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

The purpose of Digital Humanities in the Library: Challenges and Opportunities for Subject Specialists is to help subject librarians understand the possibilities of digital humanities and navigate the relationships among faculty, students, digital humanities librarians, and themselves. This book was written to address the emerging community of practice called digital humanities and the need for publications aimed specifically at subject librarians. Contributors include digital humanities librarians, special collections librarians, social science librarians, archivists, professional editors, teaching faculty, and graduate students. Annotation ©2015 Ringgold, Inc., Portland, OR (protoview.com)

Arianne Hartsell-Gundy is the Head, Humanities Section and Librarian for Literature and Theater Studies at Duke University. She has a Master of Arts degree in Comparative Literature and a Master of Library Science from Indiana University. Her research interests include information literacy, graduate student pedagogy, collection analysis, and digital humanities, and she is the co-author of the forthcoming Literary Research and British Postmodernism: Strategies and Sources.

Laura R. Braunstein is the Digital Humanities and English Librarian at Dartmouth College. She has a doctorate in English from Northwestern University, where she taught writing and literature classes. She has worked as an index editor for the MLA International Bibliography, and serves as a consultant for the Schulz Library at the Center for Cartoon Studies in Vermont. Her research interests include collaborative learning, using archival materials in teaching, and the impact of the digital humanities on teaching and learning.

Liorah Golomb is the Humanities Librarian at the University of Oklahoma. She holds a doctorate in Drama from the University of Toronto and earned her MLIS at Pratt Institute. She has published several articles and chapters both within and outside of the field of librarianship, and is a co-author of Literary Research and Postcolonial Literatures in English: Sources and Strategies (Scarecrow Press, 2012).