Shared Infrastructure for Libraries, Digital Curation, and Scholarly Communication
Description
Shared infrastructure is foundational to libraries, enabling innovation, collaboration, and competitiveness -- or impeding it as we fall behind. With the institutional repository movement now over 20 years old, let’s step back to consider this category of shared infrastructure alongside other enduring examples such as ILS/LSP and ILL platforms. As the market for these categories of shared infrastructure develops today, infrastructure for individual institutions increasingly needs to support shared community goals. When it comes to these categories of shared infrastructure for libraries, nobody can deny that community values and goals matter -- but scale and product-market fit are at least equally important. This talk will consider whether individual libraries can acquire and use shared infrastructure in ways that support their broader community goals.
Recommended Citation
Schonfeld, Roger, "Shared Infrastructure for Libraries, Digital Curation, and Scholarly Communication" (2024). Digital Commons Conferences. 1.
https://dc.researchcommons.org/dcnoamconf/2024/oct8/1
Shared Infrastructure for Libraries, Digital Curation, and Scholarly Communication
Shared infrastructure is foundational to libraries, enabling innovation, collaboration, and competitiveness -- or impeding it as we fall behind. With the institutional repository movement now over 20 years old, let’s step back to consider this category of shared infrastructure alongside other enduring examples such as ILS/LSP and ILL platforms. As the market for these categories of shared infrastructure develops today, infrastructure for individual institutions increasingly needs to support shared community goals. When it comes to these categories of shared infrastructure for libraries, nobody can deny that community values and goals matter -- but scale and product-market fit are at least equally important. This talk will consider whether individual libraries can acquire and use shared infrastructure in ways that support their broader community goals.
Speaker Details
Roger C. Schonfeld is the vice president of organizational strategy for ITHAKA and of Ithaka S+R’s libraries, scholarly communication, and museums program
Roger and the team of Ithaka S+R’s methodological and subject matter experts that comprise the program conduct research and provide advisory services to drive evidence-based innovation and leadership to foster research, learning, and preservation. This has included extensive survey and qualitative research of faculty members and students, as well as leaders such as senior research officers, presidents and provosts, and the directors of libraries and museums. Additional leadership and policy projects have sought to bolster organizational strategy and leadership, diversity and community engagement, and collections management and preservation. The team provides strategic guidance and advisory services for software companies, publishers and other content providers, and academic libraries on the transformation of scholarly communications and the research workflow. Several additional areas of current emphasis include research data services, student basic needs, and higher education in prisons.
Roger currently serves as a board member for the Center for Research Libraries. Previously, he has served on the NSF Blue Ribbon Task Force for Sustainable Digital Preservation and Access and NISO’s Open Discovery Initiative. Roger has testified before the US House of Representatives on government publishing, advocating for strong approaches to digital preservation.
In addition to authoring dozens of research reports, articles, and briefing papers, Roger blogs regularly at the Scholarly Kitchen and tweets at @rschon. With Deanna Marcum, he wrote Along Came Google: A History of Library Digitization (Princeton University Press, 2021), examining structural impediments to digital strategy and the role of an outside catalyst in fostering digitization among research libraries. He also wrote JSTOR: A History (Princeton, 2003), focusing on the development of a sustainable not-for-profit initiative for the digitization and preservation of scholarly texts.
Roger was previously a research associate at The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. There, he collaborated on The Game of Life: College Sports and Academic Values with James Shulman and William G. Bowen (Princeton, 2000). He was an Association of Research Libraries Leadership Fellow and received degrees in library and information science from Syracuse University and in English Literature from Yale University.