Digital Humanities in the Library: Challenges and Opportunities for Subject Specialists

Digital Humanities in the Library: Challenges and Opportunities for Subject Specialists

Department

University Libraries

Document Type

Book

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Description

Digital Humanities in the Library: Challenges and Opportunities for Subject Specialists is a collection of essays focusing on the role of the subject specialist in creating, supporting, and promoting digital humanities projects. Chapter authors include experts from diverse areas, such as humanities subject specialists, digital humanities librarians, special collections librarians, and professors and graduate students from many disciplines. This book, published in collaboration with the ACRL Literatures in English Section and with a foreword by Joan K. Lippincott, provides valuable discussions around the role of subject specialists in digital humanities, gives practical advice regarding support of and collaboration with digital humanities projects, and describes real-world examples to inspire subject specialists to increase their own knowledge and expertise. Digital Humanities in the Library was edited by Arianne Hartsell-Gundy, Laura Braunstein, and Liorah Golomb, and is appropriate for all types of academic libraries and collections devoted to Library and Information Science. *Source: ALA Publishing

ISBN

978-0-8389-8767-4

Publication Date

2015

Publisher

Association of College and Research Libraries

City

Chicago

Disciplines

Arts and Humanities | Library and Information Science

Comments

Digital Humanities in the Library was edited by Arianne Hartsell-Gundy, Laura Braunstein, and Liorah Golomb. Kathleen Langan co-authored chapter 2.

Digital Humanities in the Library: Challenges and Opportunities for Subject Specialists

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