Data Clean-Up and Management. A Practical Guide for Librarians

✍ Scribed by Margaret Hogarth and Kenneth Furuta (Auth.)

Publisher: Chandos Publishing
Year: 2012
Tongue: English
Leaves: 556
Series: Chandos Information Professional Series
Edition: 1
Category: Library

No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.

✦ Synopsis

Data use in the library has specific characteristics and common problems. Data Clean-up and Management addresses these, and provides methods to clean up frequently-occurring data problems using readily-available applications. The authors highlight the importance and methods of data analysis and presentation, and offer guidelines and recommendations for a data quality policy. The book gives step-by-step how-to directions for common dirty data issues.

Focused towards libraries and practicing librarians
Deals with practical, real-life issues and addresses common problems that all libraries face
Offers cradle-to-grave treatment for preparing and using data, including download, clean-up, management, analysis and presentation

✦ Table of Contents

Content:
Front matter, Pages i-iii
Copyright, Page iv
List of figures, Pages xi-xxxiv
List of tables, Pages xxxv-xxxvii
About the authors, Page xxxix
1 - Introduction (why this book is needed), Pages 1-5
2 - Commonalities, Pages 7-13
3 - Defining data, Pages 15-30
4 - Types of data issues, Pages 31-42
5 - Microsoft Excel techniques, Pages 43-81
6 - Data clean-up in Excel, Pages 83-110
7 - Excel: combining data, Pages 111-144
8 - Additional tools, Pages 145-209
9 - Access techniques, Pages 211-235
10 - Access forms, Pages 237-279
11 - Access reports, Pages 281-312
12 - Access queries, Pages 313-335
13 - Data clean-up in Access, Pages 337-342
14 - Access – combining data, Pages 343-385
15 - Strategies for missing data, Pages 387-397
16 - Qualitative data, Pages 399-408
17 - ROI, Pages 409-411
18 - Data collection and analysis, Pages 413-442
19 - Data quality policy, Pages 443-456
20 - Next steps, Pages 457-460
Appendix 1: Excel techniques, Pages 461-477
Appendix 2: Excel functions, Pages 479-491
Appendix 3: Access quick keys, Pages 493-522
Appendix 4: Redman’s model data policy, Pages 523-525
Bibliography and references, Pages 527-531
Index, Pages 533-538

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