Librarians have an important role to play in the burgeoning world of Digital Humanities and digital scholarship more widely. This book provides an accessible, introductory guide to digital humanities with the librarian in mind.

Digital Humanities: An introduction for librarians gives a brief history of the field, before dives deeper into the digital scholarly activity taking a two-pronged approach, involving active researchers in the field and using real research projects as case studies throughout. The book will:

Provide an overview of how the digital' has affected a range of humanities disciplines from literary studies, history to digital musicology

Review key tools and methodologies currently used, from digital scholarly editing through social network analysis to 3D modelling of archaeological data

Look at existing digital humanities activities that are currently happening in a range of libraries across the UK, Europe and the United States

Look at professional development and training opportunities from digital humanities at library school, staff training and development, including examples of training programmes and professional associations.

Table of Contents:

1. Setting the Digital Humanities Context: A Brief History to Digital Humanities and the Role of Libraries 2. Digital Scholarship in the Humanities: Insights from the Disciplines 3. Scholarly Methods in the Digital Humanities 4. Getting DiRTy with Research Tools: A Guide for Librarians 5. Digital Scholarship in the Humanities: An Overview of Tools and Methods 6. Digital Humanities and the Library: Key Initiatives 7. Digital Humanities and the Library: Key Initiatives 8. Getting Involved: Opportunities for Librarians

Digital Humanities

Reference works, dictionaries

Library and information science in general

Library and information management

Library automation, information processing

Conservation and storage

Database management softwares

Digital signal, audio and image processing

Linguistics in general, dictionaries

Further readings in linguistics

Museology

Digital Humanities: An introduction for librarians gives a brief history of the field, before dives deeper into the digital scholarly activity taking a two-pronged approach, involving active researchers in the field and using real research projects as case studies throughout.