Abstract:

Digital scholarship education is a part of support for digital scholarship of academic libraries in North America. It is essential to study the digital scholarship education of academic libraries in North America, which can provide some lessons to the work of academic libraries in China. By websites and literature investigation, this paper studies how academic libraries in North America conduct their digital scholarship education. The findings are as follows: academic libraries in North America provide services including courses, workshops, online training courses and guidance, as well as education integrated into digital scholarship activities, which indicates the diversity of digital scholarship education forms. Digital scholarship education also show some characteristics such as focusing on digital scholarship skills education, cooperating with institutions in universities, using a variety of ways for education, providing customized education. According to the results, this paper proposes some suggestions to academic libraries in China, including more focus on digital scholarship education, clear definition of digital scholarship education content, innovation of education forms, implementation of embedded digital scholarship education and cooperation with other institutions.

Keywords: Digital scholarship； Digital scholarship education, Academic libraries；North America, Library education；Digital humanities