Enhancing library staff skills in research data management. Development of research data services requires staff training.
Presented: EAHIL 2013 workshop
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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!