Citizen Science in Action: Data on librarians and users perceptions of participating in a citizen science project

Data collected during the one year project (2018-2019) Citizen Science in Action promoted by the Barcelona Network of Public Libraries (Spain). The project was structured around two interdependent and hands-on activities offered to librarians as part of their lifelong training. The activities were: the Citizen Science Lab; and Science and Citizen Action. The Citizen Science Lab consisted of an introductory course of 5 two-hour citizen science capacitation sessions addressed at 30 librarians from 24 different libraries. The activity Science and Citizen Action involved 7 library professionals from three different libraries and their community of users and local associations in the co-design and implementation of a public behavioral experiment. The data covers the relatioship between librarians and library users' attitudes towards citizen science, their motivations to participate in a citizen science project, their perceived ability to implement a citizen science project (as for librarians) or to contribute to science (as for library users), and the participants intention to keep engaged with citizen science. For the Citizen Science Lab data on librarians engagement was collected through paper-based questionnaires at the beginning and at the end of the activity. For the Science and Citizen Action data on librarians engagement was collected at the beginning, middle and end of the activity. The Project was approved by the Ethics Committee of Universitat de Barcelona, and all methods were performed in accordance with the relevant guidelines and regulations.

本数据集采集自西班牙巴塞罗那公共图书馆网络发起的「行动中的公民科学（Citizen Science in Action）」为期一年（2018-2019年）的项目。该项目以两项相互依存的实操活动为核心框架，作为图书馆员终身职业培训的组成部分。两项活动分别为：公民科学实验室（Citizen Science Lab）与科学与公民行动（Science and Citizen Action）。
公民科学实验室面向来自24家不同图书馆的30名图书馆员，开设了共计5次、每次两小时的公民科学入门赋能课程。「科学与公民行动」活动则邀请了来自3家图书馆的7名图书馆从业人员，联合其服务的用户群体与本地社团，共同协作设计并实施一项公共行为实验。
本数据集涵盖图书馆员与图书馆用户对公民科学的态度、二者之间的关联，参与者参与公民科学项目的动机，（针对图书馆员的）实施公民科学项目的感知能力，以及（针对图书馆用户的）助力科学研究的感知能力，还有参与者持续参与公民科学的意愿。
针对公民科学实验室项目，通过纸质问卷在活动期初与期末采集图书馆员的参与度数据；针对「科学与公民行动」项目，则在活动期初、中期与期末采集图书馆员的参与度数据。
本项目已通过巴塞罗那大学（Universitat de Barcelona）伦理委员会审查，所有研究方法均严格遵循相关指南与规范。