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Creating Digital Knowledge: Library As Open Access Digital Publisher, D. Russell Bailey
Creating Digital Knowledge: Library As Open Access Digital Publisher, D. Russell Bailey
Library Faculty and Staff papers
Since the mid-1990s, many higher education libraries have evolved from the traditional roles of primarily (1) research resource purchasers and providers and (2) research service providers into new, enhanced, and complementary digital age roles related to digital open access knowledge creation and digital publishing, creating digital resources for open education. This article presents a brief description of open access digital knowledge creation, the library publishing landscape (particularly in Digital Humanities/DH), as well as several model higher education library approaches and example initiatives in these areas. These models and initiatives are presented as broadly adaptable and scalable to many higher education …
Creating Digital Art History: Library, Student, And Faculty Collaboration, D. Russell Bailey
Creating Digital Art History: Library, Student, And Faculty Collaboration, D. Russell Bailey
Library Faculty and Staff papers
Over the last two decades, teaching, learning, and research in higher education have developed a growing digital presence. Digital development in the humanities has been slow relative to most other areas in academia, and with some exceptions, art and art history have enjoyed slow digital growth within the humanities. Within this environment, the article here presents one collaborative model for digital art history, rare in its exclusive focus on undergraduate “junior scholars”. Undergraduate senior-level art history and studio art students at Providence College collaborate annually with art history and studio art faculty to publish their senior theses in print format …