NEW PRIORITIES FOR SCIENCE & ENGINEERING LIBRARY COLLECTIONS:

INTEGRATING AND HARNESSING INTERDISCIPLINARY, COLLABORATION, DATA

AND PUBLISHING WITH TECHNOLOGY

Julia Gelfand Applied Sciences, Engineering & Public Health Librarian

University of California, Irvine, USA

Anthony (Tony) Lin Coordinator, Collection Development & Reference

Irvine Valley College, USA

CLSTL 2017 – 2 March International Conference on Changing Landscape of Science & Technology Libraries

Gandhinagar, India

Ranganathan’s 5 Laws of Library Science

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Topically speaking…

• Ranganathan’s Fifth Law: The Library is a growing organism

• Science & Collections are both global resources

• STEM, STEAM, and STM

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Fast changes globally

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“To be clear, science is not a political construct or a belief system.

It provides testable, fundamental knowledge of the world and how

things work. Science alone cannot provide policy solutions to the

many challenges that society faces, but scientifically informed

perspectives must be taken into account for decisions to be made

by the best available evidence. The serve the public interest,

information should be rigorously evaluated and held to the highest

possible standard, a process that the practice and products of

science help to accomplish. For policies to be successful, we must

first understand the current state of knowledge so that policy-

makers can design policy interventions that will be effective.” She

continues, “Similarly, economic prosperity and innovation in the

United States depend on a healthy research and development

enterprise that enables scientific thought to flourish.”

Schall, B. (2017). Editorial: Informing Policy with Science. Science 355/6324, February 3: 435.

DOI: 10.1126/science.aam8694

David Lankes tweets…

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“Bad libraries build

collections, good

libraries build services,

great libraries build

communities.” Lankes, R. David (2012). From a tweet, June 11.

https://davidlankes.org/?p=1411

Science Libraries Over Time

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• Ayala Science Library, UCI • Radcliffe Science Library,

Oxford • Barker Library, MIT • IIT Library, Guwahati • Milliken Library, Caltech • CERN Library, Geneva • University of Versailles

Science Library • Qatar National Library, Doha

Today’s Science Libraries are Different

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More from Lankes…

“Good libraries focus on users. That is they evaluate the utility of the collection in relation to user needs. What do people want and need in terms of the collection, and how does that balance with all the other things the library does (reference, programming, digital resources, instruction, etc.). Here not only do we look at user data such as circulation and such, but the whole user experience.” Lankes, R. David (2016). The New Librarianship Field Guide. MIT Press.

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http://www.ibmbigdatahub.com/infographic/360-view-world-internet-things

Collage of cited documents

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6 principles of networking

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Library space evolution

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Study & snooze time

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C Conundrum

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Discovery – Googling

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https://thesocietypages.org/cyborgology/2011/12/13/responsible-googling/

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Collections – Reading to streaming

https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=564849

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https://farm8.static.flickr.com/7162/6437295863_5b3bd1424e.jpg

Instruction and OERs

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http://www.tangischools.rg/cms/lib3/LA01001731/Centricity/Domain/62/online%20txtbook%20cropped.jpg

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Two Roads to Open Access

The Gold Road publish in an open access journal

but you don’t have to, instead you can

The Green Road archive a legal copy of your article in a

digital repository

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infographic from FrontMatter by Allen Press / CC BY ND NC 3.0 22

Bygone era

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https://libraries.santarosa.edu/

Science Literature

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Science Methods are Changing – Entrepreneurship

– Innovation

– University Research Parks

– Data Management and Statistical Analysis

– Project Management

– GIS Metrics and Competitive Intelligence

– Media/video/digital intensive

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Seeking Transparency

“I am deeply concerned about the potential quantification of scholarly impact. This is a terrible, and morally bankrupt, idea…I think it’s essential that any metrics that receive broad adoption be fully transparent and reproducible.” – Clifford Lynch

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Lynch, C. (2017). Updating the Agenda for Academic Libraries and Scholarly Communications. College and Research Libraries 78/2, January: 127. doi:105860/crl.78.2.126

More from Clifford Lynch

• “…develop appropriate new genres of scholarly communication for the digital environment.” Librarians he says can help, but libraries must “recognize the emergence of these genres in a timely manner and respond by collecting, organizing, curating and preserving them.”

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Lynch, C. (2017). Updating the Agenda for Academic Libraries and Scholarly Communications. College and Research Libraries 78/2, January: 127. doi:105860/crl.78.2.126

Data and Open Science

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Open Science: OA to OSComm

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http://innoscholcomm.silk.co

http:www.sciencecartoonsplus.com 30

Library of Tomorrow

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http://www.npr.org/sections/alltechconsidered/2016/05/31/477819498/in-omaha-a-library-with-no-books-brings-technology-to-all

Wild Ride – Transitions to More Transformation

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