Survey of Academic Library Leadership : Plans for Data Librarianship

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Title: Survey of Academic Library Leadership : Plans for Data Librarianship
Description: This report, based on data predominantly from interviews with deans and library directors of US colleges and universities, presents expansive data and commentary on what upper library management thinks of the library's role in data management and what its plans are for data librarianship. The study presents data on the number of librarians performing extensive data librarianship functions, as well as a description of the types of services that they are providing. In addition, survey participants report on trends in spending on library data services over the past two years, and their plans for the next two years. Data in the report is broken out by many useful criteria including college/university type or Carnegie class, as well as enrollment level, tuition, public/private status and other variables.
Authors: Primary Research Group
Resource Type: eBook.
Subjects: Research--Data processing, Institutional repositories--United States--Statistics, Academic libraries--United States--Statistics, Database management, Academic librarians--Effect of technological innovations on, Data curation, Data centers
Categories: LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Library & Information Science / Administration & Management
Database: eBook Collection (EBSCOhost)
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Abstract:This report, based on data predominantly from interviews with deans and library directors of US colleges and universities, presents expansive data and commentary on what upper library management thinks of the library's role in data management and what its plans are for data librarianship. The study presents data on the number of librarians performing extensive data librarianship functions, as well as a description of the types of services that they are providing. In addition, survey participants report on trends in spending on library data services over the past two years, and their plans for the next two years. Data in the report is broken out by many useful criteria including college/university type or Carnegie class, as well as enrollment level, tuition, public/private status and other variables.
ISBN:9781574406023
9781574408782