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SEPTEMBER 2005 FACULTY IT LIAISONS NEWSLETTER

Welcome to the OIRT Faculty Liaisons Newsletter for September 2005! Please be sure to share these events and announcements with your colleagues. An archive of these newsletters can be found at http://oirt.rutgers.edu/cmn/fl-archives.html We are very interested in gaining your feedback on any technology issue. Feel free to respond to oirt@rutgers.edu or call us at 732-445-1438.

• New Research VP to Speak at Symposium (Nov 9th)
• Looking for Collaborators for New RLS Program
• Update: RefWorks and Endnote Bibliographic Software Presentations (Oct 12 & 28)
• Broadband Networks, Internet2 and Clicnical Infomatics at UMDNJ (Nov 14th)
• Update: Videoconferencing Demo & Showcase
• Issue of the Month: eResearch & Collaboratories
• Feedback or General Q&A to OIRT and Partners

OIRT, the Rutgers University Libraries (RUL) and the Office of Research and Sponsored Programs (ORSP) are sponsoring a videoconferenced Research Support Symposium on Wednesday, November 9th from 9AM-1PM. Research support units from across the university will be presenting their services. Dr. Michael J. Pazzani, the new Vice President for Research and Graduate and Professional Education, is scheduled to be the keynote speaker during the symposium. Lunch will be provided. Please register at http://oirt.rutgers.edu/registration/register.php?id=1109

The Rutgers Learning Centers (RLC) are seeking faculty who are interested in increasing and promoting collaborative learning among their students. The Centers have developed a program that will aid students in identifying compatible study partners and would like to pilot the program during the '05-'06 academic year. Faculty interested in learning more about participating in this new program should contact Calvin Yu at 732-932-1660.

The Office of Instructional and Research Technology, Center for the Advancement of Teaching, and the Rutgers University Libraries are continuing to investigate possible acquisition of a university wide site license for a bibliographic management software program. The two programs being considered are EndNote and RefWorks. A committee to plan the evaluation and selection process is being formed, with membership from CAT, OIRT, the Libraries, and the faculty. The committee will advise on how we can come to agreement on what features and functionality are necessary and desired, how to stage product demonstrations and trials, and how to identify the requirements for technical and training support, as well as on how to make a selection. Open demonstrations are scheduled with EndNote at 1:30pm October 12th and RefWorks at 10am October 28th. Please register for these events from the "Upcoming IT Events" section of http://oirt.rutgers.edu

How Will They Impact Future Practice and Delivery of Health Care, Education and Research? UMDNJ's NIH-Funded IAIMS Project, Informatics Institute and Department of Information Services & Technology are hosting a symposium on Nov 14, 2005 devoted to advanced networks and services. The symposium is structured to explore and introduce new capabilities, stimulate awareness in "next generation applications" and the ways they can advance clinical, research, and educational agendas. Please review preliminary program at http://istweb.umdnj.edu/pdf/I2AwarenessDay.pdf. Continental breakfast and lunch will be available. Registration and other details to follow at http://oirt.rutgers.edu

Visit the Video Conferencing Demo & Showcase (Sept 27) at the Busch Student Center from 10am to 4:00pm to see new developments in video conferencing. Attend the presentations if you have time or just stop by the vendor tables at any time. Departments that have or have considered using video conferencing equipment should attend to see the latest video conferencing capabilities in action. For more information or registration for the full day, please visit at http://www.njedge.net/activities UPDATE: EVO, the new version of VRVS.org, demonstration has been added to the agenda.

To facilitate OIRT development support efforts, OIRT would appreciate your assistance by directing faculty interested in "eResearch and/or Collaboratories" to contact us at oirt@rutgers or by providing names of faculty whose projects might make use of these capabilities. Video Conferencing and Sakai's Collaboration and Learning Environment can assist collaborations with peers from around the world. eResearch could be used to help with project management, could increase communication opportunities, or could help to bring research opportunities to students. For more information regarding collaboratories, refer to http://oirt.rutgers.edu/collaboratories.html. Note that Sakai's December Conference (http://sakaiproject.org/) will have an eResearch track.

Next month, the "issue of the month" will be a request to help OIRT identify your department's unmet software needs while we ask your computing support staff for existing software inventory. The combined results will be reviewed for opportunities to build shared efforts for developing site licensing (e.g. ChemDraw or Maple) or reduced pricing (e.g. Stata).

We are very interested in gaining your feedback on any technology issue. Feel free to respond to oirt@rutgers.edu or call us at 732-445-1438. Note that questions pertaining more directly to a campus, departmental, or partner IT organization will be coordinated with that university unit. An archive of these newsletters can be found at http://oirt.rutgers.edu/cmn/fl-archives.html