Presentation to science librarians about the University of Florida libraries\u27 approach to meeting the bioinformatics and e-science needs of the campus

Tennant, Michele R.

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UMass Chan Medical School eScholarship@UMassChan University of Massachusetts and New England Area Librarian e-Science Symposium 2009 e-Science Symposium Apr 6th, 12:00 AM Bioinformatics Librarian: Meeting the Information Needs of Researchers and Students Michele R. Tennant University of Florida Let us know how access to this document benefits you. Follow this and additional works at: https://escholarship.umassmed.edu/escience_symposium  Part of the Bioinformatics Commons, and the Library and Information Science Commons Repository Citation Tennant MR. (2009). Bioinformatics Librarian: Meeting the Information Needs of Researchers and Students. University of Massachusetts and New England Area Librarian e-Science Symposium. https://doi.org/10.13028/qkcy-8x65. Retrieved from https://escholarship.umassmed.edu/escience_symposium/2009/program/2 Creative Commons License This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License. This material is brought to you by eScholarship@UMassChan. It has been accepted for inclusion in University of Massachusetts and New England Area Librarian e-Science Symposium by an authorized administrator of eScholarship@UMassChan. For more information, please contact Lisa.Palmer@umassmed.edu. Bioinformatics Librarian:  Meeting the Information Needs of Researchers and Students Michele R. Tennant, Ph.D., M.L.I.S. Health Science Center Libraries U.F. Genetics Institute 6 April 2009   UF HSC Libraries  Serve clinical, research, and educational missions of six health-related colleges – Dentistry, Medicine, Nursing, Pharmacy, Public Health and Health Professions, Veterinary Medicine   With resources and expertise in the molecular sciences, also serve researchers in main campus basic sciences (agriculture, biology, chemistry, anthropology, etc.) UF Genetics Institute  Over 200 member faculty   From all major areas of campus – HSC, Ag School, CLAS, Computer Science and Engineering, Libraries   Genetics, genomics, proteomics, bioinformatics, molecular biology   Home of new Genetics/Genomics PhD program  Cancer/Genetics Research Complex  Institute created to facilitate interdisciplinary collaboration   Mostly virtual   About 30 researchers housed in genetics half of complex Bioinformatics Librarian  Housed in the HSC Libraries  Salary paid by UF Genetics Institute (and 1 conference/ year)  Provides instruction, consultations, collection development and other traditional library duties related to the subject areas  Provides specific support to the UFGI – seminar series, website, membership, conference  E-science:  non-bibliographic resource expertise and collaboration Bioinformatics Librarian  NCBI Resources:   Instruction - integrated into curriculum for first year medical students, junior honors students; undergraduate genetics and biophysical chemistry students; co- teach “Application of Bioinformatics in Genetics Research”  Instruction – “stand alone” courses, open to anyone from UF  Consultations – over e-mail, in person (library and laboratory) Requirement of E-Science: Collaboration  Collaboration among interdisciplinary teams is essential to the success of E-science   An excellent role for librarians as “middleware”   Have experience in putting people together, and putting people together with information Bioinformatics Librarian  Contributes to Collaboration  Organize UFGI seminar series  On-campus speakers:  Keep abreast of the genetics-related research from across campus  Develop slate of speakers from throughout campus – HSC, Ag school, CLAS, Engineering  Perform invitations; develop website with links to their webpage and PubMed searches  Off-campus speakers:  Work with UFGI faculty to select speakers  Same tasks as for on-campus speakers  Innovation – graduate student and post-doc lunch with visiting speakers    Bioinformatics Librarian  Contributes to Collaboration  Florida Genetics Conference  2 day event, every Fall semester, 2005-  Outside speakers (such as Francis Collins, Craig Venter, Leroy Hood, David Lipman), UF Speakers that match topics of outside speakers, poster session   In 2009 – 119 posters; over 400 registrants  Librarian a founding member of Organizing Committee; co-chair of 2010 Organizing Committee  Choose speakers  Manage publicity and registration  Edit poster abstracts and create content for printed program  See http://www.ufgi.ufl.edu/FL-Genetics-2008/FG2008-program.pdf    Bioinformatics Librarian  Contributes to Collaboration  UFGI Website (old technology, oh well …)  Web team leader – help provide content and direction  New faculty profiles (work with UFGI PR person)  Membership records (contact info, searchable research interests, links to personal homepages and PubMed records  Links to genetics-related UF news  UFGI seminar, conference, and workshop news  Eventually links to bioinformatics and genetics Libguides  See http://www.ufl.edu            HSCL Contributes to Collaboration  1st floor now “Collaboration Commons” – group-work collaboration space  2nd floor “Collaboration Center” – teleconferencing space for clients  Former computer classroom – “Center for Faculty Excellence” (just unpacking boxes …)  Collaboration Commons – Group Work Area Collaboration Center – Meetings, Teleconferencing, Instruction * For Clients * Center for Faculty Excellence  Library’s “media Kitchen”  Open directly into IT support areas  Instruction for faculty  Resource instruction  How to build tutorials and multimedia  Video-editing  Faculty work on collaborative projects  UF Libraries Contribute to Collaboration  VIVO – from Cornell (http://vivo.cornell.edu)  “fully-searchable research discovery tool”  UF’s involvement started with main campus science library – Valrie Davis and Sara Russell Gonzalez  UF version called Gator Scholar (to be unveiled at SLA DBIO Contributed Papers)   Other resource of interest – Harvard Medical School’s Medvane and Profiles   Librarians Contribute to Collaboration  Help identify collaborators/build collaborative teams via website, member profiles, seminar series, FG conference; VIVO (GatorScholar)   Also become PART of collaborative teams – CTSA, Biomedical Informatics Academic Program, NIH GO and Challenge Grants, etc.    Where does the HSCL go next?  Data sets – storage, management and all that goes with this   Posters and other visual media    Additional bioinformatics and informatics support   Barriers to Library Support for E-Science  Trained individuals   Institutional silos   Why the library?   What happens to what we already do?   

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