Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 37, No. 152.
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        Date: 2023-07-25 06:11:06+00:00
        From: Willard McCarty <willard.mccarty@mccarty.org.uk>
        Subject: the librarian

The previous posting, which crossed my desk this morning, leads me to
wonder what has become of the librarian's position in consequence of
digital corpora and tools. In some universities and research centres
this position brings with it or allows serious scholarly
responsibilities; in others, it's all about following the lead of
academic colleagues. In my institutional library, service (in the
limited sense) delimits it. The position of the 'research librarian'
seems to have disappeared. I would welcome being corrected on one or
more of these points. I raise them, however, because I'm persuaded that
the research librarian's position--with the liberties and
responsibilities to do research, publish etc--is crucial to the
development of digital humanities in its potential for interdisciplinary
research. By that I mean all that lies beyond the application of cool
tools to problems in history, literature, sociology, art etc.

Comments?

Yours,
WM
--
Willard McCarty,
Professor emeritus, King's College London;
Editor, Interdisciplinary Science Reviews;  Humanist
www.mccarty.org.uk


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