SHARE as a Service-Learning Opportunity for Graduate Students | SHARE

"Recent reports have shown that the need for modular, hands-on, learning opportunities to support digital curation activities is growing.1 As more and more information is being produced digitally or being digitized, an expanded set of skills held by an increasingly wider variety of positions within libraries is required to ensure the ongoing discovery and use of these materials. Additionally, to make the most use of the data about research that SHARE is aggregating, community involvement and contribution to curate and enhance the metadata is essential. To address these two needs and build data-handling capacity, the SHARE team has developed a curation service-learning program aimed at library and information science (LIS) graduate students. Service learning 'is a teaching and learning strategy that integrates meaningful community service with instruction and reflection to enrich the learning experience, teach civic responsibility, and strengthen communities.' 2 Launched in spring 2016, the SHARE service-learning program provides LIS graduate students with student-centered, hands-on work that both benefits the SHARE data set, improves local metadata about scholarly activities, and equips individuals with transferrable skills in digital curation while building technical confidence ..."