In cooperation with the Office of the Senior Vice Provost for Graduate and Professional Education, the University of Delaware Library will feature several UD digital scholarship projects and provide a forum on Oct. 27 for discussing an anticipated Digital Scholarship Center in the Morris Library. 

A series of “lightning talks” will demonstrate how UD faculty have taken advantage of the opportunities digital scholarship skills, tools and methods provide to enhance their research and teaching.

Also, in light of the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) Next Generation Ph.D. grant award, the need to plan how to best support digital scholarship projects on campus, and a variety of interesting projects under consideration, Trevor A. Dawes, vice provost for libraries and museums and May Morris University Librarian, will lead a discussion of anticipated needs for support for digital projects. 

Ann Ardis, senior vice provost for Graduate and Professional Education and director of the College of Arts and Sciences’ Interdisciplinary Humanities Research Center, will talk briefly about digital scholarship at the University of Delaware and the goals of the NEH Next-Gen doctorate grant. Her leadership is supporting the expansion of digital scholarship on campus. 

Five scholars with interesting applications of digital technology will briefly demonstrate their work and explain how digital resources enhanced their research and teaching.

• Kristen Poole, professor, English Renaissance literature and interim faculty director, Undergraduate Research and Experiential Learning, will demonstrate “Shakespeare at Basecamp: Online Project Management and Teaching from the Archive.”

• Ritchie Garrison, professor and director, Winterthur Program in American Material Culture, will explain “The NEH Sampler Archive Project.”

• David Kim, project manager, Colored Conventions Project, will discuss “Multimodal Archives.”

• Phillip Penix-Tadsen, associate professor of Spanish and Latin American studies, specializes in Latin American cultural studies, focusing on the intersections between politics, economics, new media and visual culture. His presentation will illustrate on how games use culture and how culture uses games, using examples related to Latin America to analyze both the history of Latin American cultural representation in video games, and the real-world political, economic and social uses of games in the region.

• Sarah Wasserman, assistant professor in the Department of English, specializes in American literature from 1900 to today, with an emphasis on post-1945 and contemporary fiction. Her talk, “Thinking Conceptually, Teaching Digitally,” will describe her undergraduate courses that encourage students to do historical, interpretive and creative work on and about the web.

The program, the third planned for International Open Access Week at UD this October, is designed to highlight the digital and open work of faculty and prompt discussion of future digital, open access projects at the University of Delaware. 

Additional activities include an Open Access Workshop, Creative Commons: What You Need to Know 4-5 p.m., Monday, Oct. 24, in Room 114 of the Morris Library, and Peter Hirtle’s keynote talk, “Copyright and Your Research: Managing your Copyrights,” at 4 p.m., Wednesday, Oct. 26, in the first floor Reading Room in Morris Library.

The Digital Scholarship Showcase and Forum will be in the Morris Library, Class of 1941 Lecture Room, from 1-2:30 p.m., Thursday, Oct. 27, Light refreshments will be served. Acceptances are encouraged via email at libraryrsvp@winsor.lib.udel.edu or by calling 302-831-2231 by Oct. 25. Walk-ins are welcome.