[Purpose/significance] Through the comparative analysis of the post abilities of foreign data librarians and subject librarians, this paper provides development strategies for the personnel training of data librarians in China. [Method/process] This paper investigated the recruitment information of some foreign university libraries, compared and analyzed the differences between subject librarian and data librarian from the five aspects of position name, education background, post responsibility, skill requirements and comprehensive ability, and pointed out the qualifications that data librarian should have. [Result/conclusion] Summarized the post ability of data librarians in foreign university, pointed out the necessity of changing the role from subject librarian to data librarian, and provided reference suggestions for domestic university library to train data librarian.
Xu Xin
,
Zhang Yue
. The Change of Librarian’s Role in the Data Age——The Rise of Data Librarian[J]. Library and Information Service, 2021
, 65(7)
: 60
-66
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DOI: 10.13266/j.issn.0252-3116.2021.07.006
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