Full Description
Digital Humanities, Libraries, and Partnerships brings forward ideas and reflections that stay fresh beyond the changing technological landscape. The book encapsulates a cultural shift for libraries and librarians and presents a collection of authors who reflect on the collaborations they have formed around digital humanities work. Authors examine a range of issues, including labor equity, digital infrastructure, digital pedagogy, and community partnerships. Readers will find kinship in the complexities of the partnerships described in this book, and become more equipped to conceptualize their own paths and partnerships.
Contents
Foreword by Amy Murray TwyningIntroduction: A View on Libraries and Librarians in Digital Humanities by Robin Kear and Kate Joranson
Labor and Roles1. Transforming the Landscape of Labor at Universities through Digital Humanities2. Our Marathon: The Role of Graduate Student and Library Labor in Making the Boston Bombing Digital Archive3. Digital Humanities as Public Humanities: Transformative Collaboration in Graduate Education4. Exploring the Moving Image: The Role of Audiovisual Archives as Partners for Digital Humanities and Cultural Heritage Institutions
Networks and Infrastructure5. Old Texts and New Media: Jewish Books on the Move and a Case for Collaboration6. Engaging the Knowledge Commons: Setting Up Virtual Participatory Spaces for Academic Collaboration and Community7. The Role of Responsive Library Makerspaces in Supporting Informal Learning in the Digital Humanities8. Digital Humanities and Image Metadata: Improving Access through Shared Practices9. Stitching Together Technology for the Digital Humanities with the International Image Interoperability Framework
Archives, Community, and History10. Digital Humanities as Community Engagement: The Digital Watts Project11. The Collaborative Project Management Model: Akkasah, an Arab Photography Project12. Starting from the Archives: Digital Humanities Partnerships, Projects, and Pedagogies13. Beans and Cornbread: The Pragmatic Crusade to Document Women's History through Cookbooks
