This was part of a panel presentation given with Lizzy Rolando, Georgia Tech.

If properly documented, preserved, and made accessible, datasets can serve not only as the raw material underlying books and journal articles but also as stand-alone outputs of scholarly research. Academic librarians, with a long history of being stewards of scholarly documents, are increasingly taking up the task of being stewards of research data. Developing services that support research data management requires input from stakeholders across campus--faculty and student researchers, librarians, information technology experts, and other support staff. In our presentation we will discuss and reflect on recent efforts at Emory University to gather that input, including (1) identifying and collaborating with campus partners, (2) administering a campus-wide survey of faculty practices and perspectives on research data management, and (3) conducting in-depth interviews with individual researchers about their data management needs. We will discuss the challenges and opportunities associated with this type of assessment, our approaches to analyzing and synthesizing findings from different components of our assessment, and our plans for disseminating our findings across campus and to the greater academic community.