"Biz of Digital" is a column in Against the Grain (http://www.against-the-grain.com/). It features discussions by working librarians on digital collections, digital repositories, digital scholarship, data services, and technology. Its audience is librarians in all types of libraries and vendors of products, services, and systems that support library digital services. Its focus is on current practices, techniques, processes, and information on events in the field. Against the Grain is a down-to-earth, practice-orientated library journal.
Ideas for upcoming "Biz of Digital" articles include:
- Planning for data services/reorganizing data services
- A description of the services that you/your Library provides
- Courses, workshops, or presentation on data you've taught and the level of success you've had
- Projects that you've participated in.
- Supporting geospatial data and digital mapping in the library
- Managing a data management and visualization center or lab
- Data acquisition, integration, analysis, and visualization
- Data mining
- Infrastructure and services for big data
- How you use the FAIR data principals
Feel free to choose any of these topics, or one of your own. Theoretical articles, research reports, "how-to" articles, case studies, literature reviews and conceptual or opinion pieces are welcome. Article length should be approximately 1200-1500 words (4-5 pages, double-spaced).
Contributions may be written by individuals or co-authored.
If you are interested in writing for the "Biz of Digital" column, please contact the
editor:
Michelle Flinchbaugh
Digital Scholarship Services Librarian
UMBC Library
1000 Hilltop Circle
Baltimore, MD 21250
Email: flinchba@umbc.edu
Phone: 410-455-3544
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Michelle Flinchbaugh
Digital Scholarship Services Librarian
UMBC Library
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