Digitizing the Humanities: A Future for Libraries

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Author(s): Mandi Shepp (Marion H. Skidmore Library, USA)
Copyright: 2015
Pages: 20
Source title: Supporting Digital Humanities for Knowledge Acquisition in Modern Libraries
Source Author(s)/Editor(s): Kathleen L. Sacco (State University of New York at Fredonia, USA), Scott S. Richmond (State University of New York at Fredonia, USA), Sara M. Parme (State University of New York at Fredonia, USA)and Kerrie Fergen Wilkes (State University of New York at Fredonia, USA)
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-4666-8444-7.ch001

Keywords: Digital Humanities / Information Science Reference / Library Science / Media & Communications

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Scholarship in the humanities is rapidly becoming digital, and patrons expect libraries to offer new resources. The influence of Web 2.0, especially social media, amplifies these changes and enhances digital scholarship. The collaborative creation of digital collections allows libraries to modernize their available resources while encouraging dynamic patron participation in the educational process through initiatives like crowdsourcing. The developing digital elements of humanities scholarship and how they can be affected by the participatory web is examined through discussion and review of literature, and applied and observed through a case study of The Skeptiseum, a digital museum of physical artifacts, and how digitization contributes to modern scholarship in the humanities.

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