Want to enroll your team in the Digital Library Federation?

Note to CMLE members: we will give you $200 in scholarship money toward the institutional cost!

“Enrollment is now open for the DLF eResearch Network (eRN): a facilitated, six-month program through which participating teams advance their research data services and digital scholarship support roles within their libraries. Teams will join a larger cohort for webinars, discussions, and assignments each month, and will come out of the program with a local strategic agenda for future use.

The deadline to enroll is April 21st, but spots are limited. More info can be found on the DLF’s site.

I’m looking forward to working with this year’s participants!
– Becca”

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Becca Quon

Program Associate – The Digital Library Federation

1707 L Street Ste 650, Washington, D.C. 20036

diglib.org | clir.org

About the 2017 eRN

The DLF eResearch Network brings together teams from research-supporting libraries to strengthen and advance their data services and digital scholarship roles within their organizations.

The core of the 2017 network is a working curriculum that guides participants through 6 monthly webinars that address current topics and strategic methods for supporting and facilitating data services and digital scholarship locally. The webinars are designed around registrant needs and feature guest speakers, activities, and small-group discussions. Monthly assignments provide structure for each team to build skills and programs at their institution. The eResearch Network (eRN) culminates in an individualized consultation during which the participating teams produce strategic agendas and working items for data services and digital scholarship support at their institutions.

This will be the fourth year of the DLF eRN, which is itself a spin-off of an earlier ARL/DLF/Duraspace E-Science Institute. Past cohorts are listed in the sidebar.

This year’s webinars are scheduled for the second Wednesday of the month from May through October, from 1:30-3:00 PM ET. The webinars are structured around the following broad topics.

May 10: Building an eResearch Services Roadmap (environmental scans and defining RDM, digital scholarship, or other eResearch-related services)
June 14: Advocacy and Promotion (building advocates, partnerships internal/external, and promoting data literacy)
July 12: Data Management Planning and Funder Requirements
August 9: Data Discovery/Metadata and Curation (reusability and preservation)
September 13 : Collections as Data: Digital Scholarship, Digital Humanities, Data Visualization
October 11: Assessment (Metrics for success with Data Services and Digital Scholarship)

eResearch Network participants will also be invited to an entirely optional, informal and fun networking meet-up at the DLF Forum.

Facilitating the Experience

Lectures, guest presentations, and small group discussions
Practical assignments based on monthly webinar topics
Slack channel and email list for between-session discussion and peer/alumni connections
Regular, facilitated Slack chats for eResearch Network participants and alumni (new!)
Shared documents at our OSF instance
In-person networking meetings at the DLF Forum (optional)

Overall Goals for the Network

The goal of the DLF eResearch Network is to advance research libraries’ capacity to support data management and digital scholarship by:

Promoting program development among DLF members
Enabling development of a community of professionals engaged in data services and digital scholarship support
Fostering collaboration between participant institutions (past and present) and DLF members at large

Outcomes for Participating Institutions

Build skills that will enhance local data services and digital scholarship support
Develop a local strategic agenda for data services and digital scholarship support that is action-oriented and based in practice.
Work on a consultation project that enables a deep dive into a local initiative or pressing question related to data services or digital scholarship.
Connect with a community of practice engaged in program planning and deployment of data services and digital scholarship.

Tuition + Enrollment

Cost of participation is $1,000 for for an institutional team of three active participants from DLF member institutions and $3,000 for teams from non-member institutions. DLF eRN program alumni are welcome to sit in for free refresher sessions in future years.

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