Why You Need Soft and Non-Technical Skills for Successful Data Librarianship

Why You Need Soft and Non-Technical Skills for Successful Data Librarianship

There are many courses available to teach research data management to librarians and researchers. While these courses can help with technical skills, like programming or statistics, and practical knowledge of data life cycles or data sharing policies, there are “soft skills” and non-technical skills...

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Main Author: Margaret Henderson
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: University of Massachusetts Medical School, Lamar Soutter Library 2020-05-01
Series:Journal of eScience Librarianship
Subjects:
data librarian
soft skills
research data services
Online Access:https://escholarship.umassmed.edu/jeslib/vol9/iss1/2/
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spelling doaj-3555305a1bdf41e4af51a0288252db302020-11-25T02:55:17ZengUniversity of Massachusetts Medical School, Lamar Soutter LibraryJournal of eScience Librarianship2161-39742020-05-0191e118310.7191/jeslib.2020.1183Why You Need Soft and Non-Technical Skills for Successful Data LibrarianshipMargaret Henderson0https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6578-1766San Diego State UniversityThere are many courses available to teach research data management to librarians and researchers. While these courses can help with technical skills, like programming or statistics, and practical knowledge of data life cycles or data sharing policies, there are “soft skills” and non-technical skills that are needed to successfully start and run data services. While there are many important characteristics of a good data librarian, reference skills, relationship building, collaboration, listening, and facilitation are some of the most important. Giving consideration to these skills will help any data librarian with their multifaceted job.https://escholarship.umassmed.edu/jeslib/vol9/iss1/2/data librariansoft skillsresearch data services
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Journal of eScience Librarianship
data librarian
soft skills
research data services
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title Why You Need Soft and Non-Technical Skills for Successful Data Librarianship
title_short Why You Need Soft and Non-Technical Skills for Successful Data Librarianship
title_full Why You Need Soft and Non-Technical Skills for Successful Data Librarianship
title_fullStr Why You Need Soft and Non-Technical Skills for Successful Data Librarianship
title_full_unstemmed Why You Need Soft and Non-Technical Skills for Successful Data Librarianship
title_sort why you need soft and non-technical skills for successful data librarianship
publisher University of Massachusetts Medical School, Lamar Soutter Library
series Journal of eScience Librarianship
issn 2161-3974
publishDate 2020-05-01
description There are many courses available to teach research data management to librarians and researchers. While these courses can help with technical skills, like programming or statistics, and practical knowledge of data life cycles or data sharing policies, there are “soft skills” and non-technical skills that are needed to successfully start and run data services. While there are many important characteristics of a good data librarian, reference skills, relationship building, collaboration, listening, and facilitation are some of the most important. Giving consideration to these skills will help any data librarian with their multifaceted job.
topic data librarian
soft skills
research data services
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