Developing curriculum for digital libraries and digital curation education: Reflections on synergies and divergencies
✍ Scribed by Javed Mostafa; Jeffrey Pomerantz; Helen R. Tibbo; Jerome McDonough; Carole Palmer
- Publisher
- Wiley (John Wiley & Sons)
- Year
- 2009
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 21 KB
- Volume
- 45
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0044-7870
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✦ Synopsis
Over the past decade, there has been tremendous growth in professional opportunities for information and library science (ILS) and computer science (CS) graduates in the areas of digital libraries and digital and data curation. These opportunities require a diverse set of skills to perform, manage and address a range of procedures, processes, and challenges across the lifecycle of digital objects, from point of creation, through dissemination, access, storage, use, reuse, and withdrawal. To train students to fill these new professional roles, there is a need for professional education to address the necessary competencies for managing digital collections. In response, several recent projects are developing curricula to prepare today's students to work in the ever-evolving fields of digital libraries and digital and data curation. This panel brings together researchers from four disparate curriculum development projects: Digital Libraries Curriculum Development project, a collaboration between the School of Information and Library Science (SILS) at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill