Digital Libraries Digital Humanities: Current and Emerging Roles for Librarians

DIGITAL LIBRARIES, DIGITAL HUMANITIES

Current and emerging roles for librarians

Kent Gerber Digital Library Manager Bethel University April 2011

Digital Libraries - Varied definitions

Computer Science -- only a collection of items

Digital Libraries - Varied definitions Library Science -- organization of services AND collections

Digital Library Types

Focal Point: Discipline Audience Institution Geographic Broad Interdisciplinary

Digital Library Types Classics (Discipline)

Digital Library Types Children (Audience)

Digital Library Types

Bethel University (Institution)

Digital Library Types Minnesota Digital Library (Geographic)

Digital Library Types

American Memory Library of Congress (Geographic)

Digital Library Types Hathi Trust (Broad Interdisciplinary)

Digital Humanities Digital History - Center for History and New Media

Digital Humanities

Digital Humanities Maryland Institute for Technology in the Humanities

Digital Humanities

University of Virginia Scholars Lab

Digital Libraries + Digital Humanities

From Bruce Cole in First Monday article, "The Humanities in the Digital Age" on the launch of the Digital Humanities Initiative in 2006: “The National Endowment for the Humanities and IMLS are currently partners on two of our key digital humanities grant programs, Digital Humanities Start–up Grants and Advancing Knowledge. These would not have been possible without the help of the IMLS. Both of these programs encourage collaboration among librarians, museum officials, archivists, and scholars. And both the NEH and IMLS benefit, because we are able to reach new constituents and inspire important projects.”

Digital Libraries + Digital Humanities

http://miriamposner.com/blog/?page_id=1033#guides

Digital Libraries + Digital Humanities

http://dhlib2012.thatcamp.org/

Job Market

Recent Postings 1. Digital Collections Initiative Mgr, The Henry Ford Museum 2. Archivist for Digital Dvt & Uni Records, Ball State University 3. Assistant Director, Visual Resources Collection, University of Virginia 4. Digital Repository Manager: The Brown University Library 5. Web and Digital Projects Developer (Analyst, IT) at Duke University Libraries April 13th, 2011

Job Market - Sources

Listservs Code4Lib, LITA-L, Web4Lib, Madslisjobs, MCN-L Digital-Scholarship Digital Library jobs archive: http://bit.ly/RKaHc Library IT jobs archive: http://bit.ly/8N9H3v

Grant (Great) Environment

NEH Humanities Collections and Reference Resources Grants Available Tuesday, April 12th, 2011 The National Endowment for the Humanities has announced the availability of Humanities Collections and Reference Resources grants. The maximum award is $350,000 (up to three years). The deadline is July 20, 2011. Here's an excerpt from the announcement: The Humanities Collections and Reference Resources program supports projects that provide an essential foundation for scholarship, education, [...] http://digital-scholarship.org/digitalkoans/2011/04/12/neh-humanities-collections-and-reference-resources-grants-available/

Demos

Bethel http://content.clic.edu/cdm/betheluniversity War and Peace in Project Gutenberg http://www.gutenberg.org/files/2600/2600-h/2600-h.htm Example of a search for a name in Perseus: http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/nebrowser?id=franklin,benjamin&query=Perseus:text:2001.05.0158

Choose a Library to Evaluate

http://www.diigo.com/list/kgerber/digital-humanities-presentation

Necessary Skills and Experience

Two studies of large sets of job postings 1. College and Research Libraries News job postings1999-2007 2. Listservs - boai forum, dcc-associates, digital-preservation-JISC, American Scientist Forum

Necessary Skills and Experience

Required skills: 1. Imaging technologies 2. Optical Character Recognition 3. Mark-up languages 4. Cataloging and Metadata 5. Indexing and Databases 6. User interface design 7. Programming 8. Web technology 9. Project Management

Personal Traits: 1. Quick and Constant learner 2. Flexible 3. Innately skeptical 4. Risk-taker 5. Public service perspective 6. Good interpersonal skills 7. Change management skills 8. Can work independently and likes it

Necessary Skills and Experience

Good knowledge of Cultural and Heritage Informatics and Digital Humanities

Digital Librarian's Toolkit

Metadata and Cataloging

Digital Librarian's Toolkit

XML

Digital Librarian's Toolkit

Digital Imaging and Photography Scanners Digital Cameras Color Management Lighting Standard Formats

Digital Librarian's Toolkit

Web Programming Languages PHP Python Ruby Perl Javascript

Digital Librarian’s Toolkit Repository Collections Software

Libraries Archives Musuems

CONTENTdm

Dspace

Fedora/Islandora

Digital Commons

Omeka

Archon

Archivists Toolkit

CONTENTdm

CollectiveAccess

Omeka

PastPerfect

CONTENTdm

Collective Access

Omeka

Thank you!

Any Questions? Kent Gerber Digital Library Manager Bethel University [email protected]