DIY Research Data Management Training Kit for Librarians

"During autumn and winter 2012-13, data librarians at the University of Edinburgh (Robin Rice and Anne Donnelly) led a pilot course for four University liaison librarians on Research Data Management (RDM) covering five topics involving reading assigments from the MANTRA course, reflective writing, and 2-hour face-to-face training sessions, including group exercises from the UK Data Archive. The course was deemed successful by participants and Information Services managers, and another round of training with another small group is about to begin (facilitated by Stuart Macdonald and Anne Donnelly). Meanwhile the first group is in the process of pursuing their independent studies - interviews with researchers resulting in new public Data Curation Profiles.Users are welcome to apply their own creativity to reshape the course as they wish. For example, there are an abundance of group exercises available from the UKDA training resources pack, many of which are not included here. However, we acknowledge that the time commitment required for professional development activity such as this is significant for busy professionals, and many will appreciate the 'out-of-the-box' readiness of the training as we provide in the kit."