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Library-mediated collaborations: Data curation at the National Agricultural Library

Punzalan, Ricardo L.; Kriesberg, Adam

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https://hdl.handle.net/2142/96199

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Title
Library-mediated collaborations: Data curation at the National Agricultural Library
Author(s)
  • Punzalan, Ricardo L.
  • Kriesberg, Adam
Issue Date
2017
Keyword(s)
  • Collaboration
  • Data curation
  • National Agricultural Library (NAL)
Abstract
To effectively support research activities and data stewardship, library and information professionals engage in collaborative projects that involve diverse disciplinary and institutional partnerships. While this idea is stressed in existing literature, the different ways in which librarians and domain experts working in library and information organizations engage in collaboration is rarely made explicit. This paper proposes the term library-mediated collaborations to capture the ways in which library and information professionals perform actions that facilitate, coordinate, and even create opportunities for multiple stakeholders to leverage their resources and expertise in data curation. By mediation, the paper refers to the active and critical involvement of institutional actors, in this case information professionals in a national library, in ensuring the creation and execution of a project over a period of time. The paper discusses the various manifestations of library-mediated collaborations in four data cu-ration projects currently taking place at the National Agricultural Library (NAL). A national library located within the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA), NAL has long supported the preservation of and access to agricultural information. The paper concludes by identifying important questions that information professionals may consider asking when they participate in collaborative data curation projects.
Publisher
Johns Hopkins University Press and the School of Information Sciences. University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
ISSN
0024-2594
Type of Resource
text
Language
en
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http://hdl.handle.net/2142/96199
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1353/lib.2017.0010
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Copyright (2017) Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois

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Library Trends 65 (3) Winter 2017: Collaboration in Agricultural Librarianship and Information Work PRIMARY
Library Trends 65 (3) Winter 2017: Collaboration in Agricultural Librarianship and Information Work. Edited by Sarah C. Williams and Christine D’Arpa.