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Digital [Humanities] Libraries

Sandra Cowan, M.Phil, MLISUniversity of Lethbridge Library

November 9, 2015

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• 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

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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

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Florida Polytechnic University Bookless Library (2014)

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“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

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“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

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Academic Libraries : Responses to DH?

1. What is Digital Humanities?

2. Supporters (responsive to patrons’ needs)

3. Full collaborators (proactive)

Presenter
Presentation Notes
Supporters: Responsive/reactive; Service orientation; OCLC Report “Does Every Research Library Need a Digital Humanities Center?”; Libraries are already providing DH support in many ways; REACTIVE We’re already doing it – support to faculty, packaging services, collaborating on DH centers and projects—responding to the needs of our patrons; Full collaborators: Proactive: taking the lead in DH; DH as away to change to the role of libraries and librarians, move away from service/support role to active scholarship and equal collaboration; DH centers in libraries, librarians as DH scholars ; Institutional support of digital scholarship, rather than ad hoc and often temporary centers, groups, initiatives; Responses to OCLC Report = librarians should and do take a lead role; they ARE digital humanists and academics; they have a broad/multi-disciplinary viewpoint, more able to synthesize across disciplines;
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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/

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www.blackfootdigitallibrary.com

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U of L Library Databases

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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

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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

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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

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http://www.cbc.ca/news/technology/academic-publishers-reap-huge-profits-as-libraries-go-broke-1.3111535

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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

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