New from ACRL - Text and Data Mining Literacy for Librarians

CHICAGO - The Association of College and Research Libraries (ACRL) announces the publication of "Text and Data Mining Literacy for Librarians," edited by Whitney Kramer, Iliana Burgos, and Evan Muzzall, demonstrating how academic libraries are supporting TDM literacy through services, workflows, and professional development.

Text and data mining (TDM) is the process of using automated techniques to derive information from large sets of digital content. Librarians who liaise with a wide range of academic disciplines need TDM skills to support research at their institutions.

In five parts, "Text and Data Mining Literacy for Librarians" offers a variety of perspectives, insights, and experiences that can help you address the challenges of supporting TDM research, fit it into your existing reference and instruction work, and conduct your own.

• Essentials of Text and Data Mining (TDM) Literacy
• Data Literacy, Licensing, and Management Challenges with TDM
• TDM Research in Action: Practical Applications and Case Studies
• Generating Insights from Library Reference Data
• Proprietary TDM Software: Examples and Implementations

Chapters cover a range of disciplines and subject areas from a variety of institution sizes and types. "Text and Data Mining Literacy for Librarians" is intended to empower library workers, inform decision-makers, and support our research communities as working with textual data becomes further embedded into the research landscape.

"Text and Data Mining Literacy for Librarians" is available for purchase in print and as an ebook through the ALA Online Store; in print through Amazon.com; via EBSCO, ProQuest, and other ebook vendors; and by telephone order at (866) 746-7252 in the US or (770) 442-8633 for international customers. 

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