American university library established digital scholarship space to organize activities related to digital scholarship, to support users to carry out digital scholarship activities. Digital scholarship space mainly includes staff office space, communication space, teaching space, digital creation and digital research space. Digital scholarship space is dedicated to personal service, and equipped with software and hardware facilities. American university library established digital scholarship space use guidelines, so as to standardize space use. Our university libraries should plan to build digital scholarship space, with emphasis on the introduction of emerging technology tools and improvement of the utilization rate of the existing space, attaching importance to establish space use guidelines.