Data Stewards, Curators, and Experts: Library Data Engagement at Samuel J. Wood Library at Weil Cornell Medicine

Introduction

As the 21^st century marches on, academic libraries experience accelerating pressure to evolve beyond mere ‘books and journals.’ While keeping their mandate to serve the academic community, libraries are seeking to foster knowledge creation, learning, and information access in an ever more data-driven and online environment (Turner et al., 2013). Data management practices must adapt as data become ever ‘bigger’ - more connected, more distributed, more granular, and more continuous. Biomedical data has seen consistent development in the form of computable biomedical knowledge (Callahan et al., 2020; Walsh & Wroe, 2020) and Learning Healthcare Systems (Budrionis & Bellika, 2016). This chapter outlines the ways in which the Samuel J. Wood Library at Weill Cornell Medicine (henceforth Wood Library) has innovated services to engage with data science and researchers. The authors describe the perspectives that shape their mandate, roles developed, and technology employed.