There was a long discussion on twitter yesterday (okay, I went on a rant) about the vast number of data management books that have been published for librarians in the past few years. While not exclusively data management books for librarians, here is the long list of data management books that I’m aware of:

• Big data, little data, no data : scholarship in the networked world by Christine L Borgman
• Curating research data, volume one: practical strategies for your digital repository by Lisa Johnston [Open Access]
• Curating research data, volume two: a handbook of current practice by Lisa Johnston [Open Access]
• Data information literacy : librarians, data, and the education of a new generation of researchers by Jake Carlson & Lisa Johnston
• Data management : a practical guide for librarians by Margaret Henderson
• Data management for libraries : a LITA guide by Laura Krier & Carly A Strasser
• Data management for researchers : organize, maintain and share your data for research success by Kristin Briney
• Databrarianship : the academic data librarian in theory and practice by Lynda M Kellam & Kristi Thompson
• Delivering research data management services : fundamentals of good practice by Graham Pryor, Sarah Jones, & Angus Whyte
• Digital curation by Ross Harvey
• Exploring research data management by Andrew Cox
• Managing and sharing research data : a guide to good practice by Louise Corti, Veerle Van den Eynden, Libby Bishop, & Matthew Woollard
• Managing research data by Graham Pryor
• Research data management : practical strategies for information professionals by Joyce M Ray
• Scholarship in the digital age : information, infrastructure, and the Internet by Christine L Borgman
• The data librarian’s handbook by Robin Rice & John Southall
• The Medical Library Association guide to data management for librarians by Lisa Federer

We do not need any more “here’s how to build data services at a large research institution in a western country” books, thank you. I would happily buy books about data services at smaller institutions, in non-western countries, for data service support beyond PhDs and faculty, for building on data information literacy principles, and how to manage data when you’re a researcher (I’m happy to have competition for my own book!).

Please feel free to point people to this post when someone suggests writing/publishing another “building data services for librarians” book.

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