DH for Librarians (DHSI 2026)

Description

This course will focus on the processes and methods of digital humanities and how they intersect with librarianship practice. We will start by considering big picture questions: how have librarians approached “doing DH” and “supporting DH” in libraries, what has the practice of DH librarianship been, and what could the future of DH in libraries be? From there, we will survey different aspects of DH in librarianship in more detail, including assessment and strategic planning, reference and consultation, instruction, project management, and collaborative partnerships. Along the way, we will explore key resources, methods, and tools, as well as threshold concepts, data literacy, and relationships to other parts of academic libraries.

Instructor(s)

Leigh Bonds is an Associate Professor and the Digital Humanities Librarian at The Ohio State University. For the last nine years, she has led campus digital humanities efforts, consulted with faculty and graduate students on research and curricula, and collaborated on several projects. She served on the programming committee for DLFxDHSI Unconference in 2018, taught sessions at ARL’s Digital Scholarship Institute in 2019 and 2021, and taught “DH for Librarians” in 2024. Leigh’s publications on DH librarianship and pedagogy include “Facilitating Course [Re]Design: A Programmatic Approach to DH Integration,” “Preparing, Facilitating, Assessing: A Reflection on Digital Humanities Consultations,” and “First Things First: Conducting an Environmental Scan.”

John Russell is an Associate Librarian and Associate Director of the Center for Virtual/Material Studies at the Pennsylvania State University. From 2015-2022, he taught “Introduction to Digital Humanities for Librarians” and “Introduction to Text Encoding” for Library Juice Academy. John is co-author of “Beyond Buttonology: Digital Humanities, Digital Pedagogy, and the ACRL Framework” and “Remodeling the Text Encoding Initiative (TEI) Workshop,” as well as articles on computer vision and art history, digital humanities librarianship, and collection assessment. John is also past editor-in-chief of dh+lib.