Libraries, Leadership, and Synergies – Collections Analysis Skills, Part 2: Training Guidance and Resources for Analytical Skills and Tools

Continuing from the November 2024 article’s portrayal of analysis skills from recent job postings and published collection analysis projects, this article shares guidance and resources on analytical skills and training resources for skill-building. To help librarians who are interested in analysis but to whom creating strategic training plans seems daunting, training guidance and resources in this article address statistical principles and methods, as well as software-aided data analysis in library settings. The next article will complete this series with detailed training guidance for specific analysis software packages, programming languages, and visualization tools.