Data Librarianship

Abigail Goben

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Associate Professor and Information Services & Liaison Librarian, Library of the Health Sciences, University of Illinois at Chicago

Areas of expertise: research data management, librarian self- and continuing education in RDM, health science copyright KBA, data governance, open access, getting tenure thru OA journals, scholarly communication,
Can help with: general questions, cover letters & cv, advocating for Open access/data/education/research, navigating tenure in OA LIS journals, online presence
Can speak: English
Can read: English
Contact: agoben@uic.edu ; @hedgielib

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Amber Leahey

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Data and GIS Librarian, Scholars Portal, Ontario Council of University Libraries

Areas of expertise: consortial data services, social science survey data, Data Documentation Initiative (DDI), ISO 19115, data repositories, data preservation, Census of Canada, public opinion data, GIS, historical data, data citation, Dataverse, geoportals.
Can help with: general questions, cover letters & cv, job shadowing, advocating for Open access/data/education/research (copied from Heather ;))
Can speak: English
Can read: English
Contact: amber.leahey@utoronto.ca

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Catie Sahadath

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Can speak: English, French, German, Italian
Can read: English, French, German, Italian
Contact: catelynne.sahadath@uottawa.ca , @metacatie

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Gesina Phillips

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Digital Scholarship Librarian at the University of Pittsburgh

Areas of expertise: digital scholarship, pedagogy and instruction, Python, event planning, interactive fiction, management and supervision, copyright in digital scholarship projects
Can help with: CV review, cover letter review, job interview questions, digital scholarship work in libraries, faculty unions, copyright, instruction and pedagogy, new supervisor/team lead questions, experiences at Duquesne University and the University of Pittsburgh
Can speak: English
Can read: English
Contact: gesina.a.phillips [at] gmail.com

Heather Coates

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Digital Scholarship & Data Management Librarian, IUPUI University Library Center for Digital Scholarship

Areas of expertise: research data management, data information literacy, research documentation & project management, data sharing; awesome datalibs community; research evaluation for promotion & tenure, publication metrics, altmetrics; Love Data Week (formerly Love Your Data) - been a librarian nearly 6 years
Can help with: general questions, cover letters & cv, job shadowing, advocating for Open access/data/education/research
Can speak: English
Can read: English
Contact: coateshl@gmail.com , @IandPangurBan

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Jacob Ratliff

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User Experience Specialist

Areas of expertise: UX, Information Architecture, Taxonomies, Metadata, Information Management, Special Libraries
Can help with: Happy to talk through anything.
Can speak: English
Can read: English
Contact: jaratliff13@gmail.com / @Gameronomist

Jordan Hale

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Digital Repositories Librarian, University of Waterloo

Areas of expertise: repository management, metadata, cataloguing, GIS/map/data librarianship, scholarly communications, labour relations, research design, grant writing, media archives, digitization, digital scholarship, DSpace, OJS, cat petting
Can help with: CV and interview questions, surviving library school and the world beyond, making connections
Can speak: English
Can read: English
Contact: jordan.hale@uwaterloo.ca / @jordanclaire

Kaelan Caspary

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STEM and Data Librarian at Ontario Tech University

Areas of expertise: Academic librarianship, STEM/Data/Business librarianship, data and research data management, information literacy instruction, scholarly communications, liaison librarianship, collection development
Can help with: Happy to answer questions about academic librarianship (with particular focus on STEM, Data, and Business librarianship), early career librarianship, anything related areas of expertise listed above
Can speak: English
Can read: English
Contact: kaelan.caspary@ontariotechu.ca

Katie Wilson

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Biosciences Liaison Librarian and Scientific Data Curator at University of Minnesota, former Data Indexer at the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation

Areas of expertise: Research data management, scientific data curation (genomics, experimental, etc.), metadata capture and creation.
Can help with: Can take general questions on data management and data curation. Happy to talk about working in academia, early career researcher life, and liaising with subjects outside of your expertise (I am a humanities person currently working with STEM disciplines).
Can speak: English
Can read: English
Contact: katiethewilson@gmail.com, @katiethewilson

Kristin Briney

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Data Services Librarian at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee

Areas of expertise: practical data management, digital preservation planning, data services in libraries, data policy
Can help with: general questions, finding resources about data & libraries, networking
Can speak: English
Can read: English
Contact: briney@uwm.edu; @KristinBriney

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