New From LIBER: Digital Humanities Reading List: Part Four (Role of Libraries)

New From LIBER (Association of European Research Libraries):

This theme examines a challenging question: what is the role of libraries in digital humanities? Is it to provide advice and guidance, to provide services that support these activities or to be a fully-fledged partner in digital humanities activities?
The answer is as varied as the different types of research libraries, and the literature highlights some of these tensions. It is clear, however, that libraries have a key place within digital humanities because of the collections which they hold. These collections often form the starting point of digital humanities projects and — when it comes to the outputs — libraries have a role in publishing, preserving and making these accessible.
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The role of librarian as advocate is a critical one, and to do this we need to work with the academic communities and researchers: building and developing skills and, above all, deciding what the role of digital humanities will be in our libraries. We then need to showcase our findings, so that others see and understand where this will take us. As Captain Kirk would say ‘To boldly go…..’

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See Also: Digital Humanities Reading List: Part Three (Skill Building)
See Also: Digital Humanities Reading List: Part Two (Cooperation Between Libraries & Research Communities)
See Also: A Digital Humanities Reading List: Part One (Policies and Profiles)

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