Research, Collaboration, Experimentation: Creating a Digital Scholarship Unit in an Academic Library Setting

2013 ◽  
Author(s):  
Paulina Rousseau ◽  
Elizabeth O'Brien
Keyword(s):  
Research Collaboration ◽  
Academic Library ◽  
Scholarly Communication ◽  
Digital Collections ◽  
University Of Toronto ◽  
Digital Scholarship ◽  
The University ◽  
Traditional Approaches ◽  
Donne Lieu

Changes in traditional approaches to scholarship prompt new possibilities for the convergence of digital collections and scholarly communication. To meet the changing needs of its users, the University of Toronto Scarborough Library began a Digital Scholarship unit. The poster will describe both the rationale and practical considerations for establishing this unit.Des changements dans l’approche traditionnelle à l’enseignement donne lieu à de nouvelles occasions pour la convergence des collections numériques et la communication savante. Pour répondre aux besoins changeants de ses usagers, la bibliothèque du campus de Scarborough de l’Université de Toronto a mis sur pied une unité d’enseignement numérique. L’affiche présente les raisons et les considérations pratiques ayant mené à la création de l’unité. 

First steps for a library publisher

2015 ◽  
Vol 31 (2) ◽  
pp. 76-86 ◽  
Author(s):  
Somaly Kim Wu ◽  
Heather McCullough
Keyword(s):  
Open Access ◽  
Electronic Publishing ◽  
Academic Library ◽  
Lessons Learned ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Journal Publishing ◽  
Digital Scholarship ◽  
Publishing Services ◽  
Communication Policies ◽  
The University

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to presents the very recent development of e-journal publishing services at the University of North Carolina (UNC) at Charlotte. In 2011, the J. Murrey Atkins Library at UNC Charlotte created a new unit in the library, the Digital Scholarship Lab (DSL), which partners with faculty and graduate students in the use of digital and networked research tools to create, disseminate and store new knowledge. E-journal publishing and hosting are among the suite of services offered by the DSL, and we currently publish three journals (https://journals.uncc.edu/). Design/methodology/approach – This report provides an overview of the context of our library’s decision to begin publishing journals, including a discussion of our university’s becoming more research-intensive, our university system mandating increased efficiencies and sharing research with the state citizens, and the library’s own goals of raising awareness of and supporting open access. Also outlined are the technical and procedural choices made, important activities undertaken to develop, define and publicize the new services, campus response to the service and next steps. Findings – This report provides detailed accounting of how a large academic library implemented an electronic publishing service to support open access scholarship. Important activities such as marketing communication, policies development and technical/procedural activities are defined and results described. The report provides observation and lessons learned for academic libraries in development and support of electronic journals. Originality/value – Library as the publisher is a new concept. This report will be of interest to many libraries who are considering offering publishing services and to libraries that currently offer publishing services.

scholarly journals Expanding digital academic library and archive services at the University of Calgary in response to the COVID-19 pandemic

IFLA Journal ◽  
2021 ◽  
pp. 034003522110230
Author(s):  
James E Murphy ◽  
Carla J Lewis ◽  
Christena A McKillop ◽  
Marc Stoeckle
Keyword(s):  
Academic Library ◽  
Cultural Resources ◽  
Digital Collections ◽  
Transformative Experiences ◽  
Special Collections ◽  
University Of Calgary ◽  
Remote Services ◽  
Online Library ◽  
The University ◽  
Models Of Service Delivery

Despite the uncertain challenges facing libraries of all types during the COVID-19 pandemic, new best practices and innovative ways of approaching services have emerged. Including the groundbreaking Taylor Family Digital Library in 2011, the University of Calgary Libraries and Cultural Resources has been contributing towards the ongoing development of the digital academic library. The COVID-19 pandemic has necessitated a rapid leveraging of digital skills, platforms, expertise, and models of service delivery to continue providing exceptional and transformative experiences for the University of Calgary community. The initiatives discussed in this article include online work teams, virtual 360-degree tours, the online library chat service, digital collections agreements, and remote services for archives and special collections.

scholarly journals Reinventing ourselves: new and emerging roles of academic librarians in Canadian research-intensive universities

Bibliosphere ◽  
2020 ◽  
pp. 15-36
Author(s):  
Ada Ducas ◽  
Nicole Michaud-Oystryk ◽  
Marie Speare
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Teaching And Learning ◽  
Academic Library ◽  
Scholarly Communication ◽  
Academic Librarians ◽  
Research Support ◽  
Digital Scholarship ◽  
Perceived Impact ◽  
Library Profession ◽  
Canadian Research

The academic library profession is being redefined by the shifting research and scholarly landscape, the transformation in higher education, and advances in technology.A survey of librarians working in Canada’s research-intensive universities was conducted to explore new and emerging roles. This study focuses on librarians’ activities in: Research Support, Teaching and Learning, Digital Scholarship, User Experience, and Scholarly Communication. It addresses the scope and nature of the new roles, the skills required to provide new services, and the confidence librarians have in their abilities to perform the new roles. It also reports on librarians’ job satisfaction and their perceived impact on the academic enterprise.

scholarly journals Designing a flexible outreach program for scholarly communication and copyright services: A modular roadshow for the University of South Florida

2021 ◽  
Vol 82 (5) ◽  
pp. 233
Author(s):  
LeEtta Schmidt ◽  
Jason Boczar
Keyword(s):  
Graduate Students ◽  
Academic Libraries ◽  
Scholarly Communication ◽  
South Florida ◽  
New Method ◽  
Outreach Program ◽  
Communication Services ◽  
Digital Scholarship ◽  
The University

Much the same as many other academic libraries, the University of South Florida (USF) developed scholarly communication and copyright services in response to community demand and to fulfill perceived institutional needs. The services initially established connections through liaison librarians and referral, when faculty patrons intuitively approached the library with a query. Growth of the services was slow. A new method of outreach for copyright and scholarly communication services was needed. The DSS Roadshow, named after the library department Digital Scholarship Services, aimed at providing a menu of modularly configured presentations to faculty and graduate students at the university. Based on two different tracks, scholarly communication or copyright for instruction, the DSS Roadshow was designed to help deliver the services directly to departments around campus.

The role of digital scholarship in academic libraries, the case of university of cape coast: opportunities and challenges

2021 ◽  
Vol ahead-of-print (ahead-of-print) ◽  
Author(s):  
Theophilus Kwamena Ocran ◽  
Paulina Afful-Arthur
Keyword(s):  
Learning Style ◽  
Academic Libraries ◽  
Academic Library ◽  
Faculty Members ◽  
Teaching Staff ◽  
Cape Coast ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Digital Scholarship ◽  
The University

PurposeThe purpose of the study is to assess the role of academic libraries in digital scholarship at the University of Cape Coast. The study adopted the descriptive survey design and used teaching staff (lecturers) as the population of the study.Design/methodology/approachA sample size of 278 was used for the study. The study used questionnaires to obtain data from participants. The study revealed that faculty members appreciate digital scholarship through the services offered by Sam Jonah Library are relevant to the current higher education context, reliable information, preservation of information resources and facilitating the integration of library services into the learning process are closely integrated into the library service, transform scholarly communication, teaching and learning style and research paradigm.FindingsThe study revealed that digital scholarship contributes to faculty members' delivery at the University of Cape Coast through the provision of information literacy training for new students, provision of reference lists of materials available in the library and provision of lists of new materials. The study revealed that faculty members face inadequate facilities to enhance digital scholarship, inadequate open access to reading materials (articles, books, etc.), inadequate platforms or suite of tools for librarians to take faculty.Practical implicationsThe application of digital scholarship provides an expansion to the core competitiveness of librarians new services which enables innovativeness and transformation of libraries. Students will be equipped with digital literacy skills; it affords instructors to approach teaching with innovation and scholars are also engaged to perform novel practices in scholarship acquisition. Digital scholarship is the umbrella under which all academic technologies comes under to foster collaboration and better learning experience.Originality/valueThis paper offers an insight of the role digital scholarship in promoting and advancing scholarship in the academic environment. It highlights a number of digital scholarship platform available in the library. It is observed that digital scholarship practices must be encouraged in the library because it facilitates the role of academic library which is to support teaching, learning and research.

Becoming Trusted Research Partners Through InfoExpress at The University of Toronto

2021 ◽  
pp. 187-214
Author(s):  
Manda Vrkljan ◽  
Adrienne Findley-Jones
Keyword(s):  
Academic Library ◽  
Support Service ◽  
University Campus ◽  
University Of Toronto ◽  
Document Delivery ◽  
Personalized Services ◽  
Productive Research ◽  
The University ◽  
The Relationship

This case study discusses the importance of building initial trust in the relationship between researcher and academic library. Primary coverage serves the experience of two small humanities-based colleges serving approximately 125 faculty members within a larger university campus by providing the personal document delivery service of InfoExpress. The trust built through this initial research support service creates avenues for further support from the library and the wider university library system. As every relationship has challenges, the ones occurring here are opportunities to improve the relationship in favour of the researcher and library. If the researcher is unaware of what support the library provides, establishing a personal relationship will immediately provide productive research time and create an opportunity for future support through additional personalized services. The researcher, their research, and their library benefit by this trusted partnership.

Blogging the City

2015 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 54-66 ◽  
Author(s):  
Pierre Clavel ◽  
Kenneth Fox ◽  
Christopher Leo ◽  
Anabel Quan-Hasse ◽  
Dean Saitta ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Research Collaboration ◽  
Social Economic ◽  
Scholarly Communication ◽  
Academic Community ◽  
Costs And Benefits ◽  
Digital Scholarship ◽  
The Social ◽  
The City

Academic blogging has typically been a form of digital scholarship that is under-utilized in academia. Although there are both costs and benefits to blogging at different stages in an academic's career, blogs can provide a rewarding platform for bringing research and academic perspectives to a wide-reaching and broader audience. This note explores the different experiences of each of the co-authors in terms of using blogs for their scholarly communication. The experiences and lessons gained are of particular relevance to urban planners, sociologists, and anthropologists, who study the social, economic, and historical elements of the city. The findings suggest that the motivations and approaches of scholarly blogging are diverse but overall add value to the academic community. Moreover, each testimony in this note provides examples of the benefits of blogging for research, collaboration, and engagement.

scholarly journals In the News

2019 ◽  
Vol 80 (4) ◽  
pp. 189
Author(s):  
David Free
Keyword(s):  
Professional Development ◽  
Academic Library ◽  
Scholarly Communication ◽  
Development Program ◽  
Open Educational Resources ◽  
Professional Development Program ◽  
Educational Resources ◽  
University Of Memphis ◽  
Data Stewardship ◽  
The University

Welcome to the April 2019 issue of C&RL News. We start out this month with two articles focusing on scholarly communication issues. Navigating copyright in open educational resources is the focus of Lindsey Gumb’s Scholarly Communication column “An open impediment.” At the University of Memphis, librarians increased knowledge of data issues on campus through a professional development program for faculty. They write about their efforts in the article “Data Stewardship Week in an academic library.”

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