Frustrations and roadblocks in data reference librarianship
As data skills are incorporated into academic curriculum and data becomes more widely available and used in everyday life, many librarians find themselves serving as 'accidental' data librarians in their subject areas. Due to this evolving landscape and growing data need, it is increasing...
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International Association for Social Science Information Service and Technology
2019-05-01
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As data skills are incorporated into academic curriculum and data becomes more widely available and used in everyday life, many librarians find themselves serving as 'accidental' data librarians in their subject areas. Due to this evolving landscape and growing data need, it is increasingly important for librarians to be familiar with data resources and able to answer secondary data reference questions. To learn more about this area of librarianship, this study uses survey responses from librarians who answer data questions to explore the challenges and frustrations that arise from data reference questions and interactions. Our key findings reveal that frustrations are ever present in data reference regardless of how much experience a librarian has, and many frustrations arise due to factors such as patron expectations, subject-specific and data-related jargon, and data formats and accessibility.
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| spelling | doaj.art-5dc84ed011bf409596dc3970f6767b752023-11-21T18:55:14ZengInternational Association for Social Science Information Service and TechnologyIASSIST Quarterly2331-41412019-05-0143110.29173/iq939Frustrations and roadblocks in data reference librarianshipAlicia Kubas0https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3794-530XJenny McBurney1https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4081-6066University of MinnesotaUniversity of Minnesota As data skills are incorporated into academic curriculum and data becomes more widely available and used in everyday life, many librarians find themselves serving as 'accidental' data librarians in their subject areas. Due to this evolving landscape and growing data need, it is increasingly important for librarians to be familiar with data resources and able to answer secondary data reference questions. To learn more about this area of librarianship, this study uses survey responses from librarians who answer data questions to explore the challenges and frustrations that arise from data reference questions and interactions. Our key findings reveal that frustrations are ever present in data reference regardless of how much experience a librarian has, and many frustrations arise due to factors such as patron expectations, subject-specific and data-related jargon, and data formats and accessibility. https://iassistquarterly.com/index.php/iassist/article/view/939librarydata referencelibrary reference servicesdata servicesdata literacydata librarian |
| spellingShingle | Alicia Kubas Jenny McBurney Frustrations and roadblocks in data reference librarianship IASSIST Quarterly library data reference library reference services data services data literacy data librarian |
| title | Frustrations and roadblocks in data reference librarianship |
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| title_short | Frustrations and roadblocks in data reference librarianship |
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