Laying the Foundation : Digital Humanities in Academic Libraries /

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 exami...

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Other Authors: Gilbert, Heather, 1976- (Editor), White, John W., 1974- (Editor)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: West Lafayette, IN : Purdue University Press, [2016]
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Table of Contents:
  • Part 1. Why digital humanities in the library?
  • Recovering a humanist librarianship through digital humanities research / Trevor Munoz
  • 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
  • Digital public history in the library : developing the Lowcountry Digital History Initiative at the College of Charleston / Mary Battle, Tyler Mobley, Heather Gilbert
  • Curating menus : digesting data for critical humanistic inquiry / Katherine Rawson
  • 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
  • The center that holds : developing digital publishing initiatives at the Emory Center for Digital Scholarship / Sarah Melton
  • Co-piloting a digital humanities center : a critical reflection on a libraries-academic partnership / Brian Rosenblum, Arienne Dwyer
  • Advancing digital humanities at CU-Boulder through evidence-based service design / Thea Lindquist, Holley Long, Alexander Watkins
  • Part 4. Pedagogy and instruction
  • A collaborative approach to urban cultural studies and digital humanities / Benjamin Fraser, Jolanda-Pieta van Arnhem
  • Fostering assessment strategies for digital pedagogy through faculty-librarian collaborations : an analysis of student-generated multi-modal digital scholarship / Harriett E. Green
  • Library instruction for digital humanities pedagogy in undergraduate classes / Stewart Varner.