Purpose

The purpose of the study is to assess the role of academic libraries in digital scholarship at the University of Cape Coast. The study adopted the descriptive survey design and used teaching staff (lecturers) as the population of the study.

Design/methodology/approach

A sample size of 278 was used for the study. The study used questionnaires to obtain data from participants. The study revealed that faculty members appreciate digital scholarship through the services offered by Sam Jonah Library are relevant to the current higher education context, reliable information, preservation of information resources and facilitating the integration of library services into the learning process are closely integrated into the library service, transform scholarly communication, teaching and learning style and research paradigm.

Findings

The study revealed that digital scholarship contributes to faculty members' delivery at the University of Cape Coast through the provision of information literacy training for new students, provision of reference lists of materials available in the library and provision of lists of new materials. The study revealed that faculty members face inadequate facilities to enhance digital scholarship, inadequate open access to reading materials (articles, books, etc.), inadequate platforms or suite of tools for librarians to take faculty.

Practical implications

The application of digital scholarship provides an expansion to the core competitiveness of librarians new services which enables innovativeness and transformation of libraries. Students will be equipped with digital literacy skills; it affords instructors to approach teaching with innovation and scholars are also engaged to perform novel practices in scholarship acquisition. Digital scholarship is the umbrella under which all academic technologies comes under to foster collaboration and better learning experience.

Originality/value

This paper offers an insight of the role digital scholarship in promoting and advancing scholarship in the academic environment. It highlights a number of digital scholarship platform available in the library. It is observed that digital scholarship practices must be encouraged in the library because it facilitates the role of academic library which is to support teaching, learning and research.

中文翻译：

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数字学术在学术图书馆中的作用，以海岸角大学为例：机遇与挑战

目的

该研究的目的是评估学术图书馆在海岸角大学数字奖学金中的作用。本研究采用描述性调查设计，以教学人员（讲师）为研究对象。

设计/方法/途径

该研究使用了 278 的样本量。该研究使用问卷调查从参与者那里获取数据。该研究表明，教职员工通过 Sam Jonah 图书馆提供的服务欣赏数字奖学金与当前的高等教育环境相关，可靠的信息、信息资源的保存以及促进图书馆服务与学习过程的整合与图书馆紧密结合服务，转变学术交流、教学方式和研究范式。

发现

该研究表明，数字奖学金通过为新生提供信息素养培训、提供图书馆可用资料的参考清单和提供新资料清单，有助于教员在海岸角大学的交付。该研究表明，教职员工面临着加强数字学术的设施不足、阅读材料（文章、书籍等）的开放访问不足、图书馆员聘请教职员工的平台或工具套件不足。

实际影响

数字学术的应用扩展了图书馆员新服务的核心竞争力，使图书馆能够创新和转型。学生将具备数字素养技能；它使教师能够以创新的方式进行教学，学者们也参与在奖学金获得方面进行新颖的实践。数字学术是所有学术技术的保护伞，以促进协作和更好的学习体验。

原创性/价值

本文深入探讨了数字奖学金在学术环境中促进和推进奖学金的作用。它突出了图书馆中可用的一些数字奖学金平台。据观察，图书馆必须鼓励数字学术实践，因为它有助于学术图书馆发挥支持教学、学习和研究的作用。