Supporting Digital Scholarship and the Digital Humanities: A Collaboration on Concept, Space, and Services Between the Library and the Faculty of Arts at the University of Melbourne
Digital Humanities is inherently a collaborative endeavour. At the University of Melbourne, the Faculty of Arts and the University Library have collaborated on the establishment of a Digital Studio to support digital humanities research and partnership. Launched in late 2016, the Digital Studio has a direct physical connection between a new Arts Faculty building and the University’s flagship Baillieu Library. The project involved the establishment of a facility that provides services and infrastructure to support University researchers, professionals, and select industry experts and students working on Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences (HASS) digital projects. The Library has been integrally involved in planning for this facility and longer term is expected to make a significant contribution to its ongoing operation and future success. The Digital Studio will be a front-of-house venue for the Library to provide training and delivery of a range of research support services in areas such as informatics, research data management, digitisation, digital preservation, and data mining. Read More
Beyond metrics: Connecting academic library makerspace assessment practices with organizational values
The purpose of this paper is to describe an approach to developing a makerspace assessment plan. This approach focuses on connecting organizational and service point mission statements with outcome-based assessment plan goals, strategies, methods, and success measures. Read More
The Augmented Researcher: What Does 2018 Hold for AI in Publishing?
Scholarly publishing has changed considerably in recent years. Perhaps the biggest transformation is one we now take for granted – the move to digital. Publishing and scientific R&D are not the only industries to have witnessed the remarkable impact of digitization on how people work. But for our industry, this development is especially important due to the sheer volume of data researchers must sift through. Read More
Collaboration in the Midst of Change: Growing Librarian-Archivist Partnerships for Engaging New Students and Faculty
This article identifies common themes in library and archive instruction and key elements of engaging first-year faculty and their students in becoming long-term patrons, in the midst of Georgia Tech’s Library Next initiative, a re-imagining of the twenty-first century library and a major renovation of physical spaces. Read More
SPOKEdb: open-source information management system for oral history
This paper aims to examine how an open-source information management system was developed to manage a collection of more than 10,000 oral history interviews at the University of Kentucky Libraries’ Louie B. Nunn Center for Oral History. Read More
Copyright & Digital Scholarship
This workshop will provide an overview of fair use as it applies to digital projects. It will particularly benefit anyone planning, attempting to fund (via a grant), or currently managing a digital project that is aimed at providing access to made-digital or born-digital content. It will include suggestions for checklist and analysis tools that will allow participants to conduct an effective evaluation of fair use for their projects. Read More
Making Things and Drawing Boundaries – Experiments in the Digital Humanities
In Making Things and Drawing Boundaries, critical theory and cultural practice meet creativity, collaboration, and experimentation with physical materials as never before. Foregrounding the interdisciplinary character of experimental methods and hands-on research, this collection asks what it means to “make” things in the humanities. How is humanities research manifested in hand and on screen alongside the essay and monograph? And, importantly, how does experimentation with physical materials correspond with social justice and responsibility? Read More
Desire to Listen: One Learning Management System-Based Solution to Providing Copyright Compliant Streaming Audio Reserves
In 2008, the Performing Arts Librarian and the Bierce Library Course Reserves Manager at the Bierce Library at the University of Akron were charged by library administration to explore possible solutions for providing online media reserves in a manner compliant with U.S. copyright law. In collaboration with the University’s Information Technology Services, they developed a system that would deliver streaming music files via Desire2Learn, the University’s learning management system. This article explores the development of the service, policy creation, copyright compliance, the testing and implementation of the system, instructor training, and future possibilities. Read More
Scholarly work in the Internet age: Co-evolving technologies, institutions and workflows
This study explores how ICTs and the Internet are influencing, and being influenced by, the evolution of institutions, organizations and workflows that play a role in scholarly work. Based on a literature review and a structured analysis of 8 carefully selected web sites, this study explores: (i) the evolving business models of scientific journals; (ii) the new competitive dynamics triggered by open access and article-level metrics; (iii) the traditional and emerging forms of peer review; and (iv) the emerging ICT-enabled changes in research workflows. Read More