Here is an instructional guide I developed for scientific data management:
Directed at Berkeley graduate students and researchers, this guide divides data management into six activities and explains best practices for each one. The guide includes short videos, links, and tips that can be used independently or as part of a larger data management literacy program.
Here is my guest lecture for LBSC 670 Organization of Information at the College of Information Studies, University of Maryland.
Advancing the impact of research: The Berkeley Research Impact Initiative (BRII)
Here is the handout for my presentation at the LAUC-B Informational Brown-Bag for Research Grants and Fellowships 2012-13 on September 14, 2011.
Here is the workbook for an instructional session on finding inorganic chemical information.
Download a PDF copy of the workbook.
This is the second year of teaching this class and we now cover Reaxys instead of Gmelin and have a more detailed exploration of Boolean operators. There were 2 separate sessions – each 4 hours long – for a total of 11 students.
The wall poses a changing series of questions and invites your responses – words, drawings, or whatever – which we may later share through an exhibit and related publications.
This project will hopefully engage our community and enable them to share their experiences with and impressions of Doe Library.
I serve as the chair of the Doe Library Wall Editorial Committee who designed and currently oversee this year-long project.
Details:
A new academic year has begun, and we welcomed new Chemistry and Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering students to the library.
This year we distilled our library orientation to 10 short tips in order to allow more time for a human bingo icebreaker game and more time for a discussion of personal success in graduate life. The slides from these sessions will be re-used in the rotating news and instruction slide show on our homepage.
Download a text copy of the ten library tips.
The guide to the Chemistry Library has also been updated. Of note is a discussion of open access publishing, its value, and some sources of financial support for publishing fees.
Download a copy of the guide.
We held a “library quiz” to encourage students to read the library guide. This is an online quiz with multiple choice questions about library use – and all answers may be found in the library guide. All completed quiz entries will be entered into a lottery for a student to win one of two $25 gift certificates to the Cal student store.
Finally, here are some statistics on the 5 one-hour orientation sessions conducted.
| Date | Audience | Number of students |
| August 15, session 1 | Graduate chemistry students | 29 |
| August 15, session 2 | Graduate chemistry students | 29 |
| August 16 | Graduate chemistry students | 30 |
| August 19 | Graduate chemical and biomolecular engineering students | 24 |
| August 22 | Undergraduate transfer students | 20 |
The instructional librarian from the Engineering Library and I taught a library orientation class for high school students participating in the Summer High-School Apprenticeship Research Program (SHARP) at UC Berkeley.
In one exercise, students visited four different stations – each station displaying examples of a different type of scientific literature. The students reviewed the literature and responded to worksheet questions about how they would use those resources. We followed-up with a group discussion.
Here’s the activity worksheet used for this exercise along with the discussion plan.
It was an honor to speak to the Gates Millennium Scholars of UC Berkeley about careers in library and information science. Here are the slides from the panel event on April 12, 2011.
Here is a proposal for an expression wall (or “graffiti wall”) for an upcoming centennial celebration at the library.