Portfolio Project — Derek Britner

ORacLe Digital Library

ORacLe is Organon's company-wide digital library. I am on the team behind it — curating the collection, running the regulatory information systems behind it, and delivering intelligence and documentation to researchers across the entire organization.

Digital LibraryRegulatory IntelligenceInformation CurationResearch Support
My role: Senior Specialist, Learning and Development at Organon (since November 2024), on the ORacLe library team. ORacLe serves the entire company — my job is making sure what researchers need is in the collection, findable, and delivered.

The Context

Researchers across a large pharmaceutical organization depend on regulatory intelligence and documentation to do their work. A library of that scale is not a static shelf: the collection has to be actively curated, the systems and databases behind it have to stay easy to access, vendor tools have to earn their place, and people across the org have to know what the library offers. That ongoing work — collection, systems, and outreach together — is what keeps a company-wide library useful.

What I Do

Curation & delivery

  • Find, curate, and deliver regulatory intelligence and documentation for researchers across the organization, from the library's collection
  • Curate information for the Ignite Hub SharePoint site

Systems & access

  • Analyze and optimize the library's regulatory information systems and databases to improve access and user experience
  • Work with IT on single sign-on (SSO) and onboarding applications

Vendors & tools

  • Work with vendors to maximize the library's regulatory tools and integrate upgrades

Design & outreach

  • Provide design support for the library website, multimedia training, subject guides, and the App Library page
  • Market the library group across the organization — in-person training, posts, and direct outreach

Outcomes

Company-wide reach

ORacLe serves the entire company. Curation, systems work, and outreach are all aimed at one thing: any researcher in the organization can get the regulatory intelligence and documentation they need from the library.

Better access, better experience

Ongoing analysis and optimization of the library's information systems and databases — plus SSO work with IT — keeps access simple for the people using the library every day.

A library people know about

In-person training, posts, and direct outreach market the library group across the organization, so the collection and services get used instead of overlooked.

Tools that earn their place

Working directly with vendors to maximize regulatory tools and integrate upgrades keeps the library's toolset current and worth its cost — the same judgment that produced the in-house Journal Finder.