@dh @foundhistory As a DH librarian hired to create a library space for a burgeoning community, it often feels like I’ve been set up to fail. But I’ve also worked to shape the space not as a “service point” and more as a values-based place for exploration, collaboration and partnership. I’m at an R2 with an insufficiently funded library (what academic library isn’t?) and I wonder if this institutional context necessitates an approach that emphasizes capacity building over services. DH in our library is me (w a FTE staff line to be filled) so we don’t have a team of experts who can do things for faculty. Very few of our faculty approach me with that expectation (it helps that librarians on my campus are faculty in full standing). The tension in part is that admin thinks of what I do as a service and I think of it as a partnership. Either way, what we’ve built is currently unsustainable 😔