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Serving Users in Nontraditional Ways: Virtual / Embedded Librarianship

Serving Users in Nontraditional Ways: Virtual / Embedded Librarianship. Katie Newman Biotechnology Librarian florador@illinois.edu Presentation at: http://tinyurl.com/5u5yjh. Virtual or Embedded Librarians. Really, these days we are ALL “virtual” librarians! Email Chat Web sites

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Serving Users in Nontraditional Ways: Virtual / Embedded Librarianship

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  1. Serving Users in Nontraditional Ways: Virtual / Embedded Librarianship Katie Newman Biotechnology Librarianflorador@illinois.edu Presentation at: http://tinyurl.com/5u5yjh

  2. Virtual or Embedded Librarians • Really, these days we are ALL “virtual” librarians! • Email • Chat • Web sites • Assistance by phone • Some of us are just also physically separated from our collections, often having offices in close proximity to our clientele (embedded)

  3. Local Examples • Physical library closed, resurrected as… • Women & Gender Studies Information Resources • Labor & Employment Relations Digital Library • African American Research Center • City Planning and Landscape Architecture Reference & Resource Center • More closures likely • Historically had no library… • Global Studies Virtual Library • Biotechnology Information Center

  4. Where is the Biotechnology Info Center? • It is a “Virtual” Center: “location” is the Web site of the Biotechnology Information Center www.library.uiuc.edu/biotech/ • Not located in or affiliated with any of the 35+ libraries on campus! • Office is located in the Institute for Genomic Biology • a state of the art, $75 million dollar, 186,000 square foot facility, opened in Spring, 2007

  5. Who is in theBiotechnology Information Center (BIC)? • Biotechnology Librarian – Katie Newman • Ph.D. Plant Biology (Kansas) • M.S. Agronomy (Nebraska) • Biology post-doc (Yale) • Former plant physiology / biochemistry professor (Southern Illinois) • MLS from Illinois GSLIS • Graduate Assistant (5 hours/week) • Graduate student from the IllinoisGraduate School of Library & Information Science • Bioscience background • 1 year appointment • Assists with acquisition duties, web site development, e-resource management, outreach

  6. What is Biotechnology? • Broadest definition: “Applied biology" • The industrial use of biological processes or living organisms to produce products. • The use of biotechnical methods to modify the genetic materials of living cells so they will produce new substances or perform new functionse.g., recombinant DNA technology, in which a copy of a piece of DNA containing one or a few genes is transferred between organisms or "recombined" within an organism. … In reality, BIC assists those engaged in primary bio research that may not lead to any “product”

  7. A few Illinois examples of Biotechnology Studying the genetic regulation of plant and insect genes that produce enzymes that can detoxify herbicides and insecticides Mary Schuler Lab Cell and Developmental Biology Department

  8. A few Illinois examples of Biotechnology Bioengineered a protein that can neutralize Staphylococcus enterotoxin B, one of the primary toxins emitted by staph bacteria that cause antibiotic resistant infections David Kranz Lab Biochemistry Department

  9. A few Illinois examples of Biotechnology Studying the molecular and genetic basis of plant tolerance to stresses such as high or low temperature, high salinity, and drought.What genes are responsible for these adaptations to stress? Hans Bohnert LabCrop Sciences & Plant Biology Departments

  10. A few Illinois examples of Biotechnology Matt Wheeler Lab Animal Sciences Department First transgenic pig – Big Al (1994) - had a gene from a cow that allowed the mother pig to produce more milk for its piglets

  11. A few Illinois examples of Biotechnology Gene Robinson LabEntomology Department Exploring the genetic basis for honeybee behavior and differentiation

  12. A few Illinois examples of Biotechnology Elizabeth Jeffery LabFood Science & Human Nutrition Department Exploring the cancer-preventive properties of broccoli and related foods

  13. Why a Biotechnology Information Center? • Life Sciences • Agriculture • Chemistry • Veterinary Medicine • Bioengineering • Business • Philosophy • Institute for Genomic Biology • Enterprise Works – Illinois’s Business Incubator • Illinois Biotechnology Centers • Bioinformatics • W. M. Keck Center for Comparative and Functional Genomics “Biotechnology” crosses many college, departmental, and research center boundaries on campus including: … Biotechnology is interdisciplinary

  14. A Tour of the Biotechnology Information Center Web sitewww.library.uiuc.edu/biotech/

  15. Some activities of the Biotechnology Information Center • Enhance use and knowledge of library resources across diverse departments • Make access to e-journals more available via PubMed, Web of Science, and other bibliographic databases • Instruct biotech lab groups about resources and research strategies for finding information • Support the use of bibliographic management tools such as EndNote and RefWorks • Collaborate with other science librarians about biotech needs and resources

  16. Make access to e-journals more available via PubMed (and other bibliographic databases):www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/sites/entrez?otool=uiuclib&holding=uiuclib,f1000,deepblue

  17. Instruct Lab Groups: Broccoli as a cancer-preventive food. Which database(s) to use?

  18. Instruct Lab Groups: Broccoli as a cancer-preventive food. Which database(s) to use? Other terms that might be fruitful to include in searching… Instead of just using “broccoli” use some/all of these: Cruciferous; cabbage; Brussels sprouts; mustard greens; Brassica-oleracea; brassicaceae; selenium; Cruciferae; brassica* Instead of just using “cancer OR neoplasm” use some of these:Nutritional intervention; carcinogenesis; antioxidant activity; DNA-binding-proteins; apoptosis; metastasis; Multiple intestinal neoplasia; disease-prevention; anticarcinogenic-activity; chemoprotectant; probiotics; antiproliferative; functional foods; cancer-prevention; nutraceuticals; breast neoplasms; antiproliferative signaling pathways; heart disease; cardiovascular disease For example, a search in PubMed might be… (broccoli OR crucifer* OR brassica*) AND (cancer OR neoplasm* OR carcinogenesis OR antioxid* OR anticarcino* OR nutraceutical* )→ 719 citations! Compare with 200 citations in PubMed, searching more simply for just broccoli AND (neoplasm* OR cancer)

  19. Support and encourage the use of bibliographic management tools such as EndNote and RefWorks What do these tools do? Allow you to build a personal database of relevant citations • After doing a topical or author search, import citations from bibliographic databases such as PubMed, Web of Science, CAB Abstracts, etc. • Or, type in citations, manually Work dynamically with your word processor (Word) to add citations to articles “as you write” • Automatically formats the citations in the format specified • Has pre-defined format styles for hundreds of journals • Watch bibliographies appear as you write!

  20. Future Plans for the Biotechnology Information Center • Expand involvement in research programs of biotech labs • Continue to improve access to biotech e-resources • Educate researchers about their rights as authors and their open access options

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