Communicating new library roles to enable digital scholarship: a review article

Cox, John. (2016). Communicating New Library Roles to Enable Digital Scholarship: A Review Article. New Review of Academic Librarianship, 22(2-3), 132-147. doi: 10.1080/13614533.2016.1181665

Abstract

Academic libraries enable a wide range of digital scholarship activities, increasingly as a partner rather than as a service provider. Communicating that shift in role is challenging, not least as digital scholarship is a new field with many players whose activities on campus can be disjointed. The library's actual and potential contributions need to be broadcast to a diverse range of internal and external constituencies, primarily academic staff, university management, library colleagues and related project teams, often with different perspectives. Libraries have significant contributions to offer and a focused communications strategy is needed to embed libraries in digital scholarship and to create new perceptions of their role as enabling partners. Full text HTML PDF

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