Databrarianship: The Academic Data Librarian in Theory and Practice

What effect do big data, open data, and data curation have on the work of librarians? What can librarians do to provide geospatial data services? What is the role of data in scholarly communications and the scientific record? Are data services an extension of traditional library services, or do data require new skills? How have the data needs of researchers transformed the work of librarians and the expectations that researchers have of librarians? How can librarians and administrators better serve these needs? All these questions and more are at the fore of Lynda Kellam and Kristi Thompson’s excellent essay collection, which pulls together expert practitioners from across the broad spectrum of data librarianship to illustrate the major areas in the field, from collection development to curation and preservation.