[Lib-helig-l] FW: Supporting the Changing Research Practices of Historians – New Ithaka S+R Report

Dear Colleagues

You may be interested in the report.    

 

Ingrid Thomson

Subject Librarian:  Humanities Information Division

Chancellor Oppenheimer Library

University of Cape Town Libraries

Tel:  +27 21 650 3133

Fax:  +27 21 650 2965

Ingrid.thomson@uct.ac.za

 

Chair: Western Cape Branch  (2012 – 2014)

National EXCO Additional Member: Advocacy and Social Media (2012 – 2014)

Library and Information Association of South Africa (LIASA)

 

From: Roger Schonfeld [mailto:Roger.Schonfeld@ithaka.org]
Sent: 11 December 2012 02:07 PM
To: scholcomm@ala.org
Subject: [SCHOLCOMM] Supporting the Changing Research Practices of Historians – New Ithaka S+R Report

 

Dear colleagues,

 

Librarians and information service providers on this list may be interested in a new report we released yesterday: "Supporting the Changing Research Practices of Historians." Funded with support from NEH, this is the first in a series of new studies we are conducting that look at the needs of today's scholars on a field-specific basis and provide guidance for how librarians and other research support providers can better serve them. 

 

I presented findings from this work along with Deanna Marcum, Ithaka S+R Managing Director, at the CNI meeting in Washington DC yesterday afternoon.  Attendees spurred quite a bit of discussion about the connections between researchers' use of digital cameras and scanners while visiting archives and special collections, and libraries' and archives' priorities to make their collections more discoverable and accessible. There were also some great ideas about future subjects for our research, including ideas for interdisciplinary fields.

 

We are eager to hear any feedback you may have on this work, and specifically about the actionable recommendations at the conclusion of the paper.  Discussion on-list or off is welcome.

 

Roger

 

 

Roger C. Schonfeld‪
Director of Research‪
Ithaka S+R‪

Twitter: @rschon
Tel: 212-500-2338

Ithaka S+R (www.sr.ithaka.org/) is a strategic consulting and research service that focuses on the transformation of scholarship and teaching in an online environment, with the goal of identifying the critical issues facing our community and acting as a catalyst for change.  Ithaka S+R is part of ITHAKA (www.ithaka.org), a not-for-profit organization that also includes JSTOR (www.jstor.org) and Portico (www.portico.org).

 

 

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