Introduction

Rockenbach, Barbara

doi:10.1080/01930826.2013.756676

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“…Early work in DH infrastructures examined centers (Zorich, 2008), libraries (Rockenbach, 2013), archives (Viiri, 2014), and cultural heritage (Ruthven & Chowdhury, 2015), with particular emphasis on financing, organizational structure, products, services, and sustainability, as well as partnerships that engage the public, increase access, and address disabilities. Information DOI: 10.1002/pra2.284 83rd Annual Meeting of the Association for Information Science & Technology October 25-29, 2020.…”

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Infrastructures of digital humanities

Sula

Craig

Dalmau

et al. 2020

Proc Assoc Inf Sci Technol

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This panel will convene participants from a range of roles and institutions to build on previous work in infrastructures of digital humanities: the organizational and structural aspects of the field responsible for collaboration, partnership, training and support, access, preservation, sustainability, and more. Information professionals play a key role in these infrastructures, from technical expertise to project management to training and support for methods and tools. Panelists from faculty, centers and institutes, and academic and digital libraries will address issues of capacity building, disciplinarity, and labor across various settings.

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Infrastructures of digital humanities

Sula

Craig

Dalmau

et al. 2020

Proc Assoc Inf Sci Technol

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“…For instance, Varner (2015) favors invigorating the library as a locus of production and storage. Rockenbach (2013) takes a parallel tack, lobbying for librarians to serve as partners and collaborators even as she urges librarians not to eschew their service roles altogether. Sacco et al (2015) and Zhang et al, (2015) too, see the role of partner and that of supporter as symbiotic.…”

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“…Culture immanently resists change, but libraries need an "inquisitive, adaptable, [and] responsive" organizational culture to optimize their role in DH (Vinopal and McCormick, 2013, p. 40). Rockenbach (2013) states, "DH is messy. It involves uncertainty, deep collaborations, and a flexibility that is foreign to traditional library culture" (p. 6).…”

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“Natural allies”

Poole

Garwood

2018

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Purpose In Digging into Data 3 (DID3) (2014-2016), ten funders from four countries (the USA, Canada, the UK, and the Netherlands) granted $5.1 million to 14 project teams to pursue data-intensive, interdisciplinary, and international digital humanities (DH) research. The purpose of this paper is to employ the DID3 projects as a case study to explore the following research question: what roles do librarians and archivists take on in data-intensive, interdisciplinary, and international DH projects? Design/methodology/approach Participation was secured from 53 persons representing eleven projects. The study was conducted in the naturalistic paradigm. It is a qualitative case study involving snowball sampling, semi-structured interviews, and grounded analysis. Findings Librarians or archivists were involved officially in 3 of the 11 projects (27.3 percent). Perhaps more importantly, information professionals played vital unofficial roles in these projects, namely as consultants and liaisons and also as technical support. Information and library science (ILS) expertise helped DID3 researchers with issues such as visualization, rights management, and user testing. DID3 participants also suggested ways in which librarians and archivists might further support DH projects, concentrating on three key areas: curation, outreach, and ILS education. Finally, six directions for future research are suggested. Originality/value Much untapped potential exists for librarians and archivists to collaborate with DH scholars; a gap exists between researcher awareness and information professionals’ capacity.

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“…The majority of the literature on library innovation reports on new services offered or new systems being used, without much attention for what this means for the organization. Recently there has been more attention to the practice of innovation in libraries, for example the recent special issue of the Journal of Library Administration, that describes organizational implications of digital scholarship for libraries (Nowviskie, 2013;Posner, 2013;Rockenbach, 2013;Sula, 2013;Vandegrift and Varner, 2013;Vershbow, 2013;Vinopal and McCormick, 2013).…”

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What makes innovation work? Innovation practice in the National Library of the Netherlands

2014

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The National Library of the Netherlands, (Koninklijke Bibliotheek, hereafter KB), has been innovating its services and organization for the past 20 years and expects to continue to do so in the future. The central question in this article is: what makes innovation work in the organization of the KB? We will focus on two use cases: the development of the recently opened Delpher portal, giving access to 30 million pages of digitized Dutch heritage, and the current development of the KB ResearchLab that gives internal and external researchers a platform for experiments. A review of innovation theory and practice (Balk 2013) provides us with a checklist of factors that determine the innovation capacity of a library, grouped in four themes: Leadership and culture, Knowledge and organizational learning, Collaboration capacity and Organizational design. By applying this innovation checklist to the use cases discussed, we hope to contribute to the body of best practice in innovation in national libraries. Finally, we will look ahead at the development of the National Digital Library of the Netherlands, integrating services for the public library community into the KB in the near future and share some potential scenarios for the future of the library landscape in the Netherlands with the audience.

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What makes innovation work? Innovation practice in the National Library of the Netherlands

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