This document summarizes Saskia Scheltjens' presentation at the Digital Humanities Summer School 2015 panel discussion at KU Leuven. It outlines her role as head of the faculty library at Ghent University, references relevant publications and initiatives, and describes some of the library's digital humanities projects and services, including a library lab, THATCamp events, and digitization efforts. It emphasizes the importance of collaboration between libraries and digital humanities to support scholarly work in the 21st century.
3. Miriam Posner’s blog & bibliography ‘Digital Humanities and the Library’
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http://miriamposner.com/blog/?page_id=1033#library
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4. JLA special edition ‘DH and libraries’ (2012)
Edited by Barbara Rockenbach
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E-book, combining a series of dh+lib blog posts
+ OA content of the JLA special edition (2013)
http://zachcoble.com/dhlib/Make-It-New-A-dhlib-Mini-
Series.pdf
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Statement of indepence > Diversification and contextualization
and equality of the notion of ‘service’ in libraries
http://trevormunoz.com/
notebook/2012/08/19/doing-dh-
in-the-library.html
http://acrl.ala.org/dh/2013/06/19/in-service-a-further-
provocation-on-digital-humanities-research-in-libraries
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Hacking the Academy
ed. Daniel J. Cohen and Tom Scheinfeldt (2013)
DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.3998/dh.12172434.0001.001
The entropic library needs to cultivate physical spaces
in which to do scholarly work using digital media. But it
is no longer a front from which information flows. It is a
kaleidoscope of data, knowledge, and interaction.
Andrew Ashton
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7. From theory to practice then…
POSSIBLE ROLES FOR LIBRARIES IN DH
• Distributed (‘embedded’) services & support
• Discovery and Dissemination
• Digitisation and Curation
• Managing Research Data
• Digital Preservation
JISC report (2012)
http://www.jisc-collections.ac.uk/News/UK-Scholarly-Reading
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9. In the faculty of Arts & Philosophy
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DH dh
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10. In the faculty of Arts & Philosophy
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DH dh
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11. Initatives with a broader scope
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http://www.ghentcdh.ugent.be
= an interfaculty platform to show all DH related projects within the
faculty of Arts & Philosophy @ UGent in order to stimulate co-
operation
http://be.dariah.eu
Belgian universities, research and cultural heritage institutions
coordinated by Sally Chambers (2015 - …)
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12. In the Booktower
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Photo: Torsade de Pointes – Rozier & Boekentoren – CC BY
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Photo: Torsade de Pointes – Rozier & Boekentoren – CC BY
OpenAIRE
National Open
Access desk
http://openaccess.be
http://lib.ugent.be/en/info/open
LibreCat &
Catmandu
OSS library
software
http://github.com/
LibreCat/Catmandu
http://lib.ugent.be/
catalog?q=sourcebkt01
‘Scanatelier’ &
Image library UGent
All images CC-BY-SA
in high res
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Photo: Torsade de Pointes – Rozier & Boekentoren – CC BY
15. 15
2008
Colours = 20 departments with 50 different departmental libraries
PieterPauwels–3D
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Grand Library
Reorganisation
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PieterPauwels–3D
red = departments blue = faculty library arts & philosophy brown = lecture halls, central services
2018
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Faculty Library
LWBIB
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made en presented by Katrien Deroo – Library Lab coordinator LWBIB
http://www.flickr.com/photos/faclibflw/20592362833
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23. We exist in relation to
each other or we don’t
exist at all
inspired by
Richard Sennett (2012)
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Photo: Victoria Fitchett/Michael Pilkington
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24. Saskia Scheltjens
Ghent University
Faculty of Arts & Philosophy
B - 9000 Ghent - BELGIUM
T + 32 (0)9 331 33 75
saskia.scheltjens@ugent.be
@saschel (twitter id)
http://www.flw.ugent.be/bibliotheek
http://lib.ugent.be
CONTACT
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