Presentation
CreateUK: Opportunities for Digital Pedagogy, Projects, and Collaborative Infrastructure
Coalition for Networked Information (CNI) Fall 2020 Membership Meeting
(2020)
Abstract
In 2017, University of Kentucky (UK) libraries formed the Digital Scholarship Center Task Force (DSCTF) to identify current services that address digital scholarship teaching and learning needs, explore opportunities to strengthen existing services, and recommend new initiatives. The task force findings confirmed a significant gap in equitable access to web-hosting options. Thus, UK Libraries recognized a strategic opportunity in piloting CreateUK, a web-hosting service. In our first year of this pilot (2019-2020), CreateUK has become more than a web-hosting service for campus. It has become an entree to building new and meaningful relationships with colleges, departments, and campus services for whom common purpose with the libraries is not always easily visible or determined. To nurture these relationships and to support this work we developed a suite of workshops, online tutorials, and consultations. Offering a web-hosting platform with built-in open source applications ready to use that is sufficiently flexible enough to accommodate diverse usage, positions UK Libraries as not only a service provider but also a collaborator in digital pedagogical practices and projects with faculty, staff, and students.
This presentation was given as a project briefing at the CNI Fall 2020 Virtual Membership Meeting.
A recording can be viewed here.
Keywords
- Coalition for Networked Information,
- Project Briefing,
- Digital Humanities
Disciplines
Publication Date
November 20, 2020
Location
Virtual
Citation Information
Jennifer Hootman. "CreateUK: Opportunities for Digital Pedagogy, Projects, and Collaborative Infrastructure" Coalition for Networked Information (CNI) Fall 2020 Membership Meeting (2020) Available at: http://works.bepress.com/jlhootman/27/