The document introduces the University of Amsterdam (UvA) and its library (UBA). It provides details about the UvA such as its founding date, size, faculties and websites. It then provides similar details about the UBA such as its founding date, locations, staff size and websites. The document goes on to outline the UBA's organizational structure and services including general library workshops, discipline-specific library education and plans for research data management workshops.

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Library
Introducing…
the UBA

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University of Amsterdam
 Established as Athenaeum Illustre in 1632
 Largest university in the Netherlands
 7 faculties, c. 30,000 students and 5,000 staff
 Working towards 4 campuses
 http://www.uva.nl/en/

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Library
 Established as City Library in 1578
 Library for the City’s University from 1632 onwards
 10+ library locations now, 4 in 2018
 Approx. 180 FTE (± 23 FTE subject librarians)
 http://www.uva.uba.nl/en/

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Senior Management
Team
UvA Heritage
Special
Collections
Collections
Project
Support
Heritage
Services
Operational
Management
Public Services
Conservation
Allard Pierson
Museum
Collections
Exhibitions
University Library
Library
Learning
Centres
City Centre
Roeterseiland
Science Park
Information
Services
Executve
Management
Support
Central Library
Services
Acquisitions
and Metadata
Services
Metadata
Expertise
Centre
Acquisitions
Metadata
Services
Digital Services
Projects,
Innovation &
Digital Production
Centre
Library and
Information
Systems
Depots and
Document
Delivery
AUAS Library
Library
Learning
Centres
Information
Services
Executve
Management
Support
Corporate
Services

7. General library workshops
 Library Skills: information literacy
 RefWorks: reference management software
 Webtoolworkshops: RSS & Google Alerts, Dropbox,
Google Drive & Docs, Evernote, Twitter, LinkedIn, iPad
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8. Discipline-specific library education
 subject librarian i.c.w. faculty staff
 information literacy, library instruction, library tour
 geared toward a particular field of study
 embedded in regular study programme
 timing
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9. Research Data Management
(planned)
 writing a Data Management Plan (DMP)
 organising data (file management, metadata)
 keeping data (secure storage, back-ups)
 sharing & citing data
In short: data literacy
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10. Thank you!
Email selm@uva.nl
Twitter @mvanselm
LinkedIn http://nl.linkedin.com/in/mvanselm/
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