Subject: ALCTS E-Forum: Data Access and Management, March 26-27
From: ALCTS-CE Announce <alcts.ce.announce_at_gmail.com>
Date: 3/19/2012 6:24 AM
Data Access and Management: the Library’s Role
March 26-27, 2012
Hosted by Brad Gulliford and Jeff Downing
Please join us for an e-forum discussion. It’s free and open to everyone!
Registration information is at the end of the message.
Each day, sessions begin and end at:
Pacific: 7am – 3pm
Mountain: 8am – 4pm
Central: 9am – 5 pm
Eastern: 10am – 6pm
Description
Sets or collections of data (including scientific, social services, and
demographic) have become more visible and available. Libraries are
places of information storage and access, but are data and data support
services a good fit for libraries and librarians?
Traditionally, researchers stored and administered their data
independently of libraries (although there were some repositories). Now
conventional libraries are contemplating an expansion of their services
to include assistance in locating data, acting as consultants as
researchers file data management plans, and making data accessible via
local hosting.
This e-forum will discuss the collections aspect of hosting large data
files, the acquisitions aspect of “accessioning” materials requiring no
shelving or payment, and the technical services aspect of sharing
responsibilities with reference. We will also discuss providing
information about filing data management plans and making original data
accessible.
Brad Gulliford and Jeff Downing are librarians in the acquisitions and
collection development department of the library of the University of
Texas at Arlington, in the Dallas/Fort Worth area. Brad’s subject areas
are most of the sciences and engineering, and he blogs at Scholarly
communication, Open Access, Open Science (
http://blog.uta.edu/~bradley/). Jeff covers economics, political
science, psychology, and urban planning, and, drawing on his technical
services experience at the Superconducting Super Collider Library,
serves on the reference desk of UT Arlington’s Science and Engineering
Library.
*What is an e-forum?*
An ALCTS e-forum provides an opportunity for librarians to discuss
matters of interest, led by a moderator, through the e-forum discussion
list. The e-forum discussion list works like an email listserv: register
your email address with the list, and then you will receive messages and
communicate with other participants through an email discussion. Most
e-forums last two to three days. Registration is necessary to
participate, but it's free. See a list of upcoming e-forums at:
http://bit.ly/upcomingeforum.
*To register:*
Instructions for registration are available at:
http://bit.ly/eforuminfo. Once you have registered for one e-forum, you
do not need to register again, unless you choose to leave the email
list. Participation is free and open to anyone.
Posted on behalf of the ALCTS Continuing Education Committee
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