Poster presentation from the Living the Future 8 Conference, April 23-24, 2012, University of Arizona Libraries, Tucson, AZ. / Like most academic libraries in this difficult economic climate, the UA Libraries have had to cope with constant budget pressures and challenges. Due to diminishing resources, the information resources management component of the Library is one of the areas that has had to be reevaluated regarding how to maximize existing resources to better meet users' needs. The poster will highlight some of the new approaches and strategies that the Library is utilizing to meet users' needs with limited resources in the changing environment.

Breakout session from the Living the Future 8 Conference, April 23-24, 2012, University of Arizona Libraries, Tucson, AZ.

Breakout session from the Living the Future 8 Conference, April 23-24, 2012, University of Arizona Libraries, Tucson, AZ.

Poster presentation from the Living the Future 8 Conference, April 23-24, 2012, University of Arizona Libraries, Tucson, AZ. / The Online Research Lab and the Information Research Strategies for Graduate Students and Researchers courses were created to address the needs of undergraduate and graduate-level students from across the University when the Libraries moved to an online instruction model. These one-credit courses have been successfully delivered to hundreds of students since their creation. In this time, the courses have gone through several reiterations and evaluations, and continue to be improved upon. Quantitative and qualitative data have shown that these credit courses are an effective and popular way to teach information literacy. This poster session will describe the courses and their creation, and present assessment data showing the effectiveness of the ORL course.

Plenary session from the Living the Future 7 Conference, April 30-May 3, 2008, University of Arizona Libraries, Tucson, AZ. / The proliferation of IT and research application tools has changed the way that readers and researchers work, which is frequently labeled as eResearch or digital scholarship. Building strategic partnerships with faculty, PI’s and industry players is called for, yet often difficult to execute. Strategic planning, business management tools, and technology-based approaches often still fall short. Using the Emory University Libraries as an example of navigating in this arena, this talk with provide a mix of inward and outward focused examples of forging new approaches to enabling digital scholarship.

Poster presentation from the Living the Future 7 Conference, April 30-May 3, 2008, University of Arizona Libraries, Tucson, AZ. / The Digital Information Management (DigIn) certificate program is a new effort to help information professionals thrive in an increasingly digital environment. The program features a hands-on approach to learning technology, alongside a strongly multi-disciplinary curriculum designed to help students understand how technology is changing collections and services in a broad range of institutions. This program could not exist without collaboration among funding agencies, partner institutions, several units within the University of Arizona, as well as a national panel of advisors. We believe that the long-term success of DigIn will depend heavily on partnerships with libraries and other cultural heritage institutions, educators, and alumni.

Poster presentation from the Living the Future 7 Conference, April 30-May 3, 2008, University of Arizona Libraries, Tucson, AZ. / WE (Wellness Education) Search is a mentorship program that focuses on consumer health information resource development and education for teens and their surrounding communities, as well as hands-on exposure to health sciences librarianship. It is a collaboration between health sciences information professionals, Knowledge River Scholars from the School of Information Resources and Library Science at the University of Arizona, and Sunnyside High School in Tucson, Arizona. Six Knowledge River mentors and twelve Sunnyside High School students develop and provide consumer health information services to teachers, students, and the Tucson community. These services include creating awareness of resources through outreach programs, presentations, school events, and community events. The Knowledge River mentors provide instruction in information resource skills and career development to the students in the WE Search program. The students are empowered through active involvement in the planning and implementation of programs, presentations, and events. The poster provides a comprehensive look at the WE Search program through four modules which increase awareness of consumer health information resources. This poster will be an opportunity to share the findings and outcomes of a collaborative program that strives to bridge the consumer health information gap.

Breakout session from the Living the Future 7 Conference, April 30-May 3, 2008, University of Arizona Libraries, Tucson, AZ. / As is happening on many campuses, Dominican University has in recent years expanded its emphasis on diversity. It is also true, however, that the term diversity carries various understandings and assumptions which can create barriers to communication and progress. To that end, we recognized that to be effective in campus-wide dialogues regarding diversity, it would be essential to include voices from across the full campus community. In spring of 2004, Brown and Marek joined with another graduate library school colleague to organize a series of university-wide events which brought together administrators, faculty, staff, and students from both undergraduate and graduate divisions to promote a better understanding of cross-cultural communication. This session will provide an overview of the initiative, focusing on the role campus-wide collaboration played in the development and implementation of the event series.

Breakout session from the Living the Future 7 Conference, April 30-May 3, 2008, University of Arizona Libraries, Tucson, AZ. / The work of science is being transformed by the dynamics of several circumstances: change in many social, technological and environmental domains is so rapid that science has difficulty keeping up; science is becoming more data-intensive, driven by the need to observe and articulate theories about more and more complex phenomena, and data collection grows exponentially as new technologies facilitate data acquisition on a massive scale; ever more work occurs at the points where traditional scientific disciplines intersect; and there is a growing social expectation that science should help solve emergent, practical problems and project solutions into the future. In sum, the processes of science need to accelerate, to become increasingly inter- (and trans-) disciplinary, and to become more "solution-driven." What is the role of research libraries in addressing these challenges? In the absence of clear, successful organizational models, the ASU Libraries has been modeling cyberinfrastructure services in collaboration with multi-disciplinary, data-intensive sponsored research projects. This presentation presents a broad case study of the experience of the past three years, identifying challenges encountered and describing how strategic direction has been charted in response to needs of the scientific community. Topics to be discussed include: library identify and the culture of science; challenges of data classification and organization to enable integrative, multi-domain research; the role of data scientists; integrating scientific and data curation workflows; implementation of digital repository services; and how emergent synergies with research centers and institutes, informatics/computer science, and high-performance computing begin to blur administrative boundaries.

Breakout session from the Living the Future 7 Conference, April 30-May 3, 2008, University of Arizona Libraries, Tucson, AZ. / RLG Programs, a part of OCLC Programs and Research, pursues a work agenda with its partners that bridges institutional sectors, national boundaries and technology infrastructures. Projects address common needs in libraries, archives and museums and are shaped to most effectively amplify the value of consensus-building and applied research. Underlying characteristics of these international collaborative efforts will be shared as will examples of current projects that demonstrate the widening impact of collaboration on the cultural heritage community