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
Additional Resources
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Increasing the library's capacity to do all of the above
What's the need?
  • To be sustainable, many of the roles in this section require ongoing commitments of people, resources, and expertise.
Why the library?
  • Libraries are relatively stable organizations and are used to long-term planning and infrastructural thinking.
What you can do:
  • Make the case about the importance of this work to your library's leadership and funders
  • Determine what a baseline of civic data awareness might look like for you and your library colleagues; then work on developing it through whatever means works best in your library (trainings, discussion groups, projects with community partners)
  • Modify existing staff positions to include responsibilities around civic data; support people in these roles with training and meaningful project work
  • Create and hire new positions with responsibilities around civic data
  • Cross pollinate civic data conferences
Inspiration:
Resources you can use:
  • Talking Points: Why Libraries Should be Key Participants in their Civic Data Ecosystems [PDF, PNG]
  • Toolkit Job descriptions - coming soon
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