248 pages
6" x 9"
Softcover
ISBN-13: 9781843345800
Year Published: 2011
Online access to social science data sources, such as the U.S. Census Bureau’s American
FactFinder, is continually proliferating. With such a wealth of statistical and numeric information
available online, interest in supporting these sources in academic libraries has also increased. While
many large academic libraries have librarians devoted to data services, other libraries may need to
meet the need for such services without dedicated staff.
This guidebook serves as a primer to developing and supporting social science statistical and
numerical data sources in the academic library. It provides strategies for the establishment of data
services and offers short descriptions of the essential sources of free and commercial social science
statistical and numeric data. Finally, it discusses the future of numeric data services, including the
integration of statistics and data into library instruction and the use of Web 2.0 tools to visualize
data.
Table of Contents
Introduction to data services and sources - History of support for numeric data - Data defi nitions - Notes - Works cited
Supporting statistical and numeric data services and sources - Environmental scanning - Levels of service - Models of support - Marketing and assessing data services - Future directions - Notes - Works cited
Reference and instruction for data sources - The reference interview and data - Data instruction - Statistical and data literacy - Notes - Works cited
Basic sources for supporting numeric data services Katharin Peter - Producers of statistics - Types of sources - Search strategies - List of sources - Quick start to fi nding statistics and data - International - European Union and United Kingdom - United States - Canada - Other parts of the world - Special topics - Locating spatial data - Notes - Works cited
Data librarianship: a day in the life - Notes - Work cited
The future for numeric data services - Visualization - Preservation of data - Data citation - The future is data - Notes - Suggested reading - Works cited
Appendix A Respondents’ institutional profi les and full responses - Institutional profi les - Data librarian responses - Notes
Appendix B Selected annotated bibliography
About the Author
Lynda M. Kellam is the Data Services and Government Information Librarian at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro’s University Libraries. She is UNCG’s first data librarian with the mandate to create and develop data services for the Reference and Instructional Services Department. In addition to providing research assistance and instruction on data and government sources, she is the library instruction liaison to the Political Science Department, the Environmental Studies program, and the pre-Law program. She received her M.A. in Political Science from the University of Wisconsin, Madison and her MLIS from the University of North Carolina at Greensboro. She serves on the conference planning committee for the International Association of Social Science Information Services and Technology, the primary data librarianship association, and works closely with the American Library Association’s Government Documents Round Table (GODORT). She was named an American Library Association Emerging Leader in 2010 and received the Association of College and Research Libraries Librarian Scholarship in 2009. She is also a member of the American Political Science Association.
Reviews
"There is a lot of helpful guidance on regular aspects of libraries in the context of data librarianship. I would recommend this to academic and research librarians, but think it is relevant to all reference librarians."
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