• Digital Collections and Scholarship, Baldwin and Others

    Digital collections and libraries are often created through collaboration with librarians, teaching faculty, and others. This panel would be a discussion panel on current strategies and best practices for engaging scholars and librarians in collaboratively supporting digital libraries and new forms  of digital scholarship with those libraries. The discussion could include considerations of roles, practices, and concerns for best supporting and engaging with a scholarly advisory board for digital libraries, collections, and projects.

    The discussion could include a current example of how to best support the Baldwin Library of Historical Children’s Literature Digital Collection in collaboration with and utilizing the expertise of faculty on campus as a scholarly advisory board. The Baldwin Library of Historical Children’s Literature is one of the top of its kind in the world and faculty regularly travel to the collections, teach with the collections, utilize the collections in research, and more, all of these activities continue, extend, and alter in ways for the digital collections of the Baldwin.

    The discussion could also include the Digital Library of the Caribbean (dLOC) with its Scholarly Advisory Board, new forms of digital scholarship, facilitated peer review, and more.

    The discussion will include how to ensure full attribution and recognition for activities, as well as engagement and collaboration for ongoing development and for new opportunities for library growth and new digital scholarship works.

5 Comments


  1. Mark Kamrath says:

    This looks like a timely discussion and session proposal. Thanks for posting!

  2. I agree with Mark. I’d definitely like to hear more about this.

  3. Tim Thompson says:

    This session sounds very helpful. Is there room here for those who are just beginning to try to think about getting something off the ground?

  4. Rose Beiler says:

    I’m excited about participating in this session.

  5. It was nice to meet you today Laurie and hear about some of your projects with the UF libraries. I learned a lot about the role of scholarly advisory board in special collections and it was great to hear how supported you all are with copyright issues from your administration. Keep up the great work and thanks for coming down to Orlando and sharing your expertise!

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