Civic Switchboard Guide
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Introduction
About
Context and Concepts
Engaging Partners
Understanding Your Ecosystem
Library Roles
Connecting data users
Connecting data producers
Showing the importance of civic data
Developing civic data literacy
Advocating for ethical, responsible, and accessible civic data
Making civic data more usable
Providing expertise on data management
Creating civic data
Using civic data
Publishing civic data
Archiving civic data
Increasing the library's capacity to do all of the above
Selected Resources
Maintaining Momentum
Case Studies 2019
Case Studies 2020
Additional Resources
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Developing civic data literacy
What's the need?
  • There is an increasing need for people to have data literacy skills for their careers.
  • Many people would like to know how to better find and use civic data and, at the same time, understand its context and limitations.
Why the library?
  • Your library likely has lots of experience teaching information literacy.
  • Your library is in the position to adapt existing services or information literacy curriculum to continue to help people access and make use of civic data.
What you can do:
  • Work with local community organizations to develop data literacy and skills training
  • Tailor an existing data literacy training toolkit to local needs
  • Fold data literacy into workforce development training workshops and programs
  • Expand the roles and skill sets of library staff
Inspiration:
Resources you can use:
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