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12 Association of Research Libraries Research Library Issues 292 — 2017 context of the research cycle(s). Our failed project opened my eyes to the complexities behind published research, allowing me insight I now offer to others. © 2017 Holly Ann Burt. This content is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License. To view a copy of this license, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/. Samuel “Scott” Hall, Solution Consultant, ServiceNow, formerly IT Manager & Architect , University of California, Berkeley I make failure safe for my team by playing the “bad idea game.” We play the bad idea game when we can’t seem to solve a tough problem. To play, team members take turns describing the worst solutions they can think of. Fairly quickly someone will mention a terrible idea that has some viability to it. Others will pile on to the idea, and befor e long we have a great solution with which to move forward. This game provides safety for teammates who are less confident in sharing, resulting in more ideas being shared. It also re-energizes our creative problem- solving process in a fun way. © 2017 Samuel “Scott” Hall. This content is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License. To view a copy of this license, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/. Amanda Rinehart, Data Management Services Librarian, The Ohio State University As a data management services librarian, one of my staple workshops focuses on writing a data management plan for a grant proposal. A regular criticism of this workshop is that it is not specific enough and some researchers feel that the discussion session is dominated by our medical researchers. Therefore, I decided to customize this workshop for three sub-groups: STEM and agricultural researchers, the social sciences and humanities, and biomedical researchers. This would allow

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12 Association of Research Libraries Research Library Issues 292 — 2017 context of the research cycle(s). Our failed project opened my eyes to the complexities behind published research, allowing me insight I now offer to others. © 2017 Holly Ann Burt. This content is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License. To view a copy of this license, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/. Samuel “Scott” Hall, Solution Consultant, ServiceNow, formerly IT Manager & Architect , University of California, Berkeley I make failure safe for my team by playing the “bad idea game.” We play the bad idea game when we can’t seem to solve a tough problem. To play, team members take turns describing the worst solutions they can think of. Fairly quickly someone will mention a terrible idea that has some viability to it. Others will pile on to the idea, and befor e long we have a great solution with which to move forward. This game provides safety for teammates who are less confident in sharing, resulting in more ideas being shared. It also re-energizes our creative problem- solving process in a fun way. © 2017 Samuel “Scott” Hall. This content is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License. To view a copy of this license, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/. Amanda Rinehart, Data Management Services Librarian, The Ohio State University As a data management services librarian, one of my staple workshops focuses on writing a data management plan for a grant proposal. A regular criticism of this workshop is that it is not specific enough and some researchers feel that the discussion session is dominated by our medical researchers. Therefore, I decided to customize this workshop for three sub-groups: STEM and agricultural researchers, the social sciences and humanities, and biomedical researchers. This would allow

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11 Association of Research Libraries Research Library Issues 292 — 2017 time before we realized that our choice of methodology in gathering feedback—an open focus session with a group of faculty—limited the opportunity for some to express their actual needs, preferences, and learning styles. Often, it is marginalized individuals who are the least vocal and participatory in group situations, yet they too need specific support and resources. Fortunately, this early failure was only short-term. We conducted another needs assessment and employed a methodology that was more inclusive and afforded all segments of the faculty population an equal voice. The end result was a more robust and inclusive series of tutorials that were well received and frequently used. © 2017 Marwin Britto. This content is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License. To view a copy of this license, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/. Holly Ann Burt, Behavioral Sciences Librarian, University of Southern California It was to be a survey of librarians in a specific service area an environmental scan to give new insights into the field. The primary investigator was passionate and the library institutional review board (IRB) acknowledged our proposal. Then personnel changes, the IRB response and outside workloads were among the events that first derailed, then drowned our project. This failure revealed how leadership abandonment, funding cuts, IRB recommendations, personal commitments, and even journal submission requirements could bring research to a screeching halt. Now, when asked the perennial reference question: “Why has nothing been published on my research topic?”, in addition to alternative search strategies, I recommend searching the grey literature of poster abstracts, clinical trial registries and databases of research projects in progress. To ferret out additional publications of completed research, I might suggest examining the research topic from various angles, from the framing of the original question to viewing components of the topic in the

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13 Association of Research Libraries Research Library Issues 292 — 2017 me to dive more deeply into discipline-specific data services and allow a greater breadth of voices to be heard. However, attendees did not select the workshop specific to their area. Only 44% of the biomedical workshop registrants were from that area. The best composition was the social science and humanities workshop, where 80% of attendees were from target areas. Additionally, overall registration and attendance was remarkably low for all three workshops, ranging from 5 to 11 attendees. Not only did my customized educational material not resonate for the majority of attendees, but fewer attendees meant sparse questions and awkward discussion sessions. In fact, during one workshop, an attendee noticed my search methods when answering a data security question. I explained domain searching with Google and this became the highlight of the workshop, despite not being related to research data management at all. So what went wrong? Did attendees not identify with the discipline areas? Was it too confusing to choose? Simple bad timing? There are so many variables that it is hard to know. The lesson I learned is that researchers may think they want a particular type of educational experience, but experimentation is the only way to know if they are correct. I went back to the general data management plan workshop and our most recent one had 41 attendees that engaged in lively discussion. © 2017 Amanda Rinehart. This content is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License. To view a copy of this license, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/. Lorelei Rutledge, Assistant Librarian, and Lis Pankl, Associate Librarian, The University of Utah We were invited to teach a two-hour class on cultural competence in the classroom. We spoke to the coordinator of the event and prepared an interactive presentation aimed at new teaching assistants from the College of Education. Aware of the demographics at our institution and in the College of Education, we aimed many of our examples toward white teachers. We sent our presentation to the coordinator for the

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