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Great Lakes Science Boot Camp for Librarians 2016

 

For more information or to schedule this course, please contact Marci Brandenburg <mbradenb@umich.edu>.

The Great Lakes Science Boot Camp is an immersive 2.5 day face-to-face event offering librarians opportunities to learn more about key areas of scientific and medical research. The programming features three faculty-led sessions on Small Science, Public Health and Disease, and The Environment, designed to provide overviews of emerging trends and research methodologies and in-depth descriptions of particular research projects. A keynote address focusing on being a dataologist and the role of data in healthcare will inspire new ideas for engagement in research and data management. In addition to these education sessions, the Boot Camp will include lightning talks from attending librarians and tours of research spaces at a variety of labs including the Biodiversity Museum and Herbarium, Genomics & Bioinformatics Core Facility, Molecular Structure Facility, Notre Dame Integrated Imaging Facility, Nuclear Structure Lab, and the Radiation Laboratory Scientific Glassblowing Shop. Networking events, including a banquet dinner and a social activity at the Notre Dame Hesburgh Library, will provide ample opportunities for attendees to share experiences and brainstorm new paths to engagement with research faculty at their home institutions. By attending this Boot Camp and learning directly from active researchers, librarians from the Greater Midwest region and beyond will enhance their understanding of several key areas of scientific and medical research and will become better prepared to provide support for research and research data management at their home institutions.

Resource URL: http://libguides.lib.msu.edu/GLSBC2016/

Learning Objectives

  • Participants will gain detailed knowledge of the current state of research, including new terminologies and methodologies, in specific areas of biomedical and life sciences (detailed in the agenda).
  • Participants will learn about the scientific research process, and identify opportunities for librarian engagement
  • Participants will develop strategies to enhance their support of scientific research and research data management at their home institutions.


    Agenda
Tuesday, July 12: 
4:00-10:00pm Early Arrival

Wednesday, July 13: 
9:00 - 11:45am Pre-Camp Sessions for Early Arrivals
12:00-1:15pm Registration & Lunch
1:15-3:45 Session 1: Small Science (instruction method = lecture) 
•	Dr. Kevin Lannon: "Discovering the Other 95% of the Universe: Physics at the LHC"
•	Dr. Patrick Fay: "Nanoscale Devices and Integration for Low-Power Computation, Energy Harvesting, and Imaging"
4:00-5:30pm Lightning Talks: Library Research Support Services
5:45 - 7:00pm Overnighter check-in
7:00 - 9:00pm Buffet Dinner and Mini-Disc Golf at the Center for Digital Scholarship, Hesburgh Library (networking event)

Thursday, July 14: 
8:00-9:30am Breakfast
9:30 - 11:45am Session 2: Public Health and Disease (instruction method = lecture)
•	Dr. Maya Lieberman: "Finding Fake Medicines"
•	Dr. Neil Lobo: "The Role of Mosquitos in the Spread of Infectious Diseases"
12:00 – 1:30pm Lunch
1:30 - 3:45pm Core Facility Tours: The afternoon will consist of three 45-minute tour stops. The stops showcase the educational and research facilities (instruction method = demonstration) that are available for students and faculty. Some of the facilities are available for external customers. Each attendee will create a customized tour of three tour stops which will be based on their interests. One tour stop will be experienced by everyone. Example tour locations are the Biodiversity Museum and Herbarium, Genomics & Bioinformatics Core Facility, Molecular Structure Facility, Nuclear Structure Lab, and the Radiation Laboratory Scientific Glassblowing Shop.
6:30 - 9:00pm Keynote Speaker and Banquet Dinner (instruction method = lecture): Keynote being given by Dr Nitesh Chawla who will talk about "Being a Dataologist: Role of Data and Analytics in Healthcare." The Banquet Dinner and reception provide networking opportunities.

Friday, July 15: 
7:00 - 11:00am Overnighter check-out
8:00-9:30am Breakfast
9:30 - 11:45am Session 3: The Environment (instruction method = lecture)
•	Jeanne Romero-Severson: “Forests”
•	Joannes Westerink: "Hurricane Prediction"
12:00pm Lunch

 

Need for This Course: Inspired by the success of the New England Science Boot Camp, now in its eighth year, other regional science boot camps for librarians have recently been launched in the American West, Southeast, and starting last year in the Great Lakes. To continue providing this immersive learning experience to librarians in the Midwest region, we will hold a Great Lakes Science Boot Camp in Indiana. The primary target audience is librarians in the Greater Midwest region and neighboring areas of Canada, particularly those who support science and health science research. Based on attendance at the 2015 Great Lakes Science Boot Camp and similar events held in 2015 (i.e., New England Science Boot Camp, Science BootCamp West), we expect an attendance of between 60 and 100 librarians. This learning opportunity will be beneficial to a broad array of librarians, including those who provide general support for science or health science research communities, and those who have specific liaison duties within science or health science areas that overlap with the Boot Camp topics. By learning directly from and talking with faculty researchers, librarians will gain insights into how they might best apply their knowledge to provide research and research data management services to faculty and student researchers, thus furthering their libraries’ e-Science agendas. Moreover, by networking with their peers, librarians will be able to share success stories and brainstorm new ideas about how to reach out to and form partnerships with research teams on their campuses. This will help librarians “play a bridging role” between researchers and resources at their home institutions.

Facility Requirements

The Boot Camp will be held on the campus of University of Notre Dame in South Bend, Indiana. The planning committee and librarians from the host institution have made all facility arrangements, including lecture space, AV equipment, Internet access, meals and networking events, tours of research labs, and accommodations for overnight "campers".

MLA CE Credits: 13