COMFORT LEVELS AND TRAINING OPPORTUNITIESDLI 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? 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

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

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

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

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

RELATIVE COMFORTS

TOP 5 COMFORT LEVELS FOR ONTARIO(% VERY COMPETENT AND SOMEWHAT COMPETENT)

RELATIVE DISCOMFORTS

“I DON’T KNOW MY PUMF FROM MY DUMMY VARIABLES AND I’M FEELING A BIT SYNTHETIC”

BOTTOM 5 COMFORT LEVELS FOR ONTARIO (% VERY COMPETENT AND COMPETENT)

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

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

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

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

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

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?

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!!