TY - JOUR
T1 - Pioneers in the Wild West
T2 - Managing data collections
AU - Hogenboom, Karen
AU - Hayslett, Michele
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2017 by Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore, MD 21218.
Copyright:
Copyright 2018 Elsevier B.V., All rights reserved.
PY - 2017/4
Y1 - 2017/4
N2 - During the last few years, many academic libraries have accepted the challenge of helping their users locate and acquire the numeric data they need. To meet their users’ ever-increasing need for data, librarians are purchasing data sets one at a time (“small data”). This service, though important to our users, raises many issues in the areas of collection scope, acquisition procedures, and discovery and access. The authors conducted a survey of data librarians in summer 2015 and followed up by interviewing five data librarians in depth to report on how academic libraries collect and manage small data and to explore the strengths and weaknesses of various approaches.
AB - During the last few years, many academic libraries have accepted the challenge of helping their users locate and acquire the numeric data they need. To meet their users’ ever-increasing need for data, librarians are purchasing data sets one at a time (“small data”). This service, though important to our users, raises many issues in the areas of collection scope, acquisition procedures, and discovery and access. The authors conducted a survey of data librarians in summer 2015 and followed up by interviewing five data librarians in depth to report on how academic libraries collect and manage small data and to explore the strengths and weaknesses of various approaches.
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U2 - 10.1353/pla.2017.0018
DO - 10.1353/pla.2017.0018
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85017280742
VL - 17
SP - 295
EP - 319
JO - Portal: Libraries and the Academy
JF - Portal: Libraries and the Academy
SN - 1531-2542
IS - 2
ER -