Abstract

New technology and knowledge push organizations to upgrade and improve the skills of their staff. Paying for professional development programming is a common way of providing continuing education. This article describes a collaborative training program introduced to develop baseline competencies in Canadian academic libraries to support data services. In conjunction with an initiative between Statistics Canada and sixty-six Canadian universities, a data literacy program has delivered thirty workshops over a seven-year period training librarians how to provide services for statistics and data. A cost-sharing arrangement keeps these training expenses to a minimum for individual universities. (Contains 13 notes.)

Citation

Humphrey, C. (2005). Collaborative Training in Statistical and Data Library Services: Lessons from the Canadian Data Liberation Initiative. Resource Sharing & Information Networks, 18(1), 167-181. Retrieved August 15, 2024 from https://www.learntechlib.org/p/74040/.

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Keywords

• academic libraries
• Change Strategies
• competence
• Electronic Libraries
• Foreign Countries
• Library Personnel
• Library Science
• Library Services
• Partnerships in Education
• Professional Continuing Education
• staff development
• Statistical Analysis
• Statistical Data
• Training Methods