Working As A Data Librarian: A Practical Guide

Many librarians' job responsibilities increasingly require them to understand and handle data. Learn how to be an effective data librarian--even if you never expected to need data skills. * Acquaints readers with the fast-growing field of data librarianship * Teaches librarians the fundamental skills needed to be a data librarian * Offers best practices for data reference interviewing, finding data sources, data visualization, data literacy, the data lifecycle, metadata design, database design, understanding data management, and preparing data management plans * Helps librarians to support creativity and research and to run outreach programs

• | Author: Eric O. Johnson
• | Publisher: Libraries Unlimited
• | Publication Date: Nov 16, 2018
• | Number of Pages: 256 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Paperback/Computers
• | ISBN-10: 1440864810
• | ISBN-13: 9781440864810