Jamene Brooks-Kieffer


white woman with short hair wearing glasses
  • Librarian / Data Services Librarian & Coordinator of Digital Scholarship

Contact Info

Watson Library, 470

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

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.” Journal Articles. 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. Conference Proceedings. 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.” Book Chapters. In Library Data: Empowering Practice and Persuasion, edited by Darby Orcutt. Libraries Unlimited.

Selected Presentations

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.