eScience Symposium Reflections from Christopher Erdmann: Redefining the Librarian’s Role in eScience

Abstract

Christopher Erdmann, Head Librarian, Wolbach Library, Harvard Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, shares his multiple experiences at the University of Massachusetts and New England Area Librarian eScience Symposium, as well as current challenges he sees for data science librarians. Christopher presented on a panel at the Eighth Annual eScience Symposium discussing the “future of data science” from a librarian’s perspective. See the video of this panel presentation on the 2016 eScience Symposium website.

Keywords

• eScience Symposium
• professional development
• data science
• astrophysics