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.

摘要

大英图书馆数字奖学金团队的核心目的之一就是为图书馆工作人员提供培训。自2012年开始运营以来，数字奖学金培训计划（DSTP）的主要目的是为员工创造机会，以发展必要的技能和知识，以支持新兴的奖学金领域。最近，图书馆一直在尝试一种新格式以提供其培训，该培训将通过模块化实现灵活性和适应性：“季节”。数字奖学金团队组织了一系列培训活动，这些活动被称为“地方季节”，旨在使图书馆工作人员了解最新的数字地图概念，方法和技术，并向他们提供将前沿研究应用于他们的技能。收集区。作者设计了 协调并交付了本培训季节，以实现更广泛的图书馆目标，选择混合和匹配事件的类型和交付方式，以适应当今构成数字地图的各种技术。本文还介绍了通过观察和评估调查获得的初步评估结果，探讨了这些方法和内容选择对数字素养和数字制图的影响。