DLF Forum 2018

Presentations
 
Partner or perish: Agile approaches to developing a responsive digital scholarship model
Beth Russell
New York University Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates
 
Digital scholarship in the Arab world is only now emerging as a field. Our partnership in a faculty research project on music and sound culture studies in the Arab world helped shape an identity for our new Center for Digital Scholarship model on a global campus in the Middle East.
 
 
Visualization Community - Visualizing Communities: An Introduction to the Immersive Scholar Project
Shelby Hallman, Markus Wust, Erica Hayes, Micah Vandegrift
North Carolina State University Libraries
 
NCSU’s Immersive Scholar grant utilizes cross-institutional collaborations to 1) build a community of practice around visually immersive work and 2) develop sustainable technologies and workflows for visualization environments. This presentation provides a detailed description of the project and demonstrates the necessity of community building for the success of emerging technologies.
 
 
The Future is now Digital Collecting on a Global Scale: A How To
Todd Grappone, Sharon Farb
UCLA, United States of America
 
Presentation about the UCLA Libraries efforts to create international digital library collective and a presentation of our model, methods and toolkits. A DIY approach to digital library collection building.
 
 
Building Capacity for Digital Library Services When They Won’t Even Hire a Metadata Librarian
Roxanne Shirazi
The Graduate Center, City University of New York, United States of America
 
Libraries at low-resource institutions are often called to demonstrate innovation to secure funding, while simultaneously seeing basic roles go unfilled. This presentation will review tactics learned at a public university library staffed by fewer than 10 full-time librarians (none of whom are a metadata librarian) to build digital library services.