Posts Tagged ‘digital humanities’
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Archives Alive!: librarian-faculty collaboration and an alternative to the five-page paper
August 26, 2015 | 4 commentsTags: academic libraries, collaboration, college students, digital humanities, digital learning materials, faculty, information literacy, instructional design, librarianship, research, teachingIn brief: The short research paper is ubiquitous in undergraduate liberal arts education. But is this assignment type an effective way to assess student learning or writing skills? We argue that it rarely is, and instead serves as an artifact maintained out of instructor familiarity with and unnecessary allegiance to timeworn conceptions of “academia.” As…
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On Scholarly Communication and the Digital Humanities: An Interview with Kathleen Fitzpatrick
January 14, 2015 | 5 commentsIn Brief: At Temple University Libraries (TUL), librarian Fred Rowland began conducting interviews and sharing them as streaming audio through TUL’s website in 2007. The following interview transcript with digital humanities scholar Kathleen Fitzpatrick offers insight into her work and a discussion about the future of scholarly communication. An introduction has been added to the…
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What Is Digital Humanities and What’s it Doing in the Library?
June 27, 2012 | 20 commentstl;dr – Libraries and digital humanities have the same goals. Stop asking if the library has a role, or what it is, and start getting involved in digital projects that are already happening. Advocate for new expanded roles and responsibilities to be able to do this. Become producers/creators in collaboration with scholars rather than servants…