Data in the Disciplines Data Management and Data

Data in the Disciplines Data Management and Data Information Literacy Training in Chemistry and Ethnography: A Focused Approach for Liberal Arts College Faculty and Students Parvaneh Abbaspour, Lewis & Clark College Robin Ford, Reed College DLF Forum 2019, Tampa, Florida

Data management in the liberal arts ● Collaboration ● Resources ● Expertise

The Northwest Five Colleges ● ● ● Lewis & Clark College Reed College University of Puget Sound Willamette University Whitman College

NW 5 Collaborative RDM Workshops Fall 2014 - Began collaboration Summer 2015 - First workshop, Reed College MODEL: Students, faculty & librarians learn and think about RDM together Summer 2016 - Workshops: Lewis & Clark College, Whitman College, U Puget Sound Summers 2017 & 18 - Individual efforts at respective institutions Summer & Fall 2019 - Data in the Disciplines Workshops

“Data in the disciplines” ● Data types and data communities ● A more focused approach ○ Chemistry - notably regimented curriculum creates opportunities for integration ○ Ethnography - touches many areas of social sciences

IMLS Grant ● National Leadership Sparks Grant ● Two 1. 5 day workshops ○ ○ Students/faculty/librarians External facilitators Curriculum supporting faculty and advanced student research Development of RDM undergraduate curricular module

Chemistry workshop, Part 1 ● Partner: Dr. Ye Li, MIT ● Curriculum: Introduction, Lifecycle and Organization, Backup and Storage, Metadata, Sharing, curriculum module ● Attendees: 17 undergraduates, 4 faculty, 1 lab director, 1 facilitator, and 4 librarian co-facilitators

Chemistry workshop, Part 2 ● Outcomes ○ Improved understanding between faculty and students about their own lab’s data practices ○ Curriculum module redevelopment ○ Student designed RDM website in development

Ethnography workshop, Part 1 ● Partner: Celia Emmelhainz, UC Berkeley ● Curriculum: Organizing data, Privacy/security, Coding/indexing, Sharing, Undergrad curriculum development ● Attendees: 12 faculty, 6 students, 2 librarian attendees, 1 facilitator, 6 librarian co-facilitators

Ethnography workshop, Part 2 ● Outcomes ○ Improved interest, application, and understanding of concepts ○ A sense that it will improve attendee practices

Ethnography workshop, Part 3 ● Outcomes ○ Two curricular modules in development ■ An intro-level course ■ A SOAN thesis course

Takeaways, Part 1 ● Outside experts bring perspective to small college context ● Student/faculty/librarian discussion is dynamic and productive ● Challenging to get people together in person, but rewarding ● Maximize hands on/interactive activities

Takeaways, Part 2 ● Disciplinary data communities ● Two workshops - two models ● Immense value in beginning/promulgating conversations ● Workshops create communities (of practice) ● Foster RDM partnerships & awareness across institution types

Modules The curricular modules developed in the course of this grant will be made available on the project website in late November 2019 https: //library. lclark. edu/dataworkshops

Thank you Institute of Museum and Library Services Ashley Sands, Ph. D. , Program Officer Mark Dahl, Project Director Workshop Partners Celia Emmelhainz, UC Berkeley Ye Li, Ph. D. , MIT Steering Team Members Eli Gandour-Rood, University of Puget Sound David Conners Isaak, Reed College John Repplinger, Willamette University Amy Blau, Whitman College Faculty and Student Attendees!