[Rdap] Data management and public services

[Ruth Duerr]

Hi all, 

I don't have this problem as I am research faculty; but you might want to tell this person that ensuring that data is available and understandable by users not only today but also into the distant future is about as pure a definition of public service as has ever existed!!!!!!

As a consequence it isn't that you do too little public service, rather you do too much!!!

Ruth Duerr
Lead, Informatics and Data Stewardship
National Snow and Ice Data Center
University of Colorado at Boulder

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> On Nov 12, 2014, at 8:29 AM, Eaker, Chris <ceaker at utk.edu> wrote:
> 
> Hi Daureen,
> 
> I have run into a similar problem. Though my colleagues weren't critical of my data curation work, I was told that during my retention review discussion, they focused mainly on my liaison work in my subject area (Architecture, which is a minor portion of my job) and discussed the major part, data curation, very little. The reason, according to my supervisor, was because they didn't know enough about it, so they didn't know how to assess it for merit. My goal over this next year is to better educate my colleagues on what I do in that area so they know how to assess it in future reviews. That might be your issue or it might not, but it wouldn't hurt to make a concerted effort to help your colleagues better understand what it is that you do. I believe that work is as much a public service as is working the reference desk, it's just more specialized. Maybe criticism is a reaction to feeling like they don't understand it.
> 
> Best regards,
> Christopher B. Eaker
> Assistant Professor and Data Curation Librarian
> College of Architecture and Design Liaison
> University of Tennessee Libraries
> John C. Hodges Library, Room 236
> chris at utk.edu
> (865) 974-4404
> From: Rdap [rdap-bounces at asis.org] on behalf of Daureen Nesdill [daureen.nesdill at utah.edu]
> Sent: Tuesday, November 11, 2014 2:30 PM
> To: Research Data, Access and Preservation
> Subject: [Rdap] Data management and public services
> 
> Hi,
> I’m up for my 5-yr post tenure review and a colleague of mine is being critical of my work in data management. This is  because, as she explains, it is not public service so I do not do enough public service. What I’m doing is assisting with writing DMPs, teaching about repositories and data management, answering reference questions in data management – in addition to all the ELN work.
>  
> Has anyone run into this issue? How did you handle it?
>  
> Totally confused in Utah,
> Daureen
>  
> Daureen Nesdill, MS, MLIS
> Data Curation Librarian
> The Faculty Center @ the J. W. Marriott Library
> University of Utah
> 295 South 1500 East
> Salt Lake City, UT 84112-0860
> 801-585-5975
> daureen.nesdill at utah.edu
>  
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