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The Emerging Career ofData Librarianship in Academic Libraries
Hailey MooneyData Services and Reference Librarian
Michigan State University Libraries
Contact Information:[email protected]://dataservices.lib.msu.edu
What is data (to a data librarian)?
Data as a primary source
Types of Data– Numeric
Machine-readable data files
– Non-numeric Traditional primary
sources: private documents (letters, diaries), media (written record, oral record, films, photographs), physical materials
Data
Information
Knowledge
Wisdom
Types of Numeric Data in the Social Sciences
Primary Data (Researcher created)– Surveys
Micro level (individuals)– Cross sectional or longitudinal
Social, economic, demographic Macro level (aggregations)
Secondary/Archival Data (Created for purposes other than academic research)
– Administrative Records– Government, business
Data vs. Statistics
Data Archives
Inter-University Consortium for Political and Social Research (ICPSR)
Subject-specific– Roper Center Public Opinion
Archives– Cultural Policy and the Arts
National Data Archive (CPANDA)– Association of Religion Data
Archives (ARDA) University
– University of Wisconsin Data & Information Services Center (UW DISC)
International– German Social Science
Infrastructure Services Association (GESIS)
Evolution of Social Science Data and Quantitative Research
1896 Herman Hollerith forms the Tabulating Machine Company, a predecessor of IBM 1897 Emile Durkheim publishes Suicide 1935 Dr. George Gallup founds the American Institute of Public Opinion 1940 the Current Population Survey is established 1947 Roper Center for Public Opinion Research founded 1948 National Election Studies begin 1951 UNIVAC, the first civilian computer is delivered to the U.S. Census Bureau 1962 ICPSR founded 1968 Statistical Package for the Social Sciences (SPSS) software is first released 1972 Nat’l Opinion Research Center (NORC) conducts first General Social Survey (GSS) 1974 First Internat’l Assoc. of Soc. Sci. Info. Service & Tech. (IASSIST) Conference 1981 Internat’l Business Machines (IBM) releases the Personal Computer 1982 Library Trends special issue on “Data Libraries for the Social Sciences” 1985 National Science Foundation begins to require data sharing 1994 ICPSR launches first WWW homepage 1997 Fedstats.gov is launched 1998 ICPSR data is available for download from the WWW 2001 Numeric Data Products and Services SPEC Kit published
Library Data Services
“The mission of Michigan State University Library Data Services is to make numeric data resources available to students, faculty and staff to support curricular, research, and general information needs.”
Services Provided:– Data Set Identification
(Reference)– Instructional Support– Data Set Acquisitions
Library Units and Data
Public Services Collections Digital Information
Research Data Management Forum: RDMF2: Core Skills Diagram http://data-forum.blogspot.com/2008/12/rdmf2-core-skills-diagram.html as cited in Pryor, G. & Donnelly, M. (2009). Skilling up to do data: Whose role, whose responsibility, whose career?. International Journal of Digital Curation, 2 (4): 158-170.
Data Reference
Reference Interview: Define the Unit of Analysis– Who or what? (social unit)– When? (time)– Where? (geography)
Accessing Research Data– Has it been collected, published, distributed?
Data Librarian’s Toolkit– Traditional library resources and search strategies
Research Guideshttp://dataservices.lib.msu.edu
– Data archives– Telephone/Email
Professional Development and Research Interests
IASSIST: International Association for Social Science Information Service and Technology
Scholarly communication, data sharing and citations
The Context for Data Citations
Data Citations
Citations
Style Manuals
Information Standards
Library Systems:Organization, Search, Retrieval
Publishing:Journals, Books, etc.
Scholarly CommunicationCreation Evaluation Dissemination Preservation
Research Data
Use & Reuse
Data Sharing Citation Analysis
BehaviorMotivations
Reference Desk:Known-item searches
Do authors cite data?
Sometimes, but not consistently!
no61%
yes39%
Frequency of Data Citations
n=49
Training for Data Librarians
Data Services Foundation
– MLIS Relevant coursework:
Research Methods, Advanced Reference, Government Information
– Social Science B.A. (or statistics)
On-the-job experience and support
Professional Associations and Networks
– ICPSR Summer Institute
Data Curation/Management Foundation
– MLIS Relevant coursework:
archives and preservation, computer programs and systems, metadata
On-the-job experience and support
Professional Associations and Networks
– Digital Curation Centre, ICPSR Digital Curation
Questions?
Selected Resources
Altman, M., & King, G. (2007). A proposed standard for the scholarly citation of quantitative data. D-Lib Magazine, 13(3/4). Retrieved from http://dx.doi.org/10.1045/march2007-altman
Cook, M. N. C., Hernandez, J. J. C., & Nicholson, S. C. (2001). Numeric Data Products and Services. SPEC Kit (pp. 93): Association of Research Libraries, Washington, DC. Office of Leadership and Management Services. (ERIC Document Reproduction Service No. ED463758) Retrieved from ERIC.
Digital Curation Centre website: http://www.dcc.ac.uk/Green, T. (2009). We need publishing standards for datasets and data tables OECD Publishing White Paper. Paris:
OECD Publishing. Retrieved from http://dx.doi.org/10.1787/603233448430 Griffiths, A. (2009). The publication of research data: Researcher attitudes and behaviors. The International Journal
of Digital Curation, 4(1), 46-56. Retrieved from http://www.ijdc.net/index.php/ijdc/article/viewFile/101/76 IASSIST website: http://www.iassistdata.org/ ICPSR website: http://www.icpsr.umich.edu.Mahoe, R. (2004). Reflections on the Dissertation Process and the Use of Secondary Data. Educational
Perspectives, 37(2), 34-37. Retrieved from http://www.hawaii.edu/edper/pdf/Vol37Iss2/Reflections.pdf Nelson, B. (2009). Empty Archives. Nature, 461(7261), 160-163.Olken, F., & Gey, F. (2006). Social science data library manifesto. Retrieved from
https://hpcrd.lbl.gov/staff/olken/ssdl/ssdl_manifesto.html Read, E. J. (2007). Data Services in Academic Libraries: Assessing Needs and Promoting Services. Reference &
User Services Quarterly, 46(3). Retrieved from http://www.rusq.org/wp-content/uploads/2007/46n3/read.pdf