Communicating new library roles to enable digital scholarship - research article by John Cox

John Cox, Librarian at NUI Galway has written an in in depth review article on new and emerging roles in the area of digital scholarship.  He identifies and analyses the key literature on the topic and this will be of enormous benefit to academic libraries engaging with this new and emerging field.

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. (abstract by John Cox)

John’s in depth review article is published in New Review of Academic Librarianship and he will talk on this topic at the seminar Academic Librarians Communicating in the 21^st Century: Perspectives from the New Review of Academic Librarianship at Maynooth University Library on the 20^th October 2016. While the seminar is free booking is essential.

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