The document summarizes a presentation given at the ATLA Annual Conference in Denver, CO about digital humanities, graduate students, and librarians. It discusses a 15th century illuminated manuscript called the Morisset Hours and how digital tools could be used to enhance research on it. The presentation provides questions librarians should ask students about their digital humanities projects, useful resources for digital humanities, how to identify potential student projects, and tools that librarians could suggest to students for digital display, analysis and publishing of their work online. It promotes collaboration between librarians and students on digital humanities as a way to develop new skills and support innovative humanities research.

1. ATLA Annual Conference
Denver, CO
Brent Burbridge / Jennifer Dekker
DIGITAL HUMANITIES,
GRADUATE STUDENTS
AND LIBRARIANS

2. Why I care about the
(digital) humanities

3. The Morisset Hours

4. Archives and Special Collections

5. Morisset Hours
Psalm 95 (96): Cantate Domino

6. Broken Binding
Catchword “dia”

7. View of Booklets or ‘Quires’

8. Litany of the Saints
With Saint Zenobius & Misbound Quire

9. Blank Page at End of Booklet

10. The Last Word of the Innocent Prisoner

11. Tavoro Family History

12. Medicinal Charm

13. Litany of the Saints: Cosmas & Damian

14. My Photo VS Professional Digital Image

15. UO Digital
History
Student
Showcase,
April 2015

16. DIY= Digitize It Yourself!

17. Questions*
• What assistance is the student seeking?
• Does the student have some technical understanding and skill?
• What is the final product? Who is the intended audience?
• What are the data that the project is based on?
• Does the student have them now or do they need to be created?
• What tools has the student worked with?
• Does the student have access to a server?
• What is the timeline?
• Is the content copyrighted? Do they have permissions?
• What is the research question and how does a DH project
enhance it?
* Based on “Library Questionnaire to Help Researcher with DH Project” by
Nancy LeMay , 2014

18. Useful sources of information
•DHIG list-serv (ALA)
•Digital Medievalist
•Humanist list-serv
•Twitter: #DH
•UCLA Center for Digital Humanities
•THATCamp, WordCamp
•HASTAC
•Your colleagues

19. How to spot a potential project (1)
•The student has digital assets, or you can
obtain or produce them.
•Examples:
•Digital images
•Many words! (Text corpora)
•Locations on a map
•A list of books / authors / publication info

20. How to Spot a Potential Project (2)
•There is a benefit to working together
•Interest in the research question
•Interest in the platform that supports the
research
•“Have you ever thought of creating a DH
project based on this research?”

21. Morisset Book of Hours

23. Tools to Try
Beginner: Intermediate:
Wordpress.com Wordpress.org (supports plug-ins)
Tumblr Omeka
History Pin BiblioBoard (sub req)
Google N-Gram / Voyant ArtStor Shared Shelf collection
Flickr Neatline (with Omeka)

24. Why DH?
•Opportunity to work differently with grad
students
•Learn new skills
•Develop interest in new subjects, projects
•Get to know your IT infrastructure
•Library can be a partner / market itself
•Consistent with trend toward embedded
librarianship
•Humanities research is engaging and fun!

25. THANKS!