Domain
Organizing, processing, preserving and creating access points for digital knowledge in different formats.
Capability descriptors. Academic Librarians can...
- Show a firm grasp of the different levels of digital literacy skills and how to facilitate the acquisition of such skills for library users.
- Understand how to create comprehensive (structural, descriptive, and content) metadata for digital resources and objects.
- Acquire curation and sharing techniques for digital resources and objects.
- Display basic repository management skills.
- Display basic understanding of the implications and applications of Artificial Intelligence authoring, knowledge assistance and learning
- Review features, accessibility and usability of applications that provide digital access to books, journals and reference sources eg R Discovery, Scrib’d, Headway, Researcher, Zotero, Blinkist, etc
- Explore integration of knowledge and e-books apps into regular library service eg Leganto (ProQuest), ePlatform Digital libraries, Libby, Ex Libris, Bookshelf, etc
- Provide resources and basic technical skills to users who create digital content as standalone resources or to be integrated into other resources e.g podcasts , videos, blogs, ebooks, memes, GIFs (Graphic Interchange Format), interactive presentations, newsletters, infographics etc.
- Secure migration and transfer strategies for digital resources.
- Show familiarity with technologies and skills for digital preservation including web crawling and archiving tools, and digital content management systems.