Includes bibliographical references and index.

This book provides strategic insights drawn from librarians who are meeting the challenge of digital scholarship, utilizing the latest technologies and creating new knowledge in partnership with researchers, scholars, colleagues and students. This edited collection spans a wide range of contrasting perspectives, contexts, insights and case studies, which explore the relationships between digital scholarship, contemporary academic libraries and professional practice. The book demonstrates that there are opportunities to be bold, remodel, trial new approaches and reposition the library as a key partner in the process of digital scholarship. Content covered includes: the impact of digital scholarship on organisational strategies; developing digital capable librarians; social networking with the scholarly community; digital scholarship centres; new approaches to service delivery; re-visioning of space, physical and virtual.0This is an essential guide for librarians and information professionals involved in digital scholarship and communication, and are interested in extending their awareness of emerging practices, as well as library administrators and students studying library and information science