DH-Lunch: The Digital Academic Library – from Information to Knowledge
This DH-Lunch presentation focuses on the academic library as a key player in digitalization projects in the higher education sector and in a digital, information-rich society.
The talk will be in English.
With advancing technology, the classical form of the library as a collection of physical books has steadily evolved to include digitalized materials, with digitalization and current technologies such as artificial intelligence increasingly taking center stage. In this context, the evolution of the academic library from a collection of physical objects to a highly digitalized environment affects the nature of the content, skills of academic librarians, the distribution and outreach potential of the library, strategies of establishing the library within an increasingly digital information-rich society, and ethics of information science particularly relating to the issue of trust. The talk presents a theoretical framework to navigate some of the core complexities faced by academic librarians in a world of digital challenges.
About the lecturer
Nivedita Gangopadhyay is a senior academic librarian at the University Library, University of Bergen. She currently works with research data, digital infrastructure, open science, and digital humanities. She is an active member of interdisciplinary research networks in digital humanities and ethical research practices.