dr. katie newman, [email protected] biotechnology information center mortenson presentation...

Dr. Katie Newman, [email protected] Information Center

Mortenson PresentationOctober 27, 2008

Serving Users in Nontraditional Ways:

Virtual / Embedded Librarianship

Katie Newman

Biotechnology [email protected]

Presentation at:

http://tinyurl.com/5u5yjh



Virtual or Embedded Librarians

• Really, these days we are ALL “virtual” librarians!– Email– Chat– Web sites– Assistance by phone

• Some of us are just also physically separated from our collections, often having offices in close proximity to our clientele (embedded)



Local Examples

• Physical library closed, resurrected as…– Women & Gender Studies Information Resources– Labor & Employment Relations Digital Library– African American Research Center– City Planning and Landscape Architecture Reference

& Resource Center– More closures likely

• Historically had no library…– Global Studies Virtual Library– Biotechnology Information Center



Where is the Biotechnology Info Center?

• It is a “Virtual” Center: “location” is the Web site of the Biotechnology Information Center www.library.uiuc.edu/biotech/

• Not located in or affiliated with any of the 35+ libraries on campus!

• Office is located in the Institute for Genomic Biology – a state of the art, $75 million dollar,

186,000 square foot facility, opened in Spring, 2007



Who is in theBiotechnology Information Center (BIC)?

• Biotechnology Librarian – Katie Newman– Ph.D. Plant Biology (Kansas)– M.S. Agronomy (Nebraska)– Biology post-doc (Yale)– Former plant physiology / biochemistry professor (Southern Illinois)– MLS from Illinois GSLIS

• Graduate Assistant (5 hours/week)– Graduate student from the Illinois

Graduate School of Library & Information Science– Bioscience background– 1 year appointment– Assists with acquisition duties, web site development,

e-resource management, outreach



What is Biotechnology?

• Broadest definition: “Applied biology" • The industrial use of biological processes or living

organisms to produce products. • The use of biotechnical methods to modify the genetic

materials of living cells so they will produce new substances or perform new functionse.g., recombinant DNA technology, in which a copy of a piece of DNA containing one or a few genes is transferred between organisms or "recombined" within an organism.

… In reality, BIC assists those engaged in primary bio research that may not lead to any “product”



A few Illinois examples of Biotechnology

Mary Schuler Lab Cell and Developmental Biology Department

Studying the genetic regulation of plant and insect genes that produce enzymes that can detoxify herbicides and insecticides




David Kranz Lab Biochemistry Department

Bioengineered a protein that can neutralize Staphylococcus enterotoxin B, one of the primary toxins emitted by staph bacteria that cause antibiotic resistant infections




Hans Bohnert Lab Crop Sciences & Plant Biology Departments

Studying the molecular and genetic basis of plant tolerance to stresses such as high or low temperature, high salinity, and drought.

What genes are responsible for these adaptations to stress?




Matt Wheeler Lab Animal Sciences Department

First transgenic pig – Big Al (1994) - had a gene from a cow that allowed the mother pig to produce more milk for its piglets




Gene Robinson LabEntomology Department

Exploring the genetic basis for honeybee behavior and differentiation




Elizabeth Jeffery LabFood Science & Human Nutrition Department

Exploring the cancer-preventive properties of broccoli and related foods



Why a Biotechnology Information Center?

• Life Sciences• Agriculture• Chemistry• Veterinary Medicine• Bioengineering• Business• Philosophy

• Institute for Genomic Biology• Enterprise Works – Illinois’s

Business Incubator • Illinois Biotechnology Centers

– Bioinformatics– W. M. Keck Center for

Comparative and Functional Genomics

“Biotechnology” crosses many college, departmental, and research center boundaries on campus including:

… Biotechnology is interdisciplinary



A Tour of the Biotechnology Information Center Web site

www.library.uiuc.edu/biotech/



Some activities of the Biotechnology Information Center

• Enhance use and knowledge of library resources across diverse departments– Make access to e-journals more available via PubMed, Web of

Science, and other bibliographic databases

– Instruct biotech lab groups about resources and research strategies for finding information

– Support the use of bibliographic management tools such as EndNote and RefWorks

• Collaborate with other science librarians about biotech needs and resources



Make access to e-journals more available via PubMed (and other bibliographic databases):

www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/sites/entrez?otool=uiuclib&holding=uiuclib,f1000,deepblue



Instruct Lab Groups: Broccoli as a cancer-preventive food.

Which database(s) to use?



Other terms that might be fruitful to include in searching…

Instead of just using “broccoli” use some/all of these: Cruciferous; cabbage; Brussels sprouts; mustard greens; Brassica-oleracea; brassicaceae; selenium; Cruciferae; brassica*

Instead of just using “cancer OR neoplasm” use some of these: Nutritional intervention; carcinogenesis; antioxidant activity; DNA-binding-proteins; apoptosis; metastasis; Multiple intestinal neoplasia; disease-prevention; anticarcinogenic-activity; chemoprotectant; probiotics; antiproliferative; functional foods; cancer-prevention; nutraceuticals; breast neoplasms; antiproliferative signaling pathways; heart disease; cardiovascular disease

For example, a search in PubMed might be… (broccoli OR crucifer* OR brassica*) AND (cancer OR neoplasm* OR

carcinogenesis OR antioxid* OR anticarcino* OR nutraceutical* ) →719 citations!

Compare with 200 citations in PubMed, searching more simply for just broccoli AND (neoplasm* OR cancer)

Instruct Lab Groups: Broccoli as a cancer-preventive food.

Which database(s) to use?



Support and encourage the use of bibliographic management tools such as EndNote and RefWorks

What do these tools do?Allow you to build a personal database of relevant citations

• After doing a topical or author search, import citations from bibliographic databases such as PubMed, Web of Science, CAB Abstracts, etc.

• Or, type in citations, manually

Work dynamically with your word processor (Word) to add citations to articles “as you write”

• Automatically formats the citations in the format specified• Has pre-defined format styles for hundreds of journals • Watch bibliographies appear as you write!



Future Plans for the Biotechnology Information Center

• Expand involvement in research programs of biotech labs

• Continue to improve access to biotech e-resources

• Educate researchers about their rights as authors and their open access options

dr. katie newman, [email protected] biotechnology information center mortenson presentation...

Documents

virtual center

biotechnology info center

virtual librarians

com5u5yjh slide

outreach slide

clientele embedded slide

genomic biology institute

plant biology kansas