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
Alexandra CooperData and Web Support Assistant
Data Services, Stauffer Library
Queen’s University Library
Kingston
613.533.6000 x77481
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