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Enhancing library staff skills in research data management. Development of research data services requires staff training. Presented: EAHIL 2013 workshop http://eahil2013.kib.ki.se/?q=node/61#overlay-context=node/64%3Fq%3Dnode/64
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Enhancing library staff skills in research data management
Development of research data services requires
staff training
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Table of contents
• What have we done?
• What did we learn from it?
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Autumn 2012 we started an education project in
Helsinki University Library 15 library staff members as students
+ 1 project coordinator
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We had 10 workshops(3 h sessions)
Topics:• research data archives • data management plans• usage of registry data• data documentation and metadata• Liber: Ten recommendations for
libraries to get started with research data management
• etc.
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We had visitors in workshops, such as...• Researchers telling about their research data
• Data models and metadata
• Usage of data and ethics
• Data archive providers
• Expert of persistent identification from national library.
• Expert of national health statistics and registries
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We had assignments between workshops, like...• Find job advertisements for ”Data Librarian”.
Look up the requirements. What skills do you have already? What skills do you need to get?
• Find Data Management support websites made by libraries. Which are the main topics?
• Teach others in 10 minutes one important issue about research data management.
• Make a presentation about some research data archives in your subject field.
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We had a research project...
• First we made a literature review about the topic.
• Then survey, interview study...
• Subject
• Researchers
• ICT services
• Other libraries’ librarians...
Everybody talked with a researcher about research data and data management.
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How did we make the participants to get involved?
• An expectancy and target survey in the beginning
• We decided our learning goals together
• Workshops as interactive as possible
• We taught each other
• Survey at the middle of course: ”How has it been? Any improvement suggestions?”
• Etc
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We made a plan for library research data management support and training services.
We will present our plans in a seminar 30th Aug 2013 to the library, university research services, ICT services, etc.
Finally
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• This has been fun!
• No drop outs, vice versa
• Even though we didn’t know it first, library has a huge potential providing data management support and training.
What did we learn?
Do not try to think what library could do before you know more about research data management!
