The Missing Path: Data Librarianship at Mid-Career

Abstract

As the subdiscipline of data librarianship is navigating the second decade of wide adoption
in US academic libraries, many of the librarians who specialize in that discipline
are approaching or are firmly mid-career. Data librarianship requires deep knowledge of
policy, technology, strategy, and political environments on campus and nationally. Those
data librarians are developing skill sets that are highly valued in library administration,
regardless of specialization. Due to the lack of support within data