Academic librarians' roles and responsibilities are evolving and expanding into the area of data, how to manage, share, access and preserve. Providing training on the topic of how to discuss data with faculty and researchers was the focus of upskilling a cohort of academic librarians.

1. Getting Onboard the Data Train
How Librarians Fit In
Diane Clark,
Staff Development &Training
Librarian |Agriculture, Food &
Nutritional Science Librarian,
University of Alberta Libraries

2. “…data is the currency of science, even if publications
are still the currency of tenure. To be able to exchange
data, communicate it, mine it, reuse it, and review it is
essential to scientific productivity, collaboration, and
to discovery itself.” !
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Gold, A. Cyberinfrastructure, Data, and Libraries, Part 1. D-Lib Mag. 13(9/10): 2007. http://
www.dlib.org/dlib/september07/gold/09gold-pt1.html

3. What will we cover?
❖ data defined!
❖ where do librarians fit in?!
❖ how do we get there?

4. What is data?

5. Where do librarians fit in?
Source: Shannon RobalinoSource: Data Library University of Alberta Libraries

6. Research Data Lifecycle
Source: Chuck Humphrey, University of Alberta Libraries

7. How?
❖ new Chief Librarian and
Vice Prost!
❖ institutional changes!
❖ evolving role of liaison
librarians!
❖ asked what was needed

8. Skilling Up to Data Management
❖ understanding research data
and research lifecycle!
❖ managing research data!
❖ sharing research data!
❖ preserving research data!
❖ ethics and security*

9. Tools
Services
Expertise
Source: C. Humphrey, Data Library U of A Libraries Source: M. Law, International Relations, U of A Libraries
Source: M Law, International Relations, U of A Libraries

10. Tools, Services, Expertise
❖ Tools !
❖ DMPOnline | Dataverse | ERA !
❖ Services!
❖ teach | consult & recommend |refer | store & preserve!
❖ Expertise!
❖ metadata |remedial data help | data cleansing |
preservation |

11. DMPonline

13. DATAVERSE

16. Other Strategies
❖ partner!
❖ organize a symposium!
❖ use familiar tools !
❖ outreach initiatives!
❖ use social media

17. Research Data Management Week

18. 98%
Research Data Management Week Summary. Report to Gerald Beasley on May 12, 2014
Suggestions for
future library
sessions?
metadata!
data preservation!
data cleaning!
developing data plans!
ethics !
data sharing!
targeted workshops

19. LibGuide

20. “When you are face to face
with a difficulty you are
up against a discovery.
Lord Kelvin (William Thomson) 1824 - 1907 !
Mathematical physicist and engineer.

21. Thank you
❖ Trish Chatterly (Health Sciences Librarian)!
❖ Diane Clark (Staff Development & Training Librarian, AFNS Librarian)!
❖ Geoff Harder (Acting AUL Information Resources)!
❖ Chuck Humphrey (Data Guru)!
❖ Larry Laliberte (GIS Librarian)!
❖ Virginia Pow (Map Librarian)!
❖ Kendall Roarke (CLiR Post Doctoral Fellow, Digital Initiatives)!
❖ Weiwei Shi (Digital Initiatives Applications Librarian)!
❖ Allison Sivak (Education Librarian)!
❖ Dale Storey (Health Sciences Librarian)!
❖ Leah Vanderjagt (Institutional Repository Librarian)

22. References
1. University of Edinburgh. Defining Research Data. http://datalib.edina.ac.uk/xerte/play.php?template_id=9
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