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The Expert Library: Emergent Needs in Academic and Special Libraries
John B Howard (UCD)LAI CDG Information skills for the future
When does the ‘future’ actually get here?
• RISM Project Librarian (1983)• Objectives:
– Descriptive bibliography (metadata)– Musical data (encoded musical incipits)– Tools for identifying and improving understanding of historical repertories– Dissemination
• Skills required:– Subject skills (musical, paleographical, linguistic)– Musical data representation, music information retrieval– Computational (IBM VM/CMS System 370/390, IBM JCL, IBM/Waterloo
SCRIPT + IBM GML, PL1 Subset G, PL11, SPIRES, Z39.2; HPUX, C, perl, SPIRES, PostScript, TCP/IP, gopher, HTTP, Z39.50)
assumptions
• The future arrived a long time ago• Academic research libraries will continue to evolve in the
direction of centres of expertise in data, information & knowledge management
• Academic library expertise profiles should reflect the overall characteristics of the host organisation
• Libraries are increasingly be differentiated by their expert services and the profile of the host organisation
• Libraries are ideally situated to facilitate connections among the informatics of many disciplines
• The biggest barriers to progress are social expectations
technical library skills
• Resource description: standard frameworks
• Subject analysis & topical heading assignments
• Classification• Indexing• Resource management• LMS management• Reporting
• Resource description: many other frameworks
• Assignment of vocabularies from pertinent knowledge domains
• Linked Data, Ontologies• Metadata analysis• Systems and relationship
management
other core skills
• Frameworks for information representation: database formats, database & metadata schemas; XML & JSON for representing metadata
• Frameworks for representation of textual information• Differentiating visual, archival, bibliographic,
cartographic & other information types• Theoretical knowledge: thesaurus & ontology creation &
representation; indexing• Data types, data semantics, data characteristics• Understanding the scholarly communications landscape
applications of skills
• Literacies:– Digital mapping & GIS
concepts– Data visualisation– Basic quantitative
analytics– Ethical use of information
• Competencies:– Compliance– Certifications
• Data skills– Data representation– Data semantics– Data storage– Data capture– Data evaluation– Data dissemination– Data normalisation,
cleaning– Data integration
examples of emergent roles
• Metadata Analyst• Quantitative Data Analyst• Informatics Scientist• Bioinformatics Scientist• Biostatistician• Computational Biologist• Medical Imaging Specialist• Geographic Information Services
Librarian• Digital repository
developer/manager• Digital Projects Librarian• Web applications developer
• Maker Librarian• Visualisation Librarian• Scholarly Communications
Librarian• Data Curator• Digital Preservation
Librarian• Data Scientist• Web integration specialist• Subject liaison -> Embedded
librarian