Organizing a Community to Survive Research Ecosystem Instability

The instability of the current United States research landscape has required the rapid response of data curators and librarians to emerging changes. As the shifts in the research landscape continue, shouldering the weight of the changes alone diminishes our ability to provide support to researchers, keep up to date on the situation, and respond to changes in an informed manner. Instead of placing the burden on a sole individual in an organization, a more holistic and sustainable model is developing a community focused on mutually supporting one another. This lightening talk will discuss how a data librarian built a community dedicated addressing the changes in federally funded research policies through knowledge sharing, dividing labor, and developing effective training. The goal of this presentation is to provide concrete takeaways from the successes and challenges of this use case, in order that attendees can develop their own resilient community in the face of continual fluctuations.