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Item Back to basics: Supporting digital humanities and community collaboration using the core strength of the academic library(Digital Library Perspectives, 2018) Lucky, Shannon; Harkema, CraigPurpose: To describe how academic libraries can support digital humanities (DH) research by leveraging established library values and strengths to provide support for preservation and access and physical and digital spaces for researchers and communities, specifically focused on cultural heritage collections. Design/methodology/approach: The experiences of the authors in collaborating with DH scholars and community organizations is discussed with references to the literature. The paper suggests how research libraries can use existing expertise and infrastructure to support the development of digital cultural heritage collections and DH research. Findings: Developing working collaborations with DH researchers and community organizations is a productive way to engage in impactful cultural heritage digital projects. It can aid resource allocation decisions to support active research, strategic goals, community needs and the development and preservation of unique, locally relevant collections. Libraries do not need to radically transform themselves to do this work, they have established strengths that can be effective in meeting the challenges of DH research. Practical implications: Academic libraries should strategically direct the work they already excel at to support DH research and work with scholars and communities to build collections and infrastructure to support these initiatives. Originality/value: The paper recommends practical approaches, supported by literature and local examples, that could be taken when building DH and community-engaged cultural heritage projects.Item Community Engaged Digital Initiatives: Building Academic Library Services and Infrastructure with Faculty and Community Collaborators(2018 Digital Initiatives Symposium, University of San Diego Copley Library, 2018-05-24) Lucky, Shannon; Harkema, CraigCommunity collaborations have become key drivers for the development of our library’s digital initiatives (DI) program. While collaborative partnerships can complicate the process of getting DI work completed, they can also positively contribute to decision making around digitization projects, metadata use, user interface (UI) design, and infrastructure development. This presentation outlines possibilities for iteratively developing digital infrastructure and service offerings to support community-engaged research and discusses key issues to consider when developing such a program. We will describe how we have adapted DI systems to support a range of projects from photography collections to oral histories, to locally created open educational resources (OER). The roles for community groups, other galleries, libraries, archives, and museums (GLAMs), disciplinary faculty, and students will be explored and we will describe how their contributions strengthen our DI program.Item Developing a Digital Initiatives Centre at a University Research Library(2018-10-11) Lucky, Shannon; Harkema, Craig; Salt, JoelThis presentation describes our experience in developing a digital initiatives centre at a large Canadian university research library. Transitioning from a largely behind the scenes and a loose collection of digital resources and services into an official public-facing unit has demanded flexibility, agility, and above all creativity.Item Digital Collections Showcase(2010) Harkema, Craig; Fox, David; Hess, Diane; Salt, Joel; Nygren, Catherine; Lee, Deborah; Belford, Richard; Bindle, DavidItem Milne en masse: A Case Study in Digitizing Large Image Collections(Taylor and Francis, 2015) Harkema, Craig; Avery, CherylIn December 2012, the University of Saskatchewan Library’s University Archives & Special Collections acquired the complete image collection of Courtney Milne, a professional photographer whose worked encompassed documentary, abstract and fine art photographs. Among other material, the collection included over 500,000 original images both in slide and “born digital” format, easily double the total number of all other images held by the Archives at that time. From acquisition to digital curation, the authors, identify, outline, and discuss the various points at which key decisions were made in order to make this extensive collection available to the public both online and off. In particular, issues surrounding fine art photography and donor relations will be discussed.Item (Re)Creating space: the information architecture of John Gay's Trivia(2010) Harkema, CraigItem Scholar-Librarian Collaboration in the Publication of Scholarly Materials(Collaborative Librarianship, 2013) Harkema, Craig; Nelson, BrentRecent developments in scholarly publication and the new directions being pursued in both humanities departments and libraries in the production of digital content provide opportunity for scholars and li- braries to explore new models for working together to produce and disseminate scholarly materials. We offer as a first step toward a model for publication the case of Opuscula: Short Texts of the Middle Ages and Renaissance (OSTMAR), a hybrid form of publication that leverages the university library infrastructure to create a platform for the publication of scholarly primary materials, an area of publication formerly re- served for the commercial press. This model is dependent on close collaboration between scholar and librarian, the nuances of which are outlined in this paper.Item There’s more than one way to skin a book: Experimental interfaces for reading illustrated books(Scholarly and Research Communication, 2012) Bath, Jon; Harkema, CraigDifferent readers approach a text in different ways and for different reasons, so designers of interfaces for electronic reading and scholarship must strive for flexibility. Eric Gill’s illustrations for the Golden Cockerel Press invite exploration into the social function of erotic texts, public versus private reading, fine book-making practices, and more, and we hope to provide the tools to allow scholars to engage with these texts in their multiplicity. There may also be readers who just want to read the texts and look at the pictures, and we need to make sure we do not ignore their needs. Most importantly, there are, or will be, readers who want to interact with the texts in ways that we cannot imagine, and we need to do all we can to make this experimentation possible.Item Transcendental metadata: a collaborative schema for electronic resource description(Collaborative Librarianship, 2011) Sorensen, Charlene; Harkema, Craig; Tharani, KarimAcademic libraries are attempting to manage growing collections of diverse electronic resources in a cha-otic environment of evolving standards and systems. The transition from a print-dominated resource en-vironment to an electronic one has complicated the decision-making process. Current discourse primarily focuses on meeting patron needs and has distracted researchers from looking at librarian needs. The au-thors discovered that librarians want a better understanding of the nature, extent, and diversity of elec-tronic resources for decision making, assessment, and accountability. Drawing from the collaborative methods and design philosophies of other disciplines, this paper outlines an approach to leveraging Web 2.0 philosophy and Business Intelligence techniques to address these needs. This approach will serve as a guide for academic librarians to transcend their current practices in order to develop innovative, colla-borative, and holistic approaches to the joint stewardship of library electronic resource collections.Item Transcendental metadata: a collaborative schema for eResource description(2011) Tharani, Karim; Sorensen, Charlene; Harkema, Craig