[Asis-l] CFP: THE DIGITAL HUMANITIES: IMPLICATIONS FOR LIBRARIANS, LIBRARIES, AND LIBRARIANSHIP

[Kevin B Gunn]

Greetings,

The deadline for proposals has been extended to *September 9th, 2016*.
Thank you.

*THE DIGITAL HUMANITIES: IMPLICATIONS FOR LIBRARIANS,*

*LIBRARIES, AND LIBRARIANSHIP*



The redefinition of humanities scholarship has received major
attention in higher education over the past few years. The advent of
digital humanities has challenged many aspects of academic
librarianship. With the acknowledgement that librarians must be a
necessary part of this scholarly conversation, the challenges facing
subject/liaison librarians, technical service librarians, and library
administrators are many. Developing the knowledge base of digital
tools, establishing best procedures and practices, understanding
humanities scholarship, managing data through the research lifecycle,
teaching literacies (information, data, visual) beyond the one-shot
class, renegotiating the traditional librarian/faculty relationship as
‘service orientated,’ and the willingness of library and institutional
administrators to allocate scarce resources to digital humanities
projects while balancing the mission and priorities of their
institutions are just some of the issues facing librarians as they
reinvent themselves in the digital humanities sphere.



*A CALL FOR PROPOSALS*



*College & Undergraduate Libraries, a peer-reviewed journal published
by Taylor & Francis, invites proposals for articles to be published in
the fall of 2017. The issue will be co-edited by Kevin Gunn
(**gunn at cua.edu* <gunn at cua.edu>*) of the Catholic University of
America and Jason Paul (**pauljn at stolaf.edu* <pauljn at stolaf.edu>*) of
St. Olaf College.*



The issue will deal with the digital humanities in a very broad sense,
with a major focus on their implications for the roles of academic
librarians and libraries as well as on librarianship in general.
Possible article topics include, but are not limited to, the following
themes, issues, challenges, and criticism:



·         Developing the project development mindset in librarians

·         Creating new positions and/or cross-training issues for librarians

·         Librarian as: point-of-service agent, an ongoing consultant,
or as an embedded project librarian

·         Developing managerial and technological competencies in librarians

·         Administration support (or not) for DH endeavors in libraries

·         Teaching DH with faculty to students (undergraduate and
graduate) and faculty

·         Helping students working with data

·         Managing the DH products of the data life cycle

·         Issues surrounding humanities data collection development
and management

·         Relationships of data curation and digital libraries in DH

·         Issues in curation, preservation, sustainability, and access
of DH data, projects, and products

·         Linked data, open access, and libraries

·         Librarian and staff development for non-traditional roles

·         Teaching DH in academic libraries

·         Project collaboration efforts with undergraduates, graduate
students, and faculty

·         Data literacy for librarians

·         The lack of diversity of librarians and how it impacts DH development

·         Advocating and supporting DH across the institution

·         Developing institutional repositories for DH

·         Creating DH scholarship from the birth of digital objects

·         Consortial collaborations on DH projects

·         Establishing best practices for DH labs, networks, and services

·         Assessing, evaluating, and peer reviewing DH projects and librarians.



Articles may be theoretical or ideological discussions, case studies,
best practices, research studies, and opinion pieces or position
papers.



Proposals should consist of an abstract of up to 500 words and up to
six keywords describing the article, together with complete author
contact information. Articles should be in the range of 20
double-spaced pages in length. Please consult the following link that
contains instructions for authors:
http://www.tandfonline.com/action/authorSubmission?journalCode=wcul20&page=instructions#.V0DJWE0UUdU.



Please submit proposals to Kevin Gunn (gunn at cua.edu) by *September
9th, 2016*; please do not use Scholar One for submitting proposals.
First drafts of accepted proposals will be due by *February 1, 2017*
with the issue being published in the fall of 2017. Feel free to
contact the editors with any questions that you may have.



Kevin Gunn, Catholic University of America

Jason Paul, St. Olaf College