Mississippi State University Scholarly Communication Summit
Friday, July 22 @ 9:15AM
- Kansas has a strong history in Scholarly Communication
- "ScholComm Kansas" = traditional scholarly Communication
- Authors Rights
- OA
- IRs
- That was 7 years ago, we're in a new era (data)
- Somewhere between public services and technology services
- Lives near Digital Humanities & ScholComm
- "Data Services is supradepartmental."
- It has to have support across departments in order to survive
- Work occurs in different layers in organization
- Micah hates the term "service" (we know)
- Trevor Munroz and Bethany Nowviskie agree with him, library has to be partners in order for this stuff to work
- Partnerships, programs & initiatives, not services
- "services" can't say no, but collegial partnership can. Thats important to scalability
- DaaSBOOT: Data as a Service, But On Our Terms
- We need to assert OUR agenda as well as focus on researcher needs
- Whether or not its a fad depends on whether the infrastructure is given the resources to flourish or not
- Data is creating the possibility for libraries to take on a new role in the research world, to provide value in a new way
- What does it mean to be a library in this environment?
- What if the future of libraries is nothing like how libraries have been in the past?
- Nancy Fried Foster: libraries could be smaller in the future, but with the same size staff doing much more data oriented stuff
- Would data services work better outside of the/a library? Perhaps as an external unit?
- Micah sees north as traditional library services and south as OA, scholcomm, digischol, etc (opposite ends on a scale, lots of tension)
- What if they were actually east to west, and "true north" was the set of all things that libraries should be doing?
- Are we heading in the right direction? (ties the metaphor together)