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Fy24 Usability Program Test #4: Assessing Perceptions Of Research Consultations, Lindsey Skaggs

Faculty and Staff Publications – Milner Library

The FY24 Usability Testing Program was designed to iteratively assess user experience at Milner Library. The program gathers data through usability testing of the library's website and discovery layer, as well as survey questions about users' experiences with library services. Test #4 gathers information from library users about their perceptions of research consultations to inform service development. Takeaways and recommendations are included in the report.

Fy24 Usability Program Test #2: Baseline Catalog And Website Usability Testing, Lindsey Skaggs

Faculty and Staff Publications – Milner Library

The FY24 Usability Testing Program was designed to iteratively assess user experience at Milner Library. The program gathers data through usability testing of the library's website and discovery layer, as well as survey questions about users' experiences with library services. The purpose of test #2 was to generate baseline observations and user search behaviors to inform future usability testing design. Takeaways and recommendations are included in the report.

What Is Out There? Data Services Offerings At R1 And R2 Doctoral University Libraries, Chad M. Kahl, Lindsey Skaggs, Joshua Newport

Faculty and Staff Publications – Milner Library

As librarians at a comprehensive university, we sought to understand the data service offerings among R1 and R2 university libraries to guide initial data services development at our institution. To do so, we undertook an environmental scan to discover the services, information, and resources promoted on R1 and R2 library’s websites, and aggregated our findings into a database for use by other librarians and data services professionals.

During the session, we’ll share our methodology and findings and make the data available to attendees. We’ll highlight how attendees can use this information as a tool for further development of data services …

Fy24 Usability Program Test #1: Assessing Awareness Of Subject Librarians, Lindsey Skaggs

Faculty and Staff Publications – Milner Library

The FY24 Usability Testing Program was designed to iteratively assess user experience at Milner Library. The program gathers data through usability testing of the library's website and discovery layer, as well as survey questions about users' experiences with library services. Test #1 focuses on library users' awareness of subject librarians and assesses their ability to find information about their subject librarian on the Milner Library website. Takeaways and recommendations are included in the report.

A Research Data Services Fairytale, Kathleen H. Flynn, Emily Kilcer

University Libraries Faculty Scholarship

Whether for assignments or research, the faculty, staff, and students at all academic institutions will work with data. Some patrons seek assistance finding open data for their projects, while others would like lessons in data analysis or visualization. Data sharing is increasingly required by journals or funding agencies, and researchers may find this challenging while also navigating Data Use Agreements, confidentiality concerns, data documentation, locating a suitable repository, and more.

Furthermore, most funding agencies require a data management plan be included in grant proposals to ensure that researchers are prepared to follow best practices regarding the collection, storage, security, and …

How Libraries Help Make Your Data Management As Easy As Pie, Jill Cofield, Carol Anne Germain, Lauren Puzier, Emily Kilcer

University Libraries Faculty Scholarship

Academic libraries at Association of Research Libraries (ARL) & Carnegie R1 universities in the U.S. and Canada provide leadership to deliver comprehensive integrated Web-based data management services for faculty, graduate students, and researchers. Data management makes data more findable, usable, and reproducible; supports an ethical, responsible research environment; and meets funder and journal data-sharing requirements. Since the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy’s 2013 memorandum requiring federal agencies to increase public access to the results of federally funded research, many funders and journals have mandated data planning and sharing. Developing high quality data management plans take time and …

Love Data @ Uh: Collaborating With Campus Partners To Promote Data Services, Wenli Gao, Andrea Malone, Alexandra Simons

Collaborative Librarianship

In this paper, the authors discuss their academic library’s role in promoting collaboration and visibility among various data service providers on campus, including those provided by the library. Bringing together these data providers for a one-day event at the library, Love Data @ UH, speakers and audience members were able to meet and talk about data management, data visualization, and other data-related services provided at University of Houston campus. The authors also discuss how the event was planned, with recommendations for others considering holding a similar event.

From Survey To Social Network: Building New Services Through Connections, Heather Jagman, Ana Lucic

Ana Lucic

Still relatively new at many educational institutions, Digital Scholarship and Data Services Librarian positions frequently require the appointees to find novel ways of expanding current services and exploring new initiatives. To better understand the needs of our institution, we initiated two information gathering processes involving faculty, our key stakeholders. We will share what we learned as we developed and conducted our 2017 digital scholarship needs assessment survey, which preceded 24 in-depth interviews with faculty members, and the larger trends that emerged from the survey as well as the themes uncovered by the interview process. Each of these research strategies made …

From Survey To Social Network: Building New Services Through Connections, Heather Jagman, Ana Lucic

Heather Jagman

Still relatively new at many educational institutions, Digital Scholarship and Data Services Librarian positions frequently require the appointees to find novel ways of expanding current services and exploring new initiatives. To better understand the needs of our institution, we initiated two information gathering processes involving faculty, our key stakeholders. We will share what we learned as we developed and conducted our 2017 digital scholarship needs assessment survey, which preceded 24 in-depth interviews with faculty members, and the larger trends that emerged from the survey as well as the themes uncovered by the interview process. Each of these research strategies made …

From Survey To Social Network: Building New Services Through Connections, Heather Jagman, Ana Lucic

Staff Publications - University Libraries

Still relatively new at many educational institutions, Digital Scholarship and Data Services Librarian positions frequently require the appointees to find novel ways of expanding current services and exploring new initiatives. To better understand the needs of our institution, we initiated two information gathering processes involving faculty, our key stakeholders. We will share what we learned as we developed and conducted our 2017 digital scholarship needs assessment survey, which preceded 24 in-depth interviews with faculty members, and the larger trends that emerged from the survey as well as the themes uncovered by the interview process. Each of these research strategies made …

Review Of "Dynamic Research Support For Academic Libraries", Steve Brantley

Faculty Research & Creative Activity

A book review of DYNAMIC RESEARCH SUPPORT FOR ACADEMIC LIBRARIES. Hoffman, Starr, (Ed.) London: Facet Publishing, 2016, xxi+154pp., $63.00, 978-1-78330-049-5. Dynamic Research Support for Academic Libraries is a refreshingly inclusive collection of essays with the ambitious goal of broadening our perspectives as academic public service librarians, so that we may better serve a wide range of research needs. For several years the professional literature in librarianship has been preparing us for a shift away from traditional roles and services. This is right and proper since indeed this shift has taken place in the profession and few (if any) academic institutions …

Data Services In Academic Libraries – What Strange Beast Is This?, Amanda J. Swygart-Hobaugh M.L.S., Ph.D.

School of Information Student Research Journal

Data services, though a longstanding specialization, is a fast-growing and in-demand niche in the academic librarian job market. That said, it is still somewhat of a mystery to many outside of a small circle in academic librarianship. This essay attempts to remedy this mystification. The author gives an overview of data services librarianship, using examples from her San José State University INFO 220-12 class, “Data Services in Libraries,” to illustrate the core aspects and activities of this specialization in academic libraries. In so doing, she elucidates how this specialization is at once a natural extension of established roles for academic …

Institutional, Funder, And Journal Data Policies, Kristin Briney, Abigail Goben, Lisa Zilinski

UWM Libraries Other Staff Publications

Data curation exists within a larger framework of laws and policies covering topics like copyright and data retention. These obligations must be considered in order to properly care for data as it is being created and preserved. While laws may transition slowly, the policies applying to research data by funding bodies, institutions, and journals have seen significant change since the turn of the century. These policies have directly impacted the practices of researchers and prompted the creation of data curation services by many libraries in partnership with their larger institutions. This chapter examines three important categories of policies, primarily covered …

Data Camp Instructional Materials, Kristin Briney

UWM Libraries Instructional Materials

These materials where used for the 3-week instruction camp on research data management held at UWM Libraries in 2016. The camp was run by the Data Services Librarian and intended for other librarians to become more comfortable with data management concepts. The topics covered include: data management best practices, data management plans, and data repositories. Each 1-hour session consisted of 2 hands-on exercises. The first 3 pages of this document provide the general outline for each session, with the exercise handouts making up the rest of the document.

Going Beyond The Data Management Plan: Services And Partnerships, Abigail Goben, Lisa Zilinski, Kristin Briney

UWM Libraries Other Staff Publications

Data management plans (DMPs) have provided an excellent gateway for librarians seeking ways to collaborate with researchers. However, the DMPs frequently capture only initial plans for data at the end of a grant application, often written just hours before the submission deadline. Researchers may also have data captured from a previous pilot project, a project already underway, or a project that is already completed. Further, once the grant is received or a plan has been completed, the researcher may realize she needs something entirely different halfway through the process; may run into intellectual property, patent, or privacy issues; or may …

Building Professional Development Opportunities In Data Services For Academic Librarians, Suzanna Conrad, Yasmeen Shorish, Amanda L. Whitmire, Patricia Hswe

Libraries

Research data management represents a significant professional development area for academic librarians –significant for its growing importance to the profession, since researchers are increasingly expected to comply with research data management requirements, and for the extent of competence needed by librarians to support researchers in research data management practices and plans. This article recounts how the Association of College and Research Libraries is fostering professional development opportunities in research data management. The authors describe two key endeavors: (1) the development and deployment of a needs assessment survey, which allowed insight into the types of librarians expressing the most need; and …

A Studio Model For Academic Data Services, Samantha Guss

University Libraries Faculty and Staff Publications

This book serves as proof that there are plenty of effective ways to provide data services in an academic environment and that there can never be a one-size-fits-all approach. It is still valuable, however, to look closely at other's service models--to learn from successes, to borrow concepts and metaphors from other realms, and to think about one's own services through new lenses. A service model is a framework used to describe and understand the "who, what, where, when, and how" of a service from different stakeholders' perspectives; it can serve as a useful tool for developing and improving data services …

Embedded Option: A Common Framework, Cynthia Hudson-Vitale

University Libraries Publications

EXPERIENCE AND RESEARCH has shown that given the complex nature of research data services, various university units and departments must work together to provide appropriate services to create, manage, store, educate, archive, and preserve research data. Organizationally, this can prove to be a challenge. One viable option for meeting these challenges is the embedded librarian model. In the research data services sense, librarians may be embedded into a faculty-led research group, assisting in creating metadata and managing active data; into the university research office, helping with federal requirements for open data compliance; and into a campus information technology unit providing …

Outline Of Partnerships Session, Brianna Marshall, Mdls15 Participants

Midwest Data Librarian Symposium

The goal of the partnership discussion was to create 30-second elevator pitches to convince different campus groups to partner or take advantage of the library's data services. All MDLS participants brainstormed a list of potential partners, picked 7 for targeted pitches, and then wrote the pitches. This is the outline of the overall session and contains a list of over 25 potential campus partners.

Elevator Speech For Research Office, Mdls15 Participants

Midwest Data Librarian Symposium

The goal of the partnership discussion was to create 30-second elevator pitches to convince different campus groups to partner or take advantage of the library's data services. All MDLS participants brainstormed a list of potential partners, picked 7 for targeted pitches, and then wrote the pitches. This is the elevator pitch for the Research Office.

Elevator Speech For Grad School, Mdls15 Participants

Midwest Data Librarian Symposium

The goal of the partnership discussion was to create 30-second elevator pitches to convince different campus groups to partner or take advantage of the library's data services. All MDLS participants brainstormed a list of potential partners, picked 7 for targeted pitches, and then wrote the pitches. This is the elevator pitch for the Graduate School.

Elevator Speech For Library Administration, Mdls15 Participants

Midwest Data Librarian Symposium

The goal of the partnership discussion was to create 30-second elevator pitches to convince different campus groups to partner or take advantage of the library's data services. All MDLS participants brainstormed a list of potential partners, picked 7 for targeted pitches, and then wrote the pitches. This is the elevator pitch for library administration.

Elevator Speech For Subject Librarians, Mdls15 Participants

Midwest Data Librarian Symposium

The goal of the partnership discussion was to create 30-second elevator pitches to convince different campus groups to partner or take advantage of the library's data services. All MDLS participants brainstormed a list of potential partners, picked 7 for targeted pitches, and then wrote the pitches. This is the elevator pitch for subject librarians.

Elevator Speech For Campus It, Mdls15 Participants

Midwest Data Librarian Symposium

The goal of the partnership discussion was to create 30-second elevator pitches to convince different campus groups to partner or take advantage of the library's data services. All MDLS participants brainstormed a list of potential partners, picked 7 for targeted pitches, and then wrote the pitches. This is the elevator pitch for campus IT.

Elevator Speech For Campus Deans, Mdls15 Participants

Midwest Data Librarian Symposium

The goal of the partnership discussion was to create 30-second elevator pitches to convince different campus groups to partner or take advantage of the library's data services. All MDLS participants brainstormed a list of potential partners, picked 7 for targeted pitches, and then wrote the pitches. This is the elevator pitch for campus deans.

Elevator Speech For Tenure-Track Faculty, Mdls15 Participants

Midwest Data Librarian Symposium

The goal of the partnership discussion was to create 30-second elevator pitches to convince different campus groups to partner or take advantage of the library's data services. All MDLS participants brainstormed a list of potential partners, picked 7 for targeted pitches, and then wrote the pitches. This is the elevator pitch for tenure-track faculty.

Purdue University Research Repository: Collaborations In Data Management, D. Scott Brandt

Libraries Faculty and Staff Scholarship and Research

A lot can be learned about research data by participating in research. It is one way librarians can learn about data life cycle and workflow needs of researchers. The Purdue University Libraries’ approach to data management evolved out of investigation of the needs for interdisciplinary research and the ability of librarians to partner and engage in it. The service includes data reference, consulting, planning, and collaboration. It is embedded in interactions across campus and in the Purdue University Research Repository (PURR). PURR is an institutional collaboration that provides help in data management planning, data publishing and discovery, and data preservation.

Carpe Data: Data Curation Services At Four Different Institutions, Lisa Zilinski, Christina Chan Park, Robin Dasler, Natsuko Nicholls

Lisa Zilinski

As funding agencies require data management plans (DMP) and data sharing, institutions are developing data services in their libraries. Data services may include data curation, including metadata creation and data preservation; data discovery, such as data set registration and data linking; extended references services, such as DMP consultations and data needs assessments; and internal activities, such as environmental scans and support for institutional/data repositories. The panel will discuss the evolution, status, and future of data services development in their respective institutions including: The status of data services development in their institution The steps taken to get to their current stage …

Carpe Data: Data Curation Services At Four Different Institutions, Lisa Zilinski, Christina Chan Park, Robin Dasler, Natsuko Nicholls

Libraries Faculty and Staff Presentations

As funding agencies require data management plans (DMP) and data sharing, institutions are developing data services in their libraries. Data services may include data curation, including metadata creation and data preservation; data discovery, such as data set registration and data linking; extended references services, such as DMP consultations and data needs assessments; and internal activities, such as environmental scans and support for institutional/data repositories.

The panel will discuss the evolution, status, and future of data services development in their respective institutions including:

• The status of data services development in their institution
• The steps taken to get to their current stage …

Infrastructure, Standards, And Policies For Research Data Management, Jian Qin

School of Information Studies - Faculty Scholarship

This paper discusses the needs and importance of research data management and introduces the concept of research data management as an infrastructure service. Although many resources have been made available for research data management, most of them are developed as “islands” and lack linking mechanisms. The lack of integrated and interconnected resources has contributed to high cost and duplicated efforts in data management operations. The vision of research data management as an infrastructure service is not only to improve the efficiency of research data management but also the productivity of the research enterprise. Each of the three dimensions—infrastructure, standards, and …