1 “Scientists Seeking NSF Funding Will Soon Be Required to Submit Data Management Plans,” http://www.nsf.gov/news/news_summ.jsp?cntn_id=116928. 2 Michael Witt and Jake R. Carlson “Conducting a Data Interview,” (2007) http://www.dcc.ac.uk/events/dcc-2007/programme/all-posters-demos. 3 Tracy Gabridge. “The Last Mile: Liaison Roles in Curating Science and Engineering Research Data.” Research Library Issues: A Bimonthly Report from ARL, CNI, and SPARC no. 265 (August 2009): 15–21. http://www.arl.org/bm~doc/rli-265-gabridge.pdf . 4 Ibid., p. 15. 5 Ibid., p. 17. 6 “A Data Planning Checklist,” http://libraries.mit.edu/guides/subjects/data-management/. 7 “Digital Curation,” http://www.icpsr.umich.edu/icpsrweb/ICPSR/curation/index.jsp. 8 Dorothea Salo, “Looking toward 2011,” Book of Trogool Blog, December 30, 2010, http://scientopia.org/blogs/bookoftrogool/2010/12/30/looking-toward-2011/. 9 We invoke the term “community of practice” much as Etienne Wenger understands it—see “Communities of Practice: A Brief Introduction,” http://www.ewenger.com/theory/. We are also inspired by Dorothea Salo’s reference to “campus communities of practice” in her January 25 posting to the ARL Data Sharing Support Group list (http://groups.google.com/group/arl-data-sharing- support-group). 10 Guide for Research Libraries: The NSF Data Sharing Policy, http://www.arl.org/rtl/eresearch/escien/nsf/index.shtml. 11 Meredith Farkas, “What Do They Really Need?,” Information Wants to Be Free, December 13, 2010, http://meredith.wolfwater.com/wordpress/2010/12/13/what-do-they-really-need/. © 2011 Patricia Hswe and Ann Holt This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial- Share Alike 3.0 United States License. To view a copy of this license, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/us/. To cite this article: Patricia Hswe and Ann Holt. “Joining in the Enterprise of Response in the Wake of the NSF Data Management Planning Requirement.” Research Library Issues: A Bimonthly Report from ARL, CNI, and SPARC, no. 274 (February 2011): 11–17. RLI 274 17 Joining in the Enterprise of Response in the Wake of the NSF Requirement ( C O N T I N U E D ) FEBRUARY 2011 RESEARCH LIBRARY ISSUES: A BIMONTHLY REPORT FROM ARL, CNI, AND SPARC