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Survey and Analysis for University Data Librarian Career Development
Received date: 2017-01-18
Revised date: 2017-03-03
Online published: 2017-03-20
[Purpose/significance] Exploring the possibility for employee-oriented job analysis with professional social network data, to provide recommendation for human resource development, data Librarian education training and career planning of Chinese libraries.[Method/process] The data librarian's job analysis model based on LinkedIn is designed, data mined and visualized to demonstrate the demography, development, competency and career trajectory.[Result/conclusion] It is shown that the United States is the top among countries in terms of the amount of data librarians and the amount of institutions which own data librarians. Data librarians often get master's or doctor's degree with multidisciplinary and higher data-related knowledge and skills. Professional education and massive open online courses as an alternative pattern are two ways to foster data librarians. From the career experiences, stability and good career prospect make data librarian as a promising career.
Key words： data Librarian; LinkedIn; job analysis; competitiveness; career trajectory
Cui Yuhong , Chu Hengya , Li Feng . Survey and Analysis for University Data Librarian Career Development[J]. Library and Information Service, 2017 , 61(6) : 67 -72 . DOI: 10.13266/j.issn.0252-3116.2017.06.011
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