Developing New Skills And Expertise To Support Digital Scholarship And Scholarly Communication.

Rosenblum, Brian

Publication

Developing New Skills And Expertise To Support Digital Scholarship And Scholarly Communication.

Rosenblum, Brian

Abstract

The growth of the Internet and digital technology has caused a dramatic and rapid change in scholarly communication practices, giving rise to new forms of digital scholarship and emerging scholarly publishing models. As libraries respond to—and help promote—these changes, they face a number of new challenges and opportunities. Libraries must develop new specialists with specific skills in digital content production and management. At the same time, they must develop a broad, general understanding, among staff across the entire organization, of how changes in scholarly communication practices affect the library enterprise as a whole. This paper discusses three new areas of activity for libraries supporting digital scholarship and scholarly communication: the development of institutional repositories, electronic publishing services, and scholarly communication outreach and advocacy. The paper will also suggest strategies for developing the capacity to support these activities.

Description

Presented at the 74th IFLA General Conference and Council: World Library and Information Congress, Québec, Canada, August 2008: <http://www.ifla.org/IV/ifla74/Programme2008.htm>