How to Kickstart Citizen Science in your Library? Report from the Masterclass for Library Executives - LIBER Europe
peter.suber's bookmarks 2024-08-02
Summary:
"The LIBER Citizen Science Working Group and the European Citizen Science Academy held a 1.5-day pilot masterclass on citizen science for library executives on 7-8 May 2024 in Paris. The event was kindly hosted by the Learning Planet Institute....
The learning outcomes were to kickstart citizen science in a research library, develop a plan, understand the process of supporting citizen science, and understand the context, reasons, and benefits. Important subgoals were to increase participants’ networks, identify external and internal stakeholders, and facilitate citizen science integration.
The masterclass showed that the majority of participants had ideas to get started and that citizen science very much appears to be both an institutional and personal journey for library executives. This exposes the no ‘one size fits all’ context for citizen science at research libraries that were the basis for the masterclass. It also highlights that challenges in both strategic and day-to-day operations would benefit from being addressed...."