For immediate release:
October 11, 2011
For more information, contact:
Mark A. Puente
Association of Research Libraries
202-296-2296
mpuente@arl.org
Washington, DC—The Association of Research Libraries (ARL) has published issue 7 of Synergy: News from ARL Diversity Programs. The newsletter provides an opportunity for former ARL diversity programs participants to share information about key issues and emerging trends in the workplace.
2000–2001 Leadership and Career Development (LCDP) Fellow, Angela Lee, discusses current trends in data curation and management, specifically in the context of health sciences librarianship at the University of Washington.
Also in the health sciences arena, Myrna Morales, 2009–2011 Diversity Scholar, defines Community Based Participatory Research and the role that the research librarian can play in this new paradigm—from support for or engaging in the methodology to providing preservation services for the data collected.
Last, Minglu Wang (2009 Career Enhancement Fellow) speaks about her experience as the newly appointed data services librarian at the John Cotton Dana Library of Rutgers University.
Synergy: News from ARL Diversity Programs, Issue 7, September 2011, is freely available on the ARL website at http://www.arl.org/bm~doc/synergy1011.pdf.
The Association of Research Libraries (ARL) is a nonprofit organization of 126 research libraries in the US and Canada. Its mission is to influence the changing environment of scholarly communication and the public policies that affect research libraries and the diverse communities they serve. ARL pursues this mission by advancing the goals of its member research libraries, providing leadership in public and information policy to the scholarly and higher education communities, fostering the exchange of ideas and expertise, facilitating the emergence of new roles for research libraries, and shaping a future environment that leverages its interests with those of allied organizations. ARL is on the web at http://www.arl.org/.