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

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

3. 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

4. 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

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

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

7. Professional development  Important  Training  Listservs 7

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

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

10. 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

11. Questions Reference: http://www.ohsinc.com/ 11

12. Contact Us! Jane Fry Data Specialist Data Centre, MacOdrum Library Carleton University Ottawa 613.520.2600 x1121 jane.fry@carleton.ca Alexandra Cooper Data and Web Support Assistant Data Services, Stauffer Library Queen’s University Library Kingston 613.533.6000 x77481 coopera@queensu.ca 12