Overview
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Arjun Sabharwal joined the University of Toledo Libraries faculty as Digital Initiatives Librarian in January 2009 as Assistant Professor, and was promoted to Associate Professor with tenure in 2015. His areas of responsibilities have included digitizing manuscript collections and archival records and developing virtual exhibitions at the Ward M. Canaday Center for Special Collections, managing the University of Toledo Digital Repository, and curating the Toledo's Attic Virtual Museum. Since 2017, he has also been the system administrator and lead technical contact for the Open Journal Systems, which houses several Open Access journals at the University of Toledo. He is the selector for the following disciplines: Geography and Planning, Music, Political Science and Public Administration, and Hungarian Literature/Language, and also oversees the collections for the Margaret M. Papp Perry Memorial Hungarian Culture Endowment Collection. He currently serves as the Inclusion Officer for the University Libraries.
His research interests include Digital Humanities, interdisciplinary approaches to digital curation, digital preservation, archival science, and information architecture, data visualization, and visual literacy. He is the author of Digital Curation in the Digital Humanities: Preserving and Promoting Archival and Special Collections (Oxford, UK: Chandos Publishing, 2015) and has authored and co-authored several research articles and chapters. His sabbatical research focused on institutional repository engagement frameworks, which has also been published.
Publications
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Article (Faculty180)
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2021Institutional Repository Engagement Framework: Harnessing Resources, Structure, and Process for Strategic Plan Support in Higher Education. Journal of Electronic Resources Librarianship. 33:133-55.
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2019Institutional Repositories and Knowledge Curation: Revisiting Knowledge Conversion in the Academic Environment. Against the Grain. 31:78-80.
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2018City, Legacy, and Reform: The Beginnings of the Toledo Humane Society. Ohio History . 125:44-69.
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2018Editorial: What editors welcome. Translation: The University of Toledo Journal of Medical Sciences,. 5:1-2.
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2017Digital Humanities and the Emerging Framework for Digital Curation. College & Undergraduate Libraries. 24:238-256.
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2017Integrating the IR into Strategic Goals at the University of Toledo: Case Study.. Digital Library Perspectives. 33:339-360.
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2017Integrating the IR into strategic goals at the University of Toledo: Case study.. Digital Library Perspectives. 33:339-360.
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2015Toledo's Attic: A Community-Curated Virtual Museum Nears 20 Years Old.. Ohio Genealogy News. 46:4 pp.
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2013Toledo's Attic: A Collaborative Digital History Project. Northwest Ohio History. 81:23 pp.
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2012Digital Representation of Disability History: Developing a Virtual exhibition at the Ward M. Canaday Center, University of Toledo. Archival Issues: Journal of the Midwest Archives Conference. 34:7-26.
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2012Networked Co-Curation in Virtual Museums: Digital Humanities, History, and Social Media in the Toledo’s Attic Project.. International Journal of Heritage in the Digital Era. 1:23 pp.
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2011Knowledge domain navigation in interdisciplinary digital landscapes. Journal of Library Metadata. 11:20 pp.
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Article (Web of Science)
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2021Functional Frameworks for Socialized Digital Curation: Curatorial Interventions and Curation Spaces in Archives and Libraries. LIBRARY TRENDS. 69:672-695.Full Text via DOI: 10.1353/lib.2021.0009
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2017Digital humanities and the emerging framework for digital curation. COLLEGE & UNDERGRADUATE LIBRARIES. 24:238-256.Full Text via DOI: 10.1080/10691316.2017.1336953
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2017Integrating the IR into strategic goals at the University of Toledo: case study. Digital Library Perspectives. 33:339-360.Full Text via DOI: 10.1108/dlp-03-2017-0008
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Book (Faculty180)
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2015
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Chapter (Faculty180)
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2022Digital Scriptures, Material Religion and the Digital Humanities: An Interdisciplinary Framework for Curating Digitized Sacred Texts Online (Chapter 3). Digital Humanities and Material Religion: An Introduction. De Gruyter Publishers. 49-87.
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2018Digital Humanities and the Emerging Framework for Digital Curation (re-published as a chapter in 2018). College & Undergraduate Libraries. Routledge. 238-256.
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2018The Transformative Role of Institutional Repositories in Academic Knowledge Management (re-published chapter). Digital Curation: Breakthroughs in Research and Practice. IGI Global. 41-62.
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2017Emerging Technologies in Humanities Education. Humanities: Past, Present, and Future. Nova Science Publishers. 117-49.
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2017The Transformative Role of Institutional Repositories in Academic Knowledge Management. Managing Knowledge and Scholarly Assets in Academic Libraries. IGI Global. 127-155.
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Conference Poster (Faculty180)
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Lecture or Panel Discussion (Faculty180)
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2013"Starting a Digital Humanities project." Roundtable discussion (leader). Great Lakes THATCamp.
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2012"Geotagging Oral Histories." Roundtable discussion (leader). Oral History Association THATCamp.
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Presentation (Faculty180)
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Proceedings (Faculty180)
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Research Report (Faculty180)
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Review (Faculty180)
Contact
full name
- Arjun Sabharwal