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January 6th, 2016
PROMISES AND PITFALLS: ARL INSTITUTIONAL DIGITAL SCHOLARSHIP AND COLLABORATION
Presented by Rikk Mulligan
BIO: Rikk Mulligan is a Public Fellow of the American Council of Learned Societies and program officer for scholarly publishing at the Association of Research Libraries. His work for ARL includes tracking developments in digital publishing, with specific attention to innovations in digital monographs, hybrid publications, and emerging digital humanities and cultural heritage projects. He holds a doctorate in American Studies from Michigan State University where his interdisciplinary research focused on American history, popular literature and media, and culture of the postwar twentieth century. ARL recently published a series of his articles on the transformation of scholarly publishing since the advent of the Internet. His scholarly publications consider the failure of democratic institutions in post-apocalyptic speculative texts, popular anxieties ranging from biowarfare and pandemics to automated weapons and artificial intelligence, and extend to critical studies of science fiction and graphic novels. He has presented on these topics at a number of international academic conferences and is currently a peer reviewer and editorial board member of the Journal of Popular Culture and Dialogue: The Journal of Pedagogy and Popular Culture.
ABSTRACT: The World Wide Web is only 22 years old, yet in little more than two decades the Web and its rapidly evolving and proliferating applications have radically changed all spheres of human endeavor including industry, commerce, entertainment, and for higher education: research and scholarly communication. Computing has been part of research in the sciences and humanities since the 1940s, but digital scholarship began to truly blossom with the new affordances of multimedia, data visualization, and Big Data in the past decade or so. Some academic departments and research libraries began to support and enable digital scholarship in the mid-1990s, but for most such efforts have been far more recent and active collaboration between many academic departments and research libraries is only now on the distant horizon.
Digital Scholarship has become an important focus for the Association of Research Libraries and its member institutions. Such scholarship and partnership that enable it was the subject of ARL’s 2015 Fall Forum. How digital scholarship is supported within ARL member libraries is the subject of a forthcoming survey and in the coming year the Coalition for Networked Information (CNI) and ARL will co-sponsor a workshop to help those planning to begin their own digital scholarship centers in libraries. As part of recent research to aid these efforts, I would like to present the results of a preliminary environmental survey of ARL members regarding their current support for digital scholarship, particularly those who operate digital scholarship centers or hubs or are looking to do so in the near future. This talk will briefly highlight some of the most experienced efforts, such as Brown University, the University of Nebrasksa-Lincoln, and the University of Virginia before giving a brief overview of current projects that best exemplify the possibilities of the collaboration between research library and departments. Although the promise of these projects is clear, there remain a number of challenges for future collaboration including scalability, sustainability, and how such work is assessed and regarded within the academy.
Please attend Rikk Mulligan’s presentation, Promises and Pitfalls: ARL Institutional Digital Scholarship and Collaboration on January 21, 11 a.m. to 12 p.m. in STEW 278. For more information contact Line Pouchard, assistant professor, Purdue University Libraries at pouchard@purdue.edu.
This event is sponsored by Purdue University Libraries Seminar Series
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