"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:
- Librarian/Researcher collaborations to create digital projects
- Digital humanities tools and applications
- Instructing students via the creation of digital projects
- A description of the services your library's digital scholarship center provides
- Making digital scholarship platforms such as Omeka and OJS available to your community
- Supporting geospatial data/digital mapping
- Supporting text analysis and mining
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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