digital [humanities] libraries - sandra cowan
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Digital [Humanities] Libraries
Sandra Cowan, M.Phil, MLISUniversity of Lethbridge Library
November 9, 2015
• Project-based• Collaborative• Digital tools
• Iterative• Experimental
• Interdisciplinary• Textual, spatial or visual analysis
• Open access• Praxis
• Pedagogy
Digital Humanities:An interdisciplinary area that can be characterized by: a) Asking traditional and sometimes new humanistic questions
using digital resources; or b) Subjecting computing technologies to interpretation and
critique by humanistic methods and strategies of questioning.
-Kathleen Fitzpatrick, director of scholarly communications at MLA
Digital Libraries
Massive Digital Libraries (MDLs):HathiTrust (2008), Google Books Library Project
(2004), Internet Archive (1996)
Library Values:Community; universal access; service; preservation; curatorship; intellectual freedom; sharing
Digitizing collections + creating digital collections + acquiring electronic resources
Florida Polytechnic University Bookless Library (2014)
“In the twenty-first century, digital libraries are as essential to humanities scholarship as physical libraries have been in the past. Digital humanities is an evolving specialization in librarianship.”
-York University (Toronto) Job Posting for Digital Humanities Librarian
“Every research library is already supporting DH at some level. Libraries acquire special collections and other library materials for the humanities, digitize collections for improved access and utility, and provide repositories for scholarly publications.”
-OCLC Report, 2014
Academic Libraries : Responses to DH?
1. What is Digital Humanities?
2. Supporters (responsive to patrons’ needs)
3. Full collaborators (proactive)
January, 2013 dh + lib : where digital humanities and librarianship meetIt aims to provide a communal space where librarians, archivists, LIS graduate students, and information specialists of all stripes can contribute to a conversation about digital humanities and libraries. http://acrl.ala.org/dh/about-3/
www.blackfootdigitallibrary.com
U of L Library Databases
University of Lethbridge Acquisitions 2014-2015
1 2
Total Acquisitions:$2,320,000
University of Lethbridge Library Digital Re$ource$
Digital Resources (Databases): $1,375,000
Subject funds (Largely print): $885,000
University of Lethbridge Library Digital Re$ource$
2013-14 2014-15 2015-16
Acquisitions Allocation $2,220,000.00 $2,131,000.00 $2,056,000.00
Canada Indirect Research $110,000.00 $110,000.00 $110,000.00
$2,330,000.00 $2,241,000.00 $2,166,000.00
Allocations
Databases $1,250,000.00 $1,300,000.00 $1,300,000.00
Subject funds $978,000.00 $842,000.00 $805,000.00
$2,228,000.00 $2,142,000.00 $2,105,000.00
ILL & Processing $80,000.00 $70,000.00 $60,000.00
$2,308,000.00 $2,212,000.00 $2,165,000.00
Actual Speculation
Databases $1,255,000.00 $1,375,000.00 $1,609,000.00
Subject funds $925,000.00 $885,000.00 $530,000.00
$2,180,000.00 $2,260,000.00 $2,139,000.00
ILL & Processing $58,000.00 $60,000.00 $60,000.00
$2,238,000.00 $2,320,000.00 $2,199,000.00
Commercial Scholarly Publishing Model
Researchers research + write
article
Publicly funded faculty salary: $90,000Federal research grant:$20,000
Commercial publisher (Elsevier,
Wiley, Springer, etc.) publishes article
Authors and reviewers unpaid
Commercial publishers’ “Open
Access” option
Author Processing Charge of $600 to $3,0000
Academic library pays annual subscription
Publicly funded + student tuitionSingle e-journal subscription $200-$12,000
http://www.cbc.ca/news/technology/academic-publishers-reap-huge-profits-as-libraries-go-broke-1.3111535
Open Access
CC Licensing
Library Values:Community; universal access; service; preservation; curatorship; intellectual freedom; sharing
“Open Access Publishing can be defined as publishing when the articles are free to all interested readers, and the publishers place no financial or copyright barriers between the readers and the article.”
- oaacademy.org
Questions?
Comments?