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It Takes a Village: Building and Supporting an Undergraduate Digital Scholarship Fellowship Courtney Paddick, Arts and Humanities Librarian Carrie Pirmann, Social Sciences Librarian Structure of Program Balance between learning Digital

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It Takes a Village: Building and Supporting an Undergraduate Digital Scholarship Fellowship

Courtney Paddick, Arts and Humanities Librarian Carrie Pirmann, Social Sciences Librarian

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Structure of Program

  • Balance between learning Digital Scholarship

methods and tools with independent research time

  • Eight week program using a cohort model
  • Incorporate expertise of staff from other areas of

Library & IT

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Research Services

  • Fellows paired with a librarian
  • Outsourced information,

visual, and data literacy sessions to colleagues

  • Librarians attended sessions

to learn tools

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Digital Pedagogy & Scholarship

  • Ran formal sessions for

students on Wordpress, Text Analysis, and Data Visualization

  • Provided additional support

with ArcGIS and Scalar

  • Assisted with informal project

reviews

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Additional Role Players

  • Head of Discovery and

Access Services

  • Business Intelligence

Functional Architect

  • Archives and Special

Collections

  • Faculty mentors
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#dsmeet17 @ Bryn Mawr College

  • Introduced students to

larger DH/DS community

  • Lightning talks and

facilitators meeting

  • Understanding project

expectations

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#dsgcmeet17 @ Gettysburg College

  • More community building!
  • Elevator speeches workshop
  • Projects-in-progress feedback

sessions

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Takeaways

  • Value of distributed expertise

○ Kept our workload more manageable ○ Afforded us opportunities to learn alongside the students

  • Students formed connections with a number of

people, both locally and outside Bucknell

  • Share resources re: program development across

institutions

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Future Opportunities for Collaboration

  • PA Consortium for the Liberal Arts grant
  • Planning a second meet-up with Gettysburg
  • Invite faculty in to talk about their research
  • More intentional involvement of faculty mentors
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Thank You!

Questions? DSSRF 2017: http://dssrf.blogs.bucknell.edu/ DSSRF 2018: http://dssrf2018.blogs.bucknell.edu/ (Coming soon!) Student Projects: http://digitalcommons.bucknell.edu/dssrf/ Contact us: courtney.paddick@bucknell.edu (@cpaddick) carrie.pirmann@bucknell.edu (@librariancarrie)