Numeric Data Services and Sources for the General Reference Librarian (Chandos Information Professional Series) - Softcover

Kellam, Lynda M.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1843345803 ISBN 13: 9781843345800

Publisher: Chandos Publishing, 2011

Synopsis

The proliferation of online access to social science statistical and numeric data sources, such as the U.S. Census Bureau's American Fact Finder, has lead to an increased interest in supporting these sources in academic libraries. Many large libraries have been able to devote staff to data services for years, and recently smaller academic libraries have recognized the need to provide numeric data services and support. 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. * Written for a general reference audience with little knowledge of data services and sources who would like to incorporate support into their general reference practice* Combines information on establishing data services with an introduction to available statistical and numeric data sources* Provides insight into the integration of statistics and data into library instruction and the social science research process

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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., Refer
There are far too few books that strike one as perfect. This is one of the few., Reference Reviews

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. 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.

About this edition

• Publisher: Chandos Publishing
• Publication date: 2011
• ISBN 10: 1843345803
• ISBN 13: 9781843345800
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 248