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<br><div class="gmail_quote">---------- Forwarded message ----------<br>From: <b class="gmail_sendername">Wang, Xuemao (wang2xm)</b> <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:wang2xm@ucmail.uc.edu">wang2xm@ucmail.uc.edu</a>></span><br>Date: 16 August 2016 at 15:41<br>Subject: [IFLA-L] Reminder: New IFLA Digital Scholarship/Digital Humanities SIG Kick Off Exploratory Meeting on Thursday 18th, 8:30-10:30@C210-212<br>To: "<a href="mailto:ifla-l@infoserv.inist.fr">ifla-l@infoserv.inist.fr</a>" <<a href="mailto:ifla-l@infoserv.inist.fr">ifla-l@infoserv.inist.fr</a>><br><br><br>





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Please be reminded that a new and first of its kind - the IFLA Digital Scholarship/Digital Humanities Special Interest Group (SIG) - will be held on Thursday<span style="color:#1f497d">
</span>at 8:30<span style="color:#1f497d"> </span>a.m. in room C-210. Please come to participate in and support the inaugural meeting of the new exploratory Special Interest Group (SIG) on Digital Scholarship/Digital Humanities. This will be the first SIG with
 a DS/DH theme in IFLA. I look forward to welcoming many of you at this kick off meeting. <u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="layout-grid-mode:char"><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">If you are not able to come, and<span style="color:#1f497d"> are</span> interested in participating<span style="color:#1f497d"> in
</span>the new SIG, please send me your contact information, I will follow up with you.<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">Xuemao Wang<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">640 Langsam Library<u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">PO Box 210033<u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">Cincinnati, OH 45221-0033<u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">(v) 513-556-1515<u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">(e) <a href="mailto:x.wang@uc.edu" target="_blank">
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<span style="color:black">Meeting Time: 18.08.2016, 08:30 – 10:30                         <wbr>                              <wbr>                              <wbr>  Meeting Room: C210-212</span><u></u><u></u></p>
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<b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:#002d19;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in">Xuemao Wang</span></b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:#002d19"><br>
Dean and University Librarian<br>
University of Cincinnati</span><u></u><u></u></p>
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Please come to join us for an exploratory meeting on an evolving and exciting theme of what and how the global library and information service professionals can play a leading role in creation, supporting, disseminating and preservation of 21^st century
 digital scholarship. You will have opportunity to participate, contribute, and lead the formation of the first of its kind IFLA Digital Scholarship/Digital Humanities Special Interest Group!   
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<span style="font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:#002d19">Libraries play a vital role in the 21^st century scholarly ecosystem. As researchers increasingly pursue digital scholarship, particularly in digital humanities areas (the creation, production,
 analysis, publishing, dissemination and long term preservation of new scholarship using digital and/or computational techniques), they often present different challenges and demands for academic and research libraries. As users’ information and knowledge seeking
 behavior  are increasingly driven by digital innovations, academic, public, school, special and all types of libraries are facing tremendous new challenges. Today, libraries around the world have taken courageous steps to re-articulate their value propositions,
 re-configure and re-train their workforce, re-assess their operational models and efficiency, and re-purpose their spaces and resources under the evolving and emerging digital scholarship landscape.
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<span style="font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:#002d19">The creation of the IFLA Digital Humanities/Digital Scholarship Special Interest Group (SIG) will provide a new international platform for IFLA community digital scholarship/digital humanities discussion
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<span style="font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:#002d19">Our exploring meeting would like to touch base on those questions such as:</span><u></u><u></u></p>
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<span style="font-family:"Georgia",serif">What has been evolving in the scholarship ecosystem, in this digital age?</span><u></u><u></u></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:#002d19;margin-bottom:12.0pt;background:white;vertical-align:baseline">
<span style="font-family:"Georgia",serif">What role have libraries played in the traditional scholarship ecosystem, and what role should libraries play in the changed ecosystem?</span><u></u><u></u></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:#002d19;margin-bottom:12.0pt;background:white;vertical-align:baseline">
<span style="font-family:"Georgia",serif">What are core skill sets, mind sets and/or competencies that library professionals should have in order to engage the new modes of scholarship?
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<span style="font-family:"Georgia",serif">What kind of spaces and technologies should libraries design/deploy for DS/DH?</span><u></u><u></u></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:#002d19;margin-bottom:12.0pt;background:white;vertical-align:baseline">
<span style="font-family:"Georgia",serif">What is best structure and format of SIG to move forward? e.g. programming, communication, and community etc.
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