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proach, and “the need for multiple skills is undeniable, and underscores
the need for scholars, librarians, and programmers to work together.” 23
Nowviskie also makes this argument, using a corporate team model for
digital humanities projects in academia. 24 Support for digital humanities is
not just another service for libraries to offer patrons, but rather an opportunity
for subject librarians to be full partners when it comes to scholarship
production.
Notes
1. Chris Alen Sula, “Digital Humanities and Libraries: A Conceptual Model,” Journal of
Library Administration 53, no. 1 (January 2013): 10–26, doi:10.1080/01930826.2013.7
56680.
2. See Fiona Black, Bertrum H. MacDonald, and J. Malcolm W. Black, ‘‘Geographic
Information Systems: A New Research Method for Book History,’’ Book History 1
(1998): 11–31, www.jstor.org/stable/30227281.
3. Bethany Nowviskie, “Skunks in the Library: A Path to Production for Scholarly
R&D,” Journal of Library Administration 53, no. 1 (January 2013): 53–66, doi:10.108
0/01930826.2013.756698.
4. Ibid.
5. Ibid.
6. Micah Vandegrift and Stewart Varner, “Evolving in Common: Creating Mutually
Supportive Relationships between Libraries and the Digital Humanities,” Journal of
Library Administration 53, no. 1 (January 2013): 68, 10.1080/01930826.2013.756699.
7. Nancy Maron and Sarah Pickle, Sustaining the Digital Humanities: Host Institution
Support beyond the Start-up Phase (New York: Ithaka S&R, June 18, 2014), www.
sr.ithaka.org/sites/default/files/SR_Supporting_Digital_Humanities_20140618f.pdf.
8. Ibid., 23.
9. Ibid., 31.
10. Ibid., 24.
11. Ibid.
12. Mary M. Case, “Partners in Knowledge Creation: An Expanded Role for Research
Libraries in the Digital Future,” Journal of Library Administration 48, no. 2 (2008):
142, doi:10.1080/01930820802231336.
13. Harriett E. Green, “Facilitating Communities of Practice in Digital Humanities:
Librarian Collaborations for Research and Training in Text Encoding,” Library
Quarterly 84, no. 2 (April 1, 2014): 219–34, doi:10.1086/675332; Craig Harkema
and Brent Nelson, “Scholar-Librarian Collaboration in the Publication of Scholarly
Materials,” Collaborative Librarianship 5, no. 3 (July 2013): 197–207, http://
collaborativelibrarianship.org/index.php/jocl/article/view/243/206; Sula, “Digital
Humanities and Libraries.”
14. Vandegrift and Varner, “Evolving in Common.”
15. Maron and Pickle, Sustaining the Digital Humanities, 34.