research and teaching life cycles. Transforming the skills, attitudes, goals, and priorities of practicing research librarians, while also better matching the pace of change in library program curricula to these enormous changes, is fundamental to achieving integration and value-addition at scale. This session focuses on both the imperative to increase the pace and structure of change in library curricula and for libraries to provide effective transformational development opportunities for librarians.
Presentation (Raschke)
Presentation (Marcum)
New Roles, New Collaborations: Developing an Informationist Program to Support University Research (Burgess, Baldwin, Schick)
The University of Cincinnati Libraries (UCL) is developing an exciting new team of informationists, specialists in research data services who are a hybrid of outreach/embedded librarian and data librarian, to partner with research faculty and students. UCL recently hired three informationist positions to serve data-generating researchers at UC, and plans to hire another social science informationist in the near future. UC informationists are working on several exciting new projects including the creation of new bioinformatics workshops, partnering with an otolaryngology research team, organizing a geographic information system (GIS) working group and GIS events at UC, and providing research assistance for clinical research teams. In addition, the informationists regularly interact with and serve as members of key governance committees and collaborate with the Offices of Research and Information Technology. The informationist team is also moving two key strategic initiatives forward: the development of formalized research data services and the creation of health informatics support from the Health Sciences Library. Both of these initiatives are helping us to develop models for cross-institutional collaboration.
https://www.libraries.uc.edu/about/strategic-plan/teninitiatives.html
http://www.libraries.uc.edu/hsl/digital/digital-labs-hsl.html
http://www.libraries.uc.edu/hsl/digital/informatics-support.html
http://guides.libraries.uc.edu/bioinformatics
http://guides.libraries.uc.edu/datamanagementplanning
http://guides.libraries.uc.edu/gis
Presentation (Baldwin)