Synergies among Digital Humanities and African American History and Culture

Session Submission Type: Paper Session

Abstract

Digital transformations are underway in collections, research skills and methods, and publishing. This roundtable will explore how librarians and information professionals are undertaking new initiatives in these three areas to stimulate and support scholarship on African American history and culture. Lopez D. Matthews, Jr., will discuss the building of a digitization program at Howard University and the benefits of digitization as it relates to improving the accessibility of archival material. Trevor Muñoz will discuss the Digital Humanities (DH) Incubators, a program which supports faculty, graduate students, and community members in developing digital research methods and skills. The DH Incubators are one element of the “Synergies Among Digital Humanities and African American History and Culture” (AADHum) initiative at the University of Maryland. Harriett Green will discuss Publishing Without Walls (PWW), a project at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, to provide support and infrastructure to help scholars engage in digital publishing. PWW programs offer introductory seminars and webinars, tutorial workshops for digital publishing platforms, and individual consultation to serve scholars studying the Black experience. Johnnieque Love will moderate the panel and discuss how various new library initiatives might be understood as a coherent networks of resources for scholars and students.

Sub Unit

• 101st Annual Meeting and Conference of the Association for the Study of African American Life and History

Chair

• Johnnieque B. Love, University of Maryland, College Park

Individual Presentations

• Howard University Archives Digitization Project - Lopez Matthews, Howard University

• Digital Humanities (DH) Incubators - Trevor Munoz, University of Maryland

• Publishing Without Walls (PWW) - Harriett Green, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Commentator

• ASALH Audience, .

Co-sponsored by:

• African American Information Professionals, (AAIP)