Comments on: What Is Digital Humanities and What’s it Doing in the Library? http://www.inthelibrarywiththeleadpipe.org/2012/dhandthelib/ The murder victim? Your library assumptions. Suspects? It could have been any of us. Fri, 28 Nov 2014 02:49:14 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=4.0 By: Libraries as Laboratories for DH | this is a DH blog http://www.inthelibrarywiththeleadpipe.org/2012/dhandthelib/comment-page-1/#comment-33074 Wed, 06 Mar 2013 00:10:28 +0000 http://www.inthelibrarywiththeleadpipe.org/?p=4085#comment-33074 [...] of whether digital humanities is a service in libraries, Bethany Nowviskie, Trevor Muñoz, and Micah Vandegrift seem like they can agree on one thing: libraries facilitate the creation of knowledge and assist in [...]

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By: Mike D'Errico , On Preservation and “Re-Representation” http://www.inthelibrarywiththeleadpipe.org/2012/dhandthelib/comment-page-1/#comment-12750 Mon, 08 Oct 2012 19:53:07 +0000 http://www.inthelibrarywiththeleadpipe.org/?p=4085#comment-12750 [...] “preservation-based” scholars seem to be concerned with examining the ways in which projects such as archives can be seen as “productive” work. Whereas “performance-based” scholars may see their own work as an aesthetic product as [...]

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By: Proposed Grad Course for 2013-2014: Practicing the Digital Humanities (Draft) » Roger T. Whitson, Ph.D http://www.inthelibrarywiththeleadpipe.org/2012/dhandthelib/comment-page-1/#comment-12586 Tue, 02 Oct 2012 03:07:14 +0000 http://www.inthelibrarywiththeleadpipe.org/?p=4085#comment-12586 [...] Vandegrift. “What is Digital Humanities and What’s It Doing in Library?“ In the Library With the Lead Pipe. June 27, [...]

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By: Navigating DH for Cultural Heritage Professionals, 2012 edition | Lot 49 http://www.inthelibrarywiththeleadpipe.org/2012/dhandthelib/comment-page-1/#comment-11318 Wed, 15 Aug 2012 15:33:18 +0000 http://www.inthelibrarywiththeleadpipe.org/?p=4085#comment-11318 [...] Vandegrift, “What Is Digital Humanities and What’s it Doing in the Library?,” http://www.inthelibrarywiththeleadpipe.org/2012/dhandthelib/, [...]

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By: John Russell http://www.inthelibrarywiththeleadpipe.org/2012/dhandthelib/comment-page-1/#comment-9697 Mon, 09 Jul 2012 19:46:02 +0000 http://www.inthelibrarywiththeleadpipe.org/?p=4085#comment-9697 “But to be effective in the research context the librarian is going to be a lot more specific, and more directly involved with the researcher at the outset of a project, helping them put together a set of questions, data, and tools that will move a discipline forward, rather than waiting until a scholar shows up at the library with a problem.”

One Culture: “Urgent, Pointed, and Even Disruptive”

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By: Library Support for DH « Stewart Varner http://www.inthelibrarywiththeleadpipe.org/2012/dhandthelib/comment-page-1/#comment-9692 Thu, 05 Jul 2012 16:53:29 +0000 http://www.inthelibrarywiththeleadpipe.org/?p=4085#comment-9692 [...] started as a comment to Micah Vandegrift’s amazing post “What is Digital Humanities and What’s it doing in the Library?” but it got too long … so now its a blog. While I take credit (or blame) for posting it, it is [...]

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By: Digital Humanities « Amanda Cowell http://www.inthelibrarywiththeleadpipe.org/2012/dhandthelib/comment-page-1/#comment-9691 Tue, 03 Jul 2012 17:24:47 +0000 http://www.inthelibrarywiththeleadpipe.org/?p=4085#comment-9691 [...] any librarian would, I decided to research it. Oddly the first thing I found was a blog post titled What is Digital Humanities and What is it doing in the Library. I say oddly only because this post, [...]

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By: Zach Coble http://www.inthelibrarywiththeleadpipe.org/2012/dhandthelib/comment-page-1/#comment-9689 Sat, 30 Jun 2012 19:59:56 +0000 http://www.inthelibrarywiththeleadpipe.org/?p=4085#comment-9689 Micah, Thanks for the great article and a wonderful collection of links! You raise a good point about getting librarians to change their perceptions. It’s difficult for any group to fundamentally change how they view themselves, and librarians certainly aren’t notorious for such feats. In this regard, Stewart’s response/post is particularly useful because it outlines concrete steps that we can take to begin supporting DH in our libraries.

DH can be a big messy world and is often tied to big messy issues (copyright, open access, tenure and promotion, etc), so I found it helpful to start with what I knew – I’ve worked with Omeka before and did my undergrad in history, so I asked a history prof if he wanted to create an Omeka site for one of his courses. It’s not groundbreaking but it’s something.

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By: DCW Volume 1 Issue 6 – DH Mad Libs http://www.inthelibrarywiththeleadpipe.org/2012/dhandthelib/comment-page-1/#comment-9686 Fri, 29 Jun 2012 15:06:46 +0000 http://www.inthelibrarywiththeleadpipe.org/?p=4085#comment-9686 [...] the Library with the Lead Pipe published Micah Vandegrift‘s piece, ‘What Is Digital Humanities and What’s it Doing in the Library?’ (sound familiar?) earlier this week, which argues [...]

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By: John Russell http://www.inthelibrarywiththeleadpipe.org/2012/dhandthelib/comment-page-1/#comment-9685 Thu, 28 Jun 2012 21:47:09 +0000 http://www.inthelibrarywiththeleadpipe.org/?p=4085#comment-9685 Possibly minor correction: your link to the Digital Thoreau site is “built in text-mining tool,” but VM (Versioning Machine) is collational software, not for text-mining.

I think you are right that DH offers greater opportunities for involvement by librarians, though I wish you had been a bit more concrete than polemical. Your rousing “cast off our chains!” rhetoric runs the risk of reinforcing a divide between librarian-work and research proper.

Strongly asserting that librarians need to do digital work without ever providing referents can lead to the reading I had when first going over your piece: librarians need to become scholars; scholarship is progressive, librarianship is servitude. But talk to some folks doing DH (and Stewart Varner’s post gets to some of this) and they don’t need more scholars, they need people who have metadata, preservation, and project management skills. I would argue that librarians who want to be involved in DH can do so by promoting skills they have as librarians, not by trying to be scholars or on the basis of non-librarian subject knowledge.

Personally, I’d like to see librarians who are excited by DH do a better job of showing how librarian skills bring a lot to the table. One possible avenue would be critically assessing DH projects, say on a DH&Libraries blog of some sort.

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