[Asis-l] Call for Proposals

[Kevin B Gunn]

*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 *August 17, 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