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Congrès des Professionnels de l‘Information, Montreal, QC, November 2, 2016
Evolving to meet the changing needs of scholars: Academic librarians’ early experiences with research data management programs
Ixchel M. Faniel, PhD Research Scientist [email protected] @imfaniel
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Research data management (RDM) programs
“activities and processes…involving the design and creation of data, storage, security, preservation, retrieval, sharing, and reuse, all taking into account technical capabilities, ethical considerations, legal issues and governance frameworks.”
(Cox and Pinfield, 2014, p. 300)
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THE STUDY
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Research methodology Data Collection • Individual interviews
(n=10) • Focus group
interviews (n=26)
Data Analysis • 1st cycle coding
– based on interview protocols
– more codes added as necessary
• 2nd cycle of thematic and numerical analysis of influencing factors
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A snapshot of the library professionals
50% worked at institutions with 10,000-20,000 full-time student enrollment
86% female 69% 10 years of library experience or less
66% had some or a lot of RDM experience 53% less than 45 years old
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Top 3 RDM services
67% data deposit
61% data management planning
41% data management
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THE FINDINGS
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Factors influencing librarians’ ability to support researchers RDM needs • Technical resources • Human resources • Researchers’ perceptions of the library • Leadership support • Communication, coordination, and collaboration
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Technical resources
“I think that the library with an institutional repository could really lower that threshold and make participation much simpler and hopefully, easier and more robust.”
- Librarian 17
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Technical resources “Are we going to look for researchers to write to their grants, data storage costs now? Because as a library, we can't afford to take on these costs…our IT folks say, ‘We can't store that in perpetuity’….”
– Librarian 16
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Human resources
“We need someone who would focus on this completely, that that would be their job, not also trying to do reference or trying to integrate with the department or do teaching.”
– Librarian 31
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Human resources “…it’s just not scalable. So if we’re successful, we’re in big trouble, because we just don’t have the time, it could be a real time sink. I think it would be really fun, but I wouldn’t be able to do anything else I’m supposed to do.”
– Librarian 01
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Human resources
“Our strengths tend to be on the end of it in terms of putting things in and archiving them and maintaining them over a longer period and not that ‘what are you doing with it while you’re using it’…Which is why I think it's more of a ‘pot of gold’…to find people who would have the skills to be providing good consultation for researchers in that area.”
– Librarian 22
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Human resources “I find it so interesting and rewarding, and motivating... we all have a job with a range of things,…this one is just one that I particularly enjoy, and so I'll make a point of making time for it….”
– Librarian 04
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Researchers’ perceptions of the library
“But it is a challenge to get them to move from thinking of us as a big place with books. And going to this much more abstract concept of data management and preservation, and access to their materials.”
– Librarian 06
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Researchers’ perceptions of the library
“I think that maintaining the relevance is a big one… scholarship is changing… [preservation and dissemination of] the data is a way for the library to stay relevant and engaged in scholarship…”
– Librarian 19
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Leadership support
“…one of the things that would make it easier is if the leadership were coming from up, higher…if our Research and Sponsored Programs was saying, ‘Hey, the library has put this in place, you will use it.’”
– Librarian 31
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Leadership support
“our Dean of Libraries has said, if I’m in my office, I’m not doing my job. So, she is helping to change that culture…I also meet with our Associate Dean…she is very aware of faculty on campus and those political partnerships. She is also there to help me navigate the waters.”
– Librarian 09
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Communication, coordination, and collaboration
“I've been working with in collaboration with our new STEM librarian to figure out what path the library can embark upon to assist faculty.”
- Librarian 18
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Communication, coordination, and collaboration
“what's like, really key for the role of the subject librarian or liaison librarian is getting to know our communities and perceiving what the need is…For now, at this stage, that might be the most useful thing that we can do.”
- Librarian 05
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Communication, coordination, and collaboration
“we're searching for someone to be our point-person for data management,…what the library should be doing is going to be driven partly by how that person communicates with all of the other units on campus to divide up the work.”
- Librarian 22
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Communication, coordination, and collaboration “In our consortium, we have different data libraries doing …similar but also different things at different institutions…, and we've been [asking], ‘What are you doing?’ and ‘Hey, we're going to do this, do you want to jump in with us on this and help alleviate costs and burdens?’”
- Librarian 28
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Implications • Have institution-wide conversations about
researchers’ needs versus institutional resources
• Pool expertise more broadly to include stakeholders on and off campus
• Library administrator-led approach to outreach and education
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Ixchel M. Faniel, PhD Research Scientist [email protected] @imfaniel