Libraries stack up in new digital world
Research libraries such as those on the Virginia Tech campus are moving away from being repositories of knowledge to active curators of data.
by TONIA MOXLEY | 381-167
BLACKSBURG — Virginia Tech researcher Emmanuel Frimpong and his team took two years to compile a database of biological traits of 809 U.S. freshwater fish species for a project funded in part by the U.S. Geological Survey.
But the team needed a new service at Tech’s Newman library to help them honor a commitment to the USGS to make that online database available to other scientists.
“I don’t think researchers across campus are aware of this service the library can provide,” Frimpong said.
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March 4, 2013 - 10:39 AM
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