Tips on Running a Data Centre Jane Fry & Alexandra Cooper DLI Ontario Training April 17, 2015

Tips on Running a Data

Centre

Jane Fry & Alexandra Cooper

DLI Ontario Training

April 17, 2015

Agenda

Environmental scan

Data collection development

Outreach

Resources

Professional development

Hiring students

Statistical consulting

Thinking caps

Summary

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Environmental scan

What is it?

Why is it important?

How often?

Your services

Are they relevant?

Are there any new services that you should be offering?

Are there any services that are no longer needed?

Are you keeping up with the trends?

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Data collection development

Do you have a data collection development policy?

Do you need one?

Where can you find examples of policies?

What is your method of delivery?

When was the last time it was updated?

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Outreach

How?

Are your methods effective?

What are your promotion methods, tools, …?

Who are your users?

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Resources

Where are they?

Do you know?

Do your users know?

Reference interview?

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Professional development

Important

Training

Listservs

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Hiring students

Why?

How?

Is it worth it?

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Statistical consulting

What is it?

Why?

Is it worth it?

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Thinking cap time!

Divide this room into 7 groups

Each group choose a separate topic

Environmental scan

Collection development

Outreach

Resources

Hiring student

Statistical consulting

Professional development

Come up with one suggestion to add to this presentation

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Questions

Reference: http://www.ohsinc.com/ 11

Contact Us!

Jane FryData Specialist

Data Centre, MacOdrum Library

Carleton University

Ottawa

613.520.2600 x1121

jane.fry@carleton.ca

Alexandra CooperData and Web Support Assistant

Data Services, Stauffer Library

Queen’s University Library

Kingston

613.533.6000 x77481

coopera@queensu.ca

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