New Pub: “Reinventing Science Librarianship: Themes from the ARL-CNI Forum”

I’ve got a piece in the latest issue (the first issue, really) of Research Library Issues (previously the ARL Bimonthly Report) covering the takeaway points from last October’s forum on e-science and the future of science librarianship. The PDF has embedded audio from presentations by Rick Luce, Liz Lyon, and Cliff Lynch (oooo…multimeeeedia…) – that’s [...]

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James Boyle Tells it Like it Is

James Boyle of the Duke Law School has an awesome op-ed in today’s Financial Times about the ridiculously mislabeled “Fair Copyright in Research Works Act” (introduced, I am chagrined to say, by a Senator from a state in which I used to live – but one for whom I never voted, at least…).
Given that I’m [...]

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“E-Science Talking Points for ARL Deans and Directors”…and you!

We just added a CC license to these ‘ere talking points (Attribution-Noncommercial-Sharealike 3.0), so I thought I’d throw them up here in HTML, to complement the PDF available from ARL.  I hear they’re also being translated into Japanese!
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E-SCIENCE TALKING POINTS FOR ARL DEANS AND DIRECTORS
by Elisabeth Jones, University of Washington
with contributions from
Wendy Lougee, University of [...]

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Reinventing Science Librarianship, Day 2 – My Notes

Friday, October 17, 2008
Data Curation: Issues and Challenges (8:30-9:30 AM; Reactor Panel 9:30-10:15)
James Mullins (convener/moderator)
Liz Lyon (panelist)
Fran Berman (panelist)
Sayeed Choudhury (reactor)
Pam Bjornson (reactor) 
Intro (JM): [Missed due to computer issues.]
Liz Lyon:

How can libraries & librarians engage with science (science conceived broadly, as research)
Will give examples from the UK
Will not suggest robots to deal with the data, [...]

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Reinventing Science Librarianship, Day 1 – My Notes

Earlier this month, the Association for Research Libraries and the Coalition for Networked Information held a joint forum entitled “Reinventing Science Librarianship: Models for the Future,” in which I had the privilege of participating (I’m fairly certain I was the only graduate student in the room).
The schedule, proceedings, and a handout (PDF) containing a set of [...]

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