Topic:
Support student and faculty access to and experimentation with new and innovative tools of scholarship.
Themes:
Instruction, Training & Outreach:
- Make training and instruction available for complex tools; focus on methods, not tool-specific; incorporate curriculum mapping to address teaching/learning needs.
- Offer Library staff training opportunities to learn and use tools
- Need campus catalog of available training opportunities working with other units to avoid duplication; develop effective outreach/marketing methods to reach researchers;
- Involve/train staff and identify ways for them to find out about and express interest in training/using;
Spaces & technology:
- Support easy access to digitization tools and digitized content in formats that scholars can integrate readily into their research
- Need Library spaces that invite scholars as well as Library staff to experiment –hands-on; classroom; seminar; maker-space; community gathering space (do Scholarly Commons, Media Commons, GLID2 support these uses?)
Stakeholders (Groups):
- AC—division coordinators and subject liaisons
- Digital scholarship centers & related functions: Scholarly Commons / Media Commons / GLID2 / RDS / SC&P /
- Savvy Research Workshop series (RIS & SC)
- Staff training & development
- Library IT
- Tech Services (a.k.a. academic computing)
- IPRH, NCSA, CITL, Design Center
Hiring Plan Impact:
- Immediate (0-1 yrs.): Data Visualization Specialist (Grainger/COE on hold)
- Near term (2-5yrs.): re-allocate internally or hire specialists with needed expertise (e.g., data visualization, statistics, big data analytics)
- Partner with other campus units on these hires to ensure no duplication of effort.
Adjacencies with other Topical Areas:
- Support Research Groups
- Organizational Culture
- Research Data Services
- Discovery
- Scholarly Communications
- Experts
- Outreach
- Education & Training