Data, Data, Data! Every librarian, anywhere at this point in time, is exploring how, when, and why you and your library will get involved in some kind of data application, capture, organization, or education. If this is where you find yourself, you need this book. If you are a beginner, you need this book. If you know tons about data, you need this book. The first chapter, Data Reference Basis, is a way of beginning a thought process on where data might fit into your service. Reference librarians are used to answering questions about statistics. But data is not statistics; data is the foundation for the creation of statistics. In some cases, data can be statistics if it is the end result of a study, but generally data is a building block of some kind. It is raw in its configuration and it needs to be organized in some manner to be of any use. It is the organization of data that makes it a separate entity from statistics.
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