TY - GEN
T1 - Data Librarians
T2 - 24th International Conference on Asia-Pacific Digital Libraries, ICADL 2022
AU - Suzuki, Tokinori
AU - Ishita, Emi
AU - Ma, Xinyu
AU - Putranto, Widiatmoko Adi
AU - Watanabe, Yukiko
N1 - Funding Information:
Acknowledgments. This work is supported by the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS) KAKENHI Grant Number JP18K18508.
Publisher Copyright:
© 2022, The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG.
PY - 2022
Y1 - 2022
N2 - The role and the job duties of librarians may evolve owing to social changes and users’ needs. It is important to know academic libraries have adapted to their needs. Data librarians have held a key position in academic libraries. In this study, we investigated the adaptation in their job duties over 25 years. We conducted content analyses using descriptions of job advertisements to examine changes in the role and job duties of data librarians to clarify libraries’ adaptation. All job advertisements for data librarians posted in the IFLA - Library and Information Science Jobs Mailing List from 1995 to 2022 were collected, and 36 job advertisements were obtained after the preprocessing procedures. Based on job titles, data librarians for specific subjects were needed in the early days, and research data librarians appeared in recent years. Job descriptions indicate that data librarians were required to have knowledge of data about various subjects and use statistical analysis software to process data from 2000–2004; however, knowledge of research data was required from 2015–2022. There have been many other changes in work performed by data librarians over the past 25 years, and libraries have regularly adapted their job descriptions.
AB - The role and the job duties of librarians may evolve owing to social changes and users’ needs. It is important to know academic libraries have adapted to their needs. Data librarians have held a key position in academic libraries. In this study, we investigated the adaptation in their job duties over 25 years. We conducted content analyses using descriptions of job advertisements to examine changes in the role and job duties of data librarians to clarify libraries’ adaptation. All job advertisements for data librarians posted in the IFLA - Library and Information Science Jobs Mailing List from 1995 to 2022 were collected, and 36 job advertisements were obtained after the preprocessing procedures. Based on job titles, data librarians for specific subjects were needed in the early days, and research data librarians appeared in recent years. Job descriptions indicate that data librarians were required to have knowledge of data about various subjects and use statistical analysis software to process data from 2000–2004; however, knowledge of research data was required from 2015–2022. There have been many other changes in work performed by data librarians over the past 25 years, and libraries have regularly adapted their job descriptions.
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U2 - 10.1007/978-3-031-21756-2_40
DO - 10.1007/978-3-031-21756-2_40
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:85145006303
SN - 9783031217555
T3 - Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
SP - 485
EP - 491
BT - From Born-Physical to Born-Virtual
A2 - Tseng, Yuen-Hsien
A2 - Katsurai, Marie
A2 - Nguyen, Hoa N.
PB - Springer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH
Y2 - 30 November 2022 through 2 December 2022
ER -