Developing socio-technical collaborations to support researchers at the University of Florida

This international conference presentation highlights the progression of electronic lab notebooks (ELN), also referred as electronic research notebook (ERN), conversations at UF that contributed to a recent ELN/ERN scoping report request from senior stakeholders. An informal ELN meetup at the IDCC22 is included on timeline. A socio-technical framework is introduced illustrating the complex interrelatedness of stakeholders and subcomponents of technical systems. This presentation is adapted from the abstract of an unfunded HHS IR-ORI-22-001 grant proposal. Select conversations, projects, and surveys articulate the progression of the role of libraries as collaborators, partners, and resource brokers in advancing research support services at a large R1 institution in the southeast USA. "By definition, an institutional LIMS and ELN project involves management, PIs, scientists at all levels and the institute's IT department..." (Argento, 2020, p. 1).