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.