Abstract
There are many courses available to teach research data management to librarians and researchers. While these courses can help with technical skills, like programming or statistics, and practical knowledge of data life cycles or data sharing policies, there are “soft skills” and non-technical skills that are needed to successfully start and run data services. While there are many important characteristics of a good data librarian, reference skills, relationship building, collaboration, listening, and facilitation are some of the most important. Giving consideration to these skills will help any data librarian with their multifaceted job.
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Margaret Henderson San Diego State UniversityLet us know how access to this document benefits you
“ Many day-to-day issues that my colleagues and I struggle with most are not discussed in literature
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