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3D Printing in the Academic Health Sciences
Submitted by guest author, Michelle Halla, Library Information Associate, Senior, University of Arizona, email@example.com.
3D printing is an additive manufacturing process that creates a physical object from a computer model.
While the technology itself isn't new, it's seen a recent resurgence thanks to lower cost, consumer grade printers. Makerspaces are popping up in schools, communities, public libraries, and academic libraries.
Academic health sciences libraries are no exception.
It's not hard to find 3D printing applications in medicine. It's being used in the field of prosthetics, to create low cost, easily scalable prosthetics for growing children (Birrell, 2017). 3D printing is being used for surgical planning, from broken bones to congenital heart conditions (Yang et al., 2016; Valverde et al., 2015). In the world of pharmaceuticals, 3D printing is being explored as a way to precisely adjust dosing in medication (Sanderson, 2015). The National Institute of Health has a 3D Print Exchange [https://3dprint.nih.gov/], a library of printable 3D models that includes a molecule of the month and a cardiac library. Given the breadth of applications, 3D printing is equally as home in the academic health sciences library as the public library.
In February 2015, The University of Arizona (UA) Libraries started a 3D Printing service after recognizing a need in their user base. While 3D printing is available elsewhere on campus, students have to be enrolled in specific programs or courses, and may not have ongoing access. The majority of students did not have access to this technology, but by offering a 3D printing service at the library students in all disciplines could benefit. In response to growing demand and the overall direction of 3D printing, that service expanded and 3D printing was offered at a second location, the UA Health Sciences Library, in March 2016. To date, we've had over 400 submissions at the Health Sciences Library.
Below are some of the ways we've seen our student utilize this service.
Rapid prototyping
3D printing an item can take anywhere from a few minutes to several days, depending on size, complexity, and resolution of the model. For example, a highly complex 3D printed brain model that we've printed (discussed more below) runs around 36 hours. However, most of the items we print take just a few hours. From submitting a design to picking up the print, our typical turnaround time ranges from 72 hours to two weeks. This means that students can design, print, and test their device in real world settings very quickly. Since the service is low cost to students, it is also low risk for students to submit multiple prototypes. When items fail to print properly, we offer the failure to students free of charge, which many students have taken to redesign their item to print better.
One such project that's taken advantage of this rapid prototyping is an ovary spoon designed by Davis McGregor. An undergraduate student working in the Tissue Optics Lab. McGregor designed a device to hold the ovary of a mouse outside the body during imaging: "The tissue needs to remain stationary during the long image acquisition, thus isolation from the breathing mouse body is essential. The overall goal of the research project is to search for precancerous tissue abnormalities. Extrapolating this data to humans, this would allow us to use an endoscope to scan the ovaries and fallopian tubes of high risk women for any precancerous indicators, and hopefully reduce the number of preventative hysterectomies in young women. The use of 3D printing has allowed us to test and tweak designs at an extremely low cost."
To date, McGregor has submitted seven different designs for his ovary spoon, and each individual spoon costs less than a dollar.
Custom parts
Necessity is the mother of invention, and the need for custom parts is a contributor to the original designs we print. We've had several students submit designs based on modifying medical devices and imaging machines to work when doing research with rodents or other animals. Retrofitting parts designed to work for humans is a challenge, and several students have found that 3D printing offers the opportunity to design a part for their exact need.
Anatomical & educational models
Prior to the expansion of the 3D Printing service to the Health Sciences Library, Andrew Demarco submitted a 3D model of a human brain. His own brain, in fact.
Demarco, then a PhD candidate in neuroaudiology and now a post-doctoral trainee at the Cognitive Recovery lab in Georgetown University Medical Center's Department of Neurology, was doing research that used functional MRIs to study how strokes affect the language centers in the brain after stroke. He submitted a 3D model of his own brain, created from an MRI scan, which he intended to use as a teaching model. Traditional brain models can cost hundreds of dollars, while his model costs just $40-50 in material.
Many students find the entry point to 3D printing through available, free 3D models on sites such as Thingiverse.com. After expanding the service to the Health Sciences Library, our first submissions wasn't anatomical heart models or original, creative applications. Our first submissions included multiple Pokemon characters and a Harry Potter wand. However, even these so called "non-educational" applications pique the interest of student and offer learning opportunities on the mechanics of 3D printing. One of our most frequently asked questions is, "why doesn't my completed item look exactly like the model?", which allows us to elaborate on the way 3D printers build objects from the ground up and need support structures in order to properly print steep overhangs. Student may try modifying an existing design- adding personal touches by changing text, size, or other features. Students don't need to already have working knowledge of CAD programs in order to use the service, but we've heard from students that printing designs created by others encouraged them to learn design, too.
You can learn more about the 3D printing service offered at UA Libraries here: http://new.library.arizona.edu/visit/print/3D
Birrell, I. (2017). 3D-printed prosthetic limbs: the next revolution in medicine. The Observer. Retrieved from https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2017/feb/19/3d-printed-prosthetic-limbs-revolution-in-medicine
3D printing: the future of manufacturing medicine? The Pharmaceutical Journal, 6 June 2015,
Birrell, I. (2017). 3D-printed prosthetic limbs: the next revolution in medicine. The Observer. Retrieved from https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2017/feb/19/3d-printed-prosthetic-limbs-revolution-in-medicine
Sanderson, K. (2015). 3D printing: the future of manufacturing medicine? The Pharmaceutical Journal, 6 June 2015, Vol 294, No 7865. http://doi.org/10.1211/PJ.2015.20068625
Valverde, I., Gomez, G., Suarez-Mejias, C., Hosseinpour, A.-R., Hazekamp, M., Roest, A., Vasquez-Jimenez, J. F., El-Rassi, I., Uribe, S., & Gomez-Cia, T. (2015). 3D printed cardiovascular models for surgical planning in complex congenital heart diseases. Journal of Cardiovascular Magnetic Resonance, 17(Suppl 1), P196. http://doi.org/10.1186/1532-429X-17-S1-P196
Yang, L., Shang, X.-W., Fan, J.-N., He, Z.-X., Wang, J.-J., Liu, M., Zhuang, Y., Ye, C. (2016). Application of 3D Printing in the Surgical Planning of Trimalleolar Fracture and Doctor-Patient Communication. BioMed Research International, 2016, 2482086. http://doi.org/10.1155/2016/2482086
Reflection: ACRL Data Management Roadshow in Boston
Submitted by Guest Author Tom Hohenstein, Research Data Management Librarian, Boston University and NER eScience Advisory Board Member, email@example.com
On January 13, 2017 Boston University, the Boston Library Consortium, the National Library of Medicine – New England Region sponsored the Association of College and Research Libraries Research Data Management Roadshow (ACRL RDM Roadshow). The one-day workshop was lead by Abigail Goben, Assistant Professor and Liaison Librarian at the University of Illinois – Chicago, and Megan Sapp Nelson, Associate Professor and Liaison Library at Purdue University. 80 librarians from the New England area attended to learn about "Building Your Research Data Management Toolkit."
The workshops goals were to help participants
- identify their existing skills and how they can transfer those abilities to support researchers throughout the data life cycle
- locate on-campus offices to partner with to support researchers needs
- learn the common parts of data management plan
- identify the data management requirements of the various disciplines each liaison supports
After the welcome and introduction we started the day's first session on "Situating Libraries in Data." This topic focused on helping librarians understand the data life cycle and the potential roles that libraries can have providing data management services. During a breakout session participants brainstormed interactions they might have with researchers about their data. Each of the small-group discussions were shared with the larger group by posting our thoughts on a large notepad and reviewing each groups' conclusions.
Our next session highlighted the existing skills librarians have and how they apply to data management. This excellent session helped participants appreciate that as subject liaisons we are well positioned to help our disciplines with data management because we not only have subject knowledge but also have training in reference interviews, making referrals, providing instruction, and marketing our services. All of these skills are essential to being an excellent provider of data management services.
The final morning session increased our knowledge about the data management needs and best practices of the disciplines we support. Topics included how to speak with researchers about their data and how to gather information prudently to maximize the outcomes of our time. We broke into small groups for a think-pair-share to talk about the data librarians create and analyze as well as the disciplinary norms of our profession. This was a particularly great exercise as it reflected the ways we do and don't practice good data management within our field and that we should be understanding of the difficulty other researchers have as well.
The afternoon began with the various parts of a data management plan and its role in helping researchers manage their data. By understanding the products of research, potential data formats, policies for reuse and sharing, and the importance of archiving and providing long-term access to data sets we learned how our existing skills could be put into practice. During this session we also reviewed practical resources like the DMPTool and Data Curation Profiles and how we can make use of them to support researchers.
The fifth session highlighted the various partners librarians might have on their respective campuses. The importance of finding campus partners is critical to building a culture of data management at any institution. We learned about when it is best to build a relationship when it is best to simply refer researchers to an campus resource. We also developed an elevator pitch about the library's resources to support data management on campus and how to effectively communicate our services to key stakeholders.
The day ended with an open discussion of some of the instructors successes and failures. This was not only insightful but also effective at detailing some of the real challenges and rewards librarians have had starting data management services. It also highlighted the instructors experiences and knowledge in an effective manner. It was a great way to end the day.
The ACRL RDM Roadshow was a great event for New England librarians interested in learning more about data management and how to support researchers on their campuses.
For more information about the presenters and the ACRL RDM Roadshow please visit: http://www.ala.org/acrl/rdmroadshow
Upcoming eScience Event: Breaking Down RDM Instruction
5th Research Data Management Roundtable Event
Breaking Down RDM Instruction
Thursday, March 2, 2017 10:00am – 4:00pm
University of Massachusetts Amherst
W.E.B Du Bois Library, Room 2601
Morning session: RDM Learning Objectives
- A panel of your colleagues will talk more about developing learning objectives, and best practices for creating RDM instruction learning objectives. Panelists include: Thea Atwood (UMass Amherst), Megan Bresnahan (UNH) & Zac Painter (UMass Dartmouth)
- The following Roundtable will focus on your experiences creating RDM instruction learning objectives.
Afternoon session: RDM Assignment Building
- Presentation and hands-on workshop from Brian Baldi, UMass Amherst Institute for Teaching Excellence and Faculty Development. This interactive workshop will help you frame an assignment for a one-shot session, whether you are a seasoned one-shot instructor or someone who is just beginning to think about instructional design.
- The following Roundtable will focus on assessing and reflecting on RDM teaching.
For more information and registration: http://guides.library.umass.edu/RDMR
FYI: Registration is open until March 1st!
Join us for an eScience Advisory Board meeting!
A message from Linda Plunket, Associate University Librarian for Graduate & Research Services, Boston University and NER eScience Program Advisory Board Chair, email@example.com
Join us for an eScience Advisory Board Meeting
Would you like to participate in an eScience Advisory Board meeting? If so, feel free to join us for our next virtual meeting on Wednesday, February 15, 11am – 12pm EST. Contact Julie Goldman (firstname.lastname@example.com) for call-in information.
As chair of the New England eScience Advisory Board, I thought it might be helpful to describe briefly the purpose and activities of the Board in supporting many of the activities and programs sponsored by the National Network of Libraries of Medicine (NNLM) in the New England Region (NER). I've also included a link to a webpage of Board members and listed some of the opportunities that exist for members of our community to become more involved.
Purpose and Activities
The Advisory Board acts as a liaison between the funding agency (NN/LM) and the committees and groups in New England that are carrying out the goals of the grant proposal. The Advisory Board facilitates communication among the committees and groups working on developing tools and resources, such as the eScience Librarian Portal, and creating programs, such as the upcoming Science Boot Camp 2017. Julie Goldman, eScience Coordinator, is an invaluable asset for the Board, keeping us organized and on track.
Board Membership
A listing of the Advisory Board members (current and past) may be found on the eScience Librarian Portal.
Opportunities for Greater Involvement
- Write a blog post about something you and your colleagues are doing to support research data management on your campus.
- Attend a roundtable event or the spring eScience Symposium on April 6.
- Host a Research Data Management Roundtable.
- Volunteer to review an article submitted to the Journal of eScience Librarianship (JeSLIB).
We hope you'll join an Advisory Board call on February 15!
Registration is Now Open for the 9th Annual NE eScience Symposium April 6, 2017
To continue to enhance collaborative New England Region libraries' support of e-science initiatives for their research institutions, the NNLM New England Region is hosting the 9th Annual University of Massachusetts and New England Area Librarian e-Science Symposium. This day-long event will serve as an educational and collaborative opportunity for science and health sciences librarians to discuss e-science resources, in addition to future roles that libraries and librarians might take on to support their institutions.
The 2017 Symposium theme "Libraries in Data Science: Addressing Gaps and Bridges" will focus on collaborations and opportunities for librarians becoming involved in data science at their institutions.
Attendees will hear a keynote from Kristi Holmes, Northwestern University. Kristi is Director, Galter Health Sciences Library, Feinberg School of Medicine; Associate Professor, Preventive Medicine (Health and Biomedical Informatics); and Director of Evaluation, Northwestern University Clinical and Translational Sciences (NUCATS). Her keynote will focus on her library's success involved in Northwestern University's NIH Clinical and Translational Science Award. We hope this session will inspire and motive attendees to "think outside" the library and identify potential bridges for data services.
Breakout sessions are back this year! Participants will be able to attend 2 of 4 planned sessions featuring collaborations libraries are currently involved in. See complete descriptions.
- Data Repositories Interactive Workshop: Andrew Creamer and Hope Lappen, Brown University
- Education & Training Interactive Workshop: Sophie Hou, University Corporation for Atmospheric Research and Nancy Hoebelheinrich, Knowledge Motifs, LLC
- Education & Training Presentation: Sex, Lies, and Data with Shea Swauger, University of Colorado – Denver
- Institutional Models Presentation: Christine Malinowski and Phoebe Ayers, MIT
In the afternoon, there will be a moderated panel discussing the ways librarians and libraries can work with institutional partners (either on/off campus) to enhance data science. The panel will be moderated by Sally Gore, Research Evaluation Analyst, University of Massachusetts Center for Clinical and Translational Science. Participants on the panel include:
- Daina Bouquin, Head Librarian, John G. Wolbach Library, Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics
- Audrey Mickle, Data Librarian, Marine Biological Laboratory Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution Library
- Yvette N. Woell, Manager, Argonne Research Library, Argonne National Laboratory
Additionally, as with previous symposia, a poster session will be held, to highlight work in e-science that has been accomplished at various libraries in the region while also encouraging discussion and networking among event participants. This year's symposium will again feature a poster competition with three different competition categories. You are invited to submit a poster abstract; we are still accepting submissions until February 8th!
The symposium will be held on Thursday, April 6th, 2017 in the Faculty Conference Room at the University of Massachusetts Medical School in Worcester, Massachusetts. The event is free of charge, but advance registration is required; due to strict space limitations, attendance will be capped at 100 people.
For further details & registration, please visit the symposium website: http://escholarship.umassmed.edu/escience_symposium/2017
Please direct any questions to:
Julie Goldman, MLIS
eScience Coordinator
National Network of Libraries of Medicine, New England Region
University of Massachusetts Medical School
55 Lake Avenue North
Worcester, MA 01655
(508) 856-3048
A Love Note for #LYD17: Love Your Data Week
Posted on behalf of the LYD Week Planning Committee:
Thea Atwood, Michelle Bass, Heather Coates, Patti Condon, Erin Foster, Carla Graebner, Cinthya Ippoliti, Renaine Julian, Sebastian Karcher, Inna Kouper, Amy Neeser, Melissa Ratajeski
This year's theme is emphasizing data quality for researchers at any stage in their career. Visit our website: https://loveyourdata.wordpress.com/ or follow us on Twitter #LYD17 or #loveyourdata to gain inspiration, share ideas, and find new ways to promote data services and resources at your library and beyond!
Please tell us if you plan to participate and we will list your institution's name on the site so we can continue to grow the community of data lovers.
BD2K Guide to the Fundamentals of Data Science Webinar Series Continues!
The NIH Big Data to Knowledge program is pleased to announce the spring semester of The BD2K Guide to the Fundamentals of Data Science, a series of online lectures given by experts from across the country covering a range of diverse topics in data science. This course is an introductory overview that assumes no prior knowledge or understanding of data science.
This semester will cover computing, data modeling, and overarching topics. The series will run through May, meeting once per week at 12noon-1pm Eastern Time/9am-10am Pacific Time.
To join the lecture: https://attendee.gotowebinar.com/register/341938597813942273
This is a joint effort of the BD2K Training Coordinating Center, the BD2K Centers Coordination Center, and the NIH Office of the Associate Director of Data Science.
The following topics will be covered in January through May of 2017:
1/6/17: Computing Overview (Patricia Kovatch, Mount Sinai)
1/13/17: Workflows/pipelines (Rommie Amaro, UCSD)
1/20/17: Running a Data Science Lab (Trey Ideker, UCSD)
1/27/17: Modern Computing: Cloud, Parallel, Distributed, HPC (Umit Catalyurek, GA Tech)
2/3/17: Commons: lessons learned, current state (Vivien Bonazzi, NIH)
2/10/17: Data Modeling Overview (Rafael Irizarry, Harvard)
2/17/17: Supervised Learning (Daniela Witten, U Washington)
2/24/17: Unsupervised Learning (Ali Shojaie, U Washington)
3/3/17: Algorithms, incl. Optimization (Pavel Pevzner, UCSD)
3/10/17: Bayesian inference (Mike Newton, U Wisconsin)
3/17/17: Data issues: Bias, Confounding, and Missing data (Lance Waller, Emory)
3/24/17: Causal inference (Joe Hogan, Brown)
3/31/17: Data Visualization tools and communication (Nils Gehlenborg, Harvard)
4/7/17: Modeling Synthesis (John Harer, Duke)
4/14/17: Open science (Brian Nosek, UVa)
4/21/17: Data sharing (Christine Borgman and Irene Pasquetto, UCLA)
4/28/17: Ethical Issues (Bartha Knoppers, McGill)
5/5/17: Reproducible Research (John Ionnaidis, Stanford)
5/12/17: Additional considerations for clinical data (Zak Kohane, Harvard)
5/19/17: BD2K Guide Summary & NIH Context (Phil Bourne, National Institutes of Health)
The first semester of the series covered Data Management and Data Representation. To see archived presentations, go to: http://www.bigdatau.org/data-science-seminars.
Notes from the November 2016 New England RDM Roundtable Discussion
The fourth New England Research Data Management Roundtable was held November 15, 2016 at the University of New Hampshire in Durham, NH. This roundtable was the fourth in a planned series of roundtable discussions targeted for New England librarians who are engaged in research data management services or who want to learn more about data librarianship. Sponsored by the National Network of Libraries of Medicine, New England Region, the NE RDM Roundtables provide opportunities for New England librarians to compare notes, ask questions, share lessons learned, explore new working models, acquire fresh ideas for their workplaces and develop new partnerships.
Coupled with the afternoon roundtable discussions, the morning session focused on 'data visualization.' Featured were two presentations from visualization experts from the area speaking about data visualization and connections to and collaborations with the library from the perspective of non-librarians:
Steven Braun, Data Analytics and Visualization Specialist
Northeastern University Libraries Digital Scholarship Group
Steven shared insights about his work with data visualizations, the services he supports at Snell Library, and also some challenges he has encountered with data visualization. One main challenge Steven voiced is how to provide general support for data visualization which is very interdisciplinary and includes many broad subject disciplines. Steven also proposed several questions for librarians to think about: why should the library offer data viz services; how do you measure the impact of your services; how do you provide that broad support; and how can you collaborate within & outside the library?
Patrick Rashleigh, Data Visualization Coordinator
Brown University Library
Patrick started his presentation a 'tour' of the Digital Scholarship Lab (DSL) at Brown University and spoke about the types of services his is offering. Patrick went on to highlight the many different types of visualizations that exist, and coupled those with the types of skills one needs for different visualization types and services. We must think about what "data visualization" means, and also what a data visualization "specialist" is. Related to Steven's presentation point about data viz being an interdisciplinary subject, a data viz specialist must also, therefore, have a wide variety of skills in order to support a wide range of services. Patrick points out that while he works with people specifically on creating data visualizations through coding and design, he must also take on roles of a manager or coordinator to run the DSL at Brown.
After the presentations, participants also had the opportunity to tour the UNH's Data Visualization Research Lab, located in the Jere A. Chase Ocean Engineering Lab. The DVRL is collaborating with many departments on campus to convey research results in ways that are easy to understand and comprehend. They are using interactive and cutting-edge technology, such as virtual reality, to create data visualizations that do just that! Check out some of the work they are producing on their website: http://ccom.unh.edu/vislab
In the afternoon roundtable discussions, librarians from multiple New England institutions discussed the topic "Event Planning and Outreach." Members of the planning group moderated the discussion and prompted the group with multiple questions related to planning and marketing events.
The following is a summary of discussion questions, attendee responses and comments from the November Roundtable Discussion:Topic 1: Event Planning
Question 1: What events have you planned in the past, and how did you determine what the event would cover?
- Events that targeted at librarians
- Review what to cover, the scope, and the learning objectives by surveying the environment.
- Used surveys, evaluations from previous sessions, local network, and from advisory groups to determine event topics
More experience with one-on-one consultations
- 3-credit class instruction with lots of guest speakers
- Currently working with grants—about grant searching and trying to get involved at the start of the grant process
- Scholarly communications class on data management—did not have a lot of attendance but thought the class was good
- OA Week: multiple no show events
- Just getting started, no events yet
- Poorly attended workshops but students were very excited by them—urged them to "tell your friends," but still very low attendance
- Liberal Arts free lunch for faculty, with Provost in attendance—good turnout, but they expected more specific instruction on how to manage their data
- LibGuide on RDM, presented using it to Teaching, Learning & Research (liaison librarians and a few others)
- Planning a workshop for liaison librarians—what they should be doing to get up to speed
- PPT for DM tweaked for different audiences around campus
- Brought in a guest speaker that taught librarians about data management and being a liaison, worked with a data committee to include the library and connected and then offered him as a speaker to the whole university community
- While there's interest, the library is still struggling with skills and how to obtain them
- Student need/Faulty need spurred in how they need help tackling data
Question 2: What components of your events were successful or unsuccessful?
- Classes need student and faculty feedback—but it's a great way for libraries to learn about the classes they are offering
- Short topics and short events seemed to garner more interest and more attendance "library pop-up sessions"
- Used button maker with success
- Use 3 x 5 format—3 slides and 5 minutes
- Food, raffles, contests, working with faculty
- How to connect workshops to the curriculum of the faculty you support—try to add value to the classes
- Good lures can be food, wine, and cheese (if possible!)
- Have the right pitch for what the library is—we need to think about what we are communicating to faculty about our efforts and how to communicate the library's mission
- For faculty research is a process—try to use mind mapping or scaffolding tools to try to understand their process
- We need to avoid being a "tool bag"—how to brand our workshops and services to be more than a bag of tools
- Communicate transferable skills—connect skills to other skills in real life such as tasks on information management
Question 3: How would you adapt what you offer now based on what you've learned?
- Need to limit it to specifics and make the title more specific
- Really important to have a great title or your workshop.
- Better marketing & better timing
- What can we do other than workshops?
- One on one is terrific, but not scalable
- If faculty encourage their students to attend, they attend. How to get faculty to do this?
- Much better buy-in with certain departments/areas where you may have an especially good liaison relationship
- Have students give you appointment times that work for them, and then trick them into coming to a group session!
- Possible to incorporate some DM training into subject area training
- Talk about data management as "workflow management" or "project management"
- Make faculty understand that it is important for their students to learn DM best practices as part of their overall education
- Working with data services to see how they can connect, connecting with each digital aspects of campus
Question 4: Who did you collaborate with to plan your events?
- "New Blood"—new librarians that inspire and bring energy
- Talking to other librarians and seeing how data literacy and data visualization
- Office of compliance helped advertise event
- Trying to collaborate with IT
- Office of Professional Development—very successful
Question 5: Were your events evaluated? What were the responses?
- Try to capture the learning objects for review (take pictures)
- Currently working with grants—about grant searching and trying to get involved at the start of the grant process (mixed reception about workshops)
Question 6: What other sources have inspired you when planning your events?
- Information literature pedagogy
- Problems in data management
- Tools, methodology and pedagogy
- Receive output, for example minute papers at the end of the session
- Use the techniques done at software carpentry sessions
- Links and surveys at the end of the session
- Communicate with faculty to determine what information is needed
- Get questions from Faculty about using R—more and more questions
Question 1: Are there campus partnerships established for promoting and incentivizing events?
- Office of Sponsored Programs
- First year orientation at the beginning of the year
- Diversity and Inclusion Office—market to support and assist groups
- Think about language around hack-a-thons
- Connecting the library with other groups at institutions for space in new buildings
- Public services
- Book talks
- Graduate students through liaisons to each department
- Use outside speakers like the Center for Open Science to help connect with new audiences
- Grad students come when it's rewarded with credit or grades
- Good turnout when partnering with grad programs
Question 2: When are your events more popular? Are certain events more popular than others?
- Successful events have been after 5pm
- When faculty require that students attend
- Location on campus is important to attendance
Question 3: Do you have a marketing plan at your library? Do you have an established group that facilitates marketing?
- Many libraries with no marketing plan
- Library with a marketing plan—it's gone nowhere
- Marketing can be a tough aspect for the event—but faculty liaisons can partner with departments and create well attended events and interests
- Ideally, it's a necessary thing for a team
- One campus has social media people to help form tweets that connect with students and talking points for library services
- Using student staff workers for social media has helped
- Wish there was an intern program—like a grad student in marketing to help with marketing and outreach
- Tweeting, emails, creating visuals
- Facebook presence only—recommended using Buffer to schedule social media events throughout the week
- You can create a Snapchat filter for the library's spaces—every time a student posts they can choose the library as a geotag filter!
- Not just posting library events, but also posting interesting information
Question 4: How do you target a particular audience?
- Event coordination checklist—use from another partner on campus
- Communicating campus-wide
- Emailing groups
- Have events list and list for tracking outreach
- Talk to students while engaging in another activity
- Tech talk—had a tech talk on mass catalog
Question 5: Have you ever marketed an event to a particular audience, only to have another one show up?
- Trying to get graduate students to events, but more undergraduate seem to be attending
- Some problems with only librarians showing up to events that are for faculty or graduate students
Question 6: How are your marketing efforts evaluated?
- Social media stats
- Using internal registration to see who's coming
- It's important to find what's more interesting with students—remove the disconnect and remember to connect with students
Upcoming NEASIST Event: Service Design
Posted on behalf of Kate Nyhan, Research and Education Librarian – Public Health,
Cushing/Whitney Medical Library, Yale University, email@example.com
Are you planning to rethink your library's services, spaces, or systems in 2017?
Get a good start towards an ecosystem tailored for great user experience by participating in Service Design: The Holistic Experience.
Three Keynote Speakers
Six Participatory Breakout Sessions
Five Student Lightning Talks
With participatory breakout sessions and thoughtful keynotes, this one-day conference will give you the concepts you need to talk to stakeholders in your organization about service design. It will give you tools you can use to gather the data that will inform your organization's service design discussions. It will give you a platform to share your ideas and experiences designing better services.
The New England Chapter of the Association for Information Science and Technology, together with the Simmons College Student Chapter, invite you to participate in Service Design: The Holistic Experience.
Where: Simmons College in Boston
When: Thursday, 1/12/17, starting post-rush hour at 9:30 AM
Cost: $35-$75
Questions? Ask email@example.com or firstname.lastname@example.com
Broken link? Try http://tinyurl.com/2017servicedesign
RDAP Registration and Call for proposals for posters, lightning talks, and more, now open!
New Issue: Journal of eScience Librarianship
The latest issue of the Journal of eScience Librarianship (JeSLIB) has been published! Volume 5, issue 1 looks at the evolution of JeSLIB in providing a variety of types of scholarship and asks the readership, among other questions, "What areas of focus would you like to see us pursue during the next four years?" The issue's articles highlight the importance of gathering feedback and practicing assessment prior to implementing changes to established data services, investing in new data initiatives or developing librarian roles. The video articles and commentary provide insights into the future of data science and librarians professional development from an educator's and practicing librarians points-of-view.
Table of Contents
Volume 5, Issue 1 (2016)
Charting a New Path:
The Evolution of the Journal of eScience Librarianship
Elaine R. Martin
A Librarian Out of the Library
T. Scott Plutchak
Full-Length Papers
Data Management Plan Requirements for Campus Grant Competitions:
Opportunities for Research Data Services Assessment and Outreach
Andrew M. Johnson and Shelley Knuth
Assessment of and Response to Data Needs of Clinical and Translational Science Researchers and Beyond
Hannah F. Norton, Michele R. Tennant, Cecilia Botero, and Rolando Garcia-Milian
Discovery and Reuse of Open Datasets: An Exploratory Study
Sara Mannheimer, Leila Belle Sterman, and Susan Borda
From Plan to Action:
Successful Data Management Plan Implementation in a Multidisciplinary Project
Margaret H. Burnette, Sarah C. Williams, and Heidi J. Imker
Assessing the National Library of Medicine's Informationist Awards
Ariel Deardorff MLIS, Valerie Florance Ph.D., and Alan VanBiervliet Ph.D.
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eScience Symposium Reflections from Jian Qin:
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2017 Science Boot Camp — Save the Date!
It may be cold outside and the holiday lights are up, but it is already time to look forward to summer time and the annual Science Boot Camp for Librarians!
This year's Science Boot Camp will be held June 14-16, 2017 on the campus of University of Massachusetts Amherst, in Amherst, Massachusetts. Science Boot Camp is a fun and affordable 2 ½ day immersion into science topics offering opportunities for librarians and library students interested in science, health sciences, and technology to learn, meet and network in a fun, laid-back atmosphere. Now in its ninth year, the New England Science Boot Camp has been hosted on multiple New England campuses and has been attended by librarians and library students from various regions of the US and beyond—and has inspired the development of other Science Boot Camps in the West, Southeast, and Canada!
Each science session will include one scientist presenting an overview of the field and a second scientist discussing their research applications within the field.
The topics for this year's SBC science sessions are still TBD!
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Data Reproducibility- Open Access Week Recap
Submitted by Portal Editor Ahlam Saleh (firstname.lastname@example.com), Research Librarian at the Health Sciences Library, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, on behalf of Chris Kollen.
Thank you to Chris Kollen for being our guest blogger for this post. Chris Kollen is the Data Curation Librarian at the University of Arizona Libraries.
The University of Arizona (UA) Libraries has sponsored various programs during International Open Access Week for the past several years. The theme for this year's Open Access week is "Open in Action" – encourages all researchers, students, and others to take concrete steps to make their own work more openly available and encourage others to do the same.
Transparency, integrity, and reproducibility are defining aspects of the scientific method. According to a survey conducted by Nature in 2016, 52% of the respondents agreed there is a "significant crisis of reproducibility". During International Open Access Week this year, the UA Libraries sponsored a program, Data Reproducibility: Integrity and Transparency, an issue of prime interest to UA researchers.
The first speaker, Ivan Oransky, M.D., co-founded Retraction Watch in 2010 with Adam Marcus.
Dr. Oransky's presentation, Retractions, Post-Publication Peer Review, and Fraud: Scientific
Publishing's Wild West, discussed the increase in retractions, the reasons for the increase, whether or not fraud is on the increase, the growth of post-publication peer review, and other trends.
The second speaker was Anita Bandrowski from the University of California San Diego and lead for the Resource Reproducibility Initiative. Dr. Bandrowski presentation, To authenticate or Not to Authenticate? addressed the National Institute of Health requirement to authenticate Key Biological Resources for most grant proposals. She discussed what Key Biological Resources are, ongoing efforts to understand how to authenticate them, the journal response, practical steps to improve reporting of research in journal publications, and resources available.
Our third speaker was Christian Collberg, Professor in the Department of Computer Science at the UA. Dr. Collberg's presentation, Repeatability in Computer Systems Research described a study conducted with Dr. Todd Proebsting on the extent to which Computer Systems researchers share their code and data. They examined papers with results backed by code to see what fraction they would be able to obtain and build the code.
The program was one of the most successful Open Access programs the UA Libraries has sponsored! We are planning on making the recording of the program and the speaker's slides
available at the University of Arizona's Campus Repository.
2017 eScience Symposium Call for Proposals!
Call for Proposals: Breakout Session and Poster Presentation Abstracts
The e-Science Symposium Planning Committee invites you to submit a proposal for participation at the 9th Annual University of Massachusetts and New England Area Librarian eScience Symposium, to be held on Thursday, April 6th, 2017 at the University of Massachusetts Medical School in Worcester, MA.
This year's symposium theme "Libraries in Data Science: Addressing Gaps and Bridges" focuses on collaborations and opportunities for librarians becoming involved in data science at their institutions. Check out the confirmed agenda at the 2017 symposium conference page!
We are interested in receiving proposals for presentations, interactive workshops and posters that highlight librarians involved in collaborations with a research group, department, center, or lab on or off their respective academic campus.
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- Funding Agencies (example: writing data management plan templates for NIH)
- Institutional Models (example: solo data librarian vs center/team)
Breakout Sessions: 60 minute presentation or interactive workshop. Selected presenters will receive an honorarium and all travel expenses paid for by the NN/LM NER. All sessions will be video recorded and featured on the e-Science Symposium website. Because there are a limited number of breakout sessions, all presentation and interactive workshop proposals will be considered for a poster presentation.
The deadline for submitting a Breakout Session abstract is Wednesday, December 21st, 2016.
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Poster Session: Awards to the Most Informative Poster in Communicating e-Science Librarianship, Poster for Best Example of e-Science in Action, and Best Poster Overall.
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When Sony launched its PlayStation Now service as a beta last year, the ridiculous per-game rental pricing structure stopped us from giving it any serious consideration almost immediately. Last week, though, the service graduated from beta with a more feasible all-you-can-play subscription plan. Suddenly this was an opportunity. Has the idea of running games on remote servers advanced at all since OnLive's ahead-of-its-time launch back in 2010?
Sony has already announced a tv with this built in capability later this year. I support this, however for those with slow internet speeds (and the whole deal with net neutrality and paying for priority bandwidth) those could be limiting factors.
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The Sega Channel was pretty cool, in its time.
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Unfortunately it cost extra around here, that we couldn't get it, TCI locally before Charter moved in and took over locally was already charging us an arm and leg already, and parents wouldn't pay for it even though I offered to pay for it with my job at the time, using my brothers Genesis, even though I was on SNES, but still.
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I don't think I would like it built-in to a tv, personally. I don't rate the reliability of built-in DVD players and the older built-in VHS players very highly.
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It's an exciting time for government. There's a Presidential election next year in the US, and the UK will choose its Prime Minister in May, just a few months from now.
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Maritime Security: Coast Guard Should Conduct Required Inspections of Offshore Energy Infrastructure
GAO-12-37: Published: Oct 28, 2011. Publicly Released: Oct 28, 2011.
Congressional interest in the security of offshore energy infrastructure has increased because of the lives lost and the substantial damages that resulted from the Deepwater Horizon incident in April 2010. The U.S. Coast Guard--a component of the Department of Homeland Security (DHS)--is the lead federal agency for maritime security, including the security of offshore energy infrastructure. The Co...
Quadrennial Homeland Security Review: Enhanced Stakeholder Consultation and Use of Risk Information Could Strengthen Future Reviews
GAO-11-873: Published: Sep 15, 2011. Publicly Released: Oct 5, 2011.
The United States continues to face a range of evolving threats, such as the 2010 attempted attack on the nation's air cargo system, that underscore why homeland security planning efforts are crucial to the security of the nation. The Implementing Recommendations of the 9/11 Commission Act of 2007 required the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) to provide a comprehensive examination of the U.S...
Coast Guard: Action Needed as Approved Deepwater Program Remains Unachievable
GAO-12-101T: Published: Oct 4, 2011. Publicly Released: Oct 4, 2011.
This testimony discusses our recent work on the Coast Guard's Deepwater acquisition, which represents the majority of the Coast Guard's efforts to recapitalize its fleet of vessels and aircraft. This statement is based on our July 28, 2011, report, Coast Guard: Action Needed as Approved Deepwater Program Remains Unachievable. This report discusses areas in which the Coast Guard has strengthened it...
Excess Uranium Inventories: Clarifying DOE's Disposition Options Could Help Avoid Further Legal Violations
GAO-11-846: Published: Sep 26, 2011. Publicly Released: Sep 26, 2011.
Uranium is a key component in the production of nuclear energy and nuclear weapons. The Department of Energy (DOE) manages the nation's surplus uranium, which is derived in part from former nuclear weapons production. In 2008, DOE published a uranium management plan that set a target for DOE uranium sales and transfers to avert harm to the domestic uranium industry. In 2009, DOE began using natura...
Homeland Security: DHS and TSA Acquisition and Development of New Technologies
GAO-11-957T: Published: Sep 22, 2011. Publicly Released: Sep 22, 2011.
Within the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) is responsible for developing and acquiring new technologies to address homeland security needs. TSA's acquisition programs represent billions of dollars in life-cycle costs and support a wide range of aviation security missions and investments including technologies used to screen passengers, checke...
Afghanistan's Donor Dependence
GAO-11-948R: Published: Sep 20, 2011. Publicly Released: Sep 20, 2011.
The United States has allocated over $72 billion to secure, stabilize, and rebuild Afghanistan since 2002, and the President requested over $18 billion for these purposes for fiscal year 2012. GAO has on numerous occasions raised doubts about the Government of the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan's (GIRoA) ability to fund its public expenditures--funds spent to provide public services to the Afghan...
Modernizing the Nuclear Security Enterprise: The National Nuclear Security Administration's Proposed Acquisition Strategy Needs Further Clarification and Assessment
GAO-11-848: Published: Sep 20, 2011. Publicly Released: Sep 20, 2011.
The National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA)--a semiautonomous agency within the Department of Energy (DOE)-- proposed in March 2010 a new acquisition strategy that includes consolidating the management and operating (M&O) contracts for two of its eight sites--the Y-12 National Security Complex (Y-12) in Tennessee and the Pantex Plant in Texas--and consolidating all construction projects fo...
Homeland Security: Challenges for the Food and Agriculture Sector in Responding to Potential Terrorist Attacks and Natural Disasters
GAO-11-946T: Published: Sep 13, 2011. Publicly Released: Sep 13, 2011.
This testimony examines issues related to food and agriculture emergencies. Agriculture is critical to public health and the nation's economy. It annually produces $300 billion worth of food and other farm products and is estimated to be responsible for 1 out of every 12 U.S. jobs. As a result, any natural or deliberate disruption of the agriculture or food production systems--including natural di...
Visa Security: Additional Actions Needed to Strengthen Overstay Enforcement and Address Risks in the Visa Process
GAO-11-910T: Published: Sep 13, 2011. Publicly Released: Sep 13, 2011.
The attempted bombing of an airline on December 25, 2009, by a Nigerian citizen with a valid U.S. visa renewed concerns about the security of the visa process. Further, unauthorized immigrants who entered the country legally on a temporary basis but then overstayed their authorized periods of admission--overstays--could pose homeland security risks. The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has ce...
Homeland Security: Actions Needed to Improve Response to Potential Terrorist Attacks and Natural Disasters Affecting Food and Agriculture
GAO-11-652: Published: Aug 19, 2011. Publicly Released: Sep 12, 2011.
The President issued Homeland Security Presidential Directive (HSPD) -9 in 2004 to establish a national policy to defend the food and agriculture systems against terrorist attacks, major disasters, and other emergencies. HSPD-9 assigns various emergency response and recovery responsibilities to the Departments of Agriculture (USDA), Health and Human Services (HHS), Homeland Security (DHS), and oth...


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The Anti-Corruption Bureau (ACB) has issued summons to senior NCP leaders and former ministers Ajit Pawar and Sunil Tatkare in connection with alleged irregularities in awarding contracts for irrigation projects which led to cost escalation.
The scam pertains to allegedly awarding sub-contracts to firms floated or controlled by the members of the Bhujbal family, for construction of the building at the cost of Rs. 100 crore in New Delhi when Congress-NCP coalition was in power in Maharashtra.
The ACB registered another case of cheating, forgery and criminal misconduct against five members of the Khatri family, who were all executive engineers in an irrigation project, and also against some unidentified Mantralaya employees.
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'Hearthstone' Stream This Week To Show Off 'Mean Streets Of Gadgetzan' CardsPosted Sun Nov 27, 2016 at 12:16 PM PST by Connor Sears
Get a preview of the three feuding families.Continue Reading
The Game Awards 2016 Nominees Are...Posted Wed Nov 16, 2016 at 10:07 AM PST by Sophia Edwards
'Overwatch', 'Uncharted 4', 'Doom', and more up for Game of the Year.Continue Reading
Blizzard Reveals Two New 'Heroes Of The Storm' Characters At BlizzConPosted Sun Nov 6, 2016 at 10:50 AM PST by Connor Sears
A new battleground is also incoming.Continue Reading
Blizzard Announces Next Hearthstone Expansion With 'Mean Streets Of Gadgetzan'Posted Sun Nov 6, 2016 at 08:00 AM PST by Connor Sears
Dive into Azeroth's criminal underworld later this year.Continue Reading
Blizzard (FINALLY) Unleashes Sombra On 'Overwatch'Posted Sat Nov 5, 2016 at 09:08 AM PDT by Justin Clark
"Boop."Continue Reading
Blizzard Opens Up Paid BattleTag Name ChangesPosted Sun Sep 18, 2016 at 09:03 AM PDT by Connor Sears
Though everyone still gets one for free.Continue Reading
PSA: 'Overwatch' Is Free To Play This Weekend On Xbox One/PS4Posted Sat Sep 10, 2016 at 01:19 PM PDT by Justin Clark
Clear your schedule.Continue Reading
'Overwatch' Season 2 Competitive Play Brings Changes To Skill Rating, Removes Sudden DeathPosted Sun Sep 4, 2016 at 09:17 AM PDT by Connor Sears
While also giving disconnects a bit more than a slap on the wrist.Continue Reading
'Heroes Of The Storm' Getting 'Overwatch'-Style Player Of The Game SystemPosted Sun Aug 28, 2016 at 10:23 AM PDT by Connor Sears
With 100 percent less Torbjorn.Continue Reading
'Overwatch' Patch Buffs Ana and Nerfs McCreePosted Wed Jul 27, 2016 at 06:12 AM PDT by Sophia Edwards
Welcome adjustments all around.Continue Reading
'Overwatch' Reveals Its Latest Hero, AnaPosted Wed Jul 13, 2016 at 05:45 AM PDT by Sophia Edwards
Playable through public tests right now.Continue Reading
New 'Diablo,' 'Warcraft' Characters Coming To 'Heroes Of The Storm'Posted Sun Jul 3, 2016 at 09:11 AM PDT by Connor Sears
Balancing out Darkness Incarnate with the Archangel of Hope.Continue Reading
'Overwatch' Competitive Play Will Undergo More Changes To Make Sudden Deaths Less FrequentPosted Sun Jun 26, 2016 at 08:13 AM PDT by Connor Sears
Perhaps eventually leaving it out entirely.Continue Reading
'Overwatch' Avoid Player Function To Be Removed Due to Matchmaking IssuesPosted Wed Jun 22, 2016 at 06:44 AM PDT by Sophia Edwards
Skilled players won't have to deal with extremely long queue times.Continue Reading
'Overwatch' Director Discusses Competitive Play Changes; Launch Planned For The End Of This MonthPosted Sun Jun 19, 2016 at 09:02 AM PDT by Connor Sears
Including changes to season length and Assault maps.Continue Reading
Soldier: 76 Stars In Final 'Overwatch' Animated ShortPosted Sun May 22, 2016 at 12:09 PM PDT by Connor Sears
An old dog with new tricks.Continue Reading
Can't Get Enough 'Overwatch?' Then Check Out the History of the Shimado Clan in 'Dragons'Posted Mon May 16, 2016 at 10:16 AM PDT by Brian Hoss
Only a Shimado can control the dragons.Continue Reading
'Overwatch' Taking One-Strike Stance With CheatersPosted Sun May 15, 2016 at 02:00 PM PDT by Connor Sears
Aim-bots beware.Continue Reading
Hot-Swapping for Days: 'Overwatch' Beta ImpressionsPosted Tue May 10, 2016 at 11:30 AM PDT by Levi van Tine
Making the team FPS fun again.Continue Reading
Gameplay Preview Released For Chromie And Medivh, The Next Two 'Heroes Of The Storm' CharactersPosted Sun May 8, 2016 at 08:24 AM PDT by Connor Sears
Bending space and time.Continue Reading
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