Category: Challenges
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Transitions
A lot has changed for me since the last time I wrote on this blog. Having spent the last three years living in Spokane for my work, my husband and I decided it was a good time to head back home to be closer to our family and core group of friends. It wasn’t an…
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Planning a Conference – PNC/MLA 2018
Earlier this week, I attended the Pacific Northwest Chapter of MLA Annual Meeting in Spokane, Washington. It took place over two and a half lovely fall days in the downtown district, where I was able to sample some truly excellent coffee and macarons. The conference was just as fun as the last conference we held…
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Building RDM Services, Slowly
Since attending the Biomedical and Health Research Data Management for Librarians course earlier this year, I have been working on launching research data services at my institution. The first step was completing the needs assessment that I chose to do for my Capstone Project as part of the course. This study revealed that researchers on…
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Organizing Library Projects with Trello
Project management is another one of those things you don’t learn in library school. Yet it’s extremely important for both team and individual projects; as Heather A. Johnson says, “As libraries continue to evolve in the services they provide, librarians may be increasingly responsible for managing large projects, planning programs and outreach, and coordinating teams”…
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RDM for Librarians, Weeks 3 & 4
I had meant to write these posts week by week, but 2018 has been a blur so far. We’re already on Week 4 of my RDM course, which is halfway through the online portion. During Week 3, we covered data standards, taxonomies, and ontologies; Week 4 is all about data security, storage, and preservation. At…
Kathryn Vela 