Digital Scholarship Centers in Libraries: Advancing Research and Collaboration

1. Digital Scholarship Centers A View from CNI Joan K. Lippincott Coalition for Networked Information CNI Fall Membership Meeting December 15, 2015

3. Why is a library a good place for a digital scholarship center? • Mission to support (e-)research and (digital) scholarship • Bring together expensive technologies for use by all campus departments • Bring together expertise to serve all campus departments • Support graduate and undergraduate students independently or through coursework

4. In April, 2014, CNI convened a workshop on Digital Scholarship Centers to: • Share perspectives and exchange information • Discover commonalities and differences • Look at successes and roadblocks • Provide a report to a broader community describing good practice and showcasing existing centers

5. Participants • 35 participants from 24 institutions • Research universities, liberal arts colleges • Library staff with many titles, faculty/academic staff, graduate student • Others

6. Web resourcehttp://www.cni.org/events/cni-workshops/digital-scholarship-centers-cni-workshop/ • Workshop agenda and PPTs • Workshop report

7. Center Profiles

8. Resources http://er.educause.edu/articles/2014/6/trends-in-digital-scholarship-centers

9. What characterizes a digital scholarship center? Center Institute Faculty/academic department administered Primary funding from project grants Work on projects of affiliated faculty, often in defined discipline Strong interest in answering new research questions • Library administered • Primary funding from library budget • Partners with and offers services to a variety of disciplines and users • Strong interest in lifecycle issues

10. Differentiating types of centers • “…digital humanities centers and faculty institutes are often the places that bring new ideas in – they are at the leading edge of developments; in contrast, the kinds of centers this workshop focused on allow new tools, methods, and infrastructure to move from the edge to the center, making those things available to more individuals and to a broader range of disciplines than the faculty institute serves.” • Don Waters comments from CNI Digital Scholarship Centers Workshop Report

11. Understanding the landscape • Invitational workshop April 2015 • Representatives of digital scholarship centers and institutes along with a few others invited • Discussed mission, audience/participants/members, disciplines served, funding • Report will be issued soon

12. Commonalities– Offering Workshopsand Training Arduino Workshop at McMaster

13. Commonalities – Developing Tools http://chnm.gmu.edu/research-and-tools/

14. Areas of gradation • Research partnerships • “Services” offered • Physical spaces

15. Next • Spring 2016 workshop sponsored by CNI and ARL in Wash., DC • Audience – institutions planning or in early stages of implementing a digital scholarship center • Fee for registration and limited to 100 attendees • Watch cni-announce and CNI website for opening of registration

16. Digital Scholarship Centers Workshop – Spring 2016 – Topics (tentative) • Planning Process • Staffing • Technologies & Physical Space • Partnerships • Disseminating & Curating Products of Research • Assessment

17. Thank you! Joan K. Lippincott (at NCSU Hunt Library) joan@cni.org http://www.cni.org/about-cni/staff/joan-k-lippincott/ All photos are my own unless noted