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Fuhr, Justin – College & Research Libraries, 2022
Research data services are increasingly offered by academic libraries. As a result, librarians may need to upskill to provide data services and build capacity. This study measures the current level of data services skills of academic librarians and explores preferred methods of continuing education. An online survey was circulated asking…
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Library Services, Data, Job Skills
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Thomas, Camillle V. L.; Urban, Richard J. – College & Research Libraries, 2018
There are existing studies on data curation programs in library science education and studies on data services in libraries. However, there is not much insight into how educational programs have prepared data professionals for practice. This study asked 105 practicing professionals how well they thought their education prepared them for…
Descriptors: Librarians, Library Science, Masters Degrees, Library Education
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Antell, Karen; Foote, Jody Bales; Turner, Jaymie; Shults, Brian – College & Research Libraries, 2014
As long as empirical research has existed, researchers have been doing "data management" in one form or another. However, funding agency mandates for doing formal data management are relatively recent, and academic libraries' involvement has been concentrated mainly in the last few years. The National Science Foundation implemented a new…
Descriptors: Librarians, Data, Information Management, Research Libraries