Krier, Laura and Carly A. Strasser.
Data management for libraries: A LITA Guide. Chicago: ALA TechSource, an imprint of the American Library Association, 2014. ISBN:
978-1-55570-969-3
From the publisher:
Since the National Science Foundation joined the National Institutes of
Health in requiring that grant proposals include a data management plan,
academic librarians have been inundated with related requests from
faculty and campus-based grant consulting offices. Data management is a
new service area for many library staff, requiring careful planning and
implementation. This guide offers a start-to-finish primer on
understanding, building, and maintaining a data management service,
showing another way the academic library can be invaluable to
researchers. Krier and Strasser of the California Digital Library guide
readers through every step of a data management plan by:
- Offering convincing arguments to persuade researchers to create a data management plan, with advice on collaborating with them
- Laying
out all the foundations of starting a service, complete with sample
data librarian job descriptions and data management plans
- Providing tips for conducting successful data management interviews
- Leading readers through making decisions about repositories and other infrastructure
- Addressing sensitive questions such as ownership, intellectual property, sharing and access, metadata, and preservation
This
LITA guide will help academic librarians work with researchers,
faculty, and other stakeholders to effectively organize, preserve, and
provide access to research data.
