Dates: March 2-27,
2015
Credits: 1.5 CEUs
Price: $175
Credits: 1.5 CEUs
Price: $175
Digital humanities (DH) has been heralded as
the next big thing in humanities scholarship and universities have been
creating initiatives and new positions in this field. Libraries, too, have
moved to create a presence in the digital humanities community, setting up
centers and hiring librarians to staff them. This course is designed as an
introduction for librarians or library school students who have little or no
exposure to DH and wish to be better positioned to offer DH support or services
in a library setting. Participants will read and discuss DH scholarship, learn
about frequently-used software, and think about why and how libraries and
librarians engage DH. While I will encourage participants to explore more complex
computing approaches (and I will support those who do as best I can), this
course does not presuppose computing skills such as programming or use of the
command line and will not ask participants to do much more than upload files to
websites or install and use simple programs. (Library Juice Academy offers programming courses for those who are
interested in gaining these skills.) Participants should have an interest and background
in humanities scholarship and humanities librarianship and while the readings
will focus on activities in the United States, our discussions can be more
geographically wide-ranging.
