Evolution via Devolution? Lewis & Clark’s Digital Scholarship Multisite, 2014-2020
Start Date
7-10-2017 10:40 AM
End Date
7-10-2017 12:10 AM
Description
Building on previous experience with WordPress-based student scholarship, Lewis & Clark’s Environmental Studies Program launched an ambitious digital scholarship multisite, ds.lclark.edu, in 2014, intending to fully share it with other academic programs on campus. Now three years and some 250 sites later, ds.lclark.edu has made important gains but still struggles to be well supported and broadly implemented. How do we, and similar initiatives on other campuses, achieve these elusive goals? One partial solution involves devolution: rather than fully rely on centralized technical and training assistance, we are helping students, staff, and faculty gain mid-level skills so as to serve their own program’s needs and provide training and support to their peers. While we continue to pursue possibilities for college-wide support, this devolutionary approach may best serve our students in the foreseeable future. The talk will briefly recount our past and likely future steps in this direction.
Type
Presentation
Session
#s1c: Evolving the Library and Scholarly Environments, moderator Megan Kudzia
Language
eng
Location
Elaine Langone Center, 241
Evolution via Devolution? Lewis & Clark’s Digital Scholarship Multisite, 2014-2020
Elaine Langone Center, 241
Building on previous experience with WordPress-based student scholarship, Lewis & Clark’s Environmental Studies Program launched an ambitious digital scholarship multisite, ds.lclark.edu, in 2014, intending to fully share it with other academic programs on campus. Now three years and some 250 sites later, ds.lclark.edu has made important gains but still struggles to be well supported and broadly implemented. How do we, and similar initiatives on other campuses, achieve these elusive goals? One partial solution involves devolution: rather than fully rely on centralized technical and training assistance, we are helping students, staff, and faculty gain mid-level skills so as to serve their own program’s needs and provide training and support to their peers. While we continue to pursue possibilities for college-wide support, this devolutionary approach may best serve our students in the foreseeable future. The talk will briefly recount our past and likely future steps in this direction.