This document summarizes initiatives between the libraries of UCL and IOE including exchanges of staff and expertise on topics like research data management, open access, and user satisfaction. It also outlines workshops between the two libraries on research data management, big data, and setting three action points. The workshops discuss challenges and existing services for researchers and libraries regarding research data and big data, and how libraries can be involved with stakeholders.

1. Caroline Lloyd
Head of Library & Archives Service
caroline.lloyd@lshtm.ac.uk

2. UCL/IOE strategic partnership
library initiatives

3. successful events for 2013/14

4. four quick wins
• enhanced reciprocal access and borrowing scheme
• IOE e-theses metadata on DART
• digitisation studio developments
• state of play with records management
two consultancies
• map social science collections in London
– following Senate House Library’s intention to withdraw
• explore joint external funding bids

5. five exchange of experience workshops
• staff training and CPD
• services to mobile devices
• information literacy training
• Open Access
• user satisfaction

6. even more.....
UCL events at IOE on research data management and
Open Access
attended each other’s Annual Development Days
Seminar on spaces, places and practices: library
ethnography led by US expert
work shadowing scheme

7. exchange of experience workshops 2014/15

8. strategic planning
senior teams completed this one
research data management & big data
e learning support
school libraries and children’s literacy
internationalisation
with our International Offices
university publishing
with our institution’s Presses
online student journey
with our Registries etc.
widening participation
with our WP leads
space
with our Estates departments

9. Today’s workshop
• Research Data Management
• Big Data
• 3 action points

10. Research Data Management
• What is research data?
• Why does it need to be managed?
• Who are the stakeholders?
• Why should libraries be involved?

11. Research Data Management
• What are the challenges for researchers?
• What are the challenges for libraries?
• What are the challenges for other
stakeholders?
• What services already exist?
• Nationally
• Locally
• What needs to happen next?

12. Big Data
• What is it?
• How is it different from research data?
• Who are the stakeholders?
• Why should libraries be involved?

13. Big Data
Every day the world creates 2.5 quintillion bytes of
data – equivalent to over 150,000 iPads worth of
information. The power of computing in analysis of
massive and mixed datasets will transform science
and industry in the UK and through the creation of
the Big Data Network and the ADRNs; we hope to
be well placed to take competitive advantage of this
great technology.
Universities and Science Minister David Willetts, Launch of ESRC Big
Data Network, 10th October 2013

14. Big Data
• Jisc (2012) Activity Data:
Delivering benefits from
the data deluge
• 3 v’s - Gartner analyst
Doug Laney (2001)
• RCUK : There is no official
definition…however, it [is]
more than just ‘large
amounts’ of data, and it
tends to be beyond the
ability of typical software
tools to capture, store,
manage and/or analyse.

15. Big Data
• What is it?
• How is it different from research data?
• Who are the stakeholders?
• Why should libraries be involved?

16. Today’s workshop
• Research Data Management
• Big Data
• 3 action points

17. Caroline Lloyd
Head of Library & Archives Service
caroline.lloyd@lshtm.ac.uk