1. Understanding eScience:
Reflections on a Houston Symposium

2. Take Away…
• Purpose: A new and emerging opportunity for librarian/patron
research support
• What is eScience?
• What have we, as librarians, done with it?
• What can you do with it?

3. What is
eScience?

4. eScience is…
• Data-driven
• Multi-disciplinary & multi-institutional
• Fuels the Research Life Cycle

5. Research
Data Available
Question
Data Research
Preservation Design
Research Data Life Cycle
Results
Data
Dissemination
Collection and
and
Description
Publication
Data
Data
Processing
Archiving
and Analysis

6. Librarians and eScience–Why?

7. Hosting a symposium

8. The Texas Medical Center Library

10. Neil
Layne Johnson, PhD
Neil Rambo, MLIS Translational Science Information Specialist,
Director, NYU Health Sciences Library University of Minnesota
Neville Prendergast,
BGSc DipEd MLS Jen Ferguson, MS MLIS
Director, Rudolph Matas Medical Data Services Librarian, Northeastern University
Library, Tulane University

13. 79% -- "A” grade for Overall Effectiveness
75% -- Met Audience Expectations
69% -- Provided useable skills and
knowledge

14. 66% -- Visited The TMC Library eScience
website
59% -- Planning their own eScience events
35% -- Our symposium directly influenced
their work in eScience

15. What are we doing now?

16. http://www.library.tmc.edu/escience/
http://www.library.tmc.edu/escience/

17. http://escholarship.umassmed.edu/jeslib/

18. Our Future Goals

19. Where can librarians take this?
• Educate yourself
• Establish eScience
skillsets
• Immerse your
organization

20. 2012 Association of Research Libraries/Digital Library
Federation (ARL/DLF)/DuraSpace E-Science Institute

21. Defining eScience Roles for
Librarians
• Data Managers
• Consulting with researchers on use of data
management tools
• Liaison
• Gathering information, setting up communication
between stakeholders
• Promoters
• Providing information on eScience events and news

22. Take Away…
• Purpose: A new and emerging opportunity for librarian/patron
research support
• What is eScience?
• What have we, as librarians, done with it?
• What can you do with it?

23. {
QUESTIONS?
Any questions?

24. {
Thank You!
Joanne Romano,MLS joanne.romano@exch.library.tmc.edu
Allen Lopez, MSIS allen.lopez@exch.library.tmc.edu
Maianh Phi, MLIS maianh.phi@exch.library.tmc.edu

25. Bibliography
Data Management & Planning. Oregon State University Libraries. Accessed 10/8/12,
http://ica.library.oregonstate.edu/subject-guide/1346-Data-Management-Planning?tab=515626
eScience Portal for NewEngland Librarians. Accessed 8/14/12, http://esciencelibrary.umassmed.edu/escience
Hey, Tony, and Jessie Hey. “e-Science and Its Implications for the Library Community.” Library Hi Texh 24, no.
4 (2006): 515-28.
Jones, E. 2008. E-SCIENCE TALKING POINTS FOR ARL DEANS AND DIRECTORS. October 24, 2008.
Association of Research Libraries. http://www.arl.org/rtl/escience/
“SoutteReview” 2010. Newsletter of the Lamar Soutter Library, University of Massachusetts Medical School.
December 2010, Issue 34, page 1.
TMC Library eScience website. http://www.library.tmc.edu/escience/
This project has been funded in whole or in part with Federal funds from the National Library of
Medicine, National Institutes of Health, under Contract No. HHSN-276-2011-00007-C with the Houston Academy
of Medicine-Texas Medical Center Library.”