91 SPEC Kit 350: Supporting Digital Scholarship
We are currently co-hosting a CLIR Postdoctoral Fellow in Metadata Creation for Visual and
Material Culture with the Graduate Program in Visual and Cultural Studies who provides support for
digital scholarship.
We are expecting to begin a university press within the next year.
We maintain the institutional repository—it’s an important part of our digital scholarship operations.
We partner as needed.
We typically draw from the “other unit/entity” for core IT supplies, network, and non-preservation
storage. Archives and institutional repository are library units.
SOURCE OF FUNDS
25. Please indicate the source(s) of funds that support library digital scholarship activities. Check all
that apply. N=71
Library general budget 71 100%
Grants to the library 52 73%
Grant funds from the researcher 34 48%
Gifts 30 42%
Funds from the parent institution—general funds 19 27%
Endowment 18 25%
Dedicated DS budget 16 23%
Funds from the parent institution—academic department funds 13 18%
Fees paid by institutional researchers 7 10%
Fees paid by external researchers 6 9%
Other source of funds 8 11%
Please briefly describe the other source of funds. N=8
Facilities and Administrative (Indirect)
Funds from the central campus IT and the Research Computing Center
Included in some of the support is the Student Technology Resources Center (STRC), funded by
student fees.
Individual library faculty members’ endowed professorship funds
Patron request for digitization of materials is a fee-based, primarily cost-recovery model.
Scanning services are in part a cost-recovery unit.
The library and the college of arts and sciences each pay for a graduate student. Arts and sciences also
provides funding for programming (workshops, lectures, summer faculty stipends, etc.)
University President’s Circle funds
We are currently co-hosting a CLIR Postdoctoral Fellow in Metadata Creation for Visual and
Material Culture with the Graduate Program in Visual and Cultural Studies who provides support for
digital scholarship.
We are expecting to begin a university press within the next year.
We maintain the institutional repository—it’s an important part of our digital scholarship operations.
We partner as needed.
We typically draw from the “other unit/entity” for core IT supplies, network, and non-preservation
storage. Archives and institutional repository are library units.
SOURCE OF FUNDS
25. Please indicate the source(s) of funds that support library digital scholarship activities. Check all
that apply. N=71
Library general budget 71 100%
Grants to the library 52 73%
Grant funds from the researcher 34 48%
Gifts 30 42%
Funds from the parent institution—general funds 19 27%
Endowment 18 25%
Dedicated DS budget 16 23%
Funds from the parent institution—academic department funds 13 18%
Fees paid by institutional researchers 7 10%
Fees paid by external researchers 6 9%
Other source of funds 8 11%
Please briefly describe the other source of funds. N=8
Facilities and Administrative (Indirect)
Funds from the central campus IT and the Research Computing Center
Included in some of the support is the Student Technology Resources Center (STRC), funded by
student fees.
Individual library faculty members’ endowed professorship funds
Patron request for digitization of materials is a fee-based, primarily cost-recovery model.
Scanning services are in part a cost-recovery unit.
The library and the college of arts and sciences each pay for a graduate student. Arts and sciences also
provides funding for programming (workshops, lectures, summer faculty stipends, etc.)
University President’s Circle funds
