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Digital Social Science Lab: Connecting Academia with Data Literacy

Explore the story of how a highly digital library collection adapted to changing habits among scholars and students, becoming a dynamic learning environment that supports research, education, and data literacy.

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Digital Social Science Lab: Connecting Academia with Data Literacy

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  1. Christian Lauersen Mail: cula@roskilde.dk Twitter: @clauersen EVENTOS 2019 XVII Jornadas CRAI Digital Social Science Lab: Connceting acadmia with data literacy

  2. The story about 10 years and twodifferent master thesis’

  3. From 6 interviews and 35 pages of transcriptionto the harvesting of 2.4 million online articles in just 10 years

  4. The library of today might not fit the reality of tomorrow

  5. Change of habits amongscholars and students

  6. Context: Faculty Library of Social Sciences Highly digital collection, nobooks in physicallibrary

  7. The (Academic) Library as place

  8. ”A great library should be a workshop as well as a repository. It should teach the methods of thorough research, and cultivate in readersthe habit of seeking the original sources of learning” - Justin Winsor, late 1800

  9. Somethingwas missing: Infrastructure

  10. Inspiration

  11. Hvad er Digital Social Science Lab? • Et fysisk rum til understøttelse af forskning, uddannelse og læring • Relevant software og hardware + vejledning og support • En platform for digitale metoder og værktøjer indenfor samfundsvidenskaben Local knowledge and ownership

  12. Kub kort Hvorfor?

  13. An open platform for education and events on digital methods Hardware and software for harvesting, cleaning, analyzing and visualizing data A dynamic and aesthetically inspiring learning environment

  14. What we do • Events and teaching • Facilitating and curatering • Communitybuilding

  15. Curating open data sources

  16. The library as hub: Community and peer-to-peer

  17. Digital methods sessions and data sprints

  18. Traditionallearning vs. peer-to-peer learning

  19. The space: • Flexible • Functional • Inspirational

  20. AN ALTERNATIVE TO THE TRADITIONAL LEARNING ENVIRONMENT An alternative to the classic learningenvirontment

  21. The Evolving DSSL Network Faculty Aalborg University Students ETHOS Lab Facultymembers Tearching and learning unit DSSL DTU EtnographicExploratorium BADASS Highereducation Libraries and archives Danish Business Authority Open Data Network Society

  22. Side effect: The library as social infrastructure Not onlysharedresources, alsosharedplaces Belongingand interdiciplinaryconnections

  23. Challenges in the proces • ”Is this a librarytask?” • ”On the expense of what?” • How do weget the relevant skills? • How do we talk aboutthisproject? • How do we position ourselftowards the local research and educationalenvirontment?

  24. Whatwe’relearned • It’s not enough to provideaccess to software and hardware • Skilldevelopment is a long proces and has to be in context of need and resources • The facilitatingrole is a goodway to createvalue • Network is key • The Library is a verystrong platform for bringingpeopletogetherwithinacademia • Library support of data literacymight not fit to all subjects

  25. Final notes! [howmuch time do I have left?]

  26. The librarian Final notes #1: The most valuable asset of a library is the employess and the community

  27. Final notes #2: Be like the anthropologist

  28. Final notes #3: Great data service is a pinataof inter-related factors

  29. Final notes #4: Functionality,functionality, functionality

  30. Final notes #5: Embracefailures

  31. Final notes #6: Never everchange the libraryname to somethingelse

  32. Final notes #7: Be proud

  33. Graciasporescuchar! Christian Lauersen Director of Libraries and Citizen Services Roskilde Municipality Mail: cula@roskilde.dk Twitter: @clauersen The Library Lab: christianlauersen.net Library Planet: libraryplanet.net Instagram: @librarylovestories Digital Social Science Lab http://kub.kb.dk/DSSL

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