Towards a new science: data librarianship

Data" and "Data Science" have received great attention in recent years, especially after the spread of applications in many fields, including the field of libraries and information.
The study seeks to describe and present a new science, which is data librarianship, based on examining the literature on the subject in order to come up with concepts and ideas related to this newcomer.
The study shows that it is an interdisciplinary field that deals mainly with digital data, especially research data, in collecting, processing, preserving, archiving, making available, serving and managing, while benefiting from data technologies in libraries and other information institutions. The study also identifies the pillars of this newcomer, especially the activities of libraries and their services related to data and the tasks of data librarians.
The study calls for the creation of new jobs related to data activities and services in Arab libraries, as well as the introduction of one or more courses on data librarianship in the departments of library and information science in the Arab Region.