Digital Humanities, Libraries, and Partnerships. A Critical Examination of Labor, Networks, and Community

Table of Contents

Foreword by Amy Murray Twyning Introduction: A View on Libraries and Librarians in Digital Humanities by Robin Kear and Kate Joranson

Labor and Roles 1. Transforming the Landscape of Labor at Universities through Digital Humanities 2. Our Marathon: The Role of Graduate Student and Library Labor in Making the Boston Bombing Digital Archive 3. Digital Humanities as Public Humanities: Transformative Collaboration in Graduate Education 4. Exploring the Moving Image: The Role of Audiovisual Archives as Partners for Digital Humanities and Cultural Heritage Institutions

Networks and Infrastructure 5. Old Texts and New Media: Jewish Books on the Move and a Case for Collaboration 6. Engaging the Knowledge Commons: Setting Up Virtual Participatory Spaces for Academic Collaboration and Community 7. The Role of Responsive Library Makerspaces in Supporting Informal Learning in the Digital Humanities 8. Digital Humanities and Image Metadata: Improving Access through Shared Practices 9. Stitching Together Technology for the Digital Humanities with the International Image Interoperability Framework

Archives, Community, and History 10. Digital Humanities as Community Engagement: The Digital Watts Project 11. The Collaborative Project Management Model: Akkasah, an Arab Photography Project 12. Starting from the Archives: Digital Humanities Partnerships, Projects, and Pedagogies 13. Beans and Cornbread: The Pragmatic Crusade to Document Women's History through Cookbooks

Authors

Robin Kear Liaison Librarian for English, Film Studies, and Gender, Sexuality, and Women's Studies, University Library System, University of Pittsburgh, USA. Robin Kear is a faculty librarian at the University of Pittsburgh liaising with the English Department, the Film Studies Program, and the Gender, Sexuality, and Women's Studies Program. She has been in the library field for 17 years, written numerous articles and book chapters, presented nationally and globally, and keeps professionally active in national and international organizations. Most recently, she is serving as an IFLA International Leader and a member of the American Library Association's International Relations Committee. Current subjects of interest include digital humanities, digital scholarship, bibliometrics, international librarianship, advocacy, library as publisher, and scholarly communication. Kate Joranson Head, Frick Fine Arts Library, University Library System, University of Pittsburgh, USA. Kate Joranson is the Head Librarian at the Frick Fine Arts Library at the University of Pittsburgh. She cultivates engagement with arts collections through curriculum development, research, exhibitions, and collection data projects. Kate has been a librarian for 10 years, and worked as an educator and museum professional prior to her work in libraries. In addition to her MLIS, she earned an MFA in painting and drawing. In her expanded practice as an artist and a librarian, she explores the intersection between discovery and creativity, through collaborative projects such as What Does it Mean to be Curious?, ebrowsing.org, as well as a series of studio projects at katejoranson.com.