Current Issue (78)

• Building a Digital Scholarship Centre on the Successes of a Library Makerspace

  Heila Pienaar, Isak van der Walt and Sean Kruger discuss the exciting opportunity to build a Digital Scholarship Centre in the University of Pretoria Library based on the huge success of the Library’s Makerspace. This article looks at the possibility to develop a Digital Scholarship Centre on the foundation of a successful Library Makerspace. The University of Pretoria Library Makerspace is the first known Academic Makerspace in a university library on the African continent. The origin of Digital Scholarship in general and Digital Scholarship Centres in libraries are discussed. The overlap in functions of a Makerspace and a Digital Scholarship Centre is also illustrated. By combining the Library Makerspace services with that of a Digital Scholarship Centre, a comprehensive Digital Scholarship Centre in the Library can be established.

• REACH Project Opening Conference "Resilient Cultural Heritage and Communities in Europe" 10th-11th of May 2018, Budapest, Hungary

  The opening conference of REACH project, will be organized by ELTE University, Eotvos Lora Tudomanyegyetem and it will take place in Budapest (Hungary), the 10th and 11th of May 2018, kindly hosted by the Hungarian National Museum.

• Assessing the impact on the student experience of embedding information resources in the Guided Learner Journey at the University of Hertfordshire

  Helen Singer and Jane Bilson explain how the University of Hertfordshire followed ‘Guided Learner Journey’ principles by embedding resources in their VLE using the Talis Aspire reading list system and their assessment of how this has affected the student experience at the University.

• Figshare Fest 2018

  Dan Towns provides us with a report from Figshare Fest 2018, attended by a range of institutional repository and research data managers from across the world.