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Subject: Re: Numeric/Spatial Data Services Librarian
Date: Wed, 7 Mar 2012 09:11:50 -0800 (GMT-08:00)
From: Jon Jablonski <[log in to unmask]>
To: Air Photo Maps, GIS Forum - Map Librarianship <[log in to unmask]>
I think (and I remember seeing a list of 'preferred skills' somewhere)
they are talking about someone to manage tabular data that is best
analyzed using quantitative methods. Libraries are looking for people
who know how to find and evaluate data on repositories like ICPSR (heck:
some libraries are looking to START repositories like ICPSR), can walk
advanced undergraduates and grad students through the process of opening
and exploring those datasets using software like R, SPSS, stata, and a
host of others.
Physical and natural sciences have a lot of that sort of thing too, and
librarians are actively working in those domains as well (digitizing
herbaria, curating genomics data), but often that work happens,
respectively, in museums (musea?) and government agencies rather than in
academic libraries.
IMHO: there is a lot of overlap between spatial and other sorts of data
that people (read: administrators) are starting to see as useful to have
in libraries. If you don't have a paper map collection to support a
full time map librarian, having a spatial/numeric person makes a lot of
sense. Add on collecting for earth and social sciences and you've got a
really versatile subject specialist/data curator/bibliographer/call me
whatever you want.
Jon Jablonski
Map & Imagery Laboratory
UC Santa Barbara
----- "Angie Cope, American Geographical Society Library, UW Milwaukee"
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> -------- Original Message --------
> Subject: Numeric/Spatial Data Services Librarian - Miami University -
> Oxford, OH
> Date: Wed, 07 Mar 2012 09:25:50 -0600
> From: Angie Cope, American Geographical Society Library, UW Milwaukee
> <[log in to unmask]>
> Organization: American Geographical Society Library
> To: Maps-L <[log in to unmask]>
>
> Anyone want to talk about the word "Numeric" used in 2 recent job
> announcements? What, exactly, does that mean? All I can think of is
> the
> alternatives - visual, textual - Or opposites being: connotative or
> qualitative.
>
> Thoughts?
>
> Thanks.
>
> Angie
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