MLA Mosaic'16 presentation

1. Bringing Bioinformatics into the Library
with an Informatics Workshop Series
C. Tobin Magle, Bioinformationist
http://www.slideshare.net/CTobinMagle/bringing-bioinformatics-into-the-library

2. I am a weirdo bioinformationist
• Not technically a librarian
• 10 years of biomedical research
experience
• Hired at HSL to develop more services for
research scientists
• Bioinformationist: “information
specialists who have received graduate
training and practical experience that
provides them with disciplinary
background both in biomedical,
behavioral or biological sciences and
information sciences/ informatics“(1)
(1) NLM Individual Fellowship for Informationist Training (F37) (PAR 06-509). http://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/pa- les/ PAR-06-509.html
(2) CT Magle et al Infect Immun. 2014 Feb;82(2):618-25. doi: 10.1128/IAI.00444-13. Epub 2013 Nov 25.
My favorite figure from my PhD project a.k.a
way too many hours on the microscope (2).

3. How do we serve researchers?
• Every campus is unique
• Developing tailored curriculum takes time
• Researchers don’t associate the library with
informatics
• Solution: Invite informatics experts to present AT
THE LIBRARY

4. Informatics
The science of processing data
for storage and retrieval
• Databases (data and literature)
• Creating
• Searching
• Analytics
• Data management

5. The process
• Set a regular time and date
• Every third Thursday of the month at 3 pm
• Build in breaks around holidays and summer
• Fill speaker slots
• Contact campus experts and former attendees
• Ask for volunteers AND topic suggestions
• Have backup topics you can teach for unfilled slots
• ADVERTISE
• Keep attendance records
• Evaluate content

6. ORDER FOOD
Scientists
are hungry.
Will attend
seminars
for food.
http://arcticdragonwolf97.deviantart.com/

7. Example Topics
• Databases developed on campus
• PhenoGen – Laura Saba, PhD
• K-map and DSigDB – A. C. Tan, PhD
• External Databases
• Quetzal – Lynne Fox, MLS
• NCBI Databases – Tobin Magle, PhD
• Analytics
• R for beginners – Tobin Magle, PhD
• Genomics topics – Michael Edwards, PhD
• Data Management
• Data management best practices – Shelley
Knuth, PhD and Andrew Johnson, MLS
• Database Development and Management for
Health Sciences: Joshua Miller, MPH

8. Advertising
1. Curated lists of department contacts
• Departments and Graduate programs
• Faculty and administrative staff
2. HSL Informatics Listserve
• Populated from attendees
3. Research website
4. Research events calendar

9. Web presence

10. Research events calendar

11. Registration and evaluation stats
• Registration through Evanced Calendar
• Determine how many people are coming
• Collect email addresses for listserv
• Evaluation using Survey Monkey
• Inconsistent method of delivering survey
(sometimes in class, some times emailed after
• Get feedback from users to see if the class is
meeting their needs

12. Attendance
Class Registration Attendance Attendance Rate
Computational Tools
for Drug
Repurposing
32 24 75%
Quetzal 30 16 53%
NCBI Variation
Databases
26 15 58%
R for beginners 45
(12 waitlisted)
26 57%
NCBI GEO databases 14 6 43%
Total 147 87 59%

13. Evaluation
Class Attendees Responses Response rate
Computational Tools
for Drug
Repurposing
24 3 12.5%
Quetzal 16 7 43.8%
NCBI Variation
Databases
15 2 13.3%
R for beginners 26 16 61.5%
NCBI GEO databases 6 2 33%
Total 87 30 34.5%

14. Class Evaluation results
• Survey designed to answer our questions:
• Are we reaching our intended audience?
• Who is coming?
• Who is not coming?
• Are we meeting the attendees’ needs?
• Is the content appropriate?
• Are the speakers meeting expectations?
• Is the food good?
• Are the attendees’ learning what the speakers intend?

15. University status

16. Research type

17. Content

18. Level of content

19. Time allowed for topic

20. Presenter Style

21. Presenter Knowledge

22. Should we repeat?

23. Refreshments

24. Learning Objectives
• 3 learning
objectives
• Ask before
and after
• Graphs are
aggregated
data for all
sessions and
all LOs

25. Learning Objectives: Before

26. Learning Objectives: Before and after

27. Free text comments

28. Conclusions
• Audience
• More faculty than expected
• Reaching target audience (basic science)
• Content
• Good content
• Good presenters
• Logistics
• Some people hated the food
• Sessions are a reasonable length
• Attendees don’t mind repeats

29. Future Plans
• New format webcast
• Engage new presenters
• Students and post docs
• Local presenters from outside CU
• New audiences
• Revamp evaluation
• Minimize questions
• Less free text fields
• Qualtrics: Consolidate data into 1 survey

30. Acknowledgements
HSL Faculty and Staff
• Melissa Desantis
• Lisa Traditi
• Kristen Desanto
• John Jones
• Lilian Hoffecker
• Ben Harnke
• Ruby Nugent
Tobin.magle@ucdenver.edu
Phone: 303-724-2114
Twitter: @tobinmagle
http://orcid.org/0000-0003-
3185-7034
Contact Information
HSL Informatics
Workshop Participants
• Michael Edwards
• Lynne Fox
• Andrew Johnson
• Shelley Knuth
• Joshua Miller
• Laura Saba
• AC Tan
http://www.slideshare.net/CTobinMagle/bringing-bioinformatics-into-the-library