CESTA Seminar | G. Worthey "Tom Sawyer, Librarian. Or, Whitewashing the DH Book Collection."

Date
Tue February 6th 2018, 12:00 - 1:20pm
Event Sponsor
Center for Spatial and Textual Analysis (CESTA)
Location
Bldg. 160, Rm. 433A
CESTA Seminar | G. Worthey "Tom Sawyer, Librarian.  Or, Whitewashing the DH Book Collection."

One of the librarian’s tasks is to assemble the best professional literature in a field, for students and scholars both now and in the future. Stanford’s DH librarian has been curating just such a book collection for the Digital Humanities since 1999 (even before the advent of the term “DH”!), called “Digital Culture & Humanities Computing” and shelved in Green Library’s Lane Reading Room.

The collection now holds about 1,400 works – but are they the right ones? Are they the best, the most representative, insightful, interesting, lasting – in a word, the essential classics of the field? What’s missing? What does the DH field look like through the lens of this collection? Is it even recognizable as DH? Does DH even need a book collection?

Please join this community exploration and analysis of the history, motivation, and (above all) contents of Stanford’s “Digital Culture & Humanities Computing” book collection – as you help define the field, and even do your DH Librarian’s work for him.

Glen Worthey has been Digital Humanities Librarian in the Stanford University Libraries since 1997, where he leads the Libraries’ Center for Interdisciplinary Digital Research (CIDR).

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