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When Does A New Role Cease To Be New?: Situating The Work Of Library-Based Digital Humanities/Scholarship Support Positions, Paige C. Morgan, Helene Williams Oct 2018

When Does A New Role Cease To Be New?: Situating The Work Of Library-Based Digital Humanities/Scholarship Support Positions, Paige C. Morgan, Helene Williams

Library Articles, Papers, and Presentations

When positions are considered new and substantially undefined, there is a risk of their continual expansion to encompass more tasks and responsibilities. Such is the case with the roles of Digital Humanities/Scholarship (DH/DS) Library professionals, which libraries have been hiring since around 2009. We have gathered over 150 job ads for these positions and are analyzing them on a number of vectors using AntConc, Tableau, and NVivo. Our previous 10-minute snapshot presentation at DLF 2016https://osf.io/vu22f/ introduced this dataset with particular attention to the credential requirements; since then, our corpus has nearly doubled in size, showing the continued growth in …


New Digital Collection Checklist, Jenna E. Nolt Sep 2018

New Digital Collection Checklist, Jenna E. Nolt

Instructions, Forms, and Toolkits

Editable document for collection creation in Digital Kenyon. To be filled out in a consultation with the administrator of Digital Kenyon.


New Digital Collection Initial Planning Document, Jenna E. Nolt Sep 2018

New Digital Collection Initial Planning Document, Jenna E. Nolt

Instructions, Forms, and Toolkits

Editable document to help faculty and librarians plan online collections.


No Longer On The Outside Looking In: How An Embedded Librarian Can Enhance Digital Pedagogy, Amy E. Gay Aug 2018

No Longer On The Outside Looking In: How An Embedded Librarian Can Enhance Digital Pedagogy, Amy E. Gay

Library Scholarship

This presentation was given at the Digital Pedagogy Institute (DPI) 2018 at Brock University. Its focus was on how embedded librarianship can be an asset for education to enhance digital literacy and information literacy for students and shares an example collaboration between a librarian and a faculty member in the History department.


Supporting The Changing Research Practices Of Asian Studies Scholars, D. Cooper, K. Daniel, J. Alburo, D. Banerjee, T. Bialock, H. Cheng, S. Chen, S. Cho, K. S. Farrell, R. Gabbard, J. A. Henchy, D. Hirsch, M. Hopper, Michael J. Hughes, R. Islam, M. Kelly, R. Lesage, X. Li, C. Marsh, K. Y. Mcvey, M. Rader, B. B. Real, Z. Shen, C. Sorrell, M. Su, A. Tanaka, Y. Tatsumi, B. Winterman, L. Xu, H. Yi, X. Zou Jun 2018

Supporting The Changing Research Practices Of Asian Studies Scholars, D. Cooper, K. Daniel, J. Alburo, D. Banerjee, T. Bialock, H. Cheng, S. Chen, S. Cho, K. S. Farrell, R. Gabbard, J. A. Henchy, D. Hirsch, M. Hopper, Michael J. Hughes, R. Islam, M. Kelly, R. Lesage, X. Li, C. Marsh, K. Y. Mcvey, M. Rader, B. B. Real, Z. Shen, C. Sorrell, M. Su, A. Tanaka, Y. Tatsumi, B. Winterman, L. Xu, H. Yi, X. Zou

Library Faculty Research

Ithaka S+R’s Research Support Services Program investigates how the research support needs of scholars vary by discipline and includes reports on history, chemistry, art history, religious studies, agriculture, and public health. In 2017-2018, Ithaka S+R examined the changing research methods and practices of Asian studies scholars conducting research through U.S. institutions. This project was undertaken collaboratively with research teams at 11 academic libraries with the goal of identifying services to better support Asian studies scholars. This report aims to provide actionable findings for the organizations, institutions, and professionals who support the research process of Asian studies scholars. One hundred and …


3 Secrets Of The Digital Humanities That You Never Knew, Jennifer Hootman Apr 2018

3 Secrets Of The Digital Humanities That You Never Knew, Jennifer Hootman

Library Presentations

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You Built It, But Can You Talk About It?, R.C. Miessler, Carrie Pirmann, Courtney Paddick Mar 2018

You Built It, But Can You Talk About It?, R.C. Miessler, Carrie Pirmann, Courtney Paddick

All Musselman Library Staff Works

Gettysburg College and Bucknell University have adopted library-led summer research fellowships for undergraduates that focus on teaching research skills with digital methods. In the summer of 2017, Gettysburg and Bucknell's student cohorts met to learn how to create elevator speeches for their research topics; R.C. Miessler (Gettysburg), and Carrie Pirmann and Courtney Paddick (Bucknell), talk about the structure and goals of their summer programs, with a focus on their combined session and the importance of helping students learn how to talk about their research.