Tips on Running a Data Centre Jane Fry & Alexandra Cooper DLI Ontario Training April 17, 2015

Agenda  Environmental scan  Data collection development  Outreach  Resources  Professional development  Hiring students  Statistical consulting  Thinking caps  Summary 2

Environmental scan  What is it?  Why is it important?  How often?  Your services  Are they relevant?  Are there any new services that you should be offering?  Are there any services that are no longer needed?  Are you keeping up with the trends? 3

Data collection development  Do you have a data collection development policy?  Do you need one?  Where can you find examples of policies?  What is your method of delivery?  When was the last time it was updated? 4

Outreach  How?  Are your methods effective?  What are your promotion methods, tools, …?  Who are your users? 5

Resources  Where are they?  Do you know?  Do your users know?  Reference interview? 6

Professional development  Important  Training  Listservs 7

Hiring students  Why?  How?  Is it worth it? 8

Statistical consulting  What is it?  Why?  Is it worth it? 9

Thinking cap time!  Divide this room into 7 groups  Each group choose a separate topic  Environmental scan  Collection development  Outreach  Resources  Hiring student  Statistical consulting  Professional development  Come up with one suggestion to add to this presentation 10

Questions Reference: 11

Contact Us! Jane Fry Data Specialist Data Centre, MacOdrum Library Carleton University Ottawa x1121 Alexandra Cooper Data and Web Support Assistant Data Services, Stauffer Library Queen’s University Library Kingston x