The paper summarizes the characteristics of digital scholarship librarians in American university libraries from the position title, location, responsibilities, qualifications, training and assessment, and points out that the contingent construction of digital scholarship librarians in Chinese university libraries should set up digital scholarship librarian positions flexibly to meet the development needs of the library, build a digital scholarship librarian organization and management agency which is conducive to development, be strict to selection of digital scholarship librarians, provide a variety of training content and methods for digital scholarship librarians, establish and improve digital scholarship librarian assessment mechanism.