The data deluge : can libraries cope with e-science?

An essential collection of essays for librarians looking to support E-science programs and capabilities to their institutions.

From the frontiers of contemporary information science research comes this helpful and timely volume for libraries preparing for the deluge of data that E-science can deliver to their patrons and institutions. The Data Deluge: Can Libraries Cope with E-Science? brings together nine of the world's foremost authorities on the capabilities and requirements of E-science, offering their perspectives to librarians hoping to develop similar programs for their own institutions.

The essays contained in The Data Deluge were adapted from papers first delivered at the prestigious annual Library Round Table at the Kanazawa Institute of Technology, where E-science has been the theme from the past two annual conferences. Now this groundbreaking work is available in convenient printed format for the first time. The essays are divided into three parts: an overview of E-science challenges for libraries; perspectives on E-science; and perspectives from individual research libraries.

• Foreword p. vii Kakugyo S. Chiku
• Introduction p. ix Deanna B. Marcum and Gerald George
• Part I Overview of E-Science Challenges for Libraries p. 1
• 1 Grand Challenges and New Roles for the Twenty-first-Century Research Library in an Era of E-Science p. 3 Richard E. Luce
• 2 E-Science and Research Libraries: An Agenda for Action p. 17 Wendy Pradt Lougee
• 3 The Challenges of E-Science Data Set Management and Scholarly Communication for Domain Sciences and Engineering: A Role for Academic Libraries and Librarians p. 33 James L. Mullins
• 4 Changes in Research Libraries as a Result of E-Science Initiatives: A Snapshot p. 43 Neil Rumbo
• Part II Perspectives From National Organizations p. 61
• 5 Library and Information Technology Support of E-Science in the Western Context p. 63 Joan K. Lippincott
• 6 Head in the Clouds and Boots on the Ground: Science, Cyberinfrastructure, and CLIR p. 77 Amy Friedlander
• Part III Perspectives from Individual Research Libraries p. 91
• 7 E-Science at Johns Hopkins University p. 93 G. Sayeed Choudhury
• 8 An Idiosyncratic Perspective on the History and Development at University California, San Diego, of Support for Cyberinfrastructure-Enabled E-Science p. 99 Brian E. C. Schottlaender
• 9 The National Agricultural Library and E-Science p. 113 Peter R. Young
• Index p. 131
• About the Editors and Contributors p. 141