Elizabeth Cowell
Richard L. Press University Librarian, Presidential Chair
University of California Santa Cruz
Rachel Deblinger
CLIR Postoctoral Fellow & Digital Humanities Specialist
University of California Santa Cruz
Greg Raschke
Associate Director for Collections and Scholarly Communication
North Carolina State University
Mike Nutt
Director of Visualization Services
North Carolina State University
Joan Lippincott
Associate Executive Director
Coalition for Networked Information
This session will begin with a brief update on CNI initiatives related to digital scholarship centers and then will feature activities at two institutions.
Centering Digital Scholarship in the Library: Building Community and Redefining Research Support (Cowell, Deblinger)
This project briefing will detail the efforts of the University of California Santa Cruz (UCSC) University Library to build a community around digital scholarship. We will discuss how years of dedicated work with Omeka has enabled the Library to lead the campus in responding to the call for collaboration, digital engagement, and hands on learning. To do so, we will detail three distinct, but intersecting, strategies for building this community: (1) developing expertise in digitization and digital exhibit building through ongoing support from the Institute of Museum and Library Services; (2) leading a campus-wide coalition to bring a Council on Library and Information Resources Fellow to UCSC; (3) co-sponsoring a series of lectures, workshops, and working group events that bring together faculty, students, and staff. These three approaches reflect different genres of library work that, when seen together, engaged a diverse campus community around issues that matter: from the preservation of campus history to the strengthening of innovative research. The success of these strategies is best reflected in the new Digital Scholarship Commons that will launch in the library this winter quarter and serve the entire campus as a space for digital experimentation, project incubation, and collaborative scholarship. The new Commons positions the library as a driving force behind interdisciplinary and collaborative scholarly work and defines our commitment to supporting the changing landscape of research and learning. Exploring the potential of centering this kind of digital scholarship activity in the library helps us redefine what research support looks like.
Presentation (Deblinger)
New Models of Content Creation and Scholarship at the Intersection of Library Spaces, Technologies, and Expertise (Raschke, Nutt)
Library spaces that blend collaboration areas, advanced technologies, and librarian expertise are creating new modes of scholarly communication. These spaces enable scholarship created within high-definition, large-scale visual collaborative environments. This emergent model of scholarly communication can be experienced within those specific contexts or through digital surrogates on the networked Web. From experiencing in three dimensions the sermons of John Donne in 1622 to interactive media interpretations of American wars, scholars are partnering with libraries to create immersive digital scholarship. Viewing the library as a research platform for these emergent forms of digital scholarship presents several opportunities and challenges. Opportunities include re-engaging faculty in the use of library space, integrating the full life-cycle of the research enterprise, and engaging broad communities in the changing nature of digitally-driven scholarship. Issues such as identifying and filtering collaborations, strategically managing staff resources, creating surrogates of immersive digital scholarship, and preserving this content for the future present an array of challenges for libraries that require coordination across organizations. From engaging and using high-technology spaces to documenting the data and digital objects created, this developing scholarly communication medium brings to bear the multifaceted skills and organizational capabilities of libraries.
http://library.ucsc.edu/digitalscholarship/digital-scholarship
http://vpcp.chass.ncsu.edu/
http://www.lib.ncsu.edu/event/shooting-wars-documentary-images-american-military-conflicts
http://www.lib.ncsu.edu/event/four-horsemen-apocalypse
http://www.lib.ncsu.edu/stories/black-mountain-college-story-hunt-library-happening
http://www.lib.ncsu.edu/stories/codeart-different-kind-data-experience
Presentation (Lippincott)
Presentation (Raschke)