Sixth candidate statement: Tiiu Tarkpea

IFLA Standing Committee elections are currently underway, and the ARL Standing Committee is excited to be welcoming new members.  We have invited our candidates to submit short biographies so that those of you who are voting members will have some background in making your selections.

I am a Data Librarian in University of Tartu (UT) Library, Estonia. In case I have the opportunity to work in ARL Standing Committee I would like to contribute in diverse fields of Open Science (OS): policy, the role of libraries in OS, research data management liaison, support, services and data literacy courses. It is worth to share the experience how to build these activities up from zero point involving all stakeholders and therefore support academic libraries in their new role. Fostering  cooperation on OS in Baltic region enables to bring broader knowledge to the table for the best of all.

Taking part in other professional organizations’ (LIBER, RDA, DataCite, COAR) activities regarding OS I can see bringing these actions together with IFLA.

Currently I am a member of IFLA Subject Analysis and Access Standing Committee (2013-2017) as I have worked as subject indexer and a head of department of Subject Analysis in UT Library. At this time we developed Estonian Thesaurus, a multi-lingual controlled vocabulary, in cooperation with libraries of Consortium of Estonian Libraries Network.

As a Standing Committee member I have worked in program committees several times.

 

Most recent publications:

 

Hallik, M., Tarkpea, T. Open science policy – a twisted road and clear aims//Bibliothek der Zukunft. Zukunft der Bibliothek. Festschrift für Elmar Mittler. — Berlin, Boston: De Gruyter Saur, 2016 – Lk. 78 – 91.

DOI (Chapter): 10.1515/9783110464016-008

DOI (Book): 10.1515/9783110464016

 

Tarkpea, T., Seiler, V. Integrating data literacy into Information literacy e-course for PhD students //European Conference on Information Literacy (4. : 2016 : Praha, Česko)

The Fourth European Conference on Information Literacy : (ECIL)

October 10th-13th, 2016, Prague, Czech Republic : abstracts / editors:

Sonja Špiranec, Serap Kurbanoğlu, Hana Landová, Esther Grassian, Diane

Mizrachi, Loriene Roy, Denis Kos. — Prague : Association of Libraries of

Czech Universities, 2016. — 240 pages.

ISBN 978-80-270-0530-7

http://ecil2016.ilconf.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/ECIL2016_BoA.pdf