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NRC Board on Research Data and Information
Symposium, June
Paul Uhlir has asked me to share this invitation to a very
interesting symposium that's being held in conjunction with the US
National Research Council's Board on Research Data and Information's
meeting on June 3 and 4 in Washington DC. Some of you may recall that
Paul gave a CNI briefing recently on the work of the Board, which is
involved in many policy areas related to research data management that
are central to the CNI agenda; you can find extensive background on
the Board's work at http://www.nationalacademies.org/brdi
Clifford Lynch
Director, CNI
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Dear Colleagues,
Below is an invitation to a
public symposium organized by the NRC Board on Research Data and
Information (BRDI). Please distribute this invitation to others you
think may be interested. Additional information about the meeting
logistics may be found at: http://www.nationalacademies.org/brdi. Attendance is open, but advance
registration is required through Cheryl Levey at: clevey@nas.edu.
Thanks,
Paul Uhlir
Director, BRDI
INVITATION
THE CHANGING ROLE OF LIBRARIES
IN SUPPORT OF RESEARCH DATA ACTIVITIES
A PUBLIC SYMPOSIUM
Sponsored by the
Board on Research Data and Information
1800 M Street NW, South Lobby
In recent years, a great
deal of attention has been devoted to the role of different libraries
in the federal government, university, and research institute context
with regard to the potential long-term preservation, management, and
provision of scientific data, and related support of services and
applications for publicly-funded research. This has come at a time of
rapid technological change, an enormous and accelerating increase in
the amount of scientific data that is being generated, and intense
financial pressures on libraries.
The institutional roles of
libraries in the management and support of scientific data activities
for research and for the broader society are one important area of
focus for the National Research Council's Board on Research Data and
Information. Three of the Board's sponsors are major federal library
organizations-the Library of Congress, the National Library of
Medicine, and the Institute for Museum and Library Services-and they
each provide a different role and perspective concerning these
issues.
The Board's public
symposium on the afternoon of 3 June 2010 will feature presentations
on this set of topics by senior managers from these three federal
library organizations, as well as from the Association of Research
Libraries, which has examined the role of libraries for research data
in some depth and whose members are institutions with a great deal at
stake in this debate. The symposium will conclude with comments by two
Board members, a university professor and researcher working in the
data-intensive field of geographic information and a university
professor of information science. The symposium will be moderated by
Prof. Michael Lesk, Chair of the Board on Research Data and
Information.
Moderator: Michael Lesk, Rutgers University
Speakers:
Deanna
Marcum, Library of Congress
Betsy
Humphreys, National Library of Medicine
Joyce Ray,
Institute for Museum and Library Services
Karla Strieb,
Association of Research Libraries
Michael
Goodchild, UC, Santa Barbara
Christine
Borgman, UC, Los Angeles
Panel
Discussion of Invited Speakers and Board Members
and
General
discussion with the audience
USDA Waugh Meeting Room,
3rd Floor, South Lobby, 1800 M Street NW, Washington,
DC
Thursday, June 3, 2010, 4:00 PM - 6:15
PM
The symposium is free and open to the public, but advance registration
is required because of space limitations.
RSVP to Cheryl Levey at clevey@nas.edu.
For additional information,
visit
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