89 SPEC Kit 350: Supporting Digital Scholarship
The needs of researchers vary greatly by discipline. STEM-based researchers tend to want short-term
guidance whereas in the humanities and arts, they want longer-term collaborations.
The selection is based on the three categories for which we support DS: GIS and digital mapping,
statistical analysis/support, making digital collections.
Wanted to answer “rarely” on all (less than sometimes, but more often than never).
We are in the process of identifying prospective research partners and planning for associated
infrastructure requirements.
We work closely with the Center for Digital Humanities.
24. How often does your library partner with or draw resources from the following units/entities to
fulfill requests for digital scholarship support? Please make one selection per row. N=70
Units/Entities Often Sometimes Never N
Information technology unit/department 35 29 3 67
Other libraries 13 45 9 67
Archives 30 34 1 65
University press 5 28 30 63
Institutional Repository 35 18 8 61
Agencies and/or companies unaffiliated with your institution 10 32 18 60
Historical societies 6 29 24 59
Other digital scholarship centers in your institution 10 24 22 56
Other unit/entity 13 8 8 29
Total Responses 58 67 47 70
If you selected “Other unit/entity” above, please specify which unit/entity. N=21
Often N=13
Academic support units (e.g., interdisciplinary institutes) and individual faculty
Businesses, vendors, individuals, scholarly agencies, publishers, etc.
Consortia, PKP, listservs, Ontario Council of University Libraries, Canadian Association of Research
Libraries, Association of Research Libraries, Canadiana.org, Islandora Foundation, DSpace
Cultural heritage institutions: Bishop Museum, Museum of Art
DPLA
DPLA, Minnesota Digital Library
Graduate School University Teaching and Learning Center College of Arts and Sciences School of
Public Health University Communications
Office of Research
State-wide consortium of Archives and Libraries
The College of Arts and Sciences ETech
The Department of Art and Art History and the Graduate Program in Visual and Cultural Studies
The Research Computing Center
The needs of researchers vary greatly by discipline. STEM-based researchers tend to want short-term
guidance whereas in the humanities and arts, they want longer-term collaborations.
The selection is based on the three categories for which we support DS: GIS and digital mapping,
statistical analysis/support, making digital collections.
Wanted to answer “rarely” on all (less than sometimes, but more often than never).
We are in the process of identifying prospective research partners and planning for associated
infrastructure requirements.
We work closely with the Center for Digital Humanities.
24. How often does your library partner with or draw resources from the following units/entities to
fulfill requests for digital scholarship support? Please make one selection per row. N=70
Units/Entities Often Sometimes Never N
Information technology unit/department 35 29 3 67
Other libraries 13 45 9 67
Archives 30 34 1 65
University press 5 28 30 63
Institutional Repository 35 18 8 61
Agencies and/or companies unaffiliated with your institution 10 32 18 60
Historical societies 6 29 24 59
Other digital scholarship centers in your institution 10 24 22 56
Other unit/entity 13 8 8 29
Total Responses 58 67 47 70
If you selected “Other unit/entity” above, please specify which unit/entity. N=21
Often N=13
Academic support units (e.g., interdisciplinary institutes) and individual faculty
Businesses, vendors, individuals, scholarly agencies, publishers, etc.
Consortia, PKP, listservs, Ontario Council of University Libraries, Canadian Association of Research
Libraries, Association of Research Libraries, Canadiana.org, Islandora Foundation, DSpace
Cultural heritage institutions: Bishop Museum, Museum of Art
DPLA
DPLA, Minnesota Digital Library
Graduate School University Teaching and Learning Center College of Arts and Sciences School of
Public Health University Communications
Office of Research
State-wide consortium of Archives and Libraries
The College of Arts and Sciences ETech
The Department of Art and Art History and the Graduate Program in Visual and Cultural Studies
The Research Computing Center
