"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:
- An overview of your library's activities in digital collections, digital repositories, and/or digital scholarship
- Re-structuring to better manage digital collections, digital repositories, and/or digital repositories.
- Promoting digital collections, digital repositories, and/or digital scholarship via digital media, e.g. social networks, blogs, etc.
- Copyright for digital services
- Creative commons licenses and open access
- Digitization
- System migrations
- Planning for digital services
- Assessing the success of digital programs
- Promoting digital programs with social media
- Making digital scholarship platforms such as Omeka and OJS available to your community
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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