In June 2017, Colette Hayes, Reference and Instruction Librarian at the Gleeson Library participated in the Digital Humanities Summer Institute (DHSI) at the University of Victoria, Victoria, British Columbia.
Of the many courses on offer, Colette decided to take one on digital humanities and pedagogy, and another on models for digital humanities at four-year liberal arts colleges. They were week-long, hands-on, intensive courses taught by digital humanities practitioners. She spent time outside those courses attending pre-institute workshops, daily colloquiums, lunchtime un-conference sessions and extra curricular activities at the University of Victoria.
How does this impact her work at USF? Colette shares one of her plans of action and the way it facilitated team work with librarians from other institutions: “One project that I proposed as a part of one of the intensives I took at DHSI was a digital exhibit about the history of student social justice activism at USF, using the newly digitized copies of the Foghorn in Gleeson Library’s digital collections. After I presented this proposal to my cohort, a classmate approached me to share a similar project that a student was working on as part of a digital humanities summer fellowship for undergraduates run by his university’s library.”
Examining the main takeaway of attending the institute, Colette notes, “… DHSI emphasized, for me, the collaborative nature of digital humanities (many dh projects are interdisciplinary and involve libraries and IT departments), as well as the opportunities certain digital humanities projects offer for student research and public scholarship.”
An example of one of the digital humanities projects featured is The Suffrage Postcard Project. According to Colette, it is significant because “undergraduate and graduate students and their professor, Dr. Kristin Allukian used a platform called Omeka to create a searchable, tagged digital collection or database of suffrage postcards, and are using this database alongside historical research to analyze and ask questions about these artifacts.”
For more information on the courses offered, visit the Digital Humanities Summer Institute website.
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In June 2017, Colette Hayes, the Reference and Instruction Librarian at Gleeson Library, attended the Digital Humanities Summer Institute (DHSI) at the University of Victoria, British Columbia. DHSI offers various courses on digital humanities, and Colette chose to participate in two week-long, hands-on workshops focusing on digital humanities pedagogy and models for digital humanities at liberal arts colleges.
During her time at DHSI, Colette also engaged in pre-institute workshops, daily colloquiums, lunchtime un-conference sessions, and extra-curricular activities at the University of Victoria. This experience has the potential to significantly impact her work at the University of San Francisco (USF).
Colette shared one of her proposed projects, a digital exhibit on the history of student social justice activism at USF, using the newly digitized copies of the Foghorn in Gleeson Library’s digital collections. This idea resonated with another attendee, who mentioned a similar project at their institution. This collaboration demonstrates the potential for inter-institutional cooperation in digital humanities projects.
The main takeaway from DHSI for Colette was the collaborative nature of digital humanities, often involving interdisciplinary teams that include libraries, IT departments, and various academic disciplines. She emphasized the opportunities digital humanities projects provide for student research and public scholarship.
One notable example of a digital humanities project Colette mentioned is The Suffrage Postcard Project. Led by Dr. Kristin Allukian and students, this project uses the Omeka platform to create a searchable, tagged digital collection of suffrage postcards. The team then analyzes and asks questions about these artifacts based on their historical research.
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