This Zenodo community contains presentation materials from the Libraries as Research Partner in Digital Humanities full-day pre-conference, held July 8, 2019, at the KB (National Library of the Netherlands) in the Hague.

https://adholibdh.github.io/dh2019-preconference/ 

Libraries and other cultural heritage organisations (CHOs) and their staff occupy a central role in digital humanities. Given the importance many of these organisations attach to their role as supporters of research, a case can be made for the opportunity and need for libraries and their staff to position and assert themselves as partners in research.

Theme and programme

This Zenodo community contains presentation materials from the Libraries as Research Partner in Digital Humanities full-day pre-conference, held July 8, 2019, at the KB (National Library of the Netherlands) in the Hague. The event was sponsored by the KB, the Consortium of European Research Libraries, and the Libraries and Digital Humanities Special Interest Group of the Alliance of Digital Humanities Organizations.

This full-day pre-conference aims to address the complexities of positioning libraries (and other CHOs) as digital humanities research partners. The question of CHOs and librarians as service providers or partners is a well-established, rich territory, with implications for labour and status. However, many are still finding their place in digital humanities due to questions of institutional commitments and external expectations. This pre-conference program addresses the topic of building trustworthy and sustainable research partnerships in digital (humanities) research that recognize the expertise of CHO staff.

For more information, see https://adholibdh.github.io/dh2019-preconference/