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Digital Scholarship: What Can Libraries Do?

Exploring Digital Scholarship

What Can Libraries Do?

You might be wondering how you and your library can get involved in digital scholarship.  This page is meant to outline the role that the library can play.

Further Reading

Association of Research Libraries (May 2016). "SPEC Kit 350: Supporting Digital Scholarship." https://publications.arl.org/Supporting-Digital-Scholarship-SPEC-Kit-350/3

Activities Supporting Digital Scholarship

These are the Digital Scholarship activities most often supported by libraries:

  • Collections as Data
  • Data Curation and Management
  • Data Visualization
  • Digital Exhibits
  • Digital Preservation
  • Digital Publishing 
  • Digitization and Imaging Support
  • Instruction Related to Digital Sources, Methods, and Tools
  • GIS and Digital Mapping
  • Metadata Creation and Digital Collections
  • Research 
  • Text Analysis
  • Program Development
  • Project Planning and Management
  • Supporting Collaboration

How are Projects Staffed?

Libraries don't necessarily require a designated digital scholarship team in order to support researchers.  Many distribute services and tasks across the library, working together with scholars to produce digital scholarship. ​Pie Chart Illustrating Librarians, archivists, professional staff, support staff and students as equal parts of a whole

Attributions

Digital Scholarship Staffing by Amanda Hurford and the PALNI Digital Scholarship Interest Group is licensed under CC-BY.