Developing digital scholarship : emerging practices in academic libraries

This book provides strategic insights drawn from librarians who are meeting the challenge of digital scholarship, utilizing the latest technologies and creating new knowledge in partnership with researchers, scholars, colleagues, and students.

Spanning a wide range of contrasting perspectives, contexts, insights, and case studies, this edited collection explores the relationships between digital scholarship, contemporary academic libraries, and professional practice. The book demonstrates that there are opportunities to be bold, remodel, try new approaches, and reposition the library as a key partner in the process of digital scholarship. Topics include:

the impact of digital scholarship on organizational strategies; developing digital capable librarians; social networking with the scholarly community; digital scholarship centers; new approaches to service delivery; and re-visioning of space, physical and virtual.

• List of figures, tables and case studies p. vi
• Editors and contributors p. ix
• Introduction p. xiii
• Part 1 A review of the landscape p. 1
• 1 The university library and digital scholarship: a review of the literature p. 3 Lindsey Martin
• 2 Digital scholarship: scanning library services and spaces p. 23 Alison Mackenzie
• Part 2 The agile librarian p. 41
• 3 Librarian as partner: in and out of the library p. 43 Roz Howard and Megan Fitzgibbons
• 4 Novice to expert: developing digitally capable librarians p. 61 Charles Inskip
• 5 Lean in the library: building capacity by realigning staff and resources p. 81 Jennifer Bremner
• Part 3 Digital spaces and services p. 103
• 6 Digital scholarship centres: converging space and expertise p. 105 Tracy C. Bergstrom
• 7 Building scalable and sustainable services for researchers p. 121 David Clay
• Part 4 Communications and social networking p. 139
• 8 Social networking with the scholarly community: a literature review p. 141 Suzanne Parfitt
• 9 Developing digital scholars: from the ivory tower to the Twittersphere p. 157 Alison Hicks
• 10 Reflections on digital scholarship: so many reasons to be cheerful p. 173 Alison Mackenzie and Lindsey Martin
• Index p. 179