You are invited to participate in a follow-up to the 2011 ACRL survey of research data practices at academic libraries. You are being contacted because you, or your institution, were part of the original survey. This follow-up survey asks about the research data practices and plans at your library, so please answer from the perspective of the institution. Even if your library is not involved with research data, we would like you to respond to this survey. Every response will help us better understand how libraries are managing (or planning to manage) data and will contribute to building better tools and processes for data management and curation. In addition to demographic information, the survey will ask you how your library participates in data-related activities. As such, no sensitive items are included and the survey therefore poses no foreseeable risk. Also, after data collection, there will be a pre-screening of responses that will include removing or anonymizing any potentially identifying information, thus assuring that the final data set is anonymous. Upon publication of the results of the study, the dataset will be made publically available. The questionnaire should take you, or someone in your office, about 15 minutes to complete. Your participation in this research is voluntary, and you may decline to participate without risk. While it is useful to be complete in your responses to the survey, you may skip any questions, and you are free to withdraw from the study at any time. The data from any questions that were answered before exiting the survey will be recorded.

Research data is an essential part of the scholarly record, and management of research data is increasingly seen as an important role for academic libraries. This article presents the results of a survey of directors of the Association of European Research Libraries (LIBER) academic member libraries to discover what types of research data services (RDS) are being offered by European academic research libraries and what services are planned for the future. Overall, the survey found that library directors strongly agree on the importance of RDS. As was found in earlier studies of academic libraries in North America, more European libraries are currently offering or are planning to offer consultative or reference RDS than technical or hands-on RDS.

As management of research data becomes increasingly important to scholars and academic institutions, academic libraries can play a major role by offering research data services (RDS). This poster presents the results of a survey of the Ligue des Bibliothèques Européennes de Recherche-Association of European Research Libraries (LIBER) academic member library directors to find out what types of RDS their libraries are currently offering and what services they plan to offer in the future. The survey found that while most of these libraries currently offer or are planning to offer at least some RDS, consultative or reference-type services are offered more often than are technical or hands-on services. Most of these libraries are in discussions regarding data policies, collaborate with other organizations within or outside their own institutions to offer RDS, and most provide support for RDS skills development for staff members. This poster discusses the implications of these findings and offers directions for future research.

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