Perspectives of Librarian Involvement in the Use of Big Data and Data Science

In the NNLM Big Data in Healthcare: Exploring Emerging Roles course, we asked participants, as they progressed through the course to consider the following questions: Do you think health sciences librarians should get involved with big data in healthcare? Where should librarians get involved, if you think they should? If you think they should not, explain why. You may also combine a “should/should not” approach if you would like to argue both sides. NNLM will feature responses from different participants over the coming weeks. Written By Mary Pat Harnegie, MLIS, AHIP, Medical Librarian, Cleveland Clinic Alumni Library and Manager, South Pointe Hospital Library This picture puts into words about how I might want to feel about Big Data and the role of the Librarian. After seeing the complexity of the Big Data processes and the unorganized systems that contribute to its disorder, I feel overwhelmed with the expansiveness of what needs to be done to make it usable. If I put my head in the sand, the problem(s) go away…Right?! Wrong!! Sometimes, order comes out of organizing parts of disorder. So if you have a big picture of chaos, one way to attack the disorder is to pick a part that one can bring into order. When my family is faced with a seemingly insurmountable problem, I tell them that solving the problem is like eating an elephant. You can’t eat an elephant all in one sitting, but you have to deal with it in bite size chunks. The same thing can be applied to a probl...
Source: NN/LM Middle Atlantic Region Blog - Category: Databases & Libraries Authors: Tags: Data Science Education Source Type: news