Conference Session 111

The challenges and changing roles of the Science and Technology Libraries

Science and Technology Libraries Section

Congress track 5: Ideas, innovations, anticipating the new.

15 August 2011 16:00 - 18:00 | Room: Exhibition Hall A

• Working in partnership with researchers to support their research lifecycle: a case study
  HEATHER TODD (Scholarly Communication and Digitization, University of Queensland, Brisbane, QLD, Australia)
• Challenges in setting up open access IRs in Africa
  ABEDNEGO CORLETEY and RICHARD BRUCE LAMPTEY (Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology, Kumasi, Ghana)
• Web based reference services to bioinformaticians: challenges for librarians
  SHUBHADA NAGARKAR (Bioinformatics Center, University of Pune, Pune, India)
• Usage statistics analysis of specialized libraries web sites
  Translations: [Español]
  JULIA VELEZ (Center for Information and Technology of Natural Sciences, University of Puerto Rico, San Juan, Puerto Rico) and LIZ PAGAN (Agricultural Experiment Extension, University of Puerto Rico, San Juan, Puerto Rico)
• Information literacy and engineering design: developing an integrated conceptual model
  MICHAEL FOSMIRE (Physical Sciences, Engineering and Technology Division, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN, USA)
• Beyond these walls: sending researchers out with Research4Life in their pocket
  KIMBERLY PARKER (HINARI Access to Research in Health Programme, World Health Organization (WHO) Geneva, Switzerland), STEVE GLOVER (The Christie NHS Foundation Trust, Manchester, United Kingdom), CARLA HEISTER (Yale University Library, New Haven, CT, USA) and LENNY RHINE (Librarians Without Borders®, Medical Library Association, Chicago, IL, USA)