Save the date! Mountain West Data Librarian Symposium August 13-14, 2018

Posted by liaison on May 2nd, 2018 Posted in: #CC/Academic List, #Health Sciences List, Data Science

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The Mountain West Data Librarian Symposium is a low-cost professional development opportunity for librarians and research data specialists. August 13-14 at the University of Colorado Boulder for the inaugural Mountain West Data Librarian Symposium!

Registration will be under $30 and open in June. The symposium will consist of morning workshops and afternoon unconference sessions. They are currently seeking workshop proposals for the symposium. Proposals are due Tuesday, May 22.

Workshops may run 55, 90 or 120 minutes. They are seeking hands-on training sessions that focus on active attendee participation. Proposals should focus on how to fulfill the job duties of research data specialists. Potential topics include, but are not limited to:

• teaching research data management
• data sharing and re-use
• data curation and preservation
• data literacy
• research reproducibility
• communication and outreach

Proposals of up to 250 words should be submitted to: https://goo.gl/forms/9VRH07JjVNYf9f8o2. Please view the full call for proposals prior to submitting.

Stay tuned for more announcements, follow @MountainWestDLS on Twitter, or check out the Mountain West Data Librarian Symposium Website. Please send any questions to MountainWestDLS@gmail.com. /da