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Filling the Gap: Digital Scholarship, Graduate Students, and the Role of the Subject Specialist

Filling the Gap: Digital Scholarship, Graduate Students, and the Role of the Subject Specialist

Sigrid Anderson Cordell, Alexa L. Pearce, Melissa Gomis, Justin Joque
Copyright: © 2015 |Pages: 19
ISBN13: 9781466684447|ISBN10: 1466684445|EISBN13: 9781466684454
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-4666-8444-7.ch004
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Cordell, Sigrid Anderson, et al. "Filling the Gap: Digital Scholarship, Graduate Students, and the Role of the Subject Specialist." Supporting Digital Humanities for Knowledge Acquisition in Modern Libraries, edited by Kathleen L. Sacco, et al., IGI Global, 2015, pp. 67-85. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-4666-8444-7.ch004

APA

Cordell, S. A., Pearce, A. L., Gomis, M., & Joque, J. (2015). Filling the Gap: Digital Scholarship, Graduate Students, and the Role of the Subject Specialist. In K. Sacco, S. Richmond, S. Parme, & K. Wilkes (Eds.), Supporting Digital Humanities for Knowledge Acquisition in Modern Libraries (pp. 67-85). IGI Global. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-4666-8444-7.ch004

Chicago

Cordell, Sigrid Anderson, et al. "Filling the Gap: Digital Scholarship, Graduate Students, and the Role of the Subject Specialist." In Supporting Digital Humanities for Knowledge Acquisition in Modern Libraries, edited by Kathleen L. Sacco, et al., 67-85. Hershey, PA: IGI Global, 2015. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-4666-8444-7.ch004

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Abstract

Graduate students in the humanities increasingly view training in the use of digital tools and methodologies as critical to their success. Graduate students' interest in becoming familiar with digital tools often accompanies their awareness of a competitive academic job market, coupled with a recognition that teaching and research positions increasingly call for experience and skills in the Digital Humanities (DH). Likewise, recent debates over DH's role in the future of humanities scholarship have heightened the sense that DH skills can translate to crucial job skills. While many graduate students receive encouragement from faculty to pursue digital scholarship, individual academic departments often have limited resources to prioritize the development of these skills at the expense of existing curricular components. This chapter looks at initiatives at the University of Michigan Library that demonstrate the ways in which subject librarians, in collaboration with data and technology specialist librarians, can fill this gap by creating opportunities for graduate students to develop DH skills.

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