Melanie Hubbard April 18, 2014

1. The following presentation concerns the implementation of digital humanities services in Loyola Marymount University’s William H. Hannon Library. Melanie Hubbard April 18, 2014

2. EXPLORE DIGITAL HUMANITIES

3. LIBRARIES & DIGITAL HUMANITIES “Digital humanities most clearly represents the spirit that animated the ancient foundations at Alexandria, Pergamum, and Memphis, the great monastic libraries of the Middle Ages, and even the first research libraries of the German Enlightenment. It is obsessed with varieties of representation, the organization of knowledge, the technology of communication and dissemination, and the production of useful tools for scholarly inquiry.” (Ramsay, 2010) EXPLORE DIGITAL HUMANITIES

4. EXPLORE DIGITAL HUMANITIES | What is DH?

5. DIGITAL HUMANITIES IS… { synthesis presentation + humanities scholarship analysis computing research pedagogy EXPLORE DIGITAL HUMANITIES | What is DH?

6. { interdisciplinary & methodological DIGITAL HUMANITIES IS… inherently { individual group { single transcontinental international location { conducted by academic department digital humanities center library facilitated by { large small varying complexity scope EXPLORE DIGITAL HUMANITIES | What is DH?

7. ASPECTS OF DIGITAL HUMANITIES topic modeling {identifying thematic structures} text mining {analysis of data in natural language} data visualization {data abstracted into a visual representation} geographical information systems {captures, alters, manages and displays geographic data} collaboration {shared projects in digital environments} presentation {articulating and displaying DH scholarship} EXPLORE DIGITAL HUMANITIES | What is DH?

8. TOOL EXAMPLE: GIS TimeMapper EXPLORE DIGITAL HUMANITIES | What is DH?

9. TOOL EXAMPLE: TEXTUAL ANALYSIS Voyant EXPLORE DIGITAL HUMANITIES | What is DH?

10. PROJECT EXAMPLE: TEXTUAL ANALYSIS (Fry, 2009) benfry.com/traces EXPLORE DIGITAL HUMANITIES | What is DH?

11. THE DH/LIBRARY INTERSECTION managing and curating digital assets preserving digital assets and resources creating digital project best practices using and promoting the use of social media performing digital resource instruction teaching use and evaluation of digital resources promoting access to and use of primary sources incorporating and teaching emerging technologies focusing on usability, findability and searchability disseminating digital scholarly content designing digital resources analyzing and visualizing data digital preservation digitizing media planning digital projects developing and managing websites designing metadata schemas encoding metadata working with rights management classifying and organizing data (Galina Russell, 2011 ) (Shower, 2012)(Vandegrift, 2012) EXPLORE DIGITAL HUMANITIES | Why Libraries?

12. EXPLORE DIGITAL HUMANITIES | DH Landscape

13. A FEW BASIC OBSERVATIONS approximately 35 DH academic programs in the US and numerous DH courses peppered throughout curricula discussion concerning the digital humanities landscape often focuses on DH centers DH is most often associated with larger universities and research libraries liberal arts colleges with DH centers include Hamilton College, Occidental College and Whittier College EXPLORE DIGITAL HUMANITIES | DH Landscape

14. FRAMEWORK OF SERVICES digital humanities centers {supports various DH needs on a larger scale, i.e. programing and TEI encoding; may or may not be linked with libraries} suite of services {a predetermined set of services} ad hoc {services that come about as needed} EXPLORE DIGITAL HUMANITIES | DH Landscape

15. DH IN LIBERAL ARTS UNIVERSITIES AND COLLEGES Misgivings: liberal arts colleges have less funding, less support and less infrastructure Advantages: shallower administrative hierarchies, less institutional inertia, innovate relatively rapidly and at lower cost more collegiality across disciplines and divisions, and between faculty and staff members, easier to build coalitions and to organize project teams plays a greater pedagogical role by engaging students in interdisciplinary studies and active and collaborative learning (Alexander & Frost Davis, 2012) (Pannapacker, 2013) EXPLORE DIGITAL HUMANITIES | DH Landscape

16. EXPLORE DIGITAL HUMANITIES | DH Services @ LMU

17. RELATIONSHIP TO THE HANNON LIBRARY’S 2013-2020 STRATEGIC PLAN DH facilitation in the library would offer“distinctive services that enable[s] learners to feed their curiosity”through unique digital means, “develop their ideas” through the use of digital analysis and presentation tools, and, through the presence of various DH online projects, “inspire others” on the LMU campus and beyond. Providing DH services and facilitating DH endeavors would “[foster] intellectual and cultural collaborations throughout LMU and the broader scholarly community, and among library peers.” Learning DH skills contributes to a student’s ability to “identify, locate, evaluate, and effectively and responsibly use and share information,” thus DH contributes to the Hannon Library’s efforts to “increase students’ information literacy proficiencies.” EXPLORE DIGITAL HUMANITIES | DH Services

18. RELATIONSHIP TO THE HANNON LIBRARY’S 2013-2020 STRATEGIC PLAN (con’t) Facilitating and participating in digital humanities practices is a form of stewardship of “digital collections in support of academic excellence.” Moreover, because digitized Archives and Special Collection materials will no doubt be incorporated in LMU DH projects, DH services will “increase access to archival and other local collections through digitization and metadata.” Supporting DH endeavors within and outside of the Hannon Library “promote[s] the research and creative output of LMU students and faculty in innovative, creative ways.” Finally, as a result of the library’s participation in digital humanities practices, “the library will act as a cultural and intellectual hub that [will connect] LMU with communities off campus.” EXPLORE DIGITAL HUMANITIES | DH Services

19. SERVICES TO BE OFFERED assisting faculty with the DH pedagogical needs, i.e. design of DH course elements providing digital humanities reference consultations digital humanities collection development DH classroom instruction, i.e. teaching out of the box tools, i.e. Timemapper, Voyager, MALLET, Wordpress maintaining of DH tools/software on library computers student & faculty DH project consultation, i.e. data management, tool recommendations, best practices, metadata schema design building and maintaining Explore DH website, including the creation of DH tool tutorials EXPLORE DIGITAL HUMANITIES | DH Services

20. Explore Digital Humanities website EXPLORE DIGITAL HUMANITIES | DH Services

21. SERVICES SCALABILITY (Vinopal & McCormick, 2013) EXPLORE DIGITAL HUMANITIES | DH Services

22. USER NEEDS ASSESSMENT LIBRARY: Expressed interest on the part of librarians and staff members FACULTY: Dermot Ryan (English), Kirstin Noreen (Art History), Jane Brucker (Fine Arts), Molly Youngkin (English), Stephen Shepherd (English), Courtney Spikes (History), Annemarie Pérez (Chicano Studies) EXPLORE DIGITAL HUMANITIES | DH Services

23. GOALS OF THE SERVICE To support faculty digital humanities needs be it for teaching or for their own scholarship To support students in their digital humanities scholarship To facilitate innovative and creative forms of scholarship To create a stronger partnership between the various humanities departments and the library To elevate the library’s own digital scholarship, i.e. an increased awareness of the digital library and the scholarship put toward the digital library EXPLORE DIGITAL HUMANITIES | DH Assessment

24. OUTCOMES OF THE SERVICE Faculty who incorporate DH in their teaching will see the libraryas a resource for their DH pedagogical needs. Faculty will consistently use the library for the DH aspects of their scholarship. Students will be able to demonstrate DH skills and knowledge in their humanities studies. Students will know how to use the library to gain DH skills and for accessing DH tools. The library’s offering of DH services will elevate its own digital presence, i.e. digital library collections. EXPLORE DIGITAL HUMANITIES | DH Assessment

25. PRIMARY SERVICE USERS Faculty: pedagogy, individual projects and information resources, as models for their own digital humanities projects Undergraduate & Graduate Students: class projects, information resources, existing projects as models for their own DH work Outside Researchers: information resources, to learn about scholarship at LMU, existing projects as models for their own DH work EXPLORE DIGITAL HUMANITIES | DH Services

26. PRIMARY SERVICE PROVIDERS Digital Humanities Librarian: primary responsibility is DH services, facilitation and operations has a strong grasp of trends both in the humanities and digital humanities, significant experience in humanities research and has an aptitude for technology will provide instruction, reference and some technical support to DH scholars EXPLORE DIGITAL HUMANITIES | DH Services

27. PRIMARY SERVICE PROVIDERS (con’t) Reference Librarians: may lead library instruction concerning the use of certain DH related tools Archives and Special Collections Librarians: A&SC librarians may teach the history of the book classes, provide reference assistance to DH scholars, and supply scans of primary source materials Digital Librarian: provide expertise concerning the management of digital assets Metadata Librarian: will assist in the creation of metadata best practices and metadata schemas Information Technology Services: may be called upon for technical assistance support and to assist in the implementation of new technologies EXPLORE DIGITAL HUMANITIES | DH Services

28. KEY STAKEHOLDERS Internal Stakeholders:librarians, library staff, and library embedded ITS personnel External Stakeholders: faculty, undergraduate and graduate students, University Staff, in particular ITS department as a whole and the Web, New Media and Design department, outside of LMU researchers, and the digital humanities community EXPLORE DIGITAL HUMANITIES | DH Services

29. SWOT ANALYSIS STRENGTHS: state-of-the-art instruction rooms archives and special collections materials established digital library program numerous digitized objects in the digital library a new strategic plan with goals and objectives that align with DH a core group of library oriented faculty members a university community that encourages interdisciplinary and interdepartmental partnerships WEAKNESSES: no single library staff member to lead this effort compete with other library instruction time EXPLORE DIGITAL HUMANITIES | DH Services

30. SWOT ANALYSIS OPPORTUNITIES: librarians learn new skills library and academic department collaborations foster interdisciplinary relationships on campus present LMU scholarship to a global community new ways to encourage and teach information literacy THREATS: lack of interest on the part of faculty inability to sustain infrastructure proves to be inadequate cannot institute quickly enough to keep interest EXPLORE DIGITAL HUMANITIES | DH Services

31. EXPLORE DIGITAL HUMANITIES | DH Marketing

32. RECOMMENDATIONS FROM THE DH FIELD MICAH VANDEGRIFT AND STEWART VARNER: “By understanding the kinds of work scholars on your campus are doing and being familiar with the work being done at the cutting edge of digital humanitiesyou will be well positioned to make your library an integral part of the intellectual lives of your users.” (2013) THEY SUGGEST: do not wait for their users to come to them get out in the community attend events put on by the departments with whom the library will conduct or potentially conduct DH projects speak to faculty in person and join department listservs(2013) EXPLORE DIGITAL HUMANITIES | DH Marketing

33. MARKETING METHODS LMU.eduwebsite: announcements on the LMUhomepage internal listserv: DH listserv for LMUfaculty and students external listserv: communicate with external listsers about LMU DH activities, i.e. DH+Lib listserv demonstrations: demonstrations of current DH related tools, concepts and resources workshops: host workshops that instruct faculty on how to use DH related tools library subject liaison outreach: relay DH related information to subject liaisons respective humanities departments posters: posters with Quick Response Code that links to the Explore Digital Humanitieswebsite will be displayed around campus EXPLORE DIGITAL HUMANITIES | DH Marketing

34. poster EXPLORE DIGITAL HUMANITIES | DH Marketing

35. library website EXPLORE DIGITAL HUMANITIES | DH Marketing

36. social media EXPLORE DIGITAL HUMANITIES | DH Marketing

37. bookmarks EXPLORE DIGITAL HUMANITIES | DH Marketing

38. buttons EXPLORE DIGITAL HUMANITIES | DH Marketing

39. EXPLORE DIGITAL HUMANITIES | DH Assessment

40. RECOMMENDATIONS FROM THE DH FIELD JENNIFER VINOPAL AND MONICA MCCORMICK: “[determine] success criteria, [evaluate] client satisfaction, identifying what did and did not work, [calculate] staff hours spent on development and support activities, [estimate] costs and possible efficiencies, and [consider] next steps.” (2013) EXPLORE DIGITAL HUMANITIES | DH Assessment

41. ADDITIONAL RECOMMENDATION APPLY THE ASSOCIATION OF AMERICAN COLLEGES AND UNIVERSITIES’ INFORMATION LITERACY VALUE RUBRIC WHICH: gauges a students ability to determine the information needed, analyze that information and use that information effectively and ethically. EXPLORE DIGITAL HUMANITIES | DH Assessment

42. IMPACT RUBRIC EXPLORE DIGITAL HUMANITIES | DH Assessment

43. EXPLORE DIGITAL HUMANITIES | Here and Now?

44. THINGS TO KEEP IN MIND Offering digital humanities services will not make Loyola Marymount University a major DH institution. It will, however, put LMU on a long overdue academic and intellectual path. There are many ways to do DH. It is up to every institution to develop their own DH approach and to define their own DH brand (Alexander & Frost Davis, 2012). Faculty and librarians alike already conduct scholarship and research that falls within (or nearly falls within) the realm of digital humanities. Digital humanities studies and scholarship provide another career path for humanities students both in and outside of academia. EXPLORE DIGITAL HUMANITIES | Here and Now?

45. WHY DIGITAL HUMANITIES @ THE WILLIAM H. HANNON LIBRARY? Digital humanities is here to stay. Libraries are leaders in the digital humanities field. The William H. Hannon library strives to foster cultural and intellectual university endeavors. The library is the most capable and qualified to lead, advance and sustain LMU’s digital humanities mission. Because it is entirely possible. EXPLORE DIGITAL HUMANITIES | Here and Now?

46. REFERENCES Alexander, B. & Frost Davis, R. (2013). Should liberal arts campuses do digital humanities? Process and products in the small college world. In Debates in the Digital Humanities. Association of American Colleges and Universities. (n.d.). Information literacy VALUE rubric. Frost Davis, R. (2012, August 16). Digital humanities and liberal education. National Institute for Technology in Liberal Education. Retrieved from http://blogs.nitle.org/2011/03/02/digital-humanities-and-liberal- education Fry, B. (2009). On the origin of species: the preservation of favoured traces. Retrieved April 16, 2014, from http://benfry.com/traces Galina Russell, I. (2011). The role of libraries in digital humanities. IFLA. Retrieved from http://conference. ifla.org/ifla77 Pannapacker, W. (2013, February 18). Advice. The Chronicle of Higher Education. Retrieved from http:// chronicle.com/article/Stop-Calling-It-Digital/137325 Ramsay, S. (2010, October 8). Care four the soul [Web log post]. Retrieved from http://stephenramsay.us/ text/2010/10/08/care-of-the-soul Showers, B. (2012, February 13). Does the library have a role to play in the digital humanities? JISC. Retrieved from http://infteam.jiscinvolve.org/wp/2012 /02/23/ does-the-library-have-a- role-to-play- in-the-digital-humanities Vandegrift, M. & Varner, S. (2013). Evolving in common: Creating mutually supportive relationships between libraries and the digital humanities. Journal of Library Administration,53(1), 67-78. doi: 10.1080/01930826.2013.756699 Vinopal, J. & McCormick, M. (2013). Supporting digital scholarship in research libraries: Scalability and sustainability. Journal of Library Administration,53(1), 27-42. doi: 10.1080/01930826.2013.756689 EXPLORE DIGITAL HUMANITIES

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