Suzanna Conrad|Yasmeen Shorish|Amanda Whitmire|Patricia Hswe
Building professional development opportunities in data services for academic librarians
California State University System|James Madison University|Stanford University|Andrew W. Mellon Foundation
research data management represents significant professional development area academic librarians significant growing importance profession since researchers increasingly expected comply research data management requirements extent competence needed librarians support researchers research data management practices plans article recounts association college research libraries fostering professional development opportunities research data management authors describe two key endeavors 1 development deployment needs assessment survey allowed insight types librarians expressing need 2 planning implementation preconference workshop acrl 2015 intended prototype future professional development offering article concludes discussing additional assessment done following workshop preconference laid foundation proposing roadshow research data management similar association college research libraries sponsors scholarly communication