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Tenured and tenure-track librarians at the University

of Saskatchewan (U of S) have to meet the

standards for Research, Scholarly, and/or Artistic

Works as they are laid out in section 5.2 of the 2015

University Library Standards for Promotion and

Tenure1. A number of support structures have been

put in place, with the early efforts being outlined in

Fox’s 2007 paper2. The article mentions the

development of the standards for tenure and

promotion, the Librarians’ Forum, and the Dean’s

Research Lecture2. A 2010 survey by Schrader, Shiri,

and Williamson further outlines the research of U of

S academic librarians and the areas where more

support and training might be offered3.

The Centre for Evidence Based Library and

Information Practice (C-EBLIP) mission supports

University Library librarians as researchers and

evidence based practitioners.

Research at the U of S Library in the Literature

Research Data at the U of S Library

• The questions themselves required simplification, but the general concepts were retained

• Much of the discussion during the question revision session was around the extra documentation we would

need to confidently answer the questions

• Discussing the questions as a group provided the opportunity for many perspectives to be represented. The

group included experienced and new researchers, librarians from different disciplines, varying degrees of

experience with data management, and the broader campus research perspective.

The Portage DMP Assistant Default Questions

References

1 University Library Standards for Promotion and

Tenure. (2015). Retrieved from

http://library.usask.ca/info/libstandards2015.pdf

2 Fox, D. (2007). Finding Time for Scholarship :

Librarians. Portal: Libraries and the Academy, 7(4),

451–462.

3 Schrader, A. M., Shiri, A., & Williamson, V. (2012).

Assessment of the Research Learning Needs of

University of Saskatchewan Librarians: A Case

Study. College & Research Libraries, 73(2), 147–

163. http://doi.org/10.5860/crl-235

Contact

Kristin Bogdan

Science & Engineering Librarian

kristin.bogdan@usask.ca

Twitter: @KristinBogdan

Librarian Research Data: Customizing the

DMP Assistant for Practitioner-ResearchersKristin Bogdan

Acknowledgements

I want to thank Catherine Boden, Carolyn Doi, Vicky Duncan,

Carolyn Pytlyk, Elizabeth Stregger, and Virginia Wilson for their

contributions to the DMP Assistant Template Questions. I would

also like to thank C-EBLIP for supporting this project.

Understanding our own research data will help

librarian practitioner-researchers serve the entire

campus research community.

Discussion

Observations

The Portage Network DMP Assistant can be accessed at https://assistant.portagenetwork.ca/. The questions used in this exercise are from the Portage Template.