Digital Scholarship Center: About Us

About the Rowan Libraries Digital Scholarship Center

The Rowan University Libraries Digital Scholarship Center (DSC) aims to empower and support learning, collaboration, creative and research activities, and the development of engaging scholarly products and unique educational experiences. We follow a student-as-partner approach, offering students opportunities to collaborate with faculty and community members in developing and curating digital projects, educational resources, and digital collections. These collaborations include unique learning opportunities such as course projects, research projects, Library initiatives, and internships. 

The DSC is an inclusive and collaborative space (LGBTQ+ Safe Space since 2016) where everyone in the Rowan community can access media design tools and library resources and develop the expertise necessary for creating digital media projects. In the DSC, all campus community members have equal opportunities to develop digital scholarship projects, enhance their technological literacy, learn how to organize and present their research, and express themselves creatively. We offer various services that support research and project development in the digital humanities and sciences. 
 

Our Definition of Digital Scholarship

Our Mission Statement 

We offer a wide variety of services, including:

Digital scholarship project development and support:

• Collaborating with faculty, staff, and students to develop and curate digital scholarship projects, digital collections, and educational resources (Appointments)

• Developing cross-department collaborations and community-driven projects related to curriculum 

• Developing and supporting unique course projects that develop experiential learning (Appointments)

• Manage web-based digital humanities publishing systems that support course projects and research

• Photographing artifacts and specimens in 360 degrees and curating these collections to increase accessibility for research and online learning

• Experiment with emerging technologies and provide support for digital tools, instructional design, and publishing projects

Unique learning opportunities:

• Producing experiential learning opportunities through real-world projects and interactions with the wider community (Appointments)
• Developing and co-supervising internships related to projects (See internship program)
• Providing support for student entrepreneurial startups and research groups 
• Offering a wide variety of workshops and talks that extend creativity, learning, research, and publishing
• Building and publishing learning resources and tutorials that support project development, course projects, and online learning (See Tutorials)
• Support faculty partners in online learning, including course development and LMS support (Appointments)

Facility:

• Providing and supporting an inclusive and collaborative learning space where everyone in the Rowan community can work and learn together to build digital scholarship projects, enhance technological literacy, and develop research and creative projects
• Access to various technologies to assist courses in developing digital projects and research. 
• Providing a collaborative space for courses, research partners, and student entrepreneurial startups.

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