The Data Deluge: Can Libraries Cope with E-Science?
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...
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An essential collection of essays for librarians looking to support E-science programs and capabilities to their institutions.
Foreword Kakugyo S. Chiku viiIntroduction Deanna B. Marcum Gerald George ixPart I Overview of E-Science Challenges for Libraries 11 Grand Challenges and New Roles for the Twenty-first-Century Research Library in an Era of E-Science Richard E. Luce 32 E-Science and Research Libraries: An Agenda for Action Wendy Pradt Lougee 173 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 334 Changes in Research Libraries as a Result of E-Science Initiatives: A Snapshot Neil Rumbo 43Part II Perspectives From National Organizations 615 Library and Information Technology Support of E-Science in the Western Context Joan K. Lippincott 636 Head in the Clouds and Boots on the Ground: Science, Cyberinfrastructure, and CLIR Amy Friedlander 77Part III Perspectives from Individual Research Libraries 917 E-Science at Johns Hopkins University G. Sayeed Choudhury 938 An Idiosyncratic Perspective on the History and Development at University California, San Diego, of Support for Cyberinfrastructure-Enabled E-Science Brian E. C. Schottlaender 999 The National Agricultural Library and E-Science Peter R. Young 113Index 131About the Editors and Contributors 141
\ From the Publisher"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\ \ \
