Mentnech named Research Librarian for Life Sciences & Research Metrics

We are very pleased to announce the appointment of Tisha Mentnech to the position of Research Librarian for Life Sciences & Research Metrics effective May 6, 2019.

Mentnech will join the Research Engagement department in her new role, where she will serve as liaison to the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences and other affinity STEM departments, and serve as the department’s expert on bibliometric and research impact. She will provide expert services for faculty, staff, and students across the research lifecycle, including information discovery, data curation, visualization, research computing, and scholarly communication. Mentnech will also provide instruction on research skills and data literacy to students in the sciences. Additionally she will work with Collections & Research Strategy librarians in collections development and assessment activities.

Mentnech currently serves as Research and Data Services Librarian at the Spencer S. Eccles Health Sciences Library at the University of Utah, where she is the primary data management librarian for the health sciences campus, teaching workshops and classes on data management best practices, grant-specific data management plans, research reproducibility, and institutional data policies. Mentnech helps researchers manage their profiles using ORCID, NCBI My Bibliography, and SciENcv. One large aspect of her role has been to support research reproducibility efforts as part of a larger initiative on campus, focusing on how reproducibility can support researcher professional goals through the integration of workflow management, transparent methods at all points on the research lifecycle, and transdisciplinary research.

Mentnech completed an internship in Research Data Management with Research IT Solutions at the Harvard Medical School in Boston. Previously she served as Circulation Supervisor and Reference Assistant at the Massachusetts College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences University. Mentnech is a member of the Medical Library Association, for which she has served as a scholarship juror, and the Research Data and Access Preservation Association, for which she was a conference planning co-chair. She earned the Master of Library and Information Sciences at Simmons College in Boston and bachelor’s degrees in History and Spanish from Western Carolina University.