Martin Morris presented on the role of a life sciences liaison librarian in the age of Google. He discussed 5 key characteristics: collaboration, social awareness, comfort with technology, mobility, and intellectual curiosity. For each characteristic, he explained how life sciences liaison librarians can demonstrate that skill in the current information environment, with an emphasis on tailored training, embedded librarianship, and engagement through new technologies. The presentation concluded by emphasizing the ongoing need for skills sharing, customized services, technical understanding, and intellectual curiosity to best serve users in the Google Age.
Learning by Doing: Increasing librarian and institutional capacity for resear...Martin Morris
Increasingly health librarians are occupying roles in multi-disciplinary teams in supporting the production of high-quality systematic reviews (SRs). Continuing professional development (CPD) support for SR activities is poorly served by existing library and information science (LIS) training provision. Being equipped to conduct SRs requires experiential learning, tailored review-specific advice and may be facilitated by working in a topic area familiar to the learner. One approach to meeting this training need involves use of collaborative e-learning technologies and document sharing, supported by group mentoring.
Learning by Doing: Increasing librarian and institutional capacity for resear...Martin Morris
Increasingly health librarians are occupying roles in multi-disciplinary teams in supporting the production of high-quality systematic reviews (SRs). Continuing professional development (CPD) support for SR activities is poorly served by existing library and information science (LIS) training provision. Being equipped to conduct SRs requires experiential learning, tailored review-specific advice and may be facilitated by working in a topic area familiar to the learner. One approach to meeting this training need involves use of collaborative e-learning technologies and document sharing, supported by group mentoring.
Research problem is a question that researcher wants to answer or a problem that a researcher wants to solve Identification & formulation of a research problem is the first step of the research process.
MD vs MD-PhD vs PhD 2015_slides & handoutSteve Lee
Are you trying to decide whether to pursue an MD, an MD-PhD or a PhD? Do you want to learn the differences in conducting research and the training that is involved with each of these career paths? Come to this workshop to hear the story of how one MD-PhD navigated through these questions, and about a research study (McGee and Keller, 2007) that investigated differences between MD, MD/PhD, and PhD students and their professional trajectories.
This workshop was given by Michael Penn, MD-PhD, and Steve Lee, PhD.
Any question that we want answered and any assumption or assertion that we want to challenge or investigate can become a research problem or a research topic for our study
UNIT-I: INTRODUCTION
Nature and importance of research - aims, objective, principles and problems - selection of research problem - survey of scientific literature - primary and secondary sources - citation index for scientific papers and journals - patents.
Research problem is a question that researcher wants to answer or a problem that a researcher wants to solve Identification & formulation of a research problem is the first step of the research process.
MD vs MD-PhD vs PhD 2015_slides & handoutSteve Lee
Are you trying to decide whether to pursue an MD, an MD-PhD or a PhD? Do you want to learn the differences in conducting research and the training that is involved with each of these career paths? Come to this workshop to hear the story of how one MD-PhD navigated through these questions, and about a research study (McGee and Keller, 2007) that investigated differences between MD, MD/PhD, and PhD students and their professional trajectories.
This workshop was given by Michael Penn, MD-PhD, and Steve Lee, PhD.
Any question that we want answered and any assumption or assertion that we want to challenge or investigate can become a research problem or a research topic for our study
UNIT-I: INTRODUCTION
Nature and importance of research - aims, objective, principles and problems - selection of research problem - survey of scientific literature - primary and secondary sources - citation index for scientific papers and journals - patents.
A workshop for academic librarians on using qualitative methods for user assessment and research in the library. Part 1 focuses on asking and refining holistic research questions.
Responding to Project Information Literacy 2012 workplace study. What are instruction librarians doing to help students with the social side of research?
Introduction to Methods in Cultural AnthropologyIn this topic,.docxnormanibarber20063
Introduction to Methods in Cultural Anthropology
In this topic, you will explore how anthropologists conduct research with a special focus on ethics in anthropology. You will also have an opportunity to develop your own research proposal in Activity 1.
Please note that you have 5 Activities due in this class ( If you are taking the class as the 8 week option you have 3 activities and if you are taking the class as a 12 week option you have four activities). Please note that no matter what option you are taking, you do end up doing all the work of the acitivies but in a different format). Due dates for the activities are noted on the When Assignments are Due page. Be sure to allow adequate time to complete. Please review all the assignments now and make plans in your schedule to work on them. These assignments are meant to help you learn the material as well as give you an opportunity to show what you are learning beyond just quizzes and exams.
Horizontal Rule
Objectives
After completing the learning activities for this topic, you will be able to:
List, define, and apply the steps in conducting fieldwork.
Describe and cite examples of data-gathering techniques.
Analyze the nature of ethical dilemmas in anthropological field work.
Click on the image below to view a photo gallery.
How Anthropologists Do Research -- The Importance of Ethics
Written by Dr. Katherine R. Rowell, Professor of Sociology, Sinclair Community College
Your textbook discusses the 5 steps of conducting anthropological research or fieldwork. I typically add another step in the beginning known as preparation. Thus, there are six steps to conducting anthropological fieldwork. In fact, the first step, preparation, is important for anyone visiting another culture or working with people from another culture.
Step 1: Preparation
Preparing to conduct research on a different culture or visit another culture can be time consuming. One of the most important issues is geographical location of the culture you plan to visit or study. There are funding issues, health precautions (shots and medications), governmental permissions (visas and passports), language issues (Do you have an interpreter? or Do you know the language?), Personal affairs (Who is going to pay your bills? Feed your cat?), Packing issues (How much are you allowed to take? What items are a necessity?) and finally, do you have an informant and a site to do research? (Someone within that culture to help you with your research or help you on your visit). These issues take a lot of time to work out and are an important first step.
Step 2: Selecting a Research Problem
In the past the goal of anthropological research was to describe a culture in as much detail as possible (ethnography). Today, the research is typically problem based. For example, when I went to Botswana, Swaziland, and South Africa my goal was to understand the AIDS crisis and compare approaches to reducing HIV/AIDS in these countries. Often times the re.
Guest Lecture at Oregon St U, 4.13.2022.pdfBoWang882266
Shared some thoughts on anthropology students career development and transferrable skills on the grad seminar Uses of Anthropology, by Prof. Shaozeng Zhang, Oregon State University
Choosing the Right Research Methods for Your Project (webinar)Susan Mercer
It’s very easy for User Experience researchers to get stuck in the rut of using your favorite research methods for gathering information and getting user feedback. But, are you really gathering the best information that you can? Or are there other methods that are better suited for your project’s specific needs?
Or, if you’re just starting out – how do you know whether you should conduct interviews, run a survey or a card sort, or something different all together?
Don’t stress – in this webinar, we’ll cover the most popular user research methods and discuss their strengths and weaknesses. Each method shines in different circumstances, and we’ll highlight the factors that will make each successful. We will also present a structured approach to helping you choose the best method or methods for a particular situation.
Maruthi Prithivirajan, Head of ASEAN & IN Solution Architecture, Neo4j
Get an inside look at the latest Neo4j innovations that enable relationship-driven intelligence at scale. Learn more about the newest cloud integrations and product enhancements that make Neo4j an essential choice for developers building apps with interconnected data and generative AI.
GraphSummit Singapore | The Future of Agility: Supercharging Digital Transfor...Neo4j
Leonard Jayamohan, Partner & Generative AI Lead, Deloitte
This keynote will reveal how Deloitte leverages Neo4j’s graph power for groundbreaking digital twin solutions, achieving a staggering 100x performance boost. Discover the essential role knowledge graphs play in successful generative AI implementations. Plus, get an exclusive look at an innovative Neo4j + Generative AI solution Deloitte is developing in-house.
In his public lecture, Christian Timmerer provides insights into the fascinating history of video streaming, starting from its humble beginnings before YouTube to the groundbreaking technologies that now dominate platforms like Netflix and ORF ON. Timmerer also presents provocative contributions of his own that have significantly influenced the industry. He concludes by looking at future challenges and invites the audience to join in a discussion.
Climate Impact of Software Testing at Nordic Testing DaysKari Kakkonen
My slides at Nordic Testing Days 6.6.2024
Climate impact / sustainability of software testing discussed on the talk. ICT and testing must carry their part of global responsibility to help with the climat warming. We can minimize the carbon footprint but we can also have a carbon handprint, a positive impact on the climate. Quality characteristics can be added with sustainability, and then measured continuously. Test environments can be used less, and in smaller scale and on demand. Test techniques can be used in optimizing or minimizing number of tests. Test automation can be used to speed up testing.
Dr. Sean Tan, Head of Data Science, Changi Airport Group
Discover how Changi Airport Group (CAG) leverages graph technologies and generative AI to revolutionize their search capabilities. This session delves into the unique search needs of CAG’s diverse passengers and customers, showcasing how graph data structures enhance the accuracy and relevance of AI-generated search results, mitigating the risk of “hallucinations” and improving the overall customer journey.
UiPath Test Automation using UiPath Test Suite series, part 5DianaGray10
Welcome to UiPath Test Automation using UiPath Test Suite series part 5. In this session, we will cover CI/CD with devops.
Topics covered:
CI/CD with in UiPath
End-to-end overview of CI/CD pipeline with Azure devops
Speaker:
Lyndsey Byblow, Test Suite Sales Engineer @ UiPath, Inc.
zkStudyClub - Reef: Fast Succinct Non-Interactive Zero-Knowledge Regex ProofsAlex Pruden
This paper presents Reef, a system for generating publicly verifiable succinct non-interactive zero-knowledge proofs that a committed document matches or does not match a regular expression. We describe applications such as proving the strength of passwords, the provenance of email despite redactions, the validity of oblivious DNS queries, and the existence of mutations in DNA. Reef supports the Perl Compatible Regular Expression syntax, including wildcards, alternation, ranges, capture groups, Kleene star, negations, and lookarounds. Reef introduces a new type of automata, Skipping Alternating Finite Automata (SAFA), that skips irrelevant parts of a document when producing proofs without undermining soundness, and instantiates SAFA with a lookup argument. Our experimental evaluation confirms that Reef can generate proofs for documents with 32M characters; the proofs are small and cheap to verify (under a second).
Paper: https://eprint.iacr.org/2023/1886
Epistemic Interaction - tuning interfaces to provide information for AI supportAlan Dix
Paper presented at SYNERGY workshop at AVI 2024, Genoa, Italy. 3rd June 2024
https://alandix.com/academic/papers/synergy2024-epistemic/
As machine learning integrates deeper into human-computer interactions, the concept of epistemic interaction emerges, aiming to refine these interactions to enhance system adaptability. This approach encourages minor, intentional adjustments in user behaviour to enrich the data available for system learning. This paper introduces epistemic interaction within the context of human-system communication, illustrating how deliberate interaction design can improve system understanding and adaptation. Through concrete examples, we demonstrate the potential of epistemic interaction to significantly advance human-computer interaction by leveraging intuitive human communication strategies to inform system design and functionality, offering a novel pathway for enriching user-system engagements.
Encryption in Microsoft 365 - ExpertsLive Netherlands 2024Albert Hoitingh
In this session I delve into the encryption technology used in Microsoft 365 and Microsoft Purview. Including the concepts of Customer Key and Double Key Encryption.
Why You Should Replace Windows 11 with Nitrux Linux 3.5.0 for enhanced perfor...SOFTTECHHUB
The choice of an operating system plays a pivotal role in shaping our computing experience. For decades, Microsoft's Windows has dominated the market, offering a familiar and widely adopted platform for personal and professional use. However, as technological advancements continue to push the boundaries of innovation, alternative operating systems have emerged, challenging the status quo and offering users a fresh perspective on computing.
One such alternative that has garnered significant attention and acclaim is Nitrux Linux 3.5.0, a sleek, powerful, and user-friendly Linux distribution that promises to redefine the way we interact with our devices. With its focus on performance, security, and customization, Nitrux Linux presents a compelling case for those seeking to break free from the constraints of proprietary software and embrace the freedom and flexibility of open-source computing.
GraphSummit Singapore | The Art of the Possible with Graph - Q2 2024Neo4j
Neha Bajwa, Vice President of Product Marketing, Neo4j
Join us as we explore breakthrough innovations enabled by interconnected data and AI. Discover firsthand how organizations use relationships in data to uncover contextual insights and solve our most pressing challenges – from optimizing supply chains, detecting fraud, and improving customer experiences to accelerating drug discoveries.
Alt. GDG Cloud Southlake #33: Boule & Rebala: Effective AppSec in SDLC using ...James Anderson
Effective Application Security in Software Delivery lifecycle using Deployment Firewall and DBOM
The modern software delivery process (or the CI/CD process) includes many tools, distributed teams, open-source code, and cloud platforms. Constant focus on speed to release software to market, along with the traditional slow and manual security checks has caused gaps in continuous security as an important piece in the software supply chain. Today organizations feel more susceptible to external and internal cyber threats due to the vast attack surface in their applications supply chain and the lack of end-to-end governance and risk management.
The software team must secure its software delivery process to avoid vulnerability and security breaches. This needs to be achieved with existing tool chains and without extensive rework of the delivery processes. This talk will present strategies and techniques for providing visibility into the true risk of the existing vulnerabilities, preventing the introduction of security issues in the software, resolving vulnerabilities in production environments quickly, and capturing the deployment bill of materials (DBOM).
Speakers:
Bob Boule
Robert Boule is a technology enthusiast with PASSION for technology and making things work along with a knack for helping others understand how things work. He comes with around 20 years of solution engineering experience in application security, software continuous delivery, and SaaS platforms. He is known for his dynamic presentations in CI/CD and application security integrated in software delivery lifecycle.
Gopinath Rebala
Gopinath Rebala is the CTO of OpsMx, where he has overall responsibility for the machine learning and data processing architectures for Secure Software Delivery. Gopi also has a strong connection with our customers, leading design and architecture for strategic implementations. Gopi is a frequent speaker and well-known leader in continuous delivery and integrating security into software delivery.
GraphRAG is All You need? LLM & Knowledge GraphGuy Korland
Guy Korland, CEO and Co-founder of FalkorDB, will review two articles on the integration of language models with knowledge graphs.
1. Unifying Large Language Models and Knowledge Graphs: A Roadmap.
https://arxiv.org/abs/2306.08302
2. Microsoft Research's GraphRAG paper and a review paper on various uses of knowledge graphs:
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/blog/graphrag-unlocking-llm-discovery-on-narrative-private-data/
What is the role of a Life Sciences Liaison Librarian in the Google Age?
1. Martin Morris
What is the role of a
LIFE SCIENCES
LIAISON LIBRARIAN
in the Age?
McGill Job Talk – 27 April 2012
2. Introducing… the Pacific
Northwest Tree Octopus
• Moves by
“tentaculation”
• Sensitive
suckers steal
bird eggs
• Eye-sight
comparable to
humans
zaptopi.net/treeoctopus/
3. A useful fake
• It is also, of course, also a hoax
• Helps explain aspects of the Google
Effect and the Google Generation.
• Why should Life Sciences Liaison
Librarians care?
4. The Google Generation…
In 2008 a major study was
conducted by University
College London, Tarbiat
Moallam University,
Tehran, and the University
of Tennessee, attempting
to predict future trends in
information seeking
behaviour, and to examine
prevailing received
wisdom.
They found…
5. …not so hot at Googling after all
• Rely very heavily on search engines
• Tendency to view rather than read
• Display “horizontal” search strategies, skipping
and bouncing, and stopping searching the
moment they find an answer
• Display a tendency for natural language search
strings and difficulty in selecting search terms
• Do not possess the critical and analytical skills to
assess the information they find on the web
6. …and the Google Effect?
“…when faced with
difficult questions,
people are primed to
think about computers
[…] and when people
expect to have future
access to information,
they have lower rates of
recall of the information
itself and enhanced
recall instead for where
to access it.”
Sparrow, B., et al. (2011). Google Effects on Memory: Cognitive
Consequences of Having Information at our Fingertips. Science Express.
7. How does this apply to LIFE SCIENCES?
• What do they say?
– Giustini (BMJ, Dec 2005)
“I entered the salient features into Google, and [the diagnosis]
popped right up.” The attending doctor was taken aback by the
Google diagnosis. “Are we physicians no longer needed? Is an
observer who can accurately select the findings to be entered in a
Google search all we need for a diagnosis to appear—as if by magic?”
– Hider 2009 (JMLA, Jan 2009)
Of a sample of health professionals asked which resources they used
at least once a month, Google (62.9%) far more popular than
UpToDate (16.7%), PubMed (41.9%) or Clinical Evidence (31.4%)
– Tang (BMJ, Dec 2006)
We identified 26 cases from the case records. Google searches found
the correct diagnosis in 15 […] cases
8. Five characteristics of a good life
sciences liaison librarian
• In the Google Age
– As perceptions of libraries, and of personal search
abilities change, It is more important than ever for us
to demonstrate our value
– “Everyone can search” is commonly believed, but
wrong. Changes in information-seeking behaviour
make it vital to emphasise quality information.
– Thinking about the role of a life sciences liaison
librarian led me to divide the role into five desirable
characteristics, and to look at each one within the
context of the Google Age.
11. …in the age…
HOW DO LIFE SCIENCES LIAISON LIBRARIANS
DEMONSTRATE COLLABORATION?
sharing search expertise
promoting the widest possible
awareness and use of resources
building links with user communities
e.g. shared collection development
12. RESOURCE PROMOTION
• QR codes on posters link
back to the library’s site
• Libguides for academic
resources
• Mobile app guides
• Future need for greater
training, suggest
customised by department
with search examples
• Research into use.
14. …in the age…
HOW DO LIFE SCIENCES LIAISON LIBRARIANS
DEMONSTRATE SOCIAL AWARENESS?
Developing tailored training
Providing and promoting
customized access to resources
by being an embedded librarian
15. TAILORED
TRAINING
Because students and
researchers expect to
be able to find
information instantly, if
we are to demonstrate
how to search better,
we also need to
customize our training
to their specific needs.
16. NURSES’ CONTINUING
EDUCATION
At the MUHC, we have been
working with nurse
educators to ensure that
nurses know how the library
can help with their
Continuing Education
requirements.
• Dedicated website
• Journal Clubs
18. …in the age…
HOW DO LIFE SCIENCES LIAISON
LIBRARIANS DEMONSTRATE
COMFORT WITH TECHNOLOGY?
offering on-line reference
using social networking to
promote and teach library services
by engaging with our users in new
ways, such as through mobile access
19. INTERNET REFERENCE
• Using
QuestionPoint Question: Chat Transcript: I'm a medical
resident looking for articles on the
psychological side effects of using Champix.
Martin Morris: Note: Patron's screen name:
software to Phil
Martin Morris: Hello, I can certainly help you
with that. Is this for an assignment? Have you
respond to already looked in any databases yourself?
Joe Thompson: I've looked in Medline but
didn't come up with much
Martin Morris: OK. I'm going to take a look
student myself. How far back would you like to go - last
5 years?
Martin Morris: …and did you use MeSH
enquiries Question: [1664095] I’m a medical resident looking for articles
on the psychological side effects of using Champix.
headings or keywords?
Patron: Joe Thompson (joe@connect.org)
• An alternative Patron’s Library: Heartland University Library
Queue: UK Reference Collective
IP Address: 132.174.21.205
to face-to-face,
not a
replacement
20. The future is mobile
• Excellent mobile health apps site from
McGill Life Sciences Library
• We’re currently planning 3
“brown bag” lunchtime sessions at
MUHC to introduce this – with
very strong interest.
• Possible developments:
Research into use of point of care
tools at an MUHC site?
• Frequent questions about VPN/EZ
Proxy access – can this be built in?
• Would a stand-alone app be a
practical or useful possibility?
22. …in the age…
HOW DO LIFE SCIENCES LIAISON LIBRARIANS
DEMONSTRATE MOBILITY?
Being an embedded librarian
Going to our users, not waiting for
them to come to us
Working with librarian colleagues
at, for example, the MUHC
23. The Embedded Librarian
• Working with scholars
• Collaborating
– with IS experts
– with student support service
– with librarians at other institutions
25. …in the age…
HOW DO LIFE SCIENCES LIAISON LIBRARIANS
DEMONSTRATE INTELLECTUAL CURIOSITY?
publishing original research
demonstrating a willingness to
network and learn from peers
identifying new ways of working
26. A personal view of possible future
research directions
• Examine willingness of
liaison and other
academic librarians to
adopt social networking
for reference through
Diffusion of Innovations
Theory
• How effective is library
training – under what
circumstances is it better
to teach, or to instead
promote that “the
librarian can do it better”
27. Summary
• Skills sharing, promoting resources
• Tailored training, customised access
• Tech: understanding trends, working with
them, constantly improving
• Getting embedded
• Being intellectually curious
• There’s no such thing as a tree octopus
29. Citations
Giustini, D., (2005). How Google is Changing Medicine. BMJ. 331, 1487-8
Hider, P.N., et al. (2009). The information-seeking behaviour of clinical staff in a large
health care organization. JMLA. 97(1), 47-51
Rowlands, I., et al. (2008). The Google generation: the information behaviour of the
researcher of the future. Aslib Proceedings: New Information Perspectives. 60(4),
290-310
Sparrow, B., et al. (2011). Google Effects on Memory: Cognitive Consequences of
Having Information at our Fingertips. Science Express. Published online 14 July,
2011. Retrieved
fromhttp://www.sciencemag.org/content/early/2011/07/13/science.1207745.fu
ll.pdf
Tang, H. & Ng, J.H.K., (2006) . Googling for a diagnosis—use of Google as a diagnostic
aid: internet based study. BMJ. 333, 1143-1145
Good morning etc.In this presentation I will be giving my own perspective on how the role of a liaison librarian, and in particular an LSL, has changed in the Google Age. I’m going to talk about the Google Effect, Generation Y, and changes in information-seeking behaviour. But first of all, I’m going to take a little diversion to talk about…
Hoping for a laugh here…!Can I squeeze in a joke about asking the locals at MLA?
The tree octopus is a hoax but illustrates characteristics of modern search behaviour, the Google Effect – and thus elements of the Google Age.I’ll explain why shortly, but first want to talk a little bit more about what exactly these phenomena are… I’lll spend most of this presentation talking about why Life Sciences Liaison Librarians should care and what this means for the role.
…it appears they’re not so hot at Googling after all! Since about 2003 various studies have taken place looking at how “digital natives”, “generation Y” or the Google Generation (the generation which has grown up mostly or entirely since the birth of the WWW) search for and find information. In 2008…
The tree octopus study took place in 2007 and demonstrated that high schoolers who were led to find the site via Google searches showed little willingness or ability to critically assess the quality of the information, with 24/25 of the students completely believing that the site was genuine, and many refusing to believe they had been tricked even after an explanation.
Betsy Sparrow’s team at the University of Columbia in 2011 showed that… when faced with difficult questions…Easy and instant connection to information sources has changed how people think about information. Our relationship with information has changed. Although we often show poor search skills, and have a tendency to accept information uncritically, very many of us treat the Internet as our personal memory bank, exaggerating the desire for instant results when we search. More and more people are naturally tying their memories to Google and instant access – this means that These phenomena have been found in medicine and life sciences too…
Giustini 2005: Use of Google for diagnoses, and confidence in results retrievedTang 2006: Using Google for a diagnosis was only right 58% of the time in a BMJ published test
So it’s clear that things are changing! We have users, not just students or young people but people of all ages, including doctors, professors etc, whose information-seeking behaviour is changing because of Google and the Internet.
Collaboration – a desire and willingness to work with others and to establish relationships, for example between a liaison librarian and an academic department – in order to be able to Social Awareness – a proactive approach to understanding the specific needs of a department and trends in their discipline, and to customise services to be highly relevant to their needsComfort with technology – including an understanding of trends, how they are (or potentially could be applicable to) library services, how technology can be turned to our needsMobility – a willingness to get out of the library building to build relationship. By being embeddedIntellectual Curiosity – a constant need to learn new techniques, improve one’s skills. To research and publish to increase our knowledge of librarianship and to provide evidence-based new ways of working.
Collaboration including outreach.
FACILITATION OF DISCOVERY“Advise clients on discovering, accessing and using effectively the full range of library and information resources available to meet teaching, learning and research needs in a specific disciplinary area” COLLABORATION in the Google Age has to be proactive – a form of outreach. We have never just sat behind our desks and waited for people to come to us, but it is now even more important than ever. Why? Because people believe more and more that they know how to search, when very often they don’t. And as for comprehensive searches and use of subject headings etc. – definitely not.It is now more necessary than ever to pro-actively build relationships with our user community, demonstrate our value, and seize opportunities to work with the academic community as these become available. Networking and making sure that relevant faculty staff know who we are and find us approachable is essential. A form of networking.For example: sharing search expertise. In the Google age, and knowing what we do about information seeking behaviour, part of our role is to demonstrate our value through better, deeper, more vertical and comprehensive searches. Ensuring that colleagues know we are available to assist with systematic reviews etc.We know that users favour simple interfaces and resources which are easy to find, they don’t want to spend a lot of time finding and learning how to use resources. widest possible awareness and use = working for open access. Libguidesetc.Finally I think collaboration is about shared decision-making. I favour collaborative, user-led purchasing and collection development as much as possible (talk about when I did this in a public library setting). This is particularly relevant with shrinking budgets – where libraries are moving from “just in case” purchasing to “just in time” – further emphasising the role of the liaision librarian but also providing an opportunity for relationship building. MENTION SPORTS COACHING COLLECTION AT UNI OF HERTFORDSHIRE.
Promotion of resources really matters. As already said, users don’t want complicated search interfaces or to spend hours finding out how to use a site, they want information NOW and easy to find. Various methods I have used include adding QR codes to the posters we use to advertise our training programmes (and I advocate McGill doing the same, I’d be happy to help!), we’re also currently developing a way of evaluating this as part of the design of our new website through perhaps direction to a separate page.
Understanding the precise needs of a specific set of users, or often of one user, when planning the provision of a service to them. So this is about customised services, and being aware of the precise needs of specific users so we can match the services we deliver. Researchers have become impatient and want quick answers, this is an opportunity for us.
“Develop and maintain communication links and appropriate liaison with designated academic departments and/or university centres to ensure library and information needs are understood and met.”Social awareness is about customization to our user’s needs. It means going out, finding out the specific needs of our user community/academic department, keeping up to date with trends in their area, and ensuring that services are provided which meet those needs. It is another way of proactively demonstrating the value and relevance of the library.I’ll briefly talk about 1 and 2, but am going to leave 3 until later as I found that while it fits here, it also fits in another characteristic.
The CIBER report showed that wanting instant information etc. wasn’t just a characteristic of teenagers or the Google Generation, it in fact is seen in all generations. Including medical professionals.The examples are from a separate presentation I developed to train pharmacists in certain relevant aspects of PubMed.Another example is the Andrea Laiznergroup or nurse researchers. Talk about this a little (in particular asking for their own research interests two weeks beforehand, working with lib colleagues to develop search strategies for them, and then integrating these into the workshop (delivered in room 409 incidentally).Particularly relevant at the LSL are the needs of medical students and residents. We know they have very little time, but very significant needs for precise information and information literacy. Ways this could be fit in include development of online training (maybe through Campus Moodle or another system), working with course leaders to integrate elements of into literacy into course curricula, and being willing to develop entirely new workshops as required. I have started a Zotero workshop for example.Another thing we are doing as part of the new website is to ensure that the training calendar is prominent on EVERY page so that visitors can’t miss what we have to offer.
In addition to training, we also need to customise how we present resources to user groups, not just in response to their discipline, but in response to current trends in their discipline. This example is a guide for nurses on how to find CE resources – (talk about OIIQ and their new CE requirements plus our responses – also mention journal clubs).The dentistry resource guide is an other example. Collaboration and Social Awareness are intimately connection qualities, difference in emphasis.
Second bullet point – mention my MSc in passingWhat about digitisation of specialist collections held in the library?
Mention how I helped with med students at my special library roleface-to-face reference Ismael, Reference Services Review, Vol. 38 No. 1, 2010, pp. 10-27
The explosive growth in use of mobile devices and in particular smart phones has to drive new services as users demand library services which are easily accessible from these devices.
Collaborating with other libs: MUHC is obvious – Working with other institutions on joint research, improve open source software (e.g.koha) etc.
Being a core part of the team.WORKING WITH SCHOLARS: to provide access to their data sets, project notes, papers, etc. in virtual research environments and digital repositories;COLLABORATING WITH IS EXPERTS: to develop online tutorials and user friendly interfaces to local digital collections; I have an strong interest in OS software and would love to be involved in building a collection using the Evergreen interface for example. I know koha (and mention the Butler Library in the UK)COLLABORATING WITH STUDENT SUPPORT SERVICES: to provide integrated TAILORED services to studentsCOLLABORATING WITH LIBRARIANS at other institutions: on joint research projects, either with other universities or with librarians in hospital settings where we can provide an academic angle to joint research (so cohort multi centre studies), other possibilities to improve open source software. Montreal is the perfect place to conduct studies into multilingual access to resources for example (and multilingual folksonomies etc.), bilingual digital archives and the best way to index them and I’d certainly be interested in involvement in that.
This is my favourite one, because it underpins the rest for me. With intellectual curiosity come vigour and excitement for the role, a need to research (rather than just a duty), and a natural ability to work in new ways and to collaborate.
I’m fascinated by Diffusion of Innovations theory, which looks at how new ideas spread through social systems (such as a profession). I’ve already conducted a DI study based in public libraries, I’d love to conduct one or more based in academic libraries, say on mobile access to resources (a currently spreading innovation). I feel DI theory isn’t used enough in library research and we’re missing out. Pretty pic is a page from my MSc.Another project which I’d be very keen to be involved in, perhaps through a multi centre study but certainly in collaboration, would be to measure the effectiveness of library instruction.
In the Google age people’s attitudes towards information have changed, they want everything NOW. They think they can search but they can’t. “Everything is online” - NOT(1) …and a shared approach to collection development. My approach is proactive, I go to meet them and build relationships, I’m not afraid to show what I have to offer and I will innovative ways to promote library services(2) …I love training and see the importance of it especially in the Google Age. I have already developed custom training in use with my current employer, and will do the same if I work here. This all has to be tailored to their needs though, which means relationship building. Customised access too.(3) Comfort with online reference. Building and improving tools. Using new tools.(4) (5) Research, networking (off to MLA), find new ways of working. Having broad personal information networks to get ideas from (DI heterophily)(6) …and if you take away nothing else from my little talk…