Digital Scholarship at Schaffer Library

Digital Scholarship

Critically engage with data and computing technologies

Digital scholars employ computational tools and methods to extend knowledge production, dissemination, and preservation, while also uncovering technology’s limitations, biases, and misuses. The Digital Scholarship Initiatives (DSi) team can help students and faculty incorporate digital methods into research and teaching.

What We Do

Interested in the digital humanities, data science, digital exhibitions, open access, or integrating digital methods into the classroom?

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Our Team

We can assist with every stage of the digital scholarship lifecycle, from initial conception through long-term preservation.

DSi team

Our values

We strive for projects that are open, recognize labor, ensure rigor, and ensure sustainability.

Our values

Data sets

Use Schaffer Library's collections in your own computational analyses!

Collections as data

Summer IDEaS

Our Summer Institute for Digital Exploration at Schaffer (IDEaS) is a library-taught and paid student research opportunity that introduces a small cohort of Union College students from across the disciplines to the digital humanities,

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