New Initiatives in the Digital Humanities in Libraries, Archives, and Museums

Session Submission Type: Roundtable

Brief Description

This roundtable focuses on digitization as a method of both preserving and disseminating printed, visual, and other formats for research purposes. Participants will discuss digitizing Russian émigré newspapers, non-conformist art and archives, slavists’ correspondence, and “big data” approaches to major Slavic collections such as UC Berkeley and Slovanska knihovna.

Sub Unit

• Library/Information Sciences

Chair

• Leonid Livak, U of Toronto (Canada)

Roundtable Members

• Sylvie Archaimbault, Centre national de la recherche scientifique (France) / Sorbonne U (France)

• Lukáš Babka, National Library of the Czech Republic (Czech Republic)

• Liladhar R. Pendse, UC Berkeley

• Vassili Schedrin, Rutgers, The State U of New Jersey

• Vladimir Alexey von Tsurikov, Hoover Institution