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Melanie Hubbard
April 18, 2014
The following presentation concerns the
implementation of digital humanities
services in Loyola Marymount University’s
William H. Hannon Library.
EXPLORE DIGITAL HUMANITIES
“Digital humanities most clearly represents the spirit that animated
the ancient foundations at Alexandria, Pergamum, and Memphis, the
great monastic libraries of the Middle Ages, and even the first
research libraries of the German Enlightenment. It is obsessed with
varieties of representation, the organization of knowledge, the
technology of communication and dissemination, and the production
of useful tools for scholarly inquiry.”
EXPLORE DIGITAL HUMANITIES
LIBRARIES & DIGITAL HUMANITIES
(Ramsay, 2010)
EXPLORE DIGITAL HUMANITIES | What is DH?
EXPLORE DIGITAL HUMANITIES | What is DH?
humanitiesscholarship
presentation
synthesis
analysis+computing{research
pedagogy
DIGITAL HUMANITIES IS…
facilitated by
academic department
digital humanities center
library{
location
single
transcontinental
international{
conducted byindividual
group{inherently
interdisciplinary
&
methodological
{
scope{large
small
varying complexity
DIGITAL HUMANITIES IS…
EXPLORE DIGITAL HUMANITIES | What is DH?
topic modeling{identifying thematic structures}
text mining{analysis of data in natural language}
data visualization{data abstracted into a visual representation}
geographical information systems {captures, alters, manages and displays geographic data}
collaboration{shared projects in digital environments}
presentation{articulating and displaying DH scholarship}
ASPECTS OF DIGITAL HUMANITIES
EXPLORE DIGITAL HUMANITIES | What is DH?
TimeMapper
TOOL EXAMPLE: GIS
EXPLORE DIGITAL HUMANITIES | What is DH?
TOOL EXAMPLE: TEXTUAL ANALYSIS
Voyant
EXPLORE DIGITAL HUMANITIES | What is DH?
PROJECT EXAMPLE: TEXTUAL ANALYSIS
(Fry, 2009)benfry.com/traces
EXPLORE DIGITAL HUMANITIES | What is DH?
managing and curating digital assets
preserving digital assets and resources
creating digital project best practices
using and promoting the use of social media
performing digital resource instruction
teaching use and evaluation of digital resources
promoting access to and use of primary sources
incorporating and teaching emerging technologies
focusing on usability, findability and searchability
disseminating digital scholarly content
THE DH/LIBRARY INTERSECTION
designing digital resources
analyzing and visualizing data
digital preservation
digitizing media
planning digital projects
developing and managing websites
designing metadata schemas
encoding metadata
working with rights management
classifying and organizing data
EXPLORE DIGITAL HUMANITIES | Why Libraries?
(Galina Russell, 2011 ) (Shower, 2012) (Vandegrift, 2012)
EXPLORE DIGITAL HUMANITIES | DH Landscape
EXPLORE DIGITAL HUMANITIES | DH Landscape
A FEW BASIC OBSERVATIONS
approximately 35 DH academic programs in the US and numerous DH
courses peppered throughout curricula
discussion concerning the digital humanities landscape often focuses on
DH centers
DH is most often associated with larger universities and research
libraries
liberal arts colleges with DH centers include Hamilton College,
Occidental College and Whittier College
digital humanities centers {supports various DH needs on a
larger scale, i.e. programing and TEI encoding; may or may not be
linked with libraries}
suite of services {a predetermined set of services}
ad hoc {services that come about as needed}
EXPLORE DIGITAL HUMANITIES | DH Landscape
FRAMEWORK OF SERVICES
Misgivings:
liberal arts colleges have less funding, less support and less infrastructure
Advantages:
shallower administrative hierarchies, less institutional inertia, innovate relatively rapidly and at lower cost
more collegiality across disciplines and divisions, and between faculty and staff members, easier to build coalitions and to organize project teams
plays a greater pedagogical role by engaging students in interdisciplinary studies and active and collaborative learning
EXPLORE DIGITAL HUMANITIES | DH Landscape
(Alexander & Frost Davis, 2012) (Pannapacker, 2013)
DH IN LIBERAL ARTS UNIVERSITIES AND COLLEGES
EXPLORE DIGITAL HUMANITIES | DH Services @ LMU
EXPLORE DIGITAL HUMANITIES | DH Services
DH facilitation in the library would offer “distinctive services that
enable[s] learners to feed their curiosity” through unique digital means,
“develop their ideas” through the use of digital analysis and presentation
tools, and, through the presence of various DH online projects, “inspire
others” on the LMU campus and beyond.
Providing DH services and facilitating DH endeavors would “[foster]
intellectual and cultural collaborations throughout LMU and the broader
scholarly community, and among library peers.”
Learning DH skills contributes to a student’s ability to “identify, locate,
evaluate, and effectively and responsibly use and share information,” thus
DH contributes to the Hannon Library’s efforts to “increase students’
information literacy proficiencies.”
RELATIONSHIP TO THE HANNON LIBRARY’S 2013-2020 STRATEGIC PLAN
EXPLORE DIGITAL HUMANITIES | DH Services
Facilitating and participating in digital humanities practices is a form of
stewardship of “digital collections in support of academic excellence.”
Moreover, because digitized Archives and Special Collection materials will
no doubt be incorporated in LMU DH projects, DH services will “increase
access to archival and other local collections through digitization and
metadata.”
Supporting DH endeavors within and outside of the Hannon Library
“promote[s] the research and creative output of LMU students and faculty in
innovative, creative ways.”
Finally, as a result of the library’s participation in digital humanities
practices, “the library will act as a cultural and intellectual hub that [will
connect] LMU with communities off campus.”
RELATIONSHIP TO THE HANNON LIBRARY’S 2013-2020 STRATEGIC PLAN (con’t)
EXPLORE DIGITAL HUMANITIES | DH Services
assisting faculty with the DH pedagogical needs, i.e. design of DH course elements
providing digital humanities reference consultations
digital humanities collection development
DH classroom instruction, i.e. teaching out of the box tools, i.e. Timemapper, Voyager, MALLET, Wordpress
maintaining of DH tools/software on library computers
student & faculty DH project consultation, i.e. data management, tool recommendations, best practices, metadata schema design
building and maintaining Explore DH website, including the creation of DH tool tutorials
SERVICES TO BE OFFERED
Explore Digital Humanities website
EXPLORE DIGITAL HUMANITIES | DH Services
EXPLORE DIGITAL HUMANITIES | DH Services
SERVICES SCALABILITY
(Vinopal & McCormick, 2013)
EXPLORE DIGITAL HUMANITIES | DH Services
LIBRARY:
Expressed interest on the part of librarians and staff members
FACULTY:
Dermot Ryan (English), Kirstin Noreen (Art History), Jane Brucker (Fine
Arts), Molly Youngkin (English), Stephen Shepherd (English), Courtney
Spikes (History), Annemarie Pérez (Chicano Studies)
USER NEEDS ASSESSMENT
EXPLORE DIGITAL HUMANITIES | DH Assessment
To support faculty digital humanities needs be it for teaching or for their
own scholarship
To support students in their digital humanities scholarship
To facilitate innovative and creative forms of scholarship
To create a stronger partnership between the various humanities
departments and the library
To elevate the library’s own digital scholarship, i.e. an increased
awareness of the digital library and the scholarship put toward the
digital library
GOALS OF THE SERVICE
EXPLORE DIGITAL HUMANITIES | DH Assessment
Faculty who incorporate DH in their teaching will see the library as a
resource for their DH pedagogical needs.
Faculty will consistently use the library for the DH aspects of their
scholarship.
Students will be able to demonstrate DH skills and knowledge in their
humanities studies.
Students will know how to use the library to gain DH skills and for
accessing DH tools.
The library’s offering of DH services will elevate its own digital presence,
i.e. digital library collections.
OUTCOMES OF THE SERVICE
EXPLORE DIGITAL HUMANITIES | DH Services
Faculty: pedagogy, individual projects and information resources, as
models for their own digital humanities projects
Undergraduate & Graduate Students: class projects, information
resources, existing projects as models for their own DH work
Outside Researchers: information resources, to learn about
scholarship at LMU, existing projects as models for their own DH
work
PRIMARY SERVICE USERS
EXPLORE DIGITAL HUMANITIES | DH Services
Digital Humanities Librarian:
primary responsibility is DH services, facilitation and operations
has a strong grasp of trends both in the humanities and digital
humanities, significant experience in humanities research and has an
aptitude for technology
will provide instruction, reference and some technical support to DH
scholars
PRIMARY SERVICE PROVIDERS
EXPLORE DIGITAL HUMANITIES | DH Services
Reference Librarians: may lead library instruction concerning the use of
certain DH related tools
Archives and Special Collections Librarians: A&SC librarians may teach
the history of the book classes, provide reference assistance to DH
scholars, and supply scans of primary source materials
Digital Librarian: provide expertise concerning the management of
digital assets
Metadata Librarian: will assist in the creation of metadata best practices
and metadata schemas
Information Technology Services: may be called upon for technical
assistance support and to assist in the implementation of new
technologies
PRIMARY SERVICE PROVIDERS (con’t)
EXPLORE DIGITAL HUMANITIES | DH Services
Internal Stakeholders: librarians, library staff, and library embedded
ITS personnel
External Stakeholders: faculty, undergraduate and graduate
students, University Staff, in particular ITS department as a whole
and the Web, New Media and Design department, outside of LMU
researchers, and the digital humanities community
KEY STAKEHOLDERS
EXPLORE DIGITAL HUMANITIES | DH Services
STRENGTHS:
state-of-the-art instruction rooms
archives and special collections materials
established digital library program
numerous digitized objects in the digital library
a new strategic plan with goals and objectives that align with DH
a core group of library oriented faculty members
a university community that encourages interdisciplinary and
interdepartmental partnerships
WEAKNESSES:
no single library staff member to lead this effort
compete with other library instruction time
SWOT ANALYSIS
EXPLORE DIGITAL HUMANITIES | DH Services
OPPORTUNITIES:
librarians learn new skills
library and academic department collaborations
foster interdisciplinary relationships on campus
present LMU scholarship to a global community
new ways to encourage and teach information literacy
THREATS:
lack of interest on the part of faculty
inability to sustain
infrastructure proves to be inadequate
cannot institute quickly enough to keep interest
SWOT ANALYSIS
EXPLORE DIGITAL HUMANITIES | DH Marketing
EXPLORE DIGITAL HUMANITIES | DH Marketing
MICAH VANDEGRIFT AND STEWART VARNER:
“By understanding the kinds of work scholars on your campus are
doing and being familiar with the work being done at the cutting edge
of digital humanities you will be well positioned to make your library
an integral part of the intellectual lives of your users.” (2013)
THEY SUGGEST:
do not wait for their users to come to them
get out in the community
attend events put on by the departments with whom the library will
conduct or potentially conduct DH projects
speak to faculty in person and join department listservs (2013)
RECOMMENDATIONS FROM THE DH FIELD
EXPLORE DIGITAL HUMANITIES | DH Marketing
LMU.edu website: announcements on the LMU homepage
internal listserv: DH listserv for LMU faculty and students
external listserv: communicate with external listsers about LMU DH activities, i.e. DH+Lib listserv
demonstrations: demonstrations of current DH related tools, concepts and resources
workshops: host workshops that instruct faculty on how to use DH related tools
library subject liaison outreach: relay DH related information to subject liaisons respective humanities departments
posters: posters with Quick Response Code that links to the Explore Digital Humanities website will be displayed around campus
MARKETING METHODS
poster
EXPLORE DIGITAL HUMANITIES | DH Marketing
library website
EXPLORE DIGITAL HUMANITIES | DH Marketing
social media
EXPLORE DIGITAL HUMANITIES | DH Marketing
bookmarks
EXPLORE DIGITAL HUMANITIES | DH Marketing
buttons
EXPLORE DIGITAL HUMANITIES | DH Marketing
EXPLORE DIGITAL HUMANITIES | DH Assessment
EXPLORE DIGITAL HUMANITIES | DH Assessment
JENNIFER VINOPAL AND MONICA MCCORMICK:
“[determine] success criteria, [evaluate] client satisfaction, identifying
what did and did not work, [calculate] staff hours spent on development
and support activities, [estimate] costs and possible efficiencies, and
[consider] next steps.” (2013)
RECOMMENDATIONS FROM THE DH FIELD
EXPLORE DIGITAL HUMANITIES | DH Assessment
ADDITIONAL RECOMMENDATION
APPLY THE ASSOCIATION OF AMERICAN COLLEGES AND
UNIVERSITIES’
INFORMATION LITERACY VALUE RUBRIC WHICH:
gauges a students ability to determine the information needed,
analyze that information and use that information effectively and
ethically.
EXPLORE DIGITAL HUMANITIES | DH Assessment
IMPACT RUBRIC
EXPLORE DIGITAL HUMANITIES | Here and Now?
EXPLORE DIGITAL HUMANITIES | Here and Now?
Offering digital humanities services will not make Loyola Marymount University a major DH institution. It will, however, put LMU on a long overdue academic and intellectual path.
There are many ways to do DH. It is up to every institution to develop their own DH approach and to define their own DH brand (Alexander & Frost Davis, 2012).
Faculty and librarians alike already conduct scholarship and research that falls within (or nearly falls within) the realm of digital humanities.
Digital humanities studies and scholarship provide another career path for humanities students both in and outside of academia.
THINGS TO KEEP IN MIND
Digital humanities is here to stay.
Libraries are leaders in the digital humanities field.
The William H. Hannon library strives to foster cultural and intellectual university endeavors.
The library is the most capable and qualified to lead, advance and sustain LMU’s digital humanities mission.
Because it is entirely possible.
EXPLORE DIGITAL HUMANITIES | Here and Now?
WHY DIGITAL HUMANITIES @THE WILLIAM H. HANNON LIBRARY?
EXPLORE DIGITAL HUMANITIES
Alexander, B. & Frost Davis, R. (2013). Should liberal arts campuses do digital humanities? Process and products in the small college world. In Debates in the Digital Humanities.
Association of American Colleges and Universities. (n.d.). Information literacy VALUE rubric.
Frost Davis, R. (2012, August 16). Digital humanities and liberal education. National Institute for Technology in Liberal Education. Retrieved from http://blogs.nitle.org/2011/03/02/digital-humanities-and-liberal- education
Fry, B. (2009). On the origin of species: the preservation of favoured traces. Retrieved April 16, 2014, from http://benfry.com/traces
Galina Russell, I. (2011). The role of libraries in digital humanities. IFLA. Retrieved from http://conference. ifla.org/ifla77
Pannapacker, W. (2013, February 18). Advice. The Chronicle of Higher Education. Retrieved from http://chronicle.com/article/Stop-Calling-It-Digital/137325
Ramsay, S. (2010, October 8). Care four the soul [Web log post]. Retrieved from http://stephenramsay.us/ text/2010/10/08/care-of-the-soul
Showers, B. (2012, February 13). Does the library have a role to play in the digital humanities? JISC. Retrieved from http://infteam.jiscinvolve.org/wp/2012 /02/23/ does-the-library-
have-a- role-to-play- in-the-digital-humanities
Vandegrift, M. & Varner, S. (2013). Evolving in common: Creating mutually supportive relationships between libraries and the digital humanities. Journal of Library Administration, 53(1), 67-
78. doi: 10.1080/01930826.2013.756699
Vinopal, J. & McCormick, M. (2013). Supporting digital scholarship in research libraries: Scalability and sustainability. Journal of Library Administration, 53(1), 27-42. doi:
10.1080/01930826.2013.756689
REFERENCES
EXPLORE DIGITAL HUMANITIES