Librarians & e-Science : focusing towards 20/20

D. Scott Brandt is Associate Dean for Research at Purdue University Libraries and has the responsibility for enabling and fostering research programs in library science within the libraries. In addition, he takes a leadership role in library science practiced in collaboration with inter-disciplinary sponsored research initiatives at Purdue.

Previously, Brandt served as Interdisciplinary Research Librarian, and before that was Technology Training Librarian who helped develop extensive staff development and training program in the libraries. Prior to the that, he served as Associate Head of the Engineering and Science Libraries at M.I.T.

His Masters in Library and Information Science is from Indiana University. He has written 30 articles and chapters on the subject of technology training, and published two books, Unix and Libraries in 1991, and Teaching Technology in 2002.

(download presentation)

Thomas Casavant received the B.S. degree in Computer Science with high distinction in 1982 from the University of Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa. He received the M.S. degree in Electrical and Computer Engineering in 1983, and the Ph.D. degree in Electrical and Computer Engineering from the University of Iowa in 1986.

In 1986, Dr. Casavant joined the School of Electrical Engineering at Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana as an Assistant Professor specializing in the design and analysis of parallel/distributed computing systems, environments, algorithms, and programs. From June 1987 to June 1988, he was Director of the PASM Parallel Processing Project. From July 1988 until July 1989 Dr. Casavant was Director of the Purdue EE School's Parallel Processing Laboratory.

In August, 1989, he joined the faculty of the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Iowa as an Assistant Professor, was promoted to Associate Professor in 1992, and to Professor in 1999. He was the founder and is a member of the Coordinated Laboratory for Computational Genomics, and has been Director of the Parallel Processing Laboratory since 1989. In 2002 he was named as the founding Director of the UI Center for Bioinformatics and Computational Biology. In 2006, he was named as the Roy J. Carver Jr. Chair in Bioinformatics and Computational Biology. From July 1993 through June 1994, he was a guest professor with the Department of Informatik (Computer Science) at the (Eidgenossisch Technische Hochschule ETH - Swiss Federal Institute of Technology) in Zurich, Switzerland. In Spring of 2000, he was a guest researcher of the Biochimie et Biophysique des Systemes Integres Laboratory and the CEA/CNRS (Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique/Commissariat a l'Energie Atomique) in Grenoble, France. From January to June of 2006 he was a guest researcher of the Stockholm Bioinformatics Center and was a Wenner-Gren Foundation Fellow in Stockholm, Sweden.

Dr. Casavant has published over 150 technical papers on parallel and distributed computing, Bioinformatics, as well as medical genetics and molecular biology, and has presented his work at tutorials, invited lectures, and conferences in the United States, Asia and Europe. Since 1995, he has also become active in the Human Genome Project and has developed systems and tools for computational molecular biology, gene discovery, mapping, and disease identification.

He is a Senior Member of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineering (IEEE) professional society and a member of the Association of Computing Machinery (ACM) professional society. He has served on the editorial boards of IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Processing (TPDS) and as an associate editor for the Journal of Parallel and Distributed Computing (JPDC).

(download presentation)

Leslie M. Delserone is the Agriculture Librarian, University of Minnesota. She received her M.A. in Library and Information Science from the University of Iowa, while participating in the IMLS-funded "Program for University
Librarians in the Sciences" cohort based at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln (UNL) Libraries.

In earlier endeavors, Leslie was a Chief Academic Advisor for undergraduates of UNL's School of Biological Sciences, and a plant pathologist (M.S., The Pennsylvania State University).

(download presentation)

Thom H. Dunning, Jr. is the Director of the National Center for Supercomputing Applications and Distinguished Chair for Research Excellence in the Department of Chemistry at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. As NCSA Director, Dr. Dunning is responsible for ensuring that NCSA remains a world leader in the development and deployment of advanced cyberinfrastructure.

Before joining UIUC, Dr. Dunning was the founding director of the Joint
Institute for Computational Sciences at the University of Tennessee and Oak Ridge National Laboratory. Earlier in his long career in scientific computing, Dr. Dunning was vice president for supercomputing and networking for the University of North Carolina System, Assistant Director for Scientific Simulation in the Office of Science at the U.S. Department of Energy, Director of the Environmental Molecular Sciences Laboratory at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Head of the Theoretical and Computational Chemistry Group at Argonne National Laboratory, and staff member at Los Alamos National Laboratory.

Dr. Dunning has authored nearly 150 scientific publications on topics
ranging from techniques for molecular calculations to computational studies of high power lasers and the chemical reactions involved in combustion. Dr. Dunning is a Fellow of the American Physical Society and a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science.
Dr. Dunning obtained his bachelor’s degree in Chemistry in 1965 from the University of Missouri-Rolla and his doctorate in Chemistry/Chemical Physics from the California Institute of Technology in 1970.

(download presentation)

Jacob (Jake) Glenn studied philosophy and computer science at the University of Iowa before receiving his master's degree in Library and Information Services from the University of Michigan in April 2007.

He has worked as a science librarian at the University of Michigan's Shapiro Science Library since November 2007.

(download presentation)

Jane Greenberg holds a Frances Carroll McColl termed professorship in the School of Information and Library Science (SILS), University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. She is an associate professor and founder and director of the SILS Metadata Research Center (http://www.ils.unc.edu/mrc/). She has a master’s degree in library science from Columbia University and a doctorate in library and information science from the University of Pittsburgh.

Jane’s research and teaching are in the area of metadata and classification, and she is the principal investigator the “Bot 2.0: Botany through Web 2.0, the Memex andSocial Learning” project supported by NSF, and the “Automatic Metadata Maintenance – Go Local” project supported by the National Network of Libraries of Medicine. She is also a principal investigator collaborating with NESCent (National Evolutionary Synthesis Center) to develop the Dryad Repository for data supporting published research in the field of evolutionary biology. Jane is active in the Dublin Core Metadata Initiative (DCMI), and a member DCMI advisory board; co-chair of the DCMI Tools Community; and a program committee chair for the 2008 Dublin Core International Metadata Conference. Jane is also the 2008 recipient of the Kilgour Research Award.

(download presentation)

Dr. Chris Greer is Director of the National Coordination Office (NCO) for the Networking and Information Technology Research and Development (NITRD) program. The NCO/NITRD mission is to formulate and promote Federal information technology research and development to meet national goals. Dr. Greer is on assignment to the NCO from his position as Senior Advisor for Digital Data in the NSF Office of Cyberinfrastructure. He recently served as Executive Secretary for the Long-lived Digital Data Collections Activities of the National Science Board and is currently Co-Chair of the Interagency Working Group on Digital Data of the National Science and Technology Council’s Committee on Science. He is also a member of the Advisory Committee for the National Archives and Records Administration’s Electronic Records Archive and a member of the Digital Library Council of the Federal Depository Library Program.

Dr. Greer received his PhD degree in biochemistry from the University of California, Berkeley and did his postdoctoral work at CalTech. He was a member of the faculty at the University of California at Irvine in the Department of Biological Chemistry for approximately 18 years where his research on gene expression pathways was supported by grants from the NSF, NIH and the American Heart Association. During that time, he was founding Executive Officer of the RNA Society, an international professional organization.

Dr. Robert J. Hanisch is a Senior Scientist at the Space Telescope Science Institute, Baltimore, Maryland, and is the Project Manager for “Building the Framework for the National Virtual Observatory,” an initiative funded by the National Science Foundation.

In the past twenty years Dr. Hanisch has led many efforts in the astronomy community in the area of information systems and services, focusing particularly on efforts to improve the accessibility and interoperability of data archives and catalogs. From 2000 to 2002 he served as Chief Information Officer at STScI, overseeing all computing, networking, and information services for the Institute. Prior to that he had oversight responsibility for the Hubble Space Telescope Data Archive and led the effort to establish the Multimission Archive at Space Telescope—MAST—as the optical/UV archive center for NASA astrophysics missions. He has served as chair of the Program Organizing Committee for the Astronomical Data Analysis Software and Systems conferences, chair of the Space Science Data Systems Technical Working Group, chair of the Astrophysics Data Centers Coordinating Committee, and chair of the Publications Board of the American Astronomical Society. In 1999 Hanisch was a visiting professor at the Centre de Données astronomiques de Strasbourg (CDS), France, and was a consultant to the National Academy of Sciences Astronomy and Astrophysics Survey Committee panel on Theory, Computation, and Data Exploration, whose Decadal Survey report gives first priority to the creation of the National Virtual Observatory.

He completed his Ph.D. in Astronomy in 1981 at the University of Maryland, College Park.

(download presentation)

Rick Luce is the Vice-Provost and Director of Libraries at Emory University. He is responsible for executive leadership of the Woodruff Library and coordinating university-wide library policy of Emory’s Libraries, as well as providing leadership to analyze and re-imagine the 21st century library in the university.

Prior to joining Emory, Rick was the Research Library Director at Los Alamos National Laboratory (1991-2006). He transformed a traditional organization into an internationally recognized research library providing state-of-the-art services. In 2005 he was awarded the Fellows' Prize for Leadership at Los Alamos National Laboratory, the first ever awarded to a nonscientist.
In 1999 he was a co-founder of the Open Archives Initiative to develop interoperable standards for author self-archiving systems, today’s de facto common denominator for data exchange among heterogenous systems. In 2003 Rick co-organized the Berlin Declaration on Open Access to Knowledge in the Sciences and Humanities, and in 2004, the Brazilian Declaration on Open Access.

Rick is a member of the National Academies Committee on Assuring the Integrity of Research Data in an Era of E-Science, and he has served on three NSF blue ribbon panels. His is a Executive Board member of the Digital Library Federation and the Coalition of Networked Information (CNI). Previously he was the senior advisor to the Max Planck Society's Center for Information Management (2000-2006) and was an executive board member of the National Information Standards Organization (1998-2004).

Prior to Los Alamos, Rick held positions as the first executive director of the Southeast Florida Library Information Network (SEFLIN), director of Colorado's Irving Library Network and assistant director of the Boulder Public Library in Colorado.

Rick holds a BA in political science from the University of San Diego, an MPA in public administration from San Diego State University and an MLIS in library and information science from the University of South Florida.

(download presentation)

Janet McCue is the Director of the Albert R. Mann Library and Associate University Librarian for the Life Sciences at Cornell University.

Ms. McCue has led or fostered a variety of initiatives at Cornell—from technical services workstations in the 80’s; library gateways in the 90’s; and research portals in the first decade of the 21st century.

Currently, McCue is a co-Pi on several e-science initiatives, including a recent NSF award related to library-laboratory collaboration in the area of research data as well as a University seed grant focused on facilitating data-driven science at Cornell. Like the 19th century naturalist and librarian, Horace Kephart, McCue believes that “librarianship offers a better field for mental gymnastics than any other profession.”

(download presentation)

William Mischo is Head, Grainger Engineering Library Information Center, and Professor of Library Administration at the University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign (UIUC). He holds a Bachelor’s degree in Mathematics and a Master’s degree in Library and Information Studies from the University of Wisconsin at Madison.

Bill was involved in all building design and endowment activities
connected with the $25 million Grainger Library, which opened in 1994. Since 1994, Bill has been a Principal Investigator on three grants from the National Science Foundation (NSF)—several through the NSDL (National Science Digital Library) program—and three
additional grants from the federal Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS).

Bill has published over 60 articles and conference papers in the field of library and information science and has presented at more than 70 national and international conferences, including ALA, NSDL Annual, and ASEE. In 2003, he was elected to the NSDL Policy Committee. In 2001, Bill received the Homer I. Bernhardt Distinguished Service Award from the American Society for Engineering Education Engineering Libraries Division.

(download presentation)

Norbert Neumeister studied physics and computer science and
received his Ph.D. in physics in 1996 from the Vienna University of Technology, Austria. He is an assistant professor in the Department of Physics at Purdue University. Prior to his appointment at Purdue he had a position as a research scientist at the Institute for High Energy Physics of the Austrian Academy of Sciences and worked as a research fellow at CERN.

Currently he is a member of the CMS collaboration. His research
interests include large scale distributed data analysis, development of event reconstruction and selection algorithms and the search for new physics phenomena at the Large Hadron Collider.

(download presentation)

Carole L. Palmer is an associate professor at the Graduate School of Library and Information Science (GSLIS) at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, and is director of the GSLIS Center for Informatics Research in Science and Scholarship (CIRSS).

Her research investigates problems in scientific and scholarly information work, with a particular focus on barriers to scientific discovery and interdisciplinary inquiry, and the changing nature of "collections" in the digital information environment.

She has written and presented widely on information support for interdisciplinary researchers and how to align digital library development with scientific and scholarly research practices. Her recent funded projects include investigations of high impact information in brain research, data curation needs across sciences, institutional repository development, as well as projects to develop educational programs to train of next-generation research librarians and information specialists in data curation and biological informatics.

(download presentation)

Neil Rambo is ARL Visiting Program Officer for Library Support for Research and e-Science and, simultaneously, Director of Cyberinfrastructure Initiatives, University Libraries, University of Washington. His ARL responsibilities include advancing the e-science program agenda as outlined in the 2007 ARL
e-Science Task Force report.

At the University of Washington, Neil is responsible for exploring
opportunities for the libraries to engage with the science and engineering communities on cyberinfrastructure projects and to foster e-science
capacity among Libraries staff and programs. Neil participated in the 2004-06 cohort of the ARL Research Library Leadership Fellows program. He was Associate Director of the University of Washington Health
Sciences Libraries, 2004-07, and prior to that was program director of the Pacific Northwest region of the National Network of Libraries of Medicine. Neil served on the board of directors of the Medical Library Association and has held other academic medical library administration and systems positions.

He completed a postgraduate fellowship at the National Library of
Medicine, and earned an MLS and a BS in cell and molecular biology, both from the University of Washington.

(download May 12 presentation)
(download May 13 presentation)

Joyce Ray, Associate Deputy Director for Library Services, has directed the agency’s discretionary library programs since 1997. An archivist by training, Joyce also has responsibility for agency-wide digital initiatives. Prior to joining IMLS, she held positions as Assistant Program Director for Technological Evaluation and Acting Program Director, National Historical Publications and Records Commission; Special Assistant to the Archivist, National Archives and Records Administration; and Head of Special Collections, the University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio.

She currently serves as a member of the program committee of the Joint Conference on Digital Libraries, is the U.S. organizer of the International Digital Cultural Content Forum, and is the principal organizer of the annual IMLS Web-Wise Conference on Libraries and Museums in the Digital World. She helped to organize and was one of the first members of the Joint Committee on Libraries, Archives and Museums sponsored jointly by the American Library Association, the American Association of Museums, and the Society of American Archivists.

She is a certified archivist and holds a Master of Library Science from the University of Texas at Austin. In addition, she holds a PhD in American history, with a specialty in the social history of women and medicine in the U.S., and has taught women's history at Georgetown University. She has presented at numerous professional meetings about IMLS and it’s programs, and about trends in libraries, archives and museums relating to technology, professional education, and convergence.

(download presentation)

Susan Whitmore is chief of the Information and Education Services Branch of the NIH Library in Bethesda, Maryland, where for the past 12 years she has overseen the reference, instruction, collection development, and informationist services.

She has a master’s degree in plant pathology from the University of Maryland and a master’s degree in library and information science from the Catholic University of America.

Previous positions held include Head of the U. S. Bureau of Mines
headquarters library and Head of the DC Reference Center, a branch of the National Agricultural Library.