Joy and I have just run a webinar organised by the Higher Education Libraries group of LIASA (Library and Information Association of South Africa). It was amazingly well-attended, with close to 100 participants representing virtually all of the 23 universities in South Africa and the National Research Foundation. We definitely need to take promotion tips from LIASA HELIG!
We spoke on four topics:
Issue 56 of the Society of College, National and University Libraries (SCONUL) Focus newsletter is dedicated to innovation in research support.
Many of the articles provide practical examples of what libraries are doing to improve research data management support and how the professional role of librarians are evolving to support research data management and curation.
Ariadne Issue 64, published today, contains a number of articles of particular interest to those concerned with research data curation.
A new report E-Science and Data Support Services: A Study of ARL Member Institutions from the U.S. Association of Research Libraries provides a snapshot portrait of institutions' services to support e-research and data curation. The report is published on the ARA website.