Philadelphia Regional Chapter / Medical Library Association
Jennifer Howard reported in the Chronicle of Higher Education, that Monday afternoon, the bills co-sponsors, Rep. Darrell Issa, a Republican of California, and Rep. Carolyn Maloney, a Democrat of New York, issued a statement of their own saying that they would not push for action on the bill H.R. 3699 after all. For more news, read her article - Legislation to Bar Public-Access Requirement on Federal Research Is Dead
Title: Springer and SLA Philadelphia E3 = eContent Success! Elevate, Evaluate, Enhance Workshop
Location: Sheraton Philadelphia University City, Philadelphia, PA
Description: The SLA Philadelphia Chapter is announcing the professional development workshop E3 = eContent Success! Elevate, Evaluate, Enhance sponsored by Springer. The purpose of the workshop is to bring together Information Professionals from the field of industry to share specifically scientific and technical knowledge along with information on medical eContent with users and assist them in making business decisions.
Mary Ellen Bates, one of the world’s leading business researchers, is the Keynote Speaker.
Registration and more information on workshop.
Arrival & Registration from 2 to 2:30 pm. Cocktails & SLA Networking Reception at 5:15 pm.
Start Time: 14:00
Date: 2012-03-28
End Time: 18:30
We hope you saved the date for our “Data Curation for Information Professionals” event on Friday, March 16, from 2:00 to 3:30pm (registration 1:30 to 2pm). Please pre-register online at http://www.acteva.com/booking.cfm?bevaid=228082 . Coffee, tea, and light refreshments will be served.
Participants in this event, which is approved for MLA Continuing Education credit (1.5 hours), will gain a working knowledge of the need for data curation; a greater understanding of the role of libraries in data management planning; the experiences of two specific libraries with their researchers’ data management needs; and where to find resources for help, including examples from ARL libraries and data management planning guides created by National Science Foundation directorates. With the participation of attendees, we will also explore how data curation applies in different settings, such as hospitals.
Our speakers are Patricia Hswe, Digital Collections Curator at Penn State University Libraries, and Yasmeen Shorish, Assistant Professor and Science Librarian at James Madison University. Their work is described briefly below.
Patricia Hswe is the Digital Collections Curator at Penn State University Libraries. She provides Digital Curation Services, which includes addressing user needs in the context of the Libraries’ Digitized Collections; offering data management services to faculty and students, via both consultations and a Research Data Management Toolkit; and contributing to the development of a new suite of publishing and curation services, currently being developed under Program Sigma. Her research interests include the curation of digital collection content and data; use and users of digital resources; use cases – their documentation, their role in curation; wayfinding in the context of virtual environments; and research data literacy at the graduate-student level. Read more about Patricia’s work at http://patriciahswe.net/ .
Yasmeen Shorish is the Science Librarian at James Madison University, and a current member of MLA. A graduate of the Data Curation Education Program within the Graduate School of Library and Information Science (GSLIS) program at the University of Illinois, Yasmeen brings best practice experience to the dynamic and evolving field of digital preservation. She received the Health Sciences Information Management Award from GSLIS and interned at the Health Sciences Library, UC Denver Anschutz Medical Campus. Having worked in the Library of the Health Sciences at the University of Illinois – Chicago, she is well aware of the complexities surrounding data management of health information. Research areas include data management and curation, attitudes towards data sharing among researchers, and the shifting landscape of scholarly communication.
Location: Thomas Jefferson University, Bluemle Life Sciences building (10th and Locust), Room 105. See campus map with links to directions online at http://www.jefferson.edu/directions/TJU_campus_map.cfm .
Pre-register online at http://www.acteva.com/booking.cfm?bevaid=228082 . Online registration closes on Thursday March 15 at 12pm.
Registration cost:
MLA/SLA Philadelphia chapter member $15
Non-member $20
Student $10
(To renew your chapter membership or to join, please click on the Join! tab above .)
This project has been funded in whole or in part with Federal funds from the National Library of Medicine, National Institutes of Health, Department of Health and Human Services, under Contract No. HHS-N-276-2011-00003-C with the University of Pittsburgh, Health Sciences Library System.
We hope to see you soon,
-Lydia
Lydia Witman
Medical Library Association – Philadelphia Regional Chapter, Programming Chair 2011-2012
According to Paul Basken’s article in the February 13th, 2012 edition of The Chronicle of Higher Education online, President Obama‘s new annual budget proposes a 1.5-% increase in federal spending on basic scientific research for the coming fiscal year. The recommendation to Congress outlined a spending plan totaling $3.8-trillion, just 0.2 percent above current-year spending.
Mr. Basken wrote, “The administration proposed that the National Institutes of Health, the provider of basic research money to universities, get $30.7-billion in 2013, the same as its current-year budget.” Additionally Basken reports that President Obama is seeking $7.37-billion, a 4.8 percent increase over the current-year amount for the National Science Foundation. Furthermore, The President proposed $5 billion for the Department of Energy’s Office of Science up 2.4 percent over last year. Lastly the budget has $17.7-billion for NASA. This is down 0.5 percent from the previous year’s budget.
See the Chronicle of Higher Education Feb.13, 2012 for Paul Basken’s article.
Thanks to everyone who has joined/renewed for 2012 and to Barbara Kuchan, Membership Chair, for conducting a successful registration drive. If you haven’t yet, please join.
Chapter events for 2012 kicked off last month with a visit to the College of Physicians of Philadelphia, continuing the medical humanities theme that we explored last year on a guided tour of the Anatomy/Academy exhibit at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts. Members were treated to a screening of Through the Weeping Glass, a piece by internationally renowned filmmakers Stephen and Timothy Quay, commissioned by the College of Physicians, featuring items from their historical library and the Mutter Museum.
Next up, Chapter events will continue with a focus on emerging roles for information professionals. Mark your calendar for Friday, March 16, when we’ll hear from two experts on Data Curation.
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