33 SPEC Kit 350: Supporting Digital Scholarship
Activities Librarian Archivist Other
professional
(e.g., IT, HR,
financial)
Support
staff
Interns GSA Ugrad
student
workers
Other
staff
category
N
Database
development
34 9 37 6 2 7 1 2 46
3-D modeling and
printing
32 0 23 23 3 12 9 3 45
Developing digital
scholarship software
27 6 35 6 1 6 1 2 42
Other DS activity 17 8 12 4 0 4 1 2 21
Total Responses 72 61 61 61 31 53 46 10 72
If you selected “Other DS activity” above, please briefly describe the activity(ies) and identify the
staff category that supports it. N=18
Community development &outreach is undertaken by librarians.
Consulting and advice for digital scholarship: librarian and archivist
Copyright is offered by JD with support staff.
Data consultations with faculty, staff, and students through the Digital Initiatives Advisory Group or
through areas of specialization.
Data Life Cycle Consultation: librarian and archivist
Digital pedagogy projects are supported by librarians and IT specialists working collaboratively with
faculty from departments across campus.
Education: Instruction and workshops on digital scholarship methodology and tools: librarian
Graduate student assistants: promoting digital scholarship activities providing training in digital
tools or skills creating training documents setting up hosting environments. Other =Library Science
field experience students: assessment of digital scholarship programs and projects promoting digital
scholarship activities providing training in digital tools or skills creating training documents setting
up hosting environments. Librarians and other professional staff: Advisement on legal issues related to
digital scholarship, e.g., copyright, fair use, privacy participating in and organizing events—training,
SCI, etc.—in support of digital scholarship.
Internet of Things, video, audio: librarian
Librarians, archivist, and IT professionals work on our Web Archiving and Expert Finder tools.
Maintaining and customizing our institutional repository platform, DSpace: librarian, archivist, other
professional. This might be included in “developing digital scholarship software” (although it’s more
focused on extending such software), as well as in digital publishing, database maintenance, technical
upkeep, and digital preservation.
Multimedia content creation: librarian, other professional, support staff, student workers
(undergraduate and graduate)
Outreach, promotion, integration with teaching for/as research, grant planning, etc.: librarian,
archivist, other professional
Activities Librarian Archivist Other
professional
(e.g., IT, HR,
financial)
Support
staff
Interns GSA Ugrad
student
workers
Other
staff
category
N
Database
development
34 9 37 6 2 7 1 2 46
3-D modeling and
printing
32 0 23 23 3 12 9 3 45
Developing digital
scholarship software
27 6 35 6 1 6 1 2 42
Other DS activity 17 8 12 4 0 4 1 2 21
Total Responses 72 61 61 61 31 53 46 10 72
If you selected “Other DS activity” above, please briefly describe the activity(ies) and identify the
staff category that supports it. N=18
Community development &outreach is undertaken by librarians.
Consulting and advice for digital scholarship: librarian and archivist
Copyright is offered by JD with support staff.
Data consultations with faculty, staff, and students through the Digital Initiatives Advisory Group or
through areas of specialization.
Data Life Cycle Consultation: librarian and archivist
Digital pedagogy projects are supported by librarians and IT specialists working collaboratively with
faculty from departments across campus.
Education: Instruction and workshops on digital scholarship methodology and tools: librarian
Graduate student assistants: promoting digital scholarship activities providing training in digital
tools or skills creating training documents setting up hosting environments. Other =Library Science
field experience students: assessment of digital scholarship programs and projects promoting digital
scholarship activities providing training in digital tools or skills creating training documents setting
up hosting environments. Librarians and other professional staff: Advisement on legal issues related to
digital scholarship, e.g., copyright, fair use, privacy participating in and organizing events—training,
SCI, etc.—in support of digital scholarship.
Internet of Things, video, audio: librarian
Librarians, archivist, and IT professionals work on our Web Archiving and Expert Finder tools.
Maintaining and customizing our institutional repository platform, DSpace: librarian, archivist, other
professional. This might be included in “developing digital scholarship software” (although it’s more
focused on extending such software), as well as in digital publishing, database maintenance, technical
upkeep, and digital preservation.
Multimedia content creation: librarian, other professional, support staff, student workers
(undergraduate and graduate)
Outreach, promotion, integration with teaching for/as research, grant planning, etc.: librarian,
archivist, other professional
