{"id":978,"date":"2021-06-17T13:25:03","date_gmt":"2021-06-17T13:25:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.lsa.umich.edu\/eeblog\/?p=978"},"modified":"2021-06-17T15:18:24","modified_gmt":"2021-06-17T15:18:24","slug":"news-and-notes-from-your-librarian-conferencing-edition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.lsa.umich.edu\/eeblog\/2021\/06\/17\/news-and-notes-from-your-librarian-conferencing-edition\/","title":{"rendered":"News and notes from your librarian: conferencing edition"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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by Scott Martin, Biological Sciences Librarian, University of Michigan Library<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Happy almost-solstice, everyone! Hopefully you\u2019re enjoying the wonderfully unpredictable variability of temperature and humidity that summer in Michigan brings. I\u2019ve been enjoying the posts from colleagues about the Brood X emergence in the area; we are cicada-free out here on the Washtenaw\/Jackson County border, but it\u2019s Absurdly Large Fly Season in our neighborhood, so entomological annoyances abound. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

[Photo caption: Don’t get too excited – I didn’t build it from scratch. Image: Scott Martin]<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

(There are less-obnoxious fauna as well: we have thriving dragonfly and butterfly populations here, and I encounter an occasional snake sunning on one of the dirt roads or escaping my feeble attempts at yard maintenance.) Our garden expansion continues: we put up a small shed (pictured) over Memorial Day weekend, and a decorative gate awaits assembly in the garage. Also, the peas have started to come in, which is always my favorite part of the growing season. Well-chilled home-grown pea pods are a terrific snack on a hot summer\u2019s day!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

During a break from my unskilled manual labor, I recently spent a couple of days on Zoom attending the 5th annual Digital Data in Biodiversity Research conference<\/a> hosted by iDigBio<\/a>. I\u2019ve attended a couple of the previous in-person events (the inaugural conference in Ann Arbor, and the 2019 edition at Yale) and found them to be a great way to get a snapshot of the current state-of-the-art in the research space that combines museum collections and biodiversity field research with data infrastructure and computational techniques. I don\u2019t pretend to fully grasp all of the science – it\u2019s been a long time since I was an active researcher, and it wasn\u2019t in this area – but I\u2019m fascinated by the possibilities that at-scale digitization and the \u201cextended specimen\u201d open up in terms of questions that can be asked. Recordings of many of this year\u2019s talks are available at the link above; I particularly enjoyed Alina Zare\u2019s Day One presentation on techniques for overcoming labeling bottlenecks in building machine learning models, the Day Two discussion section on zoos as an untapped resource<\/a>, and the session on leveraging AI to extend specimen networks<\/a> on Day Three. Next year\u2019s conference is scheduled to be (at least partially) in-person at the Field Museum in Chicago, and hopefully I\u2019ll be there!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Library plans for the fall semester are still being formulated, but I expect to be back on campus more-or-less full-time if current trends continue. I\u2019d like to be able to give my orientation to the incoming grad student cohort in person, rather than as a Canvas course, if at all possible; I feel bad that last year\u2019s cohort didn\u2019t get the benefit of my usual \u201cwelcome to Ann Arbor\u201d Ask Me Anything session. Maybe I\u2019ll hold an open AMA meetup at BSB in September. Maybe I\u2019ll even bake treats. Stay tuned! In the meantime, let me know if I can help out with your research, teaching or other information-related needs! My email, Twitter handle and Zoom office hour info can all be found on my library profile page<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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