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Meanwhile,the next 'post mortem' disaster webinar will be about the fire at UMC's main library in September 2011.  Be on the lookout for scheduling info about it--we're shooting for late January/early February after ALA.

UNLV-GWLA Program

Leveraging Library Strengths: Contributions to Undergraduate Education Reform

 Webcast URL: http://www.library.unlv.edu/conferences/gwla/

• Welcome and Program Overview: Patricia Iannuzzi, Dean, University Libraries, UNLV 
• The National Undergraduate Education Agenda: Alma Clayton-Pederson, former Vice President for Education and Institutional Renewal of the American                     Association of Colleges & Universities (AAC&U)  http://www.aacu.org/press_room/experts/clayton-pedersen.cfm
• Focusing on Undergraduate Education during Tough Budget Times: One Campus Perspective: Dave James, Associate Vice Provost for Academic Programs,                 UNLV
• The Educational Role of Libraries: Patricia Iannuzzi, Dean, UNLV Libraries
• Collaboration in Action  -- Panel of three campus partnerships
•  An Outcomes Based Approach to Undergraduate Education 

        Jennifer Fabbi, Special Assistant to the Dean, University Libraries and

                    Carl Reiber, Academic Affairs Fellow, Office of the Executive Vice President & Provost

• All Roads Lead to Faculty Development

        Vicki Nozero, Director, Research and Education, University Libraries and

        Christine Bergman, Associate Dean, Harrah’s College of Hotel Administration

• Curricular and Co-Curricular Collaborations

        Anne Zald, Head, Instruction, University Libraries and

        Alicia Simon, First Year Experience Program Coordinator, College of Sciences

•  Discussion with Audience

If you were unable to attend the GWLA sponsored Data Curation webinar(s), or would like to review them again, the archived version(s) are available through the direct links below (there is no set up to enter, and the presentations start on there own; please hit 'exit' when you're done).

I. Big Picture Overview of Data Curation, Thursday May 6, 12-1:30 EDT

Archived version

Over this decade, increasingly more people are viewing research data as an asset requiring proper management and long-term stewardship. This outlook is a major cultural shift from the perspective that knowledge outputs such as journal articles and books are the sole treasures of research.  One consequence is that librarians in research institutions are now having to consider how to incorporate data as a library resource.  Chuck Humphrey's presentation provides an introduction to basic data concepts relevant to librarians.  Topics to be discussed include how to differentiate research data from everything else that is digital, how lifecycle data management helps us better deal with data as a resource, how collections remain important in managing data and how levels of service can be defined for data.

It is important to understand data curation within the larger scholarly communication context, and then to identify opportunities and capacities where librarians can and should find a role to engage. Given a definition that ranges from managing to archiving to preserving data along the data lifecycle, there are various points where data curation services can be pursued by librarians: at a point of research initiation (articulating the problem and pursuing funding), at a point of recent or ongoing research (organization within the lab), at a point where a larger community needs to be engaged (broadening access), and at a point where time scale is important (archiving and preserving in a repository). D. Scott Brant will discuss the role of librarians in pursuing and engaging in these data curation activities with specific examples presented.

Speakers:

Charles (Chuck) Humphrey has been the Head of the Data Library at the University of Alberta since 1992 and began a data library service in 1980 in the University's academic computing centre while employed as a statistical consultant. In 2000, Mr. Humphrey also assumed responsibility for the implementation and management of a Statistics Canada Research Data Centre (RDC) at the University of Alberta, which is a data enclave for Statistics Canada confidential data. As the Academic Director of the RDC, he oversees the operations of this facility and serves on the RDC National Coordinating Committee.

D. Scott Brandt is a professor of library science and associate dean for research in the Purdue University Libraries. Primarily he helps guide the Libraries' research and facilitates participation in sponsored funding (e.g., NSF, IMLS, local seed grants)---since April 2005, Purdue librarians have participated in more than 70 grant applications with more than 80 faculty across campus. As acting director of the Distributed Data Curation Center, he oversees investigation into curation issues of organizing, discovery and access to, and archiving research data in complex environments. Prior to arriving at Purdue in 1993 he was associate head of the Science and Engineering Libraries at MIT, and is the author of Teaching Technology (2002) and Unix in Libraries (1991).

II. What kinds of data are libraries managing, how are they doing it and with what staff?, Tuesday June 1, 12-1:30 EDT

Archived version

After giving a brief background summary of what the MIT Libraries are doing, Anne Graham and Amy Stout will discuss issues surrounding starting a data management program and provide an overview of what libraries need to know before starting a data management program. They will discuss the following topics from a subject librarian perspective:

• How does your library system operate? Are you better off starting your program from the top-down or using a grassroots approach?
• Making contact with your faculty and finding out what they need
• Learning about data and e-science
• Developing relationships across departments that will facilitate your offering of services to people outside the library system

Sayeed Choudhury will discuss early experiences related to the Data Conservancy, one of two current awards through NSF's DataNet program.  Choudhury will speak specifically about the types of data being considered for the early prototype development, the initial technical architecture, and the new duties or skill sets that are being developed as a result of these activities.

Speakers:

Anne Graham is Civil and Environmental Engineering Librarian and GIS Liaison and Amy Stout is Computer Science Librarian at MIT Libraries. Both Anne and Amy have been working on starting data services at the MIT Libraries. This includes educating faculty, students and lab managers about "best practices" for data management as well as initiating projects that encourage faculty to look to the libraries for the stewardship of their data.

G. Sayeed Choudhury is the Associate Dean for Library Digital Programs and Hodson Director of the Digital Research and Curation Center at the Sheridan Libraries of Johns Hopkins University. He is also the Director of Operations for the Institute of Data Intensive Engineering and Science (IDIES) based at Johns Hopkins. He is a Lecturer in the Department of Computer Science at Johns Hopkins, a Research Fellow at the Graduate School of Library and Information Science at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and a Senior Presidential Fellow with the Council on Library and Information Resources. He is a member of the ICPSR Council and DuraSpace Board.

III. What is happening at GWLA Libraries and what are next steps for GWLA?, Thursday July 1, 12-1:30 EDT

Archived version

Presenters from several GWLA libraries will provide 5 minute presentations on what is happening at their institutions, at what stage they are at with data curation, and what they see as a possible GWLA role. Presentations will be followed by discussion about possible next steps for GWLA and potential areas of collaboration among GWLA libraries regarding data curation.

Speakers: GWLA members involved in data curation: DeeAnn Allison (University of Nebraska); Holly Mercer (Texas A&M);  Brian Westra (University of Oregon); Daureen Nesdill (University of Utah), Terry Reese (Oregon State University)