An overview of some of the ways in which the UCLA Center for Digital Humanities is collaborating with the Research Library. Presented to a delegation of Russian librarians visiting UCLA as an ILIAC delegation in October 2012.

1. ILIAC Librarian Visit:
CDH and the Library
October 15, 2012• YRL Presentation Room

2. OVERVIEW OF CDH
http://www.cdh.ucla.edu/
● Technology services: Desktops, network, servers,
websites for the Humanities;
● Computing labs: Rolfe 2118 for instruction, The Hub
for research and project work;
● Training and consulting: Helping instructors, students
with online coursework or research tools/projects, grant
proposals;
● Projects: Partnering with faculty, students, Library to
build digital humanities projects and to ask Humanities
questions with digital tools and digitized artifacts.
● Collaboration!
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3. CDH collaborations with the
Library
● Projects. Digitizing, storing and curating collections;
providing metadata, mapping, data management
expertise.
○ Art History Visual Resources Collection
○ UCLA Encyclopedia of Egyptology
○ Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative
● Scholarly training and support.
○ Workshops on digital tools and methods
○ Copyright and Fair Use education/support
○ Teaching and Learning Services programming
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4. CDH collaborations with the
Library
● Computer-enabled workspaces. Situated in the
Library, where the collections and content experts are!
○ Lab for Digital Cultural Heritage
○ The Digital Hub
○ Undergraduate CLICC labs and loaner laptops with
specialized (Digital) Humanities software
○ Research Commons Workgroup - regular joint
planning
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5. CDH collaborations with the
Library
● Events "2.0". Co-sponsored scholarly and public
interactions and explorations.
○ Hackathon - 1-day start-to-finish tool creation
○ DIY Days LA 2011. A roving conference for those
who create. http://diydays.com/program-2/program/
○ Talks by visiting experts in social media, digital
scholarship
○ First Fridays - volunteer IT help for emeriti
● Digital Humanities Program support. Partnering to
support DH faculty and student projects and
workspaces, and to create a DH community of practice
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6. CDH collaborations with the
Library
The Library is helping CDH leverage the
knowledge and tools of the 21st century to
explore the Humanities.
CDH is helping the Library strengthen its
partnerships with and contributions to 21st
century scholarship.
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7. QUESTIONS OR COMMENTS?
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