Love Your Data (LYD) week is right around the corner on February 13-17, 2017! This year's theme is emphasizing data quality for researchers at any stage in their career.  a

A 5-day international event to help researchers take better care of their data. Love Your Data (LYD) week is a social media event coordinated by research data specialists, mostly working in academic and research libraries or data archives or centers.

LYD is designed to raise awareness about research data management, sharing, and preservation along with the support and resources available at colleges and universities. We believe research data are the foundation of the scholarly record and crucial for advancing our knowledge of the world around us. If you care about research data, please join us! This campaign is open to any institution – small, large, research intensive or not, so please feel free to share, adapt, and improve upon it.

The event will take place mainly online, although some institutions may choose to have in-person events. 

Visit Twitter #LYD17 or #loveyourdata to gain inspiration, share ideas, and find new ways to promote data services and resources at your library and beyond!

Please tell us if you plan to participate and we will list your institution's name on the site so we can continue to grow the community of data lovers.   Visit our