Librarians and the Linguistic Society of America

The Linguistic Society of America featured an Open Access Publishing symposium at their annual conference. Librarians from MIT and Boston University contributed to the presentation. Slides and accompanying audio pieces are available for review. Library Journal did a terrific job of aggregating all the pertinent links in one spot. http://www.infodocket.com/2013/02/07/scholarly-publishing-audio-and-slide-presentations-from-lsa-open-access-symposium/

E-Science Portal at the U. Mass Medical School

Building an e-Science Portal for Librarians: A Model of Collaboration

Purpose:  This poster focuses on the collaboration among science and medical librarians from multiple diverse New England research institutions in designing and aggregating content for an e-Science portal.

Brief Description:  This project is funded through a subcontract with the National Network of Libraries of Medicine New England Region. It is based on a collaborative framework consisting of a project advisory board, an editorial board of content editors, and a web development technical team. This comprehensive portal, aimed at librarians, provides news, links to annotated e-Science resources, and a discussion forum. Members of the portal editorial board include science and medical subject librarians identifying and aggregating content on e-science news/events, tutorials, and current practice accessible through the portal. Editorial librarians are developing a virtual community using social tools to foster discussion and collaboration among New England librarians interested in e-Science. This poster describes the planning process and the roles of the editorial team, project coordinator, and portal design team.

Presentation from Nicole Engard

Nicole uploaded a new presentation today.  Of course, some of the slides discuss tools that can be used for collaborative purposes.

Presentation – Using Technology to Work Collboratively

One of the law librarians at Valparaiso University, Sarah Glassmeyer, did a presentation on software that provides collaboration functions and features.