Scholarly Services Research Articles

Transparency, provenance and collections as data


 ‘Collections as data’ has become a core activity for libraries in recent years: it is important that we make collections available in machine-readable formats to enable and encourage computational research. However, while this is a necessary output, discussion around the processes and workflows required to turn collections into data, and to make collections data available openly, are just as valuable. With libraries increasingly becoming producers of their own collections – presenting data from digitisation and digital production tools as part of datasets, for example – and making collections available at scale through mass-digitisation programmes, the trustworthiness of our processes comes into question. In a world of big data, often of unclear origins, how can libraries be transparent about the ways in which collections are turned into data, how do we ensure that biases in our collections are recognised and not amplified, and how do we make these datasets available openly for reuse? This paper presents a case study of work underway at the National Library of Scotland to present collections as data in an open and transparent way – from establishing a new Digital Scholarship Service, to workflows and online presentation of datasets. It considers the changes to existing processes needed to produce the Data Foundry, the National Library of Scotland's open data delivery platform, and explores the practical challenges of presenting collections as data online in an open, transparent and coherent manner.

Enacting Service Work in a Changing World: Time for a Dialogue

Service work is rapidly evolving as a result of technological innovations, changing employment norms, and a variety of environmental challenges. Yet, the scope of service work scholarship appears to be restricted to traditional frontline employees occupying boundary-spanning positions in formal private-sector service organizations. Given the “perfect storm” of multiple disruptions, we believe that the time is ripe for service scholars to reexamine how service work is being (and will be) enacted in a changing world. In this editorial, we propose an expansion of the “service worker” construct, recommend a deeper exploration of the experiences of service workers, and call to situate these experiences within an evolving service work ecosystem. Our aim is to spark interdisciplinary dialogue related to service work in order to foster service scholarship and practice that are responsive to the changing world.

Framing Outcomes and Programming Assessment for Digital Scholarship Services: A Logic Model Approach

Assessing digital scholarship services offered either through academic libraries or elsewhere on campuses is important for both program development and service refinement. Digital scholarship support is influenced by fluid campus priorities and limited resources, including staffing, service models, infrastructure, and partnership opportunities available at a university. Digital scholarship support is built upon deep, ongoing relationships, and there is an intrinsic need to balance these time-intensive collaborations with scalable service offerings. Therefore, typical library assessment methods do not adequately capture the sustained engagement and impacts to research support and collaboration that come from digital scholarship services. This article discusses the creation of a logic model as one approach to frame assessment of digital scholarship services in the university environment.

UPAYA PEMBINAAN KEPRIBADIAN DAN KEMANDIRIAN SANTRI DALAM PELAYANAN KESEJAHTERAAN SANTRI (Studi di Pondok Pesantren Tahfidz Baitul Qur’an Kendari)

This study aims to (1) To find out the efforts made by the Islamic Boarding School Tahfidz Baitul Qur'an Kendari in fostering personality and independence to students (2) To find out the welfare system of students provided by the Islamic Boarding School Tahfidz Baitul Qur'an Kendari to students (3 ) To find out the supporting and inhibiting factors in fostering personality and independence to students.This research was conducted at the Islamic Boarding School Tahfidz Baitul Qur'an Kendari located at Jalan Wua Eha, Anggoeya Village, Poasia District. Analysis of the data used is qualitative analysis while data sources use primary data and secondary data. Data collection techniques in this study used observation, interview, and documentation techniques. The results of this study indicate the efforts made by the Islamic Boarding School Tahfidz Baitul Qur'an kendari in fostering the Personality and Self-Reliance of Santri, namely by providing moral guidance, religious guidance, memorizing the Qur'an, fostering religious education, entrepreneurship management of shops, shops, making food. And Hadroh Art Skills. Santri Welfare Services System in fostering the Personality and Independence of Santri by providing Servicing Services, Educational Scholarship Services, and Health Services. The supporting and inhibiting factors in fostering the personality and independence of students are supporting factors including Community Concern, adequate Facilities and Infrastructure, and Location of the Baitf Qurzan Islamic Boarding School Baitul Qur'an in a strategic vehicle. In addition, the inhibiting factor was also felt by the Tahfidz Baitul Qur'an Islamic Boarding School in kendari, such as the Irregular Donors.

Survey of Canadian Academic Librarians Outlines Integration of Traditional and Emerging Services

Survey of Canadian Academic Librarians Outlines Integration of Traditional and Emerging Services

Disrupting the library: Digital scholarship and Big Data at the National Library of Scotland

With a mass digitisation programme underway and the addition of non-print legal deposit and web archive collections, the National Library of Scotland is now both producing and collecting data at an unprecedented rate, with over 5PB of storage in the Library’s data centres. As well as the opportunities to support large scale analysis of the collections, this also presents new challenges around data management, storage, rights, formats, skills and access. Furthermore, by assuming the role of both creators and collectors, libraries face broader questions about the concepts of ‘collections' and ‘heritage', and the ethical implications of collecting practices. While the ‘collections as data’ movement has encouraged cultural heritage organisations to present collections in machine-readable formats, new services, processes and tools also need to be established to enable these emerging forms of research, and new modes of working need to be established to take into account an increasing need for transparency around the creation and presentation of digital collections. This commentary explores the National Library of Scotland's new digital scholarship service, the implications of this new activity and the obstacles that libraries encounter when navigating a world of Big Data.

Open Access eXchange (OAeX): an economic model and platform for fundraising open scholarship services

Authors’ names are listed in alphabetical order. This article describes the Open Access eXchange (OAeX) project, a pragmatic and comprehensive economic model and fundraising platform for open scholarship initiatives. OAeX connects bidders with funders at scale and right across the open scholarship spectrum through crowdfunding: financial expenditure is regulated by a market of freely competing providers and financial transactions and transparency are assured by a clearing-house entity. Specifically, OAeX seeks to facilitate open access publishing without the barrier of article processing charges (APCs), as well as contribute to solving challenges of transparency and economic sustainability in open scholarship projects in the broader sense.

Making the digital turn: Identifying the user requirements of digital scholarship services in university libraries

This paper reports on a research study aiming to identify the user requirements of digital scholarship services (DSS) in university libraries. Due to the exploratory nature of this study, a case study approach was adopted as the overarching methodology. Wuhan University Library (one of the top university libraries in China) was adopted as the case study. Specifically, a mixed qualitative-quantitative approach was employed for the case analysis. A qualitative study was performed aiming to identify and qualify users' DSS requirements. The analysis of qualitative interview data pointed to 17 DSS requirements under five themes: formulating research ideas, locating research partners, writing research proposals, conducting research, and publishing results. Subsequently, a quantitative Kano model analysis was undertaken to validate, verify and prioritise the DSS requirements identified. Based on measuring individual requirements' priority, DSS requirements were classified into four types: must-be, one-dimensional, attractive, and indifference. Finally, a set of strategic suggestions for DSS development were devised. This paper is of interests to library and information science researchers, as well as library managers and professionals. Although the data were collected from a university library in China, the research findings provide useful insights and implications that can be shared across international borders.

CRKN: Enhancing and Expanding the Digital Scholarship Services of Canadiana

CRKN: Enhancing and Expanding the Digital Scholarship Services of Canadiana

Finding domestic LGBT+ television in Western Europe: Methodological challenges for queer critics

ABSTRACT To challenge the Americentrism of contemporary Western queer television studies, this paper offers a peripheral perspective on the introduction of non-heterosexual and non-cisgendered subjectivities to Western European television cultures, and their subsequent mainstreaming through public service broadcasting fiction. Having established this distinct trajectory, the essay points to the challenges of bringing domestic television fiction to academic interest, discussing particular differences with European queer cinema and American television fiction. Reflecting on how these challenges can be overcome, the paper cautions against the localization of established methodological discourses, and argues for the use of descriptive methods as a way to negotiate the invisibility of domestic representations of sexual and gender diversity on television. Relating descriptive methods to public service broadcasting policies, moreover, it contends that such modes of doing research have queer political potential, and may allow for a direct engagement between queer media scholarship and public service broadcaster programming.

Penggunaan TOGAF ADM 9.1 Pada Perancangan Enterprise Architecture Fungsi Layanan Beasiswa Universitas Kristen Maranatha

In Indonesia, which poverty rates reaching 9.82% in March 2018, education cost is a barrier for sections of societies with low household income. So that the availability of scholarships is a solution. Based on this, Maranatha Christian University provides tuition assistance in the form of scholarships for students with several categories, which are managed by Student Welfare Sector, under the supervision of the Directorate of Student Affairs. The problem in managing the scholarship is that there is no adequate system.
 The goal is this research is to design a business strategy and information system strategy to achieve harmony based on present and future needs. TOGAF Framework, the enterprise architecture method is chosen to provide an effective and efficient solution from the business architecture phase, information system architecture phase, and technology architecture phase. The result of this research is in the form of TOGAF ADM artifact, as the blueprint architecture and IT development recommendations that are expected to be a guide in the development of scholarship services at Maranatha Christian University.

Lessons for all when service scholarship and management practice come together

Lessons for all when service scholarship and management practice come together

The SFS summer research study at UMBC: Project-based learning inspires cybersecurity students

May 30–June 2, 2017, Scholarship for Service (SFS) scholars at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County (UMBC) analyzed the security of a targeted aspect of the UMBC computer systems. During this hands-on study, with complete access to source code, students identified vulnerabilities, devised and implemented exploits, and suggested mitigations. As part of a pioneering program at UMBC to extend SFS scholarships to community colleges, the study helped initiate six students from two nearby community colleges, who transferred to UMBC in fall 2017 to complete their 4-year degrees in computer science and information systems. The study examined the security of a set of “NetAdmin” custom scripts that enable UMBC faculty and staff to open the UMBC firewall to allow external access to machines they control for research purposes. Students discovered vulnerabilities stemming from weak architectural design, record overflow, and failure to sanitize inputs properly. For example, they implemented a record-overflow and code-injection exploit that exfiltrated the vital application programming interface (API) key of the UMBC firewall. This report summarizes student activities and findings and reflects on lessons learned for students, educators, and system administrators. Our students found the collaborative experience inspirational; students and educators appreciated the authentic case study; and IT administrators gained access to future employees and received free recommendations for improving the security of their systems. We hope that other universities can benefit from our motivational and educational strategy of teaming educators and system administrators to engage students in active project-based learning centering on focused questions about their university computer systems.

WATER SUPPLY AND ACCESS TO SAFE WATER IN DEVELOPING ARID COUNTRIES

Nemias Moniz Goncalves avails to acknowledge Gulbenkian Scholarship Service from FCG (CALOUSTE GULBENKIAN FOUNDATION), for the granted individual scholarship, under the program of Postgraduate Scholarships for students of PALOP and East Timor - Stimulating research and professional appreciation, process No. 139758. The FCG has been an indispensable support in carrying out all academic activities. This work was also supported by the European Union through the European Regional Development Fund, based on COMPETE 2020 (Programa Operacional da Competitividade e Internacionalizacao) - project ICT (UID/GEO/04683/2013) with reference POCI-01-0145-FEDER-007690

Towards digital scholarship services in China’s university libraries

Purpose This paper aims to report on a literature review that aimed to establish a guiding framework for the development of digital scholarship services in China’s university libraries. Design/methodology/approach The framework was developed through systematically searching, screening, assessing, coding and aggregating digital scholarship services as reported in the existing body of literature. Three types of literature were included in the analysis: international academic literature as reported in English; academic literature in Chinese; and relevant professional reports. Findings The literature analysis pointed to 25 different digital scholarship services, which emerged in six themes: supporting services, formulating research ideas, locating research partners, writing proposals, conducting research and publishing results. Originality/value Although this literature review focused on university libraries in China, the research findings and the guiding framework developed provide useful insights and indications that can be shared across international borders.

Challenges and Opportunities in International Partnerships in Rehabilitation Counselling: An Exploratory Study

We provide a comparative case study of rehabilitation counselling across the U.S., Japan and Taiwan focusing on the common challenges facing international constituents in the field. Through interviews with students, faculty and administrators from each of the respective countries, we use thematic coding analysis to identify key points of tension. Emergent themes comprise (a) systemic challenges, (b) student and faculty mobility, (c) cultural and linguistic differences and (d) lack of sustainable international leadership. We further discuss mitigation of these recurrent challenges and conclude collaborative research, student exchange and institutional partnerships may advance teaching, research and service scholarship of rehabilitation counselling programs, and, in turn, enhance the lives of people with chronic illness and disability worldwide.

Something Old, Something New, Something Bold, Something Cool: A Marriage of Two Repositories

ABSTRACTFor the past several years, many libraries have been developing institutional repositories to house their Open Access publishing efforts, creating a showcase for their faculty’s research. Some of those same libraries have also been creating sizable digital collections, often built from digitized versions of materials in their special collections. The University of South Florida Tampa Library combined these two groups as a new department, Digital Scholarship Services. The marriage of these two repositories has created new synergies between staff in complementary areas of the library, combining unique skill sets from each group to offer new services to faculty. This article discusses why this change was made, examines some of the benefits and growing pains of this change, and showcases some of the unusual projects that have resulted. These collections not only highlight the university’s work but provide materials professors can use to enhance their course curricula, leveraging technology to engage students in new and innovative ways.

Digital Scholarship Planning: A Perspective on the CNI-ARL Workshop

ABSTRACTThe CNI-ARL Digital Scholarship Planning Workshop at Brown University, November 8–10, 2017, was an intensive, focused workshop for institutions at all stages of the digital scholarship planning process. This report, based on one participant's experience, touches on some of the highlights and takeaways from the sessions, which focused on campus needs and partnerships; staffing; governance and funding models; the applications of library and other content collections in teaching, learning, and research; student roles in digital scholarship; space and place; and the institutionalization of digital scholarship. A fundamental concept of the workshop was the acknowledgement of the wide variety of models and services digital scholarship can encompass and the critical need for each institution to pursue digital scholarship services that are in line with its strengths and the needs of its particular constituencies.

Helping Trainees Develop Scholarship in Academic Medicine From Community Service.

Service in the community and academic medicine are often seen by trainees as unrelated. This may be one reason for the lack of faculty diversity and the declining interest in academic medicine among new trainees. We developed an educational workshop through the application of the Kern model to help medical students and residents understand the relationship between community service work and scholarship as it pertains to a career in academic medicine. Specifically, the workshop helped trainees (1) understand the terms service and scholarship, (2) understand the benefits of achieving community service scholarship, and (3) identify steps to achieve community service scholarship through mock cases and personal stories. The workshop was implemented at five conferences with a total of 139 trainees. Results of a paired-samples t test of learners' responses pre- and postworkshop showed statistically significant growth in their confidence to publish service-related work, as well as more positive agreement with the notion that community service work aligns with an academic medicine career. This effective module can help trainees understand how community service and academic medicine are aligned, and raise their confidence in building a foundation for an academic medicine career through conducting community service scholarship.

Scholarship and Public Service: The Life and Work of Mary Parker Follett

Any consideration of the founding of public administration would be incomplete without the inclusion of Mary Parker Follett (1868-1933), one of the great figures in the history of the discipline. This article is not an essay in biography, however. Given the great range of Follett’s professional accomplishments, the author undertakes “a daunting task” of succinctly relaying those aspects of Follett’s life that relate to her development as a scholar and social activist: her education and training as a political scientist; the evolution of her views on science and scientific method; her leadership of the community centres movement; her theory of community; her work as a consultant and lecturer on organization, administration, and management; her place in the history of the social sciences; and her vision for a democratic society.