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IASSIST Quarterly Volume 41 available--on a new web site!

By mhayslett

May 2, 2018

Welcome to the first issue of Volume 41 of the IASSIST Quarterly. It has taken extra time for this issue to appear. The cause of this is not that we have been extra lazy. The paradoxical cause is that a great many people have been extra busy. Thanks to the team of people in the editorial group of the IASSIST Quarterly and - not least - the great help from Sonya Betz working as Digital Initiatives Projects Librarian at the University of Alberta Libraries in Canada, the IASSIST Quarterly has now moved to the Open Journal System (OJS) at the University of Alberta.

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Mongolia and IASSIST: Building Connections

By librarianwomack

March 18, 2018

Spring 2017 Mongolia is large and sparsely populated country, with nomadic traditions, but rapidly modernizing. As in any modern country, there is an important role for data to play in planning and development, and Mongolian data professionals are developing themselves to meet the challenge. Last year in May 2017, Ryan Womack (currently serving as IASSIST Secretary) was invited to give a two-day workshop on **Topics in Data Science **at the National Statistics Office of Mongolia.

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IASSIST/DCN Data Curation Workshop

By informjennifer

February 22, 2018

The IASSIST & Data Curation Network (DCN) hosted a Data Curation Workshop on December 11 & 12, 2017 at Washington University in St. Louis, USA. Support from IASSIST, Washington University in St. Louis, the University of Minnesota, Cornell University, the University of Michigan, and the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign brought together approximately 45 professionals to learn how to richly curate research data from a number of domains. Participants came from a wide variety of functional backgrounds, including catalogers, archivists, subject specialists, data management librarians, repository managers, and more.

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Data Workshop at the National Library of Australia, sponsored by IASSIST

By h.mooney

December 15, 2017

Posted on behalf of Jade Koekoe In February I won sponsorship money from IASSIST for a Data Workshop I had in mind. On the 18 November this year I saw my idea come to life. This Data Workshop was aimed at Library student and newgrads and was held in the Ferguson Room of the National Library of Australia. 26 people attended and there were five speakers from industries adjacent to librarianship.

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The International Workshop on Social Science Data Archives, held in Taiwan, sponsored by IASSIST

By t.alatera

November 1, 2017

The International Workshop on Social Science Data Archives, sponsored by IASSIST, was held on September 15 in Conference Room II, Research Center for Humanities and Social Science (RCHSS), Academia Sinica, Taipei, Taiwan. The invited speakers included Prof. Dr. Christof Wolf from GESIS – Leibniz-Institute for the Social Sciences, Dr. Yukio Maeda and Dr. Kaoru Sato from Social Science Japan Data Archive (SSJDA), University of Tokyo, and Dr. Won-ho Park, Dr. Seokho Kim from Korea Social Science Data Archive (KOSSDA), Seoul National University.

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IASSIST & CARTO 2018 CALL FOR PROPOSALS

By LHorton 2

October 23, 2017

Conference website: http://www.library.mcgill.ca/iassistcarto2018/ Conference hashtag: #iassistcarto The 44th annual conference of the International Association for Social Science Information Services and Technology (IASSIST) will be jointly held with the 52nd annual conference of the Association of Canadian Map Libraries and Archives (ACMLA-ACACC) in Montréal, Québec, Canada from May 29-June 1, 2018. Once Upon a Data Point: Sustaining our Data Storytellers In many ways, researchers are data storytellers: they create compelling data-supported narratives for examining both historical and current social phenomena and for facilitating social change and reconciliation.

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Winter 2016 IASSIST Quarterly Posted

By mhayslett

October 4, 2017

Editor’s Notes When things get digital and huge. Doing the things right and doing the right things. Welcome to the fourth issue of Volume 40 of the IASSIST Quarterly (IQ 40:4, 2016). There is a lot of management involved in the data management carried out at data archives and with data collections. The phrase ‘Doing the things right and doing the right things’ belongs to fathers of modern management and is used to distinguish management vs.

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but how do i do qualitative research? bridging the gap between qualitative researchers and methods resources--part 4

By ECooper

August 7, 2017

Last week Mandy shared ideas about how librarians and other data-support professionals can act as connectors, crusaders and collaborators on campus in order to better provide and develop qualitative research teaching resources. This week we want to build on Mandy’s suggestions by looking a bit more broadly at how librarians and other data-support professionals can help build community around qualitative research at their institutions. As qualitative research methods are often not the dominant methodologies used in departments and institutions, qualitative researchers may not have a strong support network and may lack colleagues to consult with or learn from.

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But How Do I Do Qualitative Research? Bridging the Gap between Qualitative Researchers and Methods Resources--PART 3

By MSwygart-Hobaugh

July 31, 2017

Connectors, Crusaders, and Collaborators Jill’s post from last week detailed ways we data-support professionals can connect researchers to library collections and other information sources for bridging the qualitative methods gap. I’d like to offer more ideas for how we can act not only as connectors but also as crusaders and collaborators on our campuses specifically in the realm of providing and developing qualitative-research teaching resources. Because we work with researchers across campus and in various capacities, data-support professionals are often more aware of methods gaps than are the academic departments we support.

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Special Issue of International Journal of Librarianship: Data Librarianship

By robin

July 30, 2017

[Posted on behalf of Kristi Thompson] The special issue of the International Journal of Librarianship on Data Librarianship I guest edited has been published. One feature in particular that might be of interest to IASSISTers is an article in which we interviewed a number of people who had prominent and interesting careers in the field and asked them to share their thoughts on how data services have changes over the course of their careers, as well as advice for newbies.

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IASSIST Quarterly Volume 41 available--on a new web site!

Mongolia and IASSIST: Building Connections

IASSIST/DCN Data Curation Workshop

Data Workshop at the National Library of Australia, sponsored by IASSIST

The International Workshop on Social Science Data Archives, held in Taiwan, sponsored by IASSIST

IASSIST & CARTO 2018 CALL FOR PROPOSALS

Winter 2016 IASSIST Quarterly Posted

but how do i do qualitative research? bridging the gap between qualitative researchers and methods resources--part 4

But How Do I Do Qualitative Research? Bridging the Gap between Qualitative Researchers and Methods Resources--PART 3

Special Issue of International Journal of Librarianship: Data Librarianship

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