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While I’m certainly not the first to make a connection between librarianship and data work, my experience has proven that the parallels run deep. Data professionals and librarians share the noble goal of organizing and disseminating knowledge for the good of all. (View Highlight)

Leadership provides funding and coordination. Ranganathan endorses a federated or “hybrid” model, with a central team to handle shared infrastructure and expenses, specialized teams aligned to stakeholders in each domain, and interfaces for collaboration between them. The equivalent is a central city library with neighborhood branches and an interlibrary loan program. (View Highlight)