Data Culture in Academic Libraries:: A Practical Guide to Building Communities, Partnerships, and Collaborations

Marcela Y. Isuster is the coordinator of the Digital Scholarship Hub, and liaison librarian to the School of Information Studies and the Department of Hispanic Studies at McGill University in Montreal, Canada. She completed her master of library and information studies at McGill University. Prior to that, she earned a bachelor of arts degree with a specialization in journalism from Concordia University. Her research focuses on information literacy, digital humanities, diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) in libraries and, of course, data culture. Marcela is also the founder of Humanidades Digitales en Bibliotecas, a series of digital humanities workshops for Spanish-speaking librarians. She is originally from Argentina and has worked in both Canada and the US. Dr. Alisa Beth Rod is the research data management specialist at the McGill University Libraries. Alisa holds a master of information studies from McGill University, an MA and PhD in political science from the University of California, Santa Barbara, and a BA in bioethics from the American Jewish University. Prior to joining McGill, Alisa was the survey methodologist at Ithaka S+R and then the associate director of the Empirical Reasoning Center at Barnard College of Columbia University. Her research interests include research data management, data librarianship, and building community around data.