Enhancing library staff skills in research data management. Development of research data services requires staff training. Presented: EAHIL 2013 workshop http://eahil2013.kib.ki.se/?q=node/61#overlay-context=node/64%3Fq%3Dnode/64

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Enhancing library staff skills
in research data management
Development of research data services requires
staff training

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Table of contents
• What have we done?
• What did we learn from it?

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Autumn 2012 we started
an education project in
Helsinki University Library
15 library staff members as students
+ 1 project coordinator

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We had 10 workshops
(3 h sessions)
Topics:
• research data archives
• data management plans
• usage of registry data
• data documentation and metadata
• Liber: Ten recommendations for
libraries to get started with research
data management
• etc.

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We had visitors in workshops, such
as...
• Researchers telling about their research data
• Data models and metadata
• Usage of data and ethics
• Data archive providers
• Expert of persistent identification from national
library.
• Expert of national health statistics and registries

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We had assignments between
workshops, like...
• Find job advertisements for ”Data Librarian”.
Look up the requirements. What skills do you
have already? What skills do you need to get?
• Find Data Management support websites made
by libraries. Which are the main topics?
• Teach others in 10 minutes one important issue
about research data management.
• Make a presentation about some research data
archives in your subject field.

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We had a research project...
• First we made a literature review about the
topic.
• Then survey, interview study...
• Subject
• Researchers
• ICT services
• Other libraries’ librarians...
Everybody talked with a researcher about
research data and data management.

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How did we make the participants
to get involved?
• An expectancy and target survey in the
beginning
• We decided our learning goals together
• Workshops as interactive as possible
• We taught each other
• Survey at the middle of course: ”How has
it been? Any improvement suggestions?”
• Etc

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We made a plan for library research data
management support and training services.
We will present our plans in a seminar
30th Aug 2013 to the library, university
research services, ICT services, etc.
Finally

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• This has been fun!
• No drop outs, vice versa
• Even though we didn’t know it first, library
has a huge potential providing data
management support and training.
What did we learn?
Do not try to think what library could do
before you know more about
research data management!

11. Data Librarian
Thank you!
Mari Elisa Kuusniemi
Science Information Specialist
mari.elisa.kuusniemi@helsinki.fi