Data Services in the Age of Scalability and a Pandemic

Abstract

As higher education institutions in the United States began to respond to the COVID-19 pandemic by moving classes online, emptying residence halls, and authorizing remote work, academic librarians were tasked upon helping students and instructors with migrating to an online learning environment. What stood out was that data librarians already had a digital presence. This presentation offers insight in how a Research Data Services department offered web services in a collaborative environment for accessing data, providing data archiving support to researchers, and promoting data literacy. These data librarians will discuss how they use online resources and strategies to build awaren