Digital Humanities in the Library: Challenges and Opportunities for Subject Specialists - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0838987672 ISBN 13: 9780838987674

Publisher: Association of College & Research Libraries, 2015

Synopsis

Digital Humanities in the Library: Challenges and Opportunities for Subject Specialists is a collection of essays focusing on the role of the subject specialist in creating, supporting, and promoting digital humanities projects. Chapter authors include experts from diverse areas, such as humanities subject specialists, digital humanities librarians, special collections librarians, and professors and graduate students from many disciplines.

This book, published in collaboration with the ACRL Literatures in English Section and with a foreword by Joan K. Lippincott, provides valuable discussions around the role of subject specialists in digital humanities, gives practical advice regarding support of and collaboration with digital humanities projects, and describes real-world examples to inspire subject specialists to increase their own knowledge and expertise.

Digital Humanities in the Library was edited by Arianne Hartsell-Gundy, Laura Braunstein, and Liorah Golomb, and is appropriate for all types of academic libraries and collections devoted to Library and Information Science.

About this title

About the Author

Jason Puckett is Librarian for Communication and Virtual Services and Assistant Professor at Georgia State University Library in Atlanta, Georgia. He was named a Library Journal Mover & Shaker in 2010, in part for his work with technology in libraries. Puckett has a BA in English from Georgia State University and an MLIS from Florida State University. He has worked in libraries for over 20 years and has been teaching for the last 15 of those. He teaches professional workshops on research guides and other topics for Simmons College School of Library and Information Science and has previously co-produced a long-running podcast about information literacy instruction. For several years he’s been researching and speaking about how to make research guides better based on the principles in this book.

Edition details

• Publisher: Association of College & Research Libraries
• Publication date: 2015
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0838987672
• ISBN 13: 9780838987674
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 312
• Editor: Harstell-Gundy Arianne, Braunstein Laura, Glomb Liorah