The Data Deluge: Can Libraries Cope with E-Science?

by Deanna B. Marcum, Gerald George

Overview

An essential collection of essays for librarians looking to support E-science programs and capabilities to their institutions.

From the frontiers of contemporary information science research comes this helpful and timely volume for libraries preparing for the deluge of data that E-science can deliver to their patrons and institutions. The Data Deluge: Can Libraries Cope with E-Science? brings together nine of the world's foremost authorities on the capabilities and requirements of E-science, offering their perspectives to librarians hoping to develop similar programs for their own institutions.

The essays contained in The Data Deluge were adapted from papers first delivered at the prestigious annual Library Round Table at the Kanazawa Institute of Technology, where E-science has been the theme from the past two annual conferences. Now this groundbreaking work is available in convenient printed format for the first time. The essays are divided into three parts: an overview of E-science challenges for libraries; perspectives on E-science; and perspectives from individual research libraries.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781591588870
Publisher:	Bloomsbury Academic
Publication date:	11/19/2009
Pages:	142
Product dimensions:	5.90(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.50(d)

About the Author

Deanna B. Marcum is associate librarian for Library Services at the Library of Congress in Washington, D.C.

Gerald George is the former executive director of the National Historical Publications and Records Commission.

Table of Contents

Foreword Kakugyo S. Chiku vii

Introduction Deanna B. Marcum Gerald George ix

Part I Overview of E-Science Challenges for Libraries 1

1 Grand Challenges and New Roles for the Twenty-first-Century Research Library in an Era of E-Science Richard E. Luce 3

2 E-Science and Research Libraries: An Agenda for Action Wendy Pradt Lougee 17

3 The Challenges of E-Science Data Set Management and Scholarly Communication for Domain Sciences and Engineering: A Role for Academic Libraries and Librarians James L. Mullins 33

4 Changes in Research Libraries as a Result of E-Science Initiatives: A Snapshot Neil Rumbo 43

Part II Perspectives From National Organizations 61

5 Library and Information Technology Support of E-Science in the Western Context Joan K. Lippincott 63

6 Head in the Clouds and Boots on the Ground: Science, Cyberinfrastructure, and CLIR Amy Friedlander 77

Part III Perspectives from Individual Research Libraries 91

7 E-Science at Johns Hopkins University G. Sayeed Choudhury 93

8 An Idiosyncratic Perspective on the History and Development at University California, San Diego, of Support for Cyberinfrastructure-Enabled E-Science Brian E. C. Schottlaender 99

9 The National Agricultural Library and E-Science Peter R. Young 113

Index 131

About the Editors and Contributors 141

Editorial Reviews

These essays present ground-breaking information on this topic and will be of professional interest to practitioners of information science and instructors teaching information science.” —ARBAonline

“Increasingly scientists pursue their craft at keyboards, pulling data from a vast network of sensors such as telescopes and weather stations and research reports from past or present wet-workers in laboratories, fields, and the like. Library professionals here ask who will acquire, evaluate, manage, and preserve all these sets of data for as long as they are needed; who will maintain the infrastructure that makes it all possible; who will provide access points; and who will explain to these scientists how to use the system. They highly suspect that research libraries will play a large role, and that librarians had better be prepared. They begin by reviewing such aspects as an agenda for action, and academic libraries in science data set management and scholarly communication for domain sciences and engineering. Then they offer perspectives from national organizations such as the Council on Library and Information Resources, and from individual research libraries such as Johns Hopkins University.” —SciTech Book News

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