The Library is pleased to announce the appointment of Andrew Creamer as the Library’s new Science Data Specialist.

Creamer is coming to the Library from University of Massachusetts Medical School and National Network of Libraries of Medicine. In this role he taught research data management to librarians of the region.

From 2012-2013 he coordinated and contributed to the New England Collaborative Data Management Curriculum (NECDMC) and is currently coordinating the piloting and evaluation of this curriculum at fourteen universities in North America.

Creamer is also a contributing editor to the e-Science Portal for New England Librarians, sits on the planning board for the New England Science Boot Camp for Librarians, and is a co-instructor of the Scientific Data Management course offered by the Graduate School of Library and Information Science at Simmons College.

In the forthcoming edition of Introduction to Health Sciences Librarianship Creamer is the lead author of a chapter on research data management.

Creamer holds a bachelor’s degree in Biology from Capital University, a Masters in Education from Virginia Tech, and a MLS from Simmons College.