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In the perspective of social science and data services librarians, providing effective reference services for international data is often not an easy task because of language barriers, copyright laws and license agreements, and different data sharing cultures across countries. Some help from area specialists would improve the chance of data librarians being able to discover and access useful international data sets. Most area specialists, such as East Asian studies librarians, however, are trained in the field of the humanities. They are not familiar with social science data reference services, quantitative research assistance, and data visualization resources. Therefore, it is quite difficult to promote collaboration between data librarians and area specialists in the given conditions. In November 2017, University of Michigan librarians and guest speakers provided a two day data boot camp for the East Asian region specialists in North America. This workshop designed to help them to understand useful and reliable international data resources, to enhance their capabilities to collaborate with data librarians, and to provide effective data consultation services to their own clients. In this presentation, I will explain how we designed the workshop, and will share our experiences what was the challenges and opportunities of this program. |
