Collecting Small Data

Teper, Thomas H.; Hogenboom, Karen; Wiley, Lynn

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Title

Collecting Small Data

Author(s)

• Teper, Thomas H.
• Hogenboom, Karen
• Wiley, Lynn

Issue Date

2011-09-30

Keyword(s)

• Library and Information Science
• Data Services

Abstract

Local interest in managing data is part of a broader interest in exploring new options for acquiring resources that will meet the changing needs of our faculty and student communities. Positive developments (such as improved mechanisms for sharing holdings and a better understanding of the level of use expected of our physical holdings) and negative developments (such as diminishing numbers of librarians and tighter budgets) have converged and encouraged critical examinations of long-standing practices. Throw in the broader expectations of subject specialists for scholarly communications and user engagement so ably outlined by the University of Minnesota, Duke University, and others, and one finds a fertile environment — both locally and across our profession — for exploring new roles. In this environment, our community sees a renewed interest in cooperative collection development models, demand driven acquisitions, and consortial acquisitions, as well as a desire to explore different models for facilitating our librarians’ engagement with the scholarly communities that they serve. The University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign explored the challenges of acquiring and delivering small data for faculty and student scholars. The University Library contended that there were commercially available data resources that were previously ignored in its acquisitions activities, that acquiring these resources would help prepare library professionals to serve new roles on campus, and that services associated with small data represented a new opportunity for our services to reach the scholarly community that we serve.

Publisher

Association of Research Libraries

Series/Report Name or Number

Research Libraries Issues, no. 276

Type of Resource

text

Language

en

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• © 2011 Karen Hogenboom, Tom Teper, Lynn Wiley
• This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 United States License. To view a copy of this license, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/us/.

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