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The School of Information Studies (iSchool) at Syracuse University in Syracuse, N.Y., has introduced a new program (in collaboration with Cornell University Library) called " Building an eScience Librarianship Curriculum for an eResearch Future ". It is focused on creating librarians with a better understanding of eScience and the research process, as well as the new types of digital resources - in particular research data and their long term preservation and use - and how to manage them. Right now they have a call out for applications for scholarships that they have for this new program. The lack of eScience and research data savvy librarians is one of the gaps identified by the Research Data Canada and is the focus of its capacity working group.

From a letter in The Chronicle of Higher Education : Wired Campus , in response to a Tech Therapy podcast: " Episode 33: Libraries vs. IT Departments ": Our experience at Indiana University shows that librarians and IT departments cannot only coexist, and do it successfully, but also that we must become assertive partners in order to achieve the results our users now expect. It’s time to move beyond the rift that apparently separates many libraries and IT departments. None of the compelling issues facing academic libraries today can be accomplished without strong support from IT departments. Among them: establishing robust institutional repositories; supporting e-science and data curation services; providing metadata and e-text consultation; growing a virtual reference community; and developing course management systems. The list goes on.

The Wired Campus is reporting ( Librarians Accuse Google of Using and Discarding Them ) how the ire of librarians with respect to Google appears to be cresting (again). This time I think it is more serious: some fairly strong words are being written: How Google Used Librarians…and Got Away With It Google punked us Google Gone Happy Birthday, Google Librarian Central! Good and Evil in the Garden of Digitization OM blog - Google Ignores Medical Librarians How Google used librarians Google Librarian Central has a 7 month summer break? Google Librarian Central - How many of us will it take? Google Librarian Central "Summer Break" Now 298 Days Google and Librarians When Google’s the library, who’s the librarian?