Data Collection Development: Practices and Perspectives

Researchers are demanding access to increasingly complex data. Acquiring these data for library collections present unique challenges that tax the current workflows, staff, resources and expertise in place for the acquisition of traditional library materials.

Members of the Data Collection Development Interest Group will share their efforts to implement and enhance the existing acquisitions infrastructure at their institutions, and will share their thoughts on the challenges they have confronted in their quest to add research data to their libraries’ collections. The panelists will cover licensing & curation, data storage & access, identifying vendors & key players within their institution and evaluating data quality.