Category: Institutional Models for Digital Scholarship and Collaboration

Janet Thomas Simons, Gregory Lord and Kerri Grimaldi (Hamilton College) Culture, Liberal Arts, and Society Scholars (CLASS) is an undergraduate research internship program in the digital humanities awarded to students through Hamilton College’s Digital Humanities Initiative (DHi). CLASS is based on three-broad areas of scholarly inquiry and their intersection with digital technologies: 1) Culture, 2)…

Mike Zarafonetis and Laurie Allen (Haverford College) The flexibility and small size of the liberal arts college library naturally leads to collaboration across institutional lines, and even more so in the creation of digital scholarship. This summer, Haverford College Libraries undertook multiple cross-departmental and institutional digital projects, each with its own challenges. Three of these…

Matthew Sisk and Alexander Papson (University of Notre Dame) Library-based digital scholarship centers are increasingly seen as a way to foster collaboration across the university and make new digital tools available for teaching and research. In September of 2013, the Center for Digital Scholarship (CDS) was launched in the Hesburgh Library at the University of…

Jacob Heil (The Five Colleges of Ohio) In the libraries of the Five Colleges of Ohio, a project-centered Mellon grant has given the consortium an opportunity to encourage the development of faculty-led, digital, pedagogical projects. Building on an initiative that was focused on digital collections, this latest grant is more focused on tying digital methodologies…

Jim Proctor (Lewis & Clark College) Though liberal arts colleges are often viewed as an escape from the world, Northwest Five Consortium (NW5C) students routinely engage in local, regional, and international field sites, and our institutions pride themselves on how these experiences help cultivate global leaders. Yet the global is a challenging realm, arguably not…