the role of the humanities librarian in digital humanities
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The Role of Humanities Librarian in Digital Humanities
Harriett E. GreenJune 28, 2014
RUSA History Librarians Discussion GroupALA Annual 2014
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“DH isn’t a service”"Digital humanities in libraries isn’t a service and libraries will be more successful at generating engagement with digital humanities if they focus on helping librarians lead their own DH initiatives and projects.“Trevor Munoz http://trevormunoz.com/notebook/2012/08/19/doing-dh-in-the-library.html
green19@illinois.edu @greenharr
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Not Serving DH Researchers…
Scholar Programmer Innovative DH Project!
Librarian
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Partnering in DH Work
Scholar
LibrarianTechnologist
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How do I know DH when I see it?“Digital humanities as it is currently practiced isn’t just located in literary studies departments; the field is broadly humanities based and includes scholars in history, musicology, performance studies, media studies, and other fields that can benefit from bringing computing technologies to bear on traditional humanities materials.”Kathleen Fitzpatrick, Debates in Digital Humanitieshttp://dhdebates.gc.cuny.edu/debates/text/30
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What can we do?
Research Collaborations
Engaged Outreach
Teaching
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Engaged Outreach
Build Connections
Liaison Work
Events
Scholarly Commons
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Scholarly Commonshttp://www.library.illinois.edu/sc
• Digital scholarship center in the UIUC Library• Consultants for data services, GIS, digital
humanities, copyright, scholarly communications
• Partner with campus technology and research centers: ATLAS, Survey Research Lab, I-CHASS
• Institutional repository: IDEALS
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DH in the Classroom
Digital Literacies
English
Media and Cinema Studies
History
Architecture
Omeka Scalar
WordpressArcGIS
DH Research @ Illinois That I FoundLegacy Projects:
Internal Projects:
Grant Funded Projects:
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Research Collaborations
Hathi Trust Research Center
Emblematica Online
Individual Research Projects
My own research agenda
DH + the librarian ”One of the hallmarks of digital humanities practice has been the desire to experiment, to make things, to dig into our data – to see how humanities “things” are “made.” There is nothing contrary to the library spirit in that desire either: in fact, librarians – perhaps even more than other knowledge workers – have long distinguished themselves with the very gears and cogs of literary production and study…. What is all this traditional library work if not an engagement with how knowledge is “made”? And what are we, if not co-makers of that knowledge?”Glen Worthey, http://bit.ly/worthey-dh
Thank you!Harriett Green
English and Digital Humanities Librarian
green19@illinois.edu@greenharr
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