Zheng (John) Wang
Associate University Librarian, Digital Access, Resources and Information Technology
University of Notre Dame
Tracy Bergstrom
Program Co-Director, Digital Initiatives and Scholarship
University of Notre Dame
Laurie Alexander
Associate University Librarian for Learning and Teaching
University of Michigan
Meghan Sitar
Director of Connected Scholarship
University of Michigan
Reflections on a Digital Scholarship Center, Year Three (Wang, Bergstrom)
In Spring 2014, representatives from The University of Notre Dame’s Center for Digital Scholarship spoke at CNI about starting a digital scholarship center, and particularly about the challenges of establishing sustainable services within this context. Since then Notre Dame’s Center for Digital Scholarship has been funded to construct new, enhanced spaces within the main campus library. While the Center has explored sustainable solutions to providing core services since its inception, particularly that allow for reduction of librarian time on routine work, this move necessitates a reexamination of our service portfolio. To this end, the Center launched online video modules on the edX platform introducing students to GIS in 2016 and are working with the campus Office of Digital Learning to create additional online learning courses devoted to the Center’s most-requested workshops, with the goal of making this content available to university audiences and the public. This session is intended to facilitate a conversation about the evolution of a Center’s services and spaces, coupled with examples of digital scholarship projects that Notre Dame’s Center has facilitated, and provide takeaways that address the development of emerging services in conjunction with traditional library services.
Evolving Connections: Community-Driven Learning Ecosystems in the Library (Alexander, Sitar)
Our student community is a significant driver in how we reimagine our services, programs, and spaces. Realizing that students are seeking value-added residential learning experiences, enabled by proximity to expertise, unique resources, advanced learning facilities, and unparalleled opportunity, we have reimagined and redefined a vision for connected scholarship. We will discuss the evolution of traditional technology training programs into a connected learning ecosystem designed around the intersections of technology, learning and pedagogy and will detail how a newly conceived program called Connected Scholarship (e.g. ScholarSpace, Design Labs, mixed methods research) is committed to creating pathways for a diverse campus community to pursue shared questions that can enable new contexts for scholarship and academic transformation. We will share early results from re-orienting our services and learning spaces to be focused on impacting student critical thinking, intellectual openness, collaboration, risk-taking, and agility combined with real contexts and authentic settings.
https://www.cni.org/topics/digital-humanities/supporting-and-encouraging-digital-scholarship
https://edge.edx.org/courses/course-v1:NotreDame+GIS000+0000/about
Presentation (Sitar)