KB Lab member Lotte Wilms, as chair of the LIBER Digital Humanities working group, is hosting a workshop on Digital Humanities in Libraries at the annual LIBER conference.
The LIBER working group Digital Humanities (DH) would like to take the opportunity to organise a workshop for members and interested parties during the LIBER conference in Patras. During this workshop we wish to bring together libraries working or interested in Digital Humanities. A panel of experienced European research librarians will introduce the activities they undertake in their library in a lightning talk manner, while a moderator (still to be confirmed) from the research community questions them on the issues and solutions they encounter while working in DH. Topics such as personnel skills, organisational structure, policy, (international) collaboration with researchers and libraries and providing access to digital collections will all be touched upon during this discussion.
After the plenary panel session, the participants will be divided into six groups, each led by a panel member. Each group will discuss one of the aforementioned topics from their own experience, after which the panel members will report back about these discussion in a plenary setup, led by the moderator. All input from these discussions will be taken on by LIBER WG Digital Humanities chairs Andreas Degkwitz and Lotte Wilms, who will present the next steps for the WG. Concluding, the moderator will wrap up the workshop with the most important observations from a researcher’s perspective.
Besides being a wonderful networking opportunity to share experiences and knowledge, this workshop will serve as input for the activities of the LIBER WG Digital Humanities, such as the DH in Libraries FAQs, best and worst practices and the report on the state of the art in DH in European research libraries.