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| Title: | Supporting Digital Humanities in the Library: Creating Sustainable and
Scalable Services |
| Authors: | McCormick, Monica
Vinopal, Jennifer |
| Keywords: | Digital Humanities
Digital Libraries
Libraries
Scholarship
Research
Services
Service model
Tools
Digital Scholarship
Organizational change |
| Issue Date: | 29-Jun-2012 |
| Abstract: | As the digital humanities become a mainstream option for many scholars,
libraries and presses have the chance to rethink our services. We must
grasp how scholarly communication is changing, and partner with scholars
to build services they need. This working session reports findings from
interviews with peer institutions and NYU faculty that explored service
models to support new scholarly modes, and includes discussion of:
evolving staff roles and skills needed to sustain these efforts; the
relationship between enterprise services, one-off projects, and research
and development; and models for ongoing partnership among scholars,
libraries, and presses. This workshop should result in improved
understanding about how to be effective partners within the evolving
scholarly landscape. |
| Description: | The information landscape has evolved over the last few decades,
resulting in an existential crisis for both academic libraries and
university presses. Things we've taken for granted for more than a
century (research and publishing models, our services, our content) are
called into question and need to be redefined in partnership with our
users. To date, changes in knowledge creation and dissemination have
been more widespread in the sciences than in the humanities. Now, with
the digital humanities' recent growth and evolution into the next big
thing (http://goo.gl/1wz8d), we have the opportunity to follow the
maturation of this field and rethink our services within this emerging
paradigm. Some libraries and presses have long been involved in
partnering with scholars on DH initiatives. But as DH becomes a
mainstream option for more humanists, even libraries and presses late to
the DH game will be forced to evolve their services accordingly.
Libraries and presses must also explore how and when to collaborate to
support scholars in our related, but not identical, missions. We must
have a deep understanding of how knowledge production and dissemination
is changing in the fields we serve, and partner with scholars to build
new services that they actually need. Whether or not we do right by them
will be the measure of our value going forward. The goal of NYU's
current project is to better understand the research and publishing
needs of scholars in the humanities at NYU and to research possible
service and staffing models to support new web-based forms of scholarly
communication. We are talking to peer institutions that already support
these modes of scholarship and will interview NYU faculty to learn about
what they need in this domain. The resulting report will identify a set
of unmet user needs at NYU and will propose possible service and
staffing models to address them. We will briefly describe our research
and early findings from interviews with peer institutions and NYU
faculty. We will then lead a discussion so participants can ask
questions of each other and share experiences. Of particular interest:
new service models adopted at other libraries and presses; evolving
staff roles and skills needed to sustain these efforts; the relationship
between enterprise services, one-off projects, and research and
development; and successful models for ongoing partnership among
scholars, libraries, and presses. This workshop should result in
understanding and ongoing discussion among participants about how to be
effective partners within the evolving scholarly landscape. |
| URI: | http://hdl.handle.net/2451/31580 |
| Appears in Collections: | Jennifer Vinopal's Collection
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