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Why I Go To MLA

Feb

5

2014

Patrick Williams (Syracuse University Libraries) shares his recent experience at some of the digital scholarship sessions at #MLA14, and ponders the impact of librarians attending a conference outside of the library discipline. In January, I joined thousands of faculty, researchers, graduate students, job-seekers, librarians, and others in the fields of language and literature in Chicago ...

MLA 2014: A Quick Reflection

Feb

5

2014

In this post, Robin Davis (Emerging Technologies & Distance Services Librarian at John Jay College of Criminal Justice) reports on 2014 MLA Convention sessions of interest to librarians who work in the digital humanities. As the Chicago River thawed and refroze outside the Modern Language Association Convention (Jan. 9-12, 2014), the array of digitally-themed sessions warmed this ...

Digital Humanities in the Research Commons: Precedents & Prospects

Jan

30

2014

Editor’s note dh+lib is pleased to feature a mini-series of three posts from Donald Beagle, currently the Director of Library Services at Belmont Abbey College. In his seminal 1999 article, “Conceptualizing an Information Commons,” Beagle applied the Strategic Alignment management theory, developed for information technology, to Information Commons, a term which then referenced both integrated ...

The Charleston Multimedia Project: A DH Public Library Case Study

Jan

30

2014

In a three-part series for dh+lib on Digital Humanities in the Research Commons, Donald Beagle, Director of Library Services at Belmont Abbey College, reflects on influences to his 1999 writings on Strategic Alignment in the information commons, uncovering precedents to his theories, tracing subsequent development, and suggesting future prospects. In this first part, Beagle introduces ...

Towards a Learning Commons: The Influence of Hypertext Theorists of the 1980s-90s

Jan

30

2014

In part two of a three-part series exploring precedents to and prospects for the development of Research Commons to incubate DH, Donald Beagle considers the influence of hypertext theorists and the distinct paths created by those seeking to redefine or realign libraries in an age of rapidly-changing technologies. Precedent 2: Towards a Learning Commons: The ...

The Research Commons in 2014 and Beyond

Jan

30

2014

In the final post of a three-part series, Donald Beagle explores future prospects for the use of an enhanced variant of the Commons models to facilitate DH in libraries. The previous two posts recounted influences on Beagle’s application of Strategic Alignment to manage Information Commons in libraries and the subsequent development of change management approaches. ...

Open Access Week (#oaweek) in DH

Oct

30

2013

What does Open Access Week have to do with the digital humanities? For those unfamiliar with the event, it is an annual, global celebration of open access (OA) that began in 2007 and is billed as: [A]n opportunity for the academic and research community to continue to learn about the potential benefits of Open Access, ...

Welcome, Caro Pinto!

Sep

16

2013

We are pleased to welcome Caro Pinto, Library & Instructional Technology Liaison at Mount Holyoke College, to the dh+lib editorial team. Caro joins our project as a dh+lib Review Editor, taking on a role previously held by Sarah Potvin, who remains a Co-Editor of the site. The dh+lib Review editors—Caro, Zach Coble, and Roxanne Shirazi—rotate through ...

The Process is the Thing: Lessons from Serendip-o-matic

Sep

4

2013

Meghan Frazer, Digital Resources Curator at the Knowlton School of Architecture at the Ohio State University, recently served as co-project manager for Serendip-o-matic, a search tool built in just one week. In this post, she shares her primary takeaways from the experience. Serendip-o-matic is a tool that connects a researcher’s sources to digital materials located ...

Pedal to the Metal: Our Year of DH

Aug

21

2013

How did Virginia Commonwealth University librarians John Glover, Humanities Research Librarian, and Kristina Keogh, formerly the Visual Arts Research Librarian, build a DH initiative from the ground up? In this post, they detail their process for dreaming up, planning, developing, deploying, and evaluating Digital Pragmata over the course of its first year. Impetus ALA Annual ...

Teaching Digital Scholarship in the Library: Course Evaluation

Jul

24

2013

John Russell, of the University of Oregon Libraries, recently taught a new, graduate-level course in digital scholarship, which he introduced earlier on dh+lib. In this post, he reviews how the class went. My Issues in Digital Scholarship class ended in March (we’re on the quarter system in Oregon). This class was designed to introduce graduate ...