activities to our annual plan: participating in the #1Bib1Ref campaign and organizing one edit-a-thon. We wanted to test three aspects: evaluate the fitness of our human and material resources to fulfill these tasks without Murrieta’s assistance, the aptness of the documentation we had created with our WIR’s help, and get feedback from both our colleagues and the community for our next iteration.
Regarding the first aspect, we learned that not only our resources were sufficient but also that the liaisons forged during our WIR’s residency continued to enrich our assets. Additionally, we found out that if our goals were kept simple but also creative, we could achieve more with less. For instance, in the 2019 and 2020 iteration of #1Bib1Ref we set an “MVP” goal for our campaign (i.e. adding five citations per librarian) but also updated a collaborative spreadsheet of contributions with our weekly contributions. This was a great way of both ensuring an achievable goal and promoting a healthy competition. The result was that in 2020, two years after our first #1Bib1Ref training, BDCV librarians contributed one-quarter (n = 309) of the references of that year’s campaign (Gutiérrez De la Torre, 2020b). Since the second and the third aspect (documentation and feedback) are not directly related to the MVP approach, I will treat them in the following two sections.
Getting your Brequettes Ready: Documentation
In all of our events, Murrieta was key in documenting three types of records: editable les for our recurrent events (publicity or bureaucratic procedures); checklists for crucial actions; and “how-to” tutorials (for instance, how to insert a manual reference in a Wikipedia article). As for the editable les, they can be summarized as follows:
- A folder in our institution’s shared storing space (SharePoint Teams) with all the materials we need. We established different subfolders for each campaign, so, for instance, in the #1Bib1Ref folder we have the collaborative spreadsheet in which we register our #1Bib1Ref contributions.
- E-mail templates for the reminders we send every year before the campaign starts.
