Presentation title: Taking a Hard Look at Our Research Data Support Through A Critical Lens Authors: Susan Ivey and Hilary Davis (North Carolina State University Libraries) Abstract: In support of the growing research data management needs for our researchers and students, the North Carolina State University Libraries has utilized a cross-departmental team approach to offer a variety of services and resources targeted to specific research data needs of our community. This team has a revolving membership of individuals from across the library, which helps to train a large number of librarians on data management best practices, while also allowing the Libraries’ research data support to more easily scale to meet these ever growing needs. Some of the primary resources the team created are checklists that can be used at the pre-award, post-award, and project close-out stages or when a member of a research team departs. In this presentation, we will describe our efforts to audit our pre-award, post-award, and data exit checklists to see what kinds of expectations we are placing on researchers in terms of data literacy, technical literacy, and policy literacy. We will introduce the ways in which we intend to interrogate our checklists, and by extension, our services. Our goal is to dig deeper to understand how and when we are introducing bias and exclusivity in our services and actively make changes so that we can be better stewards and better advocates for our diversity of researchers.