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Open minds to open data
By Amy Koshoffer, Assistant Director, Research & Data Services, and Mark Chalmers, Science and Engineering Librarian Throughout the spring 2024 semester, two UC librarians, Amy Koshoffer (pictured left lecturing in the Visualization Lab in the Geo-Math-Physics Library.) and Mark Chalmers, co-taught the Power and Politics of Data honors seminar. The class drew students from colleges across the UC campus, including the College Conservatory of Music, the Lindner College of Business, the College of Medicine, the College of Education Criminal Justice and Human Services, and the College of Arts and Sciences. The course was geared toward, but not exclusive to, students considering doing research. In this interdisciplinary honors seminar, the students…
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Staff News
Activities, accomplishments and milestones of the faculty and staff of UC Libraries. Mark Chalmers, Science and Engineering Librarian, has been accepted into Drexel University’s highly selective Library Information Science (LIS) Education and Data Science Integrated Network Group (LEADING) program as a 2021 LEADING Fellow. Blevins, J. L., Ezra Edgerton, Data Visualization Developer in the Digital Scholarship Center, Don Jason, Clinical Informationist in the Donald C. Harrison Health Sciences Library, and James Lee, Associate Vice Provost for Digital Scholarship, Associate Dean of Libraries, and Director of the Digital Scholarship Center, published “Shouting into the wind: Medical science versus ‘B.S.’ in the twitter maelstrom of politics and misinformation about hydroxychloroquine.” Social Media +…
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How the UC Libraries Research & Data Services Unit is redefining library data services
By Tiffany Grant, Research Informationist, Research and Data Services Academic research institutions recognized the need to provide strong, persistent and effective research data services to meet the data needs of researchers within their respective communities. The competition for dwindling research dollars, combined with the requirements to better manage, share and archive research data, prompted a strong push to create or expand services to facilitate these processes. Academic research libraries across the globe responded to these needs by hiring and training employees to address the needs of researchers at their respective institutions. Formed nearly seven years ago as part of the UC Libraries Strategic Plan, the Research & Data Services (RDS)…
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Staff News
According to the People Pillar of the Strategic Plan, “UC Libraries will become more dynamically engaged partners with colleges, departments and units – integrating new methods for collecting, accessing, utilizing and preserving streams of data and information in support of the teaching and research mission of the university. We will become leaders in defining the changing role of academic libraries in the global library community.” Below are the activities, accomplishments and milestones of the faculty and staff of UC Libraries. News Hires Suzanne Bratt, cataloging specialist, Albino Gorno Memorial (CCM) Library Madeleine Gaiser (pictured), online learning and instruction specialist, College of Education, Criminal Justice and Human Services (CECH) Library Katie…
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Life of the Mind Re-Imagined
It’s back! UC Libraries is collaborating with the Faculty Senate, the Office of the Senior Vice President and Provost and the Faculty Enrichment Center to bring back the popular Authors, Editors & Composers event and exhibit last held in 2013. This coming fall, the Life of the Mind lecture series will merge with the former Authors, Editors & Composers to create one event that will celebrate the achievements of UC’s artists, authors, editors and composers together with a presentation by a distinguished faculty member to foster a disciplinary dialogue on an emergent theme. Still named and focusing on the Life of the Mind, the event is scheduled for Tuesday, September 22, 2020…
