Digital Scholarship

At Raynor Library, we help students and faculty use digital tools and methods to create and share knowledge in new, born-digital ways.

We provide fundamental infrastructure and expertise to support innovative scholarship like data visualization, digital mapping, digital collections, open education resources, digital storytelling, web publishing, and more!

Email the digital scholarship team at raynordms@marquette.edu for questions or more information.

Featured project: Ex Libris: Bookplates from the Raynor Library Collections 

Marquette University’s library has existed for more than a century. Through the years, many of the books that have come to rest on its shelves were already used—some with storied histories. Some of these secondhand books were donated by retiring Marquette faculty. Others came to the library during growth periods in the middle of the 20th century, when Marquette’s librarians bought whole collections from US and European booksellers. 

Visit the Ex Libris digital collection

Visit the sister project about Dr. Logan’s “liberal donation”

Consulting Services 

We provide consulting services where we meet with patrons to consult on digital scholarship design and development, including data visualization, research data management, metadata, digital collections, copyright/licensing, open education resources, digital media, generative AI, digital storytelling, visual communication, open-source software, web design/development, and web archiving. 

Request consulting services

Teaching Services 

We provide teaching services where we visit courses to introduce students to digital scholarship design and development. Learning objectives often include: identify your digital scholarship project format; identify appropriate tool/s to build your digital scholarship project; and, recognize and interpret visual design decisions. 

Email the team to request teaching services at raynordms@marquette.edu 

Web Publishing Support Services

We provide web publishing support services for patrons to develop digital projects, scholarship, and textbooks. Examples include public-facing course blogs and open-access digital collections. We can provide approximately 3GB of shared web hosting for 3 years. We can install and host web publishing applications that use a LAMP environment (Linux, Apache, MySQL, PHP). Popular web publishing applications we can host include: WordPress, Pressbooks, Omeka, Mukurtu, and Scalar. We review and approve applications for web publishing support services on a semesterly basis. 

Read the team’s framework for collaboration →

View showcase projects and applications

Apply for web publishing support services

Institutional Repository

e-Publications@Marquette is Marquette University’s digital institutional repository (IR). e-Pubs brings together Marquette University’s scholarly output in one place to preserve scholarship and make it openly accessible for current and future researchers. A wide variety of content is eligible for deposit in e-Publications, including materials relevant to digital scholarship (e.g., datasets, software, and multimedia files). 

Visit the institutional repository →

Research Data Management

Raynor Library provides resources to help plan and implement research data management. Marquette University is also a participating institution at DMPTool where MU users can log in with their MU credentials, receive MU-specific information and guidance, and create and save research data management plans.

Learn more about data management →

Learn more at the Office of Research and Sponsored Programs →

Library Spaces

Patrons can reserve time to use the media editing room on the first floor of Raynor Library for audio recording and AV editing. The room includes a Mac Studio workstation, two boom arm mics, and Audacity, Final Cut Pro, and the Adobe Creative Cloud suite. A reservation is required to use the media editing room. 

Reserve the media editing room →

Library Resources 

Patrons can find software to support digital scholarship on the desktop computers on the north side of the first floor of Raynor Library, among other desktop computers located across the library and the laptop computers available for check out in the middle of the first floor of Raynor Library. 

Library software can support digital scholarship including data analysis/visualization (i.e., Tableau Public, Power BI, SPSS, and ArcGIS), digital media content creation (i.e., Audacity, Final Cut Pro, and Adobe Creative Cloud), and programming/development (i.e., Python, Anaconda, and MATLAB). 

Learn more about library software →

Patrons can access hardware for digital media AV recording (i.e., microphones and photography and video cameras) available for check out at the library services desk in the middle of the first floor of Raynor Library. 

View library hardware available for check out →