Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 37, No. 210.
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        Date: 2023-09-15 06:52:05+00:00
        From: Willard McCarty <willard.mccarty@mccarty.org.uk>
        Subject: institutional forms for digital humanities?

All manner of things influence where in the university or under what
identity digital humanities is best positioned. For purposes of
argument, let's say there are four possibilities: as a service centre or
'help desk'; as a project-development lab; as a resource hub within the
library; as an academic department. Some of us might be inclined to
assume that the ideal trajectory, wherever it may start or linger, ends
with the academic department.

Is this so? Is it the ideal? I'd think that help desks are a thing of the past;
having served on more than one) I'd be inclined to celebrate that
fact, if it is one. Something to argue about?

Nevertheless, it seems to me there are strong arguments in favour of both 
the lab and the library hub in their different ways to realise the potential of 
the field. Let me ask, then, who has made the most persuasive case for 
either of these--a case that acknowledges the disadvantages stemming 
from lack of academic status but argues for the potential and how to realise 
it?

Comments?

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


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