The Association of Research Libraries (ARL) just released its most recent study, E-Science and Data Support Services: A Study of ARL Member Institutions. The study was sponsored by the ARL E-Science Working Group to build an understanding of how libraries can contribute to e-science activities in their institution and identify organizations and institutions that have similar interests in e-science to leverage research library interests. The group defined the domain of e-science as those new methods that are large-scale, datadriven, computationally intense, and often engaging research teams across institutional boundaries. The report presents a summary of survey results and identifies six institutions as cases to further illuminate programs
and services mentioned only briefly in the survey and allow some interesting patterns to emerge from interviewees’reflections on faculty connections, staffing levels, and organizational structure and culture.
To read the entire report, please see: http://www.arl.org/bm~doc/escience_report2010.pdf.