Jamene Brooks

Librarian / Data Services Librarian & Coordinator of Digital Scholarship

Contact Info

jameneb@ku.edu

785-864-5238

Watson Library, 470

0000-0001-6280-124X 0000-0001-6280-124X

Biography —

As Data Services Librarian, I focus on teaching practical data management techniques and facilitating access to data and computing services available to KU affiliates. I consult with researchers on data management and stewardship related to their research projects, both funded and unfunded. As Coordinator of Digital Scholarship I supervise the delivery of data and GIS services to KU affiliates. I am a certified Carpentries instructor and lesson developer with experience organizing, hosting, and instructing Software, Data, and Library Carpentry workshops, as well as developing new lesson material.

Education —

M.S. in Library and Information Studies, Florida State University, 2005, Tallahassee, FL

M.A. in Curriculum and Instruction, University of Mississippi, 1999, Oxford, MS

B.A. in English , Bryn Mawr College, 1997, Bryn Mawr, PA
magna cum laude

Selected Publications —

Brooks-Kieffer, J. (2026). Library-coordinated institutional membership in the Carpentries: A qualitative case study. portal: Libraries and the Academy, 26(3), 541-565. https://doi.org/10.1353/pla.2026.a994557.

Albin, T. & Brooks-Kieffer, J. (2022). Git going with LEGO: A playful partnership for making sense of technology. Journal of Play in Adulthood, 4(2), 177-204. https://doi.org/10.5920/jpa.1030.

Brooks-Kieffer, J. (2021). “Time to Play; Access to Attention: Addressing One Academic Library’s Internal Culture around Computing Tools and Skills.” College & Research Libraries News 82(3), 121–124. https://doi.org/10.5860/crln.82.3.121.

Neeman, H., Akin, D., Al-Azzawi, H., Brandt, K. L., Brooks-Kieffer, J., Brunson, D., Colbry, D., Gesing, S., Klimaszewski-Patterson, A., Mizumoto, C., Pine-Thomas, J. A., Schwartz, A. Z., Severini, H., Voss, D., & Tanash, M. (2020). Cyberinfrastructure Facilitation Skills Training via the Virtual Residency Program. PEARC ’20: Practice and Experience in Advanced Research Computing, 421-428. Association for Computing Machinery (ACM). https://doi.org/10.1145/3311790.3396629.

Monroe-Gulick, A., Valentine, G. & Brooks-Kieffer, J. (2017). “‘You Need to Have a Street Beat’: A Qualitative Study of Faculty Research Needs and Challenges.” portal: Libraries and the Academy 17(4), 777–802. https://doi.org/10.1353/pla.2017.0046.

Brooks-Kieffer, J. (2009). “Yielding to Persuasion: Library Data’s Hazardous Surfaces.” In Library Data: Empowering Practice and Persuasion, edited by Darby Orcutt. Libraries Unlimited.

Selected Presentations —

Brooks-Kieffer, J. (2026). Practical takeaways from a qualitative case study of Carpentries institutional membership. Research Data Access & Preservation Summit, online.

Brooks-Kieffer, J. (2025). Sacred practices, secular texts: Community and connection at the Midwest Data Librarian Symposium. Midwest Data Librarian Symposium, Lansing, MI. https://hdl.handle.net/1808/36239

Moore, J., Brooks-Kieffer, J., & Hudson Vitale, C. (2025). Amigos Community Conversation: Navigating the research data management conundrum. Amigos Library Services, online.

O'Donnell, M. & Brooks-Kieffer, J. (2025). Sharing vs. publishing: Challenges and collaborations for research data infrastructure. Great Plains Network Annual Meeting, Ames, IA. https://dr.lib.iastate.edu/handle/20.500.12876/gwW7aWDw

Brooks-Kieffer, J. (2025). Intermittent streams, continuous learning: Embedding Carpentries activities into multi-state ecology research. Research Data Access & Preservation Summit, online. Poster. http://osf.io/wscma.

Albin, T. & Brooks-Kieffer, J. (2024). Data librarianship, LEGO, and metaphor: Playful ways to connect and communicate beyond MDLS 2024. Midwest Data Librarian Symposium, Lawrence, KS. Two-part workshop. https://osf.io/qcev9 (Part 2).

Nourse, K. & Brooks-Kieffer, J. (2024). Don’t get stuck: Navigating career progression as a data librarian. Midwest Data Librarian Symposium, Lawrence, KS. https://osf.io/uaxjr.

Goben, A., Cook, C., Brooks-Kieffer, J., Sapp Nelson, M., & Griffin, T. (2024). What even *is* career progression? Data librarianship at mid-career. Research Data Access & Preservation Summit, online. Pre-conference workshop.

Brooks-Kieffer, J. (2023). Mentor is a verb: Mapping your professional support network. Midwest Data Librarian Symposium, Cincinnati, OH. https://hdl.handle.net/1808/35626.

Brooks-Kieffer, J. (2021). Struggling with fit: Patterns, positions, and radical adjustments in a “post”-pandemic. Midwest Data Librarian Symposium, online. http://hdl.handle.net/1808/32237.

Brooks-Kieffer, J. (2020). Remembering the future. Midwest Data Librarian Symposium, online. http://hdl.handle.net/1808/30836.

Brooks-Kieffer, J. (2019). Structures in tension: Navigating fast and slow in the neoliberal university. Midwest Data Librarian Symposium, Chicago, IL. http://hdl.handle.net/1808/29834.

Brooks Kieffer, J., O'Donnell, M., Schlax, P., Sedlins, M., Vasiliadis, V., & Zhao, J. (2019). Research data management panel. University of Oklahoma Supercomputing Center for Education & Research Virtual Residency Workshop, Norman, OK and virtual. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sXNu-B6h6Vk.

Brooks-Kieffer, J. & Albin, T. (2018). Git going with LEGO: Tactile techniques for teaching text-based tools. FORCE2018, Montreal, QC, CA. http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.1478065. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AMcFz4_6Oyo.

Brooks-Kieffer, J. (2018). un/reliable reflections: The burden of reliability and the refuge of unreliability. Midwest Data Librarian Symposium, Ames, IA. http://hdl.handle.net/1808/27399.

Brooks-Kieffer, J. (2018). Playing in the sandbox: A year of data, tools, and analysis inside the library. Research Data Access & Preservation Summit, Chicago, IL. Lightning talk. https://osf.io/fv5bw/.

Brooks-Kieffer, J., & Laufersweiler, M. (2017). What's so super about supercomputing? A very basic introduction to high performance computing. Library and Information Technology Association (LITA) and Association of College & Research Libraries (ACRL) joint webinar.

Brooks-Kieffer, J. (2016). Wrapping up #MDLS16, aka: The highest-pressure talk EVER. Midwest Data Librarian Symposium, Ann Arbor, MI. http://hdl.handle.net/2027.42/134687.

Brooks-Kieffer, J., Brunson, D., Cothren, J., & Rosenblum, B. (2016). The HPC speakeasy: Disciplinary barriers to high performance computing. Great Plains Network & Greater Western Library Alliance Big Data Summit IV, Kansas City, MO. Panel presentation.

Brooks-Kieffer, J., Marshall, B., Hudson, M., Laufersweiler, M., Van Tuyl, S., Johnson, A., & Martin, S. (2016). Crowdsourcing guidelines for a successful data event: An un(conference) panel. Research Data Access & Preservation Summit, Atlanta, GA. https://osf.io/uwja6/.

Brooks-Kieffer, J. (2015) Wrapping up: From #AllTheThings to #TheEndOfThings. Midwest Data Librarian Symposium, Milwaukee, WI. http://dc.uwm.edu/mdls/2015/.

Pickle, S., Darragh, J., Womack, R., Doty, J., Brooks-Kieffer, J., & Irwin, S. (2015). Restricted-use data support in academic libraries. 41st IASSIST Conference: Bridging the Data Divide: Data in the International Context, Minneapolis, MN. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.3777188.

Brooks-Kieffer, J. (2014). Under the mattress? The current landscape of confidential data storage. Coalition for Networked Information, Washington, DC. http://www.cni.org/pbs/under-the-mattress-the-current-landscape-of-confidential-data-storage/.

Awards & Honors —

Anschutz-Budig Outstanding Librarian Award (2020), University of Kansas Libraries

Grants & Other Funded Activity —

EPSCoR RII Track-2 FEC: Aquatic Intermittency effects on Microbiomes in Streams (AIMS). (2020 - 2024). 20190603, National Science Foundation. $5,998,875. https://osf.io/7gb5p/.

Big XII Faculty Fellowship, University of Kansas Center for Faculty Development and Mentoring. (2019 - 2020). $2500.