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Comfort Levels and Training Opportunities

Comfort Levels and Training Opportunities. DLI Ontario Training April 2010. What?. Data Professionals Competencies are the essential knowledge , skills , abilities , and qualities that are required of DLI contacts in academic libraries today. Why?.

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Comfort Levels and Training Opportunities

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  1. Comfort Levels and Training Opportunities DLI Ontario Training April 2010

  2. What? • Data Professionals Competencies are the essential knowledge, skills, abilities, and qualities that are required of DLI contacts in academic libraries today.

  3. Why? • Provide common language for the knowledge, skills, abilities and qualities potentially required of data professionals • Help identify priorities for training and new areas to cover • Provide balanced training across levels of service, size of institution, and requirements of individual jobs • Help individuals to create personal development plans and goals in a more formal fashion • Help data professionals to articulate and communicate the value of DLI training to their institutions in a more formal way

  4. More Advantages • Provide a framework for conversations with library and academic leaders regarding levels of service, staffing and professional development needs • Assist those new to the DLI or new to data duties with a framework for learning in the field and to help track progress over time • Assist with planning DLI orientation for new contacts

  5. Training Implications • Different levels of service require different competencies • Develop skills in increasing levels of complexity • Provide growth opportunities for everyone • Ensure adequate community support for smaller institutions • Tailor the training program so that everyone grows • Involve new people and ideas from outside regions in regional training • Explore internships, mentors, lists of experts • Work with IASSIST and CAPDU to develop national and international training

  6. Competencies Listing (Q45) • Using and interpreting data documentation • Finding and retrieving microdata • Finding and retrieving aggregate statistics • Finding and retrieving geography files • Using statistical software to create a software specific format file (.sas, .spss, .por, etc.) • Using statistical software to manipulate variables

  7. Competencies Listing (Q45) • Statistical and data literacy • General knowledge of surveys in the DLI Collection • Knowledge of products in the DLI Collection • General knowledge of the Census • Knowledge about data outside of the DLI Collection • Responding to data questions

  8. Relative comforts

  9. Top 5 Comfort Levels for Ontario(% Very competent and somewhat competent)

  10. Relative Discomforts“I don’t know my PUMF from my dummy variables and I’m feeling a bit synthetic”

  11. Bottom 5 Comfort Levels for Ontario (% Very competent and competent)

  12. Additional Competencies/Comforts(from Train the Trainers, February 2010) • Statistical/data literacy – clarification of definition needed? • Understanding of the data life cycle • Understanding of the production of statistics (relation of statistics to data) • Understanding of the presentation of statistics and how to get to the sources • Competence vs. confidence vs. comfort

  13. Additional Competencies/Comforts(from Train the Trainers, February 2010) • Understanding Statistics Canada organizational structure/philosophy and DLI service model philosophy • Basic knowledge of continuum of access to Statistics Canada resources • Defining, evaluating, and reviewing levels of data service

  14. Additional Competencies/Comforts(From Train the Trainers, February 2010) • Collection management skills • Promotional skills (and managing expectations • Pedagogical skills • Technical skills to support and deliver digital objects in data services • Includes file management skills • Broaden “using statistical software to create a software specific format file” to include GIS

  15. So, what are we doing this year? • Knowledge about data outside the DLI Collection • Health Measures Survey • General knowledge of surveys in the DLI Collection • CCHS • Understanding Statistics Canada organizational structure/philosophy and DLI service model philosophy • DLI Update

  16. So, what are we doing this year? • Promotional skills (and managing expectations) • Lightning Talk: Presentation to UWO RDC • Technical skills to support and deliver digital objects in data services • Lightning Talk: SDA in 2010 • Pedagogical skills • Lightning Talk: Jing • Understanding of the data life cycle • RDM Seminar

  17. More things we heard... • Similar issues throughout all regions • Need to share resources/information among regions (National training only once every 4 years) • How? • DLI training repository? • Other repository? • Webinars?

  18. How YOU can help! • Have good ideas? Training materials? Screen captures? • Post them...share them... • Offer to lead a session at future DLI training events • Give a presentation on your favourite non-StatCan dataset or data series (elections, public opinion, international data, the list is endless) • Give us feedback!! Let us know!!

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