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| author | Humphrey, Charles |
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| contents | Collaborative Training in Statistical and Data Library Services: Lessons from the Canadian Data Liberation Initiative Humphrey, Charles Academic Libraries Foreign Countries Library Services Staff Development Library Personnel Library Science Statistical Analysis Statistical Data Competence Change Strategies Partnerships in Education Training Methods Professional Continuing Education Electronic Libraries New technology and knowledge push organizations to upgrade and improve the skills of their staff. Paying for professional development programming is a common way of providing continuing education. This article describes a collaborative training program introduced to develop baseline competencies in Canadian academic libraries to support data services. In conjunction with an initiative between Statistics Canada and sixty-six Canadian universities, a data literacy program has delivered thirty workshops over a seven-year period training librarians how to provide services for statistics and data. A cost-sharing arrangement keeps these training expenses to a minimum for individual universities. (Contains 13 notes.) |
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| spellingShingle | Collaborative Training in Statistical and Data Library Services: Lessons from the Canadian Data Liberation Initiative Humphrey, Charles Academic Libraries Foreign Countries Library Services Staff Development Library Personnel Library Science Statistical Analysis Statistical Data Competence Change Strategies Partnerships in Education Training Methods Professional Continuing Education Electronic Libraries Collaborative Training in Statistical and Data Library Services: Lessons from the Canadian Data Liberation Initiative Humphrey, Charles Academic Libraries Foreign Countries Library Services Staff Development Library Personnel Library Science Statistical Analysis Statistical Data Competence Change Strategies Partnerships in Education Training Methods Professional Continuing Education Electronic Libraries New technology and knowledge push organizations to upgrade and improve the skills of their staff. Paying for professional development programming is a common way of providing continuing education. This article describes a collaborative training program introduced to develop baseline competencies in Canadian academic libraries to support data services. In conjunction with an initiative between Statistics Canada and sixty-six Canadian universities, a data literacy program has delivered thirty workshops over a seven-year period training librarians how to provide services for statistics and data. A cost-sharing arrangement keeps these training expenses to a minimum for individual universities. (Contains 13 notes.) |
| title | Collaborative Training in Statistical and Data Library Services: Lessons from the Canadian Data Liberation Initiative |
| topic | Academic Libraries Foreign Countries Library Services Staff Development Library Personnel Library Science Statistical Analysis Statistical Data Competence Change Strategies Partnerships in Education Training Methods Professional Continuing Education Electronic Libraries |
| url | https://eric.ed.gov/?id=EJ835957 |