Research Article: “Digital Humanities: What Can Libraries Offer?”
The following full text article was published in portal: Libraries and the Academy (16.4).
An accepted for publication version (open access) of the article is available from Johns Hopkins University Press.
Title
Digital Humanities: What Can Libraries Offer?
Authors
Shun Han Rebekah Wong
Hong Kong Baptist University
Source
portal: Libraries and the Academy (16.4)/JHU Press Web Site
Abstract
The collaborative aspect of digital humanities is one of the core values of the field. Specialists and organizations involved in digital humanities partnerships may include individual scholars focusing on a particular area, multiple scholars across disciplines, computer scientists, or digital humanities centers. Through a quantitative analysis of authorship in international digital humanities journals, this article demonstrates that libraries also have unique advantages that make them well positioned to contribute to digital humanities.
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Gary Price (gprice@gmail.com) is a librarian, writer, consultant, and frequent conference speaker based in the Washington D.C. metro area. He earned his MLIS degree from Wayne State University in Detroit. Price has won several awards including the SLA Innovations in Technology Award and Alumnus of the Year from the Wayne St. University Library and Information Science Program. From 2006-2009 he was Director of Online Information Services at Ask.com.