Librarians learning, launching and sustaining research data services, whether as a stand alone service or working with a group.

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LIBRARIANS AND DATA
Kimberly M. Hoffman
Lead, Science and Technology Team and Mercer Library
Presentation for Bridging the Spectrum
Department of Library and Information Science, CUA
February 3, 2017

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Job titles:
Data Reference Services Librarian
Data Services Librarian
Data and eScience Librarian
SS or Business or Science Librarian
Health/Life Sciences Librarian
STEM Librarian
Collection Development
GIS Librarian
Digital Humanities Librarian
Assessment Librarian
Scholalry Communications Librarian
Digital Scholarship Librarian

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Librarians learning, launching and sustaining data services, whether
as a stand alone service or working with a group.
LIBRARIANS AND DATA

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LIBRARIANS AND DATA
Phases in Data Adoption
I 2006
II 2010
III 2012-2014 Strategic
IV So much data! BIG!
V Workflows
Chen, H., Doty, P., Mollman, C., Niu, X., Yu, J., & Zhang, T. (2015). Library assessment and data
analytics in the big data era: Practice and policies. Proceedings of the Association for Information
Science and Technology, 52(1), 1–4. https://doi.org/10.1002/pra2.2015.14505201002
Lorcan Dempsey. (2015). Evolving collection directions, ALCTS, ALA. Education. Retrieved from
http://www.slideshare.net/lisld/alctssymposium

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● Research Data Services:
○ Data Literacy
○ Data Management
○ Data Preservation
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Communicate beyond the library

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2016 Trends
RDS - Research Data Services
Digital scholarship
Collection Assessment
ILS and content provider/fullfillment mergers
Evidence of LearningFramework for Information Literacy
Altmetrics
Emerging staff positions
OER - Open Educational Resources
Committee, ACRL. (2016). 2016 top trends in academic libraries A review of the trends
and issues affecting academic libraries in higher education. College & Research Libraries
News, 77(6), 274–281.

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Skills
Spreadsheets
Project management
Data Basics
Data Information Literacy
Data Management Plans
Best practices with research data
Where to find data?
Tidy Data
GIS
Digitization
Statistics
Coding
Visualization
Lauersen, C. (2016, January 11). Librarians as Data Scientists, really?
Retrieved from https://christianlauersen.net/2016/01/11/librarians-as-data-
scientists/
Wickham, H. (2014). Tidy Data. Journal of Statistical Software, 59(i10).

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TO DO:
Next week:
Watch 1 session per day
http://digitalpreservation.gov/meetings/dcs16.html
Next month:
Do 1 workshop on research data management
Online Data Management Course
https://www.lib.umn.edu/datamanagement/workshops
This year:
Make a visualization from your data
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On my radar:
HathiTrust and HTRC
https://www.hathitrust.org/htrc
Bibliometrics - learn my researchers
Citations from Web of Science, VOSViewer, OSF
Digital Scholarship services

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Bibliometrics - Web of science - VOSViewer:

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Bibliometrics - Web of science - VOSViewer:

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Recommended Reading:
Affelt, A. L. 2015. The accidental data scientist: big data applications and
opportunities for librarians and information professionals.
Borner, Katy, and David E. Polley. 2014. Visual insights: a practical guide to making
sense of data.
Caldwell, Sally. 2013. Statistics unplugged. Australia: Wadsworth Cengage Learning.
Ray, Joyce M. 2014. Research data management: practical strategies for information
professionals.
Tufte, Edward R. 2006. Beautiful evidence. Cheshire, Conn: Graphics Press.

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For more information Kim Hoffman 703-993-3844 khoffma@gmu.edu