This study examines job announcements for social science data librarians
and professionals to identify trends in the profession. A collection of 167
job postings in 2005-2012 from the International Association for Social
Science Information Services &Technology website was analyzed on the
frequencies of term occurrence and co-occurrence in job qualifications
and responsibilities. The study verifies that employers valued non-technical
skills as heavily as technical skills, and detects dissimilar emphases
of data activities for data librarians and non-librarian professionals: the
former on data discovery and collection, and the latter on data analysis
and preservation. An increasing requirement of data management planning
was also found for data librarians.