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CNI Digital Scholarship Centers Workshop

Join us as we share insights and exchange information about digital scholarship centers, exploring successes, roadblocks, and best practices. Participants from diverse institutions will discuss the importance, services, and challenges associated with these centers. Let's delve into the nuances of digital humanities and scholarly communication in academic communities.

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CNI Digital Scholarship Centers Workshop

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  1. CNIDigital Scholarship CentersWorkshop Joan K. Lippincott St. Louis, MO April 2, 2014

  2. Welcome! We will: • 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

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

  4. DSC vs. Digital Humanities Center Digital Scholarship Center Digital Humanities Center Administered by faculty Limited to affiliated individuals Humanities oriented and sometimes more narrow disciplinary focus • Administered by Library/IT or other non-departmental unit • Open to all members of the academic community (or faculty and graduate students in any dept.) • Multi-disciplinary in many cases

  5. Sessions at CNI have featured Digital Scholarship Centers U. Virginia Brown/U. Nebraska

  6. Sessions at CNI have featured Digital Scholarship Centers Columbia U. UCLA

  7. Programs at liberal arts colleges NITLE U. Richmond

  8. How standard is the name? Google search yields 13,900 results for “digital scholarship center”! Variations Digital Scholarship Center Center for Digital Scholarship Center for Digital Learning & Research Center for Digital Research & Scholarship Digital Scholarship Lab Center for Scholarly Communication & Digital Curation Digital Scholarship Commons …and others

  9. Why are they needed? • 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 who desire to create digital projects but do not have access to tools and expertise in their department

  10. What are the distinctions?

  11. Are there basic criteria for a DSC? • Some questions: • How selectively can they serve the institution? • Do they have to have a physical presence? • Is a disparate set of services and spaces a center?

  12. What services are offered? N=21

  13. What services are offered? N=21

  14. Services offered • Number of services per center ranged from 3-10 • Average number of services per center = 7

  15. Services offered - other • Grant writing assistance • Repository development/mgt • Project development • Data services • Imaging • Text analysis • Repository management • Internships • Grad student fellowships • Consult pedagogy/instr tech • Usability lab • Seed grants • Conference • Community building

  16. Digital scholarship center staff U. Nebraska Columbia U.

  17. What type of staff is involved in the center?

  18. What type of staff is involved in the center? • Typically 4-6 types of staff are involved • Problems with survey question • Instructional technologists not specified • Were responses about staff and not users?

  19. Digital scholarship center facilities: UCLA

  20. Digital scholarship center facilities:Grad fellow lounge – U. Virginia

  21. Digital scholarship center facilities: Hunt Library - NCSU

  22. Web Presence: Occidental College

  23. Web Presence: Brown U.

  24. We will discuss: • Questions • What helped launch your Center? • What leads to successful collaborations and working relations with faculty and others? • What has been most important for your center regarding staffing? • What services are most in demand? • What services do you wish you could offer?

  25. Top Successes, Top Challenges • Each participant lists 1-3 • Top successes (white cards) • Top challenges (colored cards)

  26. We will discuss: • How are partnerships with faculty developed to include digital projects in the curriculum? • Are centers working directly with undergraduates on capstone or other projects?

  27. Top Successes, Top Challenges • Each participant lists 1-3 • Top successes (white cards) • Top challenges (colored cards) • Include the name of your institution on each card • By 12:45 PM, give completed cards to Joan or Diane

  28. Top Successes • Building community and partnerships • Training (staff and campus), workshops, institutes • Projects • Outreach, awareness

  29. Top Successes • Developing tools • Great, diverse staff • Integration of Digital Scholarship Center with the library and librarian services and research

  30. Top Challenges • STAFF – recruitment, retention, training, vacant positions • Managing priorities, scaling, prioritizing • Buy-in, support from library administration & other parts of the library • Articulating and developing shared vision

  31. Top Challenges • Managing relationships with other campus units • Outreach within the institution • Space needs • Many others!

  32. Quick polling • How many are doing formal assessment of any aspect of your Center? • In what way is your institutional repository related to the program of your Center? • Do you have dedicated space(s)? • What kinds of equipment?

  33. Report of workshop and next steps • What is a Digital Scholarship Center? • Good practice • Successes and challenges • Institutional descriptions • What should be added? Photos? More information? • Workshop for those wishing to start a Center

  34. Thank you! Joan K. Lippincott joan@cni.org

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