ONE Introduction This book is for students interested in exploring the field of data librarian- ship, managers interested in hiring talented personnel, and librarians expanding their skills. While the majority of data librarians work in academic settings, the principles and activities can be applied to data librarianship at public librar- ies and other institutions. At a public library, for example, a data librarian may be asked to collect and analyze data about patron usage of services, and then compare that data to more data the librarian collects about other libraries. The results of the analysis can be used to make better decisions for allocating resources at the library. Colleagues who are very skilled at humanities librarianship but unfa- miliar with data librarianship would occasionally ask me, “What sorts of things do you do?” They understood how to help a patron find information and were skilled in languages, but when it came to numbers and data man- agement, they didn’t have a context to understand the tasks of a data librarian. What I Do I help people find, manage, and visualize data. Like a literature librar- ian helps people find journal articles and information, I help people find or collect data. But data can be more complex and granular than informa- tion so I also help people convert data into usable information. This includes finding the best ways to visually represent information at each stage of their research, such as graphs, maps, and interactive visualizations.
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