SUNScholar/Capacity Building/Digital Repository Content Management
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"Citizens create knowledge – knowledge creates citizens" -Professor Aletta Bonn-
Contents
Introduction
In the context of the library, the operational team provides information services, that are supported by the technical team using information systems, which are built and maintained in co-operation with the information technology department.
This wiki page deals with building capacity for information services delivery.
PLEASE NOTE:
- You CANNOT do good content management without an experienced systems manager/team to support the content team.
- Recent LIS graduates who are naturally digitally literate and love the internet, are the best candidates for further training in open digital scholarly communications publishing systems.
DSpace Operational Guide
Click on the heading above and also see: http://wiki.lib.sun.ac.za/index.php/List_of_Repository_Software
Example Job Advertisement
The (name of institution) is seeking candidates to fill the positions of director, managers and librarians for the open scholarly communications office.
The candidates should have at least 2 years experience and supply accreditation documentation and an academic publishing history, where applicable.
The minimum required skill sets are listed below.
Please note: These do not reflect the current profiling of competencies and are rather a general guideline that highlights core competencies of all scholarly publishing practitioners.
Director
The director need not be a full time appointment, however someone at the director level should be made responsible.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
- Doctorate in library or information science.
- Academic journal publication and/or institutional policy development about "open scholarly communication and preservation".
- Expert understanding of open access digital repository content management.
- Expert with metadata standards for academic publishing.
- Professional understanding of digitisation technologies.
- Professional understanding of web 2.0 communication technologies.
- Familiarity with repository software.
- Familiarity with desktop computer operations.
- Familiarity with open access digital repository systems management.
- Familiarity with the operations of the internet and how to use it securely.
Example job advert - 1 Example job advert - 2 Example job advert - 3
Operational Manager
This is a full time appointment.
Core Skills
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
- Bachelors degree in library or information science.
- Major or Masters in "open scholarly communication and preservation".
- Expert understanding of open access digital repository content management.
- Expert with metadata standards for academic publishing.
- Expert with digital curation.
- Expert with digitisation technologies.
- Professional understanding of web 2.0 communication technologies.
- Professional understanding of repository software.
- Familiarity with open access digital repository systems management.
- Familiarity with desktop computer operations.
- Familiarity with the operations of the internet and how to use it securely.
Specialist Skills
- Expert with the management of Open Research Repository Systems.
- Expert with the management of Open Journal Publishing Systems.
- Expert with the management of Open Conference Publishing Systems.
- Expert with the management of Open Data Management Systems.
- Expert with the management of Open Educational Resource Systems.
Example job advert - 1 Example job advert - 2
Repository and Journal Librarians - 2 each
These are full time appointments.
Core Skills
- Professional written and verbal communication skills.
- Technology certificate in library or information science.
- Major in "open scholarly communication and preservation".
- Expert with repository software.
- Expert with desktop computer operations.
- Expert with metadata standards for academic publishing.
- Expert with digital curation.
- Expert with digitisation technologies.
- Professional understanding of open access digital repository content management.
- Professional understanding of the operations of the internet and how to use it securely.
- Professional understanding of web 2.0 communication technologies.
- Familiarity with open access digital repository systems management.
Specialist Skills
- Expert with the operation of Open Research Repository Systems.
- Expert with the operation of Open Journal Publishing Systems.
- Expert with the operation of Open Conference Publishing Systems.
- Expert with the operation of Open Data Management Systems.
- Expert with the operation of Open Educational Resource Systems.
Example job advert
Web and Digital Literacy
Watch the following entertaining video - how to read a book.
Due to the internet, it is very difficult to teach information literacy without being web and digitally literate as well.
- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_literacy
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European_Computer_Driving_Licence
- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Technology_acceptance_model
- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diffusion_of_innovations
- http://www.jisc.ac.uk/guides/developing-students-digital-literacy
- http://www.jiscinfonet.ac.uk/infokits/digital-literacies
- http://www.icdl.org.za
- https://party.webmaker.org
Technology
The hype cycle.
See: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Technology_acceptance_model
Simple answers to technophobia.
Library Schools
Library Jobs
- http://www.liasa-new.org.za/vacancies
- http://joblist.ala.org
- http://jobs.code4lib.org/jobs/open-access
- http://jobs.code4lib.org/jobs/scholarly-communication
- http://jobs.code4lib.org/jobs/institutional-repository
Digital Literacy News
- http://www.slideshare.net/CILIP/cilip-digital-inclusion-statement-sept-2014pdf
- http://www.jisc.ac.uk/whatwedo/programmes/elearning/developingdigitalliteracies.aspx
- http://centerforhealthmediapolicy.com/2014/08/21/digital-literacy-may-protect-against-cognitive-decline/
References
Click on the heading above.
