Developing a Data Management Consultation Service for Faculty Researchers: a Case Study from a Large Midwestern Public University

• Main Authors: Virginia A Dressler, Kristin Yeager, Elizabeth Richardson
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: University of Edinburgh 2019-09-01
• Series: International Journal of Digital Curation
• Online Access: http://www.ijdc.net/article/view/590

To inform the development of data management services, a library research team at Kent State University conducted a survey of all tenured, tenure-track, and non-tenure track faculty about their data management practices and perceptions. The methodology and results will be presented in the article, as well as how this information was used to inform future work in the library’s internal working group. Recommendations will be presented that other academic libraries could model in order to develop similar services at their institutions. Personal anecdotes are included that help ascertain current practices and sentiments around research data from the perspective of the researcher. The article addresses the particular needs of a large Midwestern U.S. academic campus, which are not currently reflected in literature on the topic.