RLUK Digital Scholarship Network Symposium - October 2022
Channel: ResearchLibrariesUK
Date: 2022-10-07

This online symposium, hosted by RLUK's Digital Scholarship Network, explored the nature and extent of digital scholarship occurring within research libraries across the international research library community. It brought together representatives from the international research library community, European library networks and the academic community to discuss the challenges we continue to have and progress we have made in the past years. The symposium provided an overview of emerging trends and commonalities between different approaches, and areas of potential collective working and collaboration.

The event was co-chaired by DSN co-convenors Eleonora Gandolfi, Head of Digital Scholarship & Innovation at the University of Southampton, and Kirsty Lingstadt, Director of Library, Archives and Learning Services at the University of York.

Speakers at the event were:

Abbey Potter, Senior Innovation Specialist, Library of Congress Digital Innovation Lab
Meghan Ferriter, Senior Innovation Specialist, Library of Congress Digital Innovation Lab 
James Baker, Director of Digital Humanities, University of Southampton 
Jane Winters, Professor of Digital Humanities & Director of the Digital Humanities Research Hub, Institute of Historical Research and UK-IE Digital Humanities Network
Anja Smit, LIBER Secretary-General, Director at DANS and Dutch Digital Competence network 
Cillian Joy, Digital Library Developer, University of Galway and Digital Scholarship Network Ireland
Heli Kautonen, Library Director, Suomalaisen Kirjallisuuden Seura and LIBER
Rikk Mulligan, Digital Scholarship Strategist, Carnegie Mellon University

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