Co-operation with research libraries
Contact persons at libraries met at the FSD
By Maria
Forsman June 15, 2000
The FSD has created a network of contact persons at research
libraries. At present, the network consists of librarians and
information officers from 21 research libraries. The purpose is to
reach through libraries students and researchers using data in the social
sciences.
In April, the FSD invited the contact persons to discuss forms of
co-operation between the libraries and the FSD. Representatives of the
FSD told about the tasks and functions of the archive and there was a
presentation of the database application tool NESSTAR and data
description format DDI. In conclusion, there was a discussion over
concrete forms of co-operation.
One of the themes was how to inform students and researchers about the
work of the data archive and its services in connection of the user education
programs at the libraries.
Another theme to emerge was the significance of a library as an
information source on the work of the data archive on a more general
level, too.
The meeting with contact persons at various libraries was important in
view of communication and establishing contacts . Meetings will be
arranged in the future, too, perhaps once a year to begin with, more
seldom later when the activities of the data archive have been fully
established. Disseminating information locally on the work of the
data archive to students and researchers - in one's own research
library - is many times the most natural choice.
Contacts have been made with librarians during the several visits to
university departments and faculties made by the data archive staff in
different parts of Finland in the Spring 2000.
The idea behind creating a network is that libraries are places to
which researchers and students easily make their way. Often, the
libraries are well versed in the research orientations of their own
faculty or university. A librarian can for his/her part have an
influence on research by telling about material already at the data
archive and how it could be utilised.
Early this year we asked approximately forty scientific libraries about
their interest in joining the FSD's library contact person network. Up
till now, the following libraries have joined:
Library of Parliament, Helsinki School of Economics Library,
Helsinki University Library, Theology Library at the
University of Helsinki, Social Science Library at
the University of Helsinki, Joensuu University Library,
Jyväskylä University Library, National Public Health Institute,
Kuopio University Library, Lapland University Library, Oulu University Library,
Library of the Finnish Literature Society,
Tampere University Library, Central Library for Theatre and Dance, National
Library of Health Sciences, Library of Statistics, Turku School of
Economics and Business Administration Library, Law Library at the University of Turku,
Social Sciences Library at the University of Turku,
Vaasa University Library, and Library of Österbottens högskola.
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