Marcela Y. Isuster is the coordinator of the Digital Scholarship Hub, and liaison librarian to the School of Information Studies and the Department of Hispanic Studies at McGill University in Montreal, Canada. She completed her master of library and information studies at McGill University. Prior to that, she earned a bachelor of arts degree with a specialization in journalism from Concordia University. Her research focuses on information literacy, digital humanities, diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) in libraries and, of course, data culture. Marcela is also the founder of Humanidades Digitales en Bibliotecas, a series of digital humanities workshops for Spanish-speaking librarians. She is originally from Argentina and has worked in both Canada and the US.
Librarians and academic data specialists support the research data needs of faculty and students through conventional services such as consultations and workshops, but also increasingly by cultivating a data culture that supports the diverse data needs of their communities. The shift toward data-related research as a driver of social capital is a critical opportunity to reassess data literacy training and build a local scholarly culture around data.
In five parts, Data Culture in Academic Libraries: A Practical Guide to Building Communities, Partnerships, and Collaborations can help you foster an institutional culture that favors the curation, creation, and wider use of datasets.
- Data at all Levels
- Data Services and Instruction
- Data Outreach
- Data Communities
- Data Partnerships
Chapters include case studies, practical examples, and strategies from practitioners in North America, Asia, and Europe working in a wide range of academic contexts and fostering data partnerships and communities that often go beyond their libraries and institutions. Data Culture in Academic Libraries highlights the ways that library workers are developing novel and innovative models of relationship-building to improve data-related services while incorporating a lens of equity, diversity, anti-racism, and inclusion in programming events and partnerships.
