Laying the Foundation

Description

Laying the Foundation: Digital Humanities in Academic Libraries examines the library's role in the development, implementation, and instruction of successful digital humanities projects. It pays special attention to the critical role of librarians in building sustainable programs. It also examines how libraries can support the use of digital scholarship tools and techniques in undergraduate education. Academic libraries are nexuses of research and technology; as such, they provide fertile ground for cultivating and curating digital scholarship. However, adding digital humanities to library service models requires a clear understanding of the resources and skills required. Integrating digital scholarship into existing models calls for a reimagining of the roles of libraries and librarians. In many cases, these reimagined roles call for expanded responsibilities, often in the areas of collaborative instruction and digital asset management, and in turn these expanded responsibilities can strain already stretched resources.Laying the Foundation provides practical solutions to the challenges of successfully incorporating digital humanities programs into existing library services. Collectively, its authors argue that librarians are critical resources for teaching digital humanities to undergraduate students and that libraries are essential for publishing, preserving, and making accessible digital scholarship.
Preface, by John W. White

PART 1: WHY DIGITAL HUMANITIES IN THE LIBRARY?

1 Recovering a Humanist Librarianship through Digital Humanities, by Trevor Muñoz

2 A History of History through the Lens of Our Digital Present, the Traditions That Shape and Constrain Data-Driven Historical Research, and What Librarians Can Do About It, by James Baker

PART 2: THE PRACTICE OF DIGITAL HUMANITIES IN THE LIBRARY

3 Digital Public History in the Library: Developing the Lowcountry Digital History Initiative at the College of Charleston, by Mary Battle, Tyler Mobley, and Heather Gilbert

4 Curating Menus: Digesting Data for Critical Humanistic Inquiry, by Katherine Rawson

5 Many Voices, One Experiment: Building Toward Generous Interfaces for Oral History Collections with Mapping the Long Women's Movement, by Seth Kotch

PART 3: BUILDING DIGITAL HUMANITIES INFRASTRUCTURE AND PARTNERSHIPS

6 The Center That Holds: Developing Digital Publishing Initiatives at the Emory Center for Digital Scholarship, by Sarah Melton

7 Copiloting a Digital Humanities Center: A Critical Reflection on a Libraries–Academic Partnership, by Brian Rosenblum and Arienne Dwyer

8 Advancing Digital Humanities at CU-Boulder through Evidence-Based Service Design, by Thea Lindquist, Holley Long, and Alexander Watkins

PART 4: PEDAGOGY AND INSTRUCTION

9 A Collaborative Approach to Urban Cultural Studies and Digital Humanities, by Benjamin Fraser and Jolanda-Pieta van Arnhem

10 Fostering Assessment Strategies for Digital Pedagogy through Faculty–Librarian Collaborations: An Analysis of Student-Generated Multimodal Digital Scholarship, by Harriett E. Green

11 Library Instruction for Digital Humanities Pedagogy in Undergraduate Classes, by Stewart Varner

Index

Sujets

• Online Resources
• Information Science
• Disciplines
• Language Arts
• Tecnologías de la información y la comunicación
• Library
• IT
• Digital

Informations

• Publié par: Purdue University Press
• Date de parution: 15 mars 2016
• Nombre de lectures: 0
• EAN13: 9781612494494
• Langue: English

Extrait

“This excellent collection of essays inspires sustainable digital humanities services in libraries, archives, and museums. Administrators will be convinced of the value of incorporating digital humanities into the core mission of academic libraries.”
Corrie Marsh
Scholarly Communications and Collection Development Librarian Old Dominion University
“Contextualizing with concrete examples and current debate, White and Gilbert’s collection of essays surveys and analyzes the role of libraries in digital humanities research. Comprehensive and engaging, these essays present arguments and case studies that are sure to enliven the discussion of the forces that shape and constrain the use of digital collections. As the authors explore the myriad ways in which libraries absolutely must work with digital humanities, they scrupulously confront some of the problems associated with such endeavors. These essays show that in both physical and virtual space, libraries need to be full and essential partners in research in these new fields of inquiry. This original and compelling assessment is essential for those interested in libraries and in digital humanities.”
Orville Vernon Burton
Founding Director of the Institute for Computing in Humanities, Arts, and Social Science (ICHASS) at the University of Illinois (emeritus), Associate Director for Social Sciences and Humanities at the National Center for Supercomputing (NCSA) at the University of Illinois (emeritus), and Director of the Clemson University CyberInstitute
Laying the Foundation: Digital Humanities in Academic Libraries is the approachable collection of digital humanities writings we’ve been waiting for. All types of librarians interacting with the humanities will find this book a practical reference and a step toward the future. Laying the Foundation further introduces digital humanities as a function of all libraries—for the good of our collective future. The experiences and case studies contributed to this book will no doubt become the building blocks of programs in public and academic libraries.
Emma Molls
Scholarly Communication and Social Sciences & Humanities Librarian Iowa State University Library
Laying the Foundation
Digital Humanities in Academic Libraries
Charleston Insights in Library, Archival, and Information Sciences Editorial Board
Shin Freedman
Tom Gilson
Matthew Ismail
Jack Montgomery
Ann Okerson
Joyce M. Ray
Katina Strauch
Carol Tenopir
Anthony Watkinson
Laying the Foundation
Digital Humanities in Academic Libraries
Edited by John W. White and Heather Gilbert
Charleston Insights in Library, Archival, and Information Sciences
Purdue University Press West Lafayette, Indiana
Copyright 2016 by Purdue University. All rights reserved.
Cataloging-in-Publication data on file at the Library of Congress.
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Names: White, John W., 1974- editor. | Gilbert, Heather, 1976- editor.
Title: Laying the foundation : digital humanities in academic libraries / edited by John W. White and Heather Gilbert.
Description: West Lafayette, Indiana : Purdue University Press, [2016] | Series: Charleston insights in library, archival, and information sciences | Includes bibliographical references.
Identifiers: LCCN 2015041528| ISBN 9781557537393 (pbk. : alk. paper) | ISBN 9781612494494 (epub) | ISBN 9781612494487 (epdf) | ISBN 9781557537515 (open access epdf)
Subjects: LCSH: Academic libraries--Relations with faculty and curriculum--United States. | Humanities libraries--United States. | Humanities--Digital libraries. | Humanities--Research--Data processing. | Humanities--Electronic information resources. | Humanities--Study and teaching (Higher)--United States.
Classification: LCC Z675.U5 L36 2016 | DDC 027.70973--dc23 LC record available at http://lccn.loc.gov/2015041528
Contents
Preface
John W. White
PART 1: WHY DIGITAL HUMANITIES IN THE LIBRARY?
1 Recovering a Humanist Librarianship through Digital Humanities
Trevor Muñoz
2 A History of History through the Lens of Our Digital Present, the Traditions That Shape and Constrain Data-Driven Historical Research, and What Librarians Can Do About It
James Baker
PART 2: THE PRACTICE OF DIGITAL HUMANITIES IN THE LIBRARY
3 Digital Public History in the Library: Developing the Lowcountry Digital History Initiative at the College of Charleston
Mary Battle, Tyler Mobley, and Heather Gilbert
4 Curating Menus: Digesting Data for Critical Humanistic Inquiry
Katherine Rawson
5 Many Voices, One Experiment: Building Toward Generous Interfaces for Oral History Collections with Mapping the Long Women’s Movement
Seth Kotch
PART 3: BUILDING DIGITAL HUMANITIES INFRASTRUCTURE AND PARTNERSHIPS
6 The Center That Holds: Developing Digital Publishing Initiatives at the Emory Center for Digital Scholarship
Sarah Melton
7 Copiloting a Digital Humanities Center: A Critical Reflection on a Libraries–Academic Partnership
Brian Rosenblum and Arienne Dwyer
8 Advancing Digital Humanities at CU-Boulder through Evidence-Based Service Design
Thea Lindquist, Holley Long, and Alexander Watkins
PART 4: PEDAGOGY AND INSTRUCTION
9 A Collaborative Approach to Urban Cultural Studies and Digital Humanities
Benjamin Fraser and Jolanda-Pieta van Arnhem
10 Fostering Assessment Strategies for Digital Pedagogy through Faculty–Librarian Collaborations: An Analysis of Student-Generated Multimodal Digital Scholarship
Harriett E. Green
11 Library Instruction for Digital Humanities Pedagogy in Undergraduate Classes
Stewart Varner
Index
Preface
Laying the Foundation 1
This volume was inspired by a conference held at the College of Charleston in June 2014. Many of the participants in that conference, “Data Driven: Digital Humanities in the Library,” are also contributors to this book; however, it is notable that the book is not the published proceedings of the conference. The essays compiled here are not simply expanded and refined versions of some of the conference presentations. Instead, they are largely a reflection of the informal conversations and serendipitous learning that truly made “Data Driven” a success. Many of the contributors were also presenters at the conference. Some of the volume’s authors, such as Stewart Varner, attended the conference, but did not make a formal presentation. Others, such as Sarah Melton, were not in attendance, but were cited as influential in creating digital humanities (DH) scholarship in the library. Rather than attempting to provide little more than a transcript of the conference itself, Laying the Foundation: Digital Humanities in Academic Libraries is an expanded discussion of the core themes that emerged from the conference—namely, that the ways in which humanists organize and interact with their data is largely dependent on how that data is collected, described, and made available in academic libraries, archives, and museums.
DH practitioners utilize digital tools and innovative pedagogy to more deeply examine cultural, architectural, and historical records. A central theme of this volume is that archives, museums, and libraries provide much of the physical and virtual space where the digital humanities “happen.” Therefore, it follows that the institutions that house the artifacts, records, and digital assets that make many DH research projects possible should play a vital role in how that research is created and curated. It is with this in mind that we decided to change the title of the volume to reflect the central theme that emerged from the conference—that, at many institutions, it is libraries and librarians that maintain DH infrastructures and make learning through the digital humanities possible. Even when libraries are not the campus “home” for DH centers, it is clear that their collecting, description, and access policies have a dramatic impact on digital humanists. It is also clear, as demonstrated by several contributions to this book, that librarians can play a significant role in undergraduate instruction in the digital humanities.
Laying the Foundation is not an attempt to define the nebulous boundaries of what does and does not constitute digital humanities. Although its authors address this debate, the volume is instead intended as a conversation starter among rank-and-file librarians about how and why librarians, archivists, and museum professionals should engage with digital humanists as full partners in both research and teaching. The authors of this volume do address the differences between DH and “digital history,” as well as many of the other epistemological debates raging at academic conferences, on blogs and other social media, and in the pages of refereed journals dedicated to DH scholarship. However, our primary objective is to encourage librarians to recognize, as Trevor Muñoz so eloquently argues in Chapter 1 , that DH scholarship is deeply rooted in and wholly compatible with library and archival science. Collectively, its authors argue that librarians are critical partners in DH instruction and inquiry and that libraries are essential for publishing, preserving, and making accessible digital scholarship.
Laying the Foundation is organized into four sections. The first attempts to address the relationship between DH scholarship and “the library.” Muñoz contends that libraries and library administrators should incorporate digital humanities “into the core conceptual equipment and the work practices of librarians.” He argues that there are tangible benefits to encouraging academic inquiry among libra