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Instructional guide for scientific data management

Jeffery — Sat, 17 Dec 2011 18:16:04 +0000

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.

This guide complements the page on “Preparing Data Management Plans for NSF Grant applications.”

Berlin 9 Open Access Conference poster

Jeffery — Thu, 10 Nov 2011 17:52:13 +0000

Advancing the impact of research: The Berkeley Research Impact Initiative (BRII)

Tips for preparing LAUC research grants

Jeffery — Thu, 15 Sep 2011 18:58:19 +0000

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.

Download a copy here.

Chemical information literacy instruction for inorganic chemistry

Jeffery — Sat, 03 Sep 2011 00:16:41 +0000

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.

Library comment wall

Jeffery — Thu, 25 Aug 2011 18:30:39 +0000

The “Doe Library Wall” is a mobile installation that will be appearing in various locations during Doe Library’s centennial year.

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:

Pilot installation blog
Messages collected throughout the centennial year (blog)

Welcome to the Chemistry Library! (2011 – 2012)

Jeffery — Tue, 23 Aug 2011 00:41:15 +0000

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

Examining different types of scientific literature: an exercise

Jeffery — Sat, 25 Jun 2011 21:47:12 +0000

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.

About the library and information professions

Jeffery — Tue, 12 Apr 2011 23:57:11 +0000

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.

Proposal for an expression wall

Jeffery — Thu, 31 Mar 2011 23:26:26 +0000

Here is a proposal for an expression wall (or “graffiti wall”) for an upcoming centennial celebration at the library.

Preparing data management plans for NSF grant applications

Jeffery — Sun, 27 Feb 2011 06:37:56 +0000

This guide was developed to help grant applicants follow the NSF policy for data management plans.

INTRODUCTION

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Data management planning guide (PDF)

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