Benjamin Daigle
Associate Professor; Director of Information Systems and Digital Access
Full-Time Faculty
Libraries:
Information Systems and Digital Access
Benjamin Daigle
Associate Professor; Director of Information Systems and Digital Access
Full-Time Faculty
Libraries:
Information Systems and Digital Access
Profile
Benjamin Daigle leads a team responsible for the Libraries' technology and digital initiatives, connecting digitization and access with long-term preservation and open dissemination of scholarship and digitized distinctive collections. A strong collaborator, he provides strategic leadership in digital stewardship and emerging areas of library technology innovation.
Degrees
- M.L.I.S., Kent State University (2009)
- B.A., English, Temple University (2002)
AI in Librarianship
- Member, AI Faculty Advisory Committee
- Co-lead, "AI Learning in the Libraries" initiative, working with colleagues across the University Libraries to explore generative AI’s impacts on library work and developed shared resources grounded in participants’ perspectives, professional ethics and our Catholic and Marianist mission.
Research Interests
- Role of empathy in information technology and knowledge work
- Ethical and responsible use of emerging technologies in academic libraries
Selected Publications
- Daigle, B. (2026). Docs-as-care: Documentation as an expression of care and stewardship in organizational practice. Journal of Library Administration, 66(3), 241–250.
- Daigle, B., & Shannon, M. (2026, June 22). Human-centered by design: Dialogue as a path to sustainable critical engagement with AI in the library [Conference session]. Canadian Association of Professional Academic Librarians Conference, virtual.
- Robins, S., & Daigle, B. (2024). Demystifying Shibboleth: Adapting to web browser privacy changes. Journal of Library Administration, 64(4), 449–472.
- Daigle, B., Schaff, S., & Keller, T. (2024). Flagging problematic language in subject headings. In K. Abromeit & D. Sabin (Eds.), Music information literacy: Inclusion and advocacy. Library Juice Press.
- Daigle, B., & Heil, J. (2022). Projects to pedagogy: On the social infrastructure of consortial collaboration in digital scholarship. In A. Mauro (Ed.), Social knowledge creation in the humanities: Volume 2. Iter Press.
- Daigle, B., & Mitchell, M. (2022, October 20). Exploring inclusive and sustainable models for facilitating collaborative digital scholarship project development [Conference session]. Bucknell University Digital Scholarship Conference, virtual.
- Daigle, B., Keller, T., & Schaff, S. (2022, March 16). This presentation will make you uncomfortable: Flagging problematic language in discovery tools [Conference session]. Electronic Resources and Libraries Conference, virtual.