SESS052 - Building Communities of Practice to Support Digital Scholarship

Tuesday, October 19 | 9:00PM–9:00PM
Session Type: Resources
How can libraries with limited resources help researchers develop digital collections and scholarship? Model "information communities" provided a laboratory for scholar-library collaboration, while a study of the technical needs and policy decisions for collecting digital research outlined tensions that libraries face in supporting digital scholarship.

Presenters

  • Mike Furlough

    Executive Director, HathiTrust, University of Michigan-Ann Arbor

  • Thornton Staples