Serving Users in Nontraditional Ways: Virtual Embedded Librarianship

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Serving Users in Nontraditional Ways Virtual /
Embedded Librarianship

• Katie Newman
• Biotechnology Librarianflorador_at_illinois.edu
• Presentation at
• http//tinyurl.com/5u5yjh

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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)

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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

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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

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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 IllinoisGraduate
  School of Library Information Science
• Bioscience background
• 1 year appointment
• Assists with acquisition duties, web site
  development, e-resource management, outreach

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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

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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
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A few Illinois examples of Biotechnology

• 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
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A few Illinois examples of Biotechnology

• 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?
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A few Illinois examples of Biotechnology

• 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

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A few Illinois examples of Biotechnology

• Gene Robinson LabEntomology Department
• Exploring the genetic basis for honeybee
  behavior and differentiation

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A few Illinois examples of Biotechnology

• Elizabeth Jeffery LabFood Science Human
  Nutrition Department
• Exploring the cancer-preventive properties of
  broccoli and related foods

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Why a Biotechnology Information Center?
Biotechnology crosses many college,
departmental, and research center boundaries on
campus including

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

• Institute for Genomic Biology
• Enterprise Works Illinoiss Business Incubator
• Illinois Biotechnology Centers
• Bioinformatics
• W. M. Keck Center for Comparative and Functional
  Genomics

Biotechnology is interdisciplinary
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A Tour of the Biotechnology Information Center
Web sitewww.library.uiuc.edu/biotech/
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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

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Make access to e-journals more available via
PubMed (and other bibliographic
databases)www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/sites/entrez?otoo
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Instruct Lab Groups Broccoli as a
cancer-preventive food. Which database(s) to use?
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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)

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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!

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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