![]() After an initial meeting, I found out that their faculty liaison to the libraries (a newer faculty member specializing in behavioral economics) was very interested in the idea of data services, specifically, the Libraries purchasing data sets for their projects. I sort of inherited Economics from our government documents librarian so that was easy. Were these people going to even give me the time of day? Most of my interactions with faculty have been as a student and I still felt like one since I just graduated. ![]() Building relationships with the faculty in my areas was one of my top priorities but was something that I was intimidated by. One cool thing about my position is that, in addition to implementing data services, I am also a subject specialist for three social science disciplines: Economics, Geography and Urban Planning. Now that we have a foundation, the Libraries can begin work toward centralizing research data management efforts. Getting on this right away was paramount and, as anticipated, folks over at our Research Computing Center as well as our Office of Proposal Development were excited that the Libraries were interested in tackling data management at the campus level. He suggested that I work with other stakeholders on campus to get a feel for what’s out there and who would like to partner with us. Luckily for me, our Scholarly Communications Librarian was already paving the way long before my arrival by making some contacts on campus and creating a research guide on data management. I had a partner from day one. One thing I wanted to work on right out of the gate was establishing some sort of service for research data management, specifically data management planning. I needed to start working on building my network right away before this wore off. My theory was, I’m brand new on campus and I work in a brand new position, so who wouldn’t want to know what I was up to? More importantly, who wouldn’t want to be a part of it? Consider this that “new librarian smell”. Basically, you have a limited amount of time where you have significantly more influence. I never ended up doing that but I sort of got the gist of what the whole 90 day thing was all about. As I was preparing to come back to Florida State back in April, I really wanted to read Michael Watkins’ book The First 90 Days: Critical Success Strategies for New Leaders. Like my 7th grade PE coach always said, “time flies when you’re having fun”. Last Friday marked three months since I began work as FSU’s data services librarian.
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