Open AccessAn accidental datahound: Transitioning skills to experience and application
Author(s) -
Douglas M. Black
Publication year - 2017
Publication title -
college and research libraries news
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.281
H-Index - 23
eISSN - 2150-6698
pISSN - 0099-0086
DOI - 10.5860/crln.78.8.436
Subject(s) - accidental , face (sociological concept) , element (criminal law) , set (abstract data type) , psychology , computer science , sociology , political science , social science , physics , programming language , acoustics , law
I didn’t set out to become a data-driven librarian. The concept was still new when I was in library school, and smitten as I was with the human element of information structures and information seeking, the idea seemed detached, focused on mere numbers divorced from the daily face-to-face reality of a reference librarian.Well.