This has been a relatively quiet year, after last year’s exceptionally busy year. Here are some highlights:
I continued to participate in the evaluation process of the Senior Design projects for Bioengineering. This year they were actually required to meet with me to do a preliminary patent search. This was awesome, if exhausting. There are 18 groups of students, and I saw all of them in a two week time frame. When asked how they proved they met with me, the professor said: “Take a selfie!” (one is attached.)
I presented a program (with my colleagues Andy Wesolek and Lisa Bodenheimer) for World Intellectual Property Day. The title for our program was “Increasing Access to Clemson University Patents.” We focused on the process that we undertook to identify Clemson patents, add them to our institutional repository, and also provide access via the Library’s online catalog.
We also published an article about this project in the Journal of Collection Management. “Collaborate to Innovate: Expanding Access to Faculty Patents through the Institutional Repository and the Library Catalog.”
The project was so successful that we gave a very similar presentation at the annual conference of SCLA, our statewide Library Association. We included our colleague Brenda Burk of Special Collections, who offered a user’s perspective.
And finally, we presented a webinar on the topic for ASERL, the Association of Southeastern Research Libraries. Follow this link for further information and slides / text of the various iterations: https://works.bepress.com/jan_comfort/
In Fall 2015, I taught another semester of LIB 3010: Patent Searching for 1 hour credit.
At Christmastime, the Library hosted an exhibit on Poinsettias from a Clemson researcher. We added our own small exhibit featuring Poinsettia patents.
Unfortunately I will not be able to attend this year’s PTRC Training Seminar. I am very disappointed, and I will really miss seeing all of my friends. Sing a song for me!
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