A Season of Place: Teaching Digital Mapping at the British Library
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Journal article
Date published
March 6, 2020
Abstract
One of the British Library Digital Scholarship team’s core purposes is to deliver training to Library staff. Running since 2012, the main aim of the Digital Scholarship Training Program (DSTP) is to create opportunities for staff to develop the necessary skills and knowledge to support emerging areas of scholarship. Recently, the Library has been experimenting with a new format to deliver its training that would allow flexibility and adaptability through modularity: a “season”. The Digital Scholarship team organized a series of training events billed as a “Season of Place”, which aimed to expose Library staff to the latest digital mapping concepts, methods and technologies, and provide them with the skills to apply cutting-edge research to their collection areas. The authors designed, coordinated and delivered this training season to fulfill broader Library objectives, choosing to mix and match the types of events and methods of delivery to fit the broad range of technologies that constitute digital mapping today. The paper also discusses the impact that these choices of methods and content has had on digital literacy and the uptake of digital mapping by presenting results of an initial evaluation obtained through observation and evaluation surveys.
Journal title
Journal of Map & Geography Libraries
Publisher
Taylor & Francis
Place of publication
UK
ISSN
1542-0353
eISSN
1542-0361
Date accepted
January 3, 2020
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This is an Accepted Manuscript of an article published by Taylor & Francis in Journal of Map & Geography Libraries, available online: https://doi.org/10.1080/15420353.2020.1719267