"Big Data Startups Should Hire Librarians" presented at SXSW Interactive, March 16, 2015

1. Big Data Startups
Should Hire Librarians

2. Big Data Startups
Should Hire Librarians
SXSW Interactive – March 16, 2015
Jeffrey Lancaster, Ph.D.
Columbia University Libraries (formerly)
New Water Culture (currently)
jeffrey.lancaster@gmail.com @j_lancaster #LISbigdata

3. Big Data Startups
Should Hire Librarians
SXSW Interactive – March 16, 2015
Jeffrey Lancaster, Ph.D.
Columbia University Libraries (formerly)
New Water Culture (currently)
jeffrey.lancaster@gmail.com @j_lancaster #LISbigdata

4. Jeffrey Lancaster, Ph.D.
Emerging Technologies Coordinator (formerly)
Senior Project Manager (currently)
jeffrey.lancaster@gmail.com @j_lancaster

12. Most people do not
understand what *actually*
librarians do

13. Librarians are not always very
good at describing what they
do to non-librarians

14. People do not think to look to
librarians for the skills that
librarians have

16. What do librarians
actually do?

19. Customer
Support

20. Conversion?

22. Evangelism

23. Community
Management

24. Marketing

26. Data
Management

27. Project
Management

29. Open Access

30. Open Data

31. Standards

37. Early Stage
Hires

38. Early Stage
Hires

40. Strategy

42. Early Testers,
Late Adopters

43. Copyright, IP

44. What librarians actually do.

46. Big Data Startups
Should Hire Librarians
jeffrey.lancaster@gmail.com @j_lancaster #LISbigdata