Library and Information Science Commons^™

This presentation was given at the IASSIST 2015 annual conference in the E1: Geospatial And Qualitative Data session.

Librarians providing data services for researchers and learners in the social sciences should be offering data support and management services to qualitative researchers as well as quantitative ones. But, is this the case in practice? Do social sciences data services librarians devote their primary attention to quantitative researchers to the detriment of qualitative researchers? Is qualitative research the Jan Brady of social sciences data services? This presentation presented findings from: (1) a content analysis of IASSIST job repository postings from 2005-2014, …