rdap 16 poster: librarian research data: customizing the dmp assistant for practitioner-researchers
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Created by Peter Downing – Educational Media Access and Production © 2011
Tenured and tenure-track librarians at the University
of Saskatchewan (U of S) have to meet the
standards for Research, Scholarly, and/or Artistic
Works as they are laid out in section 5.2 of the 2015
University Library Standards for Promotion and
Tenure1. A number of support structures have been
put in place, with the early efforts being outlined in
Fox’s 2007 paper2. The article mentions the
development of the standards for tenure and
promotion, the Librarians’ Forum, and the Dean’s
Research Lecture2. A 2010 survey by Schrader, Shiri,
and Williamson further outlines the research of U of
S academic librarians and the areas where more
support and training might be offered3.
The Centre for Evidence Based Library and
Information Practice (C-EBLIP) mission supports
University Library librarians as researchers and
evidence based practitioners.
Research at the U of S Library in the Literature
Research Data at the U of S Library
• The questions themselves required simplification, but the general concepts were retained
• Much of the discussion during the question revision session was around the extra documentation we would
need to confidently answer the questions
• Discussing the questions as a group provided the opportunity for many perspectives to be represented. The
group included experienced and new researchers, librarians from different disciplines, varying degrees of
experience with data management, and the broader campus research perspective.
The Portage DMP Assistant Default Questions
References
1 University Library Standards for Promotion and
Tenure. (2015). Retrieved from
http://library.usask.ca/info/libstandards2015.pdf
2 Fox, D. (2007). Finding Time for Scholarship :
Librarians. Portal: Libraries and the Academy, 7(4),
451–462.
3 Schrader, A. M., Shiri, A., & Williamson, V. (2012).
Assessment of the Research Learning Needs of
University of Saskatchewan Librarians: A Case
Study. College & Research Libraries, 73(2), 147–
163. http://doi.org/10.5860/crl-235
Contact
Kristin Bogdan
Science & Engineering Librarian
Twitter: @KristinBogdan
Librarian Research Data: Customizing the
DMP Assistant for Practitioner-ResearchersKristin Bogdan
Acknowledgements
I want to thank Catherine Boden, Carolyn Doi, Vicky Duncan,
Carolyn Pytlyk, Elizabeth Stregger, and Virginia Wilson for their
contributions to the DMP Assistant Template Questions. I would
also like to thank C-EBLIP for supporting this project.
Understanding our own research data will help
librarian practitioner-researchers serve the entire
campus research community.
Discussion
Observations
The Portage Network DMP Assistant can be accessed at https://assistant.portagenetwork.ca/. The questions used in this exercise are from the Portage Template.