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Introduction to Digital Humanities for Librarians Instructor: John Russell Dates: April 1st through 26th, 2019 Credits: 1.5 CEUs or 15 PDHs Price: $175 http://libraryjuiceacademy.com/112-digital-humanities.php Digital humanities (DH) has been heralded as the next big thing in humanities scholarship and universities have been creating initiatives and new positions in this field. Libraries, too, have moved to create a presence in the digital humanities community, setting up centers and hiring librarians to staff them. This course is designed as an introduction for librarians or library school students who have little or no exposure to DH and wish to be better positioned to offer DH support or services in a library setting. Participants will read and discuss DH scholarship, learn about frequently-used software, and think about why and how libraries and librarians engage DH. While I will encourage participants to explore more complex computing approaches (and I will support those who do as best I can), this course does not presuppose computing skills such as programming or use of the command line and will not ask participants to do much more than upload files to websites or install and use simple programs. Participants should have an interest and background in humanities scholarship and humanities librarianship and while the readings will focus on activities in the United States, our discussions can be more geographically wide-ranging. Objectives: - A basic knowledge of what digital humanities is and how it effects scholarship in the humanities disciplines. - Exposure to core tools and approaches used by digital humanists. - An understanding of how libraries and librarians have been involved with digital humanities. - Critical engagement with the role of librarians and libraries in digital humanities. This class has two follow-ups: Introduction to Text Encoding and Humanities Librarianship in a Digital Age John Russell is the Associate Director of the Center for Humanities and Information at Pennsylvania State University. He has been actively involved in digital humanities projects, primarily related to text encoding, and has taught courses and workshops on digital humanities methods, including "Introduction to Digital Humanities for Librarians." Read an interview with John Russell about this class: http://libraryjuiceacademy.com/news/?p=769 This is an online class that is taught asynchronously, meaning that participants do the work on their own time as their schedules allow. The class does not meet together at any particular times, although the instructor may set up optional sychronous chat sessions. Instruction includes readings and assignments in one-week segments. Class participation is in an online forum environment. You can register in this course through the first week of instruction (as long as it is not full). The "Register" button on the website goes to our credit card payment gateway, which may be used with personal or institutional credit cards. (Be sure to use the appropriate billing address). If your institution wants us to send a billing statement or wants to pay using a purchase order, please contact us by email to make arrangements: [log in to unmask] For a list of all of the courses being offered next month, please go to: http://libraryjuiceacademy.com/courses.php Library Juice Academy P.O. Box 188784 Sacramento, CA 95818 Tel. (916) 905-0291 Fax (916) 415-5446 [log in to unmask] http://libraryjuiceacademy.com/ Testimonials: http://libraryjuiceacademy.com/testimonial.php Request access to a sample course course: http://libraryjuiceacademy.com/samplecourse.php Twitter: http://twitter.com/libjuiceacademy Check out our jingle: http://libraryjuiceacademy.com/news/?p=139 You are receiving this advertisement because you are subscribed to a related email discussion list that allows commercial messages. We have a separate mailing list that you may subscribe to directly... Subscribe to our mailing list: http://libraryjuiceacademy.com/mailinglist.php