What is Digital Scholarship?
At Carleton, digital scholarship includes both research and classroom assignments. It can be published to the public, or it can be an unpublished step in the research process. Digital scholarship crosses disciplines, and appears in the humanities, social sciences, and the arts. Faculty and staff in Carleton’s Digital Liberal Arts network help to teach and train students in digital methods that they can use either in their studies or their future careers. Gould Library is part of this collaborative Digital Liberal Arts network.
How does the Library support Digital Scholarship?
- Support of student scholarship: Work with faculty teaching classes with digital scholarship assignments to support their students’ projects.
- Project support and management: Support faculty research projects, especially with early experimentation and grant proofreading.
- Student worker supervision: Digital Humanities Associates (DHAs) and Digital Scholarship Interns (DSIs) help support faculty teaching and research. They are partially supervised by Library staff.
- Event planning: Fund and organize events around campus and with local partners about digital scholarship, open access, and other related issues. Most events are supported in collaboration with the Humanities Center and ITS.
- Collection management: Create, curate, describe, and host archives of digital scholarship projects in many formats on Library-managed platforms by:
- Participating in the Library’s Digital Collections Advisory Team (DCAT) to help manage the Library’s collections, including CONTENTdm and Carleton Digital Commons.
- Working with relevant Library collections partners and vendors to gain access to data sets (of any sort of primary source material) that can be used in digital scholarship projects.
Library Staff
- Library Digital Scholarship Coordinator: Digital Scholarship Librarian
- Cataloging and Digital Services
- Social Science Data Librarian
- STEM Data Librarian
- Collection Development
- College Archives
- Special Collections
- All Liaison Librarians by Academic Discipline
- Digital Collections Advisory Team (DCAT)
- Campus Copyright Committee