1. Are We on the Right Track
Are We on the Right Track? - EAL Librarians' New Role in Digitizing Humanities at PITT Haihui Zhang March 30, 2016 CEAL Plenary Session Seattle

2. Digital Humanities (DH), which began as a term of consensus among a relatively small group of researchers, is now supported on a growing number of campuses by a level of funding, infrastructure, and administrative commitments that would have been unthinkable even a decade ago.
Kirschenbaum, Matthew G. (2010). "What is Digital Humanities and What's it Doing in English Departments?” ADE Bulletin (150).
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3. Institute’s Goals
1997, a Digital Research Library (DRL) was established
– “digitize and deliver electronic versions of ULS print resources to a large body of users worldwide.”
“digitize materials from our unique or endangered collections and provide innovative tools to enhance their availability, access, and continued use.”
“increase the University’s global impact by ensuring that the output of Pitt researchers was made visible to a global readership, by supporting Pitt’s international research and learning programs, and by fostering worldwide sharing of knowledge.”
– “To improve the accessibility of our unique digital collections and provide researchers with a greater opportunity to discover and interact with our holdings, we plan to prioritize the completion of a new, more modern digital library infrastructure in order to more efficiently manage and make accessible digital archival material.”
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4. Digitizing Japanese Humanities Projects
Tsukioka Kōgyo: The Art of Noh,
Barry Rosensteel Japanese Print Collection.
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5. Digitizing Chinese Humanities Projects - Projects done recently
Chinese Land Records
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Sze Sze-Ming Papers
Chinese Marriage Documents idx?c=ascead-test;cc=ascead-test;rgn=main;view=text;didno=US- PPiU-sc201501
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6. Digitizing Chinese Humanities Projects – Projects done recently (Cont
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7. Projects Done Recently (Chinese Marriage Documents)
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8. Digitizing Chinese Humanities Projects – On-Going Projects
1. Overseas Chinese students campus news letters 2. CR/10 video project 3. Gao Archive on Chinese contemporary art
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9. On-Going Project: Chinese Oversea Student Newsletters
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10. On-Going Projects: CR/10 and Gao Archive
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11. Digitizing Chinese Humanities Projects – Projects waiting in line
Min’guo era political prisoner photo collection
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12. DH Project’s Impact To Traditional Library Concepts
To Current Librarian Practices and Operation Process
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13. DH Project’s Impact (Cont.) – Concepts
Open up non-commercial channels
Discover unique and hidden materials
Initiate and create e-resources
Institute users/potential research needs outside the home institute
New ways to support teaching and research
Promote open access
Discover, identify, evaluate and initiate potential DH objects
Communicator within library, campus-wide and outside the university
DH project’s coordinator and executor
New criteria for library collection and service, and librarian’s performance
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14. DH Project’s Impact (Cont.) – Practice and Operation
***Support from ULS senior administrative staff ***
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15. Challenges to Librarians
Scholarly and professional sensitivity
Legal knowledge (copyright, identity information, release agreement, etc.)
Communication skills
Grant proposal
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16. “Librarians” need to proudly identify themselves as DHers, and should fully expect to be regarded as such by peers, colleagues, faculty and administrators, and let the broad work they do engage with that community.
Vandegrift, Micah and Stewart Varner. Evolving in Common: Creating Mutually Supportive Relationships Between Libraries and the Digital Humanities. Journal of Library Administration Vol. 53, Iss. 1, 2013
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17. THANKS
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