1. Digital Humanities, Public History, and the Library
BECOMING THE DH TEAM
Digital Humanities, Public History, and the Library
Brick & Click, 2016
Amanda Langendoerfer
Interim Associate Dean of Libraries for Special Collections and Museums
Truman State University
Janet Romine
Interim Associate Dean of Libraries for Research and Instruction

2. INSPIRATION Library’s Strategic Plan
Lewis, David W. A Strategy for Academic Libraries in the First Quarter of the 21st Century, 2007
Digital Services and Content
Student, Faculty, and Community Services
Library Learning Environment

3. GOALS Improve digital fluency in students
Collaborate with interested faculty
Develop library staff expertise in digital humanities
Computer Literacy Essential Skills Review Committee (Fall 2014)

4. Goals of Special Collections
Migration to digital and improved online presence
Provide public access to context/intellectual background for collections
Provide framework for future digitization projects

5. COURSE OVERVIEW
Approached by faculty member—organic development of a digital humanities course
HIST 366: History of Eugenics
Examines the history of the eugenics movement
Support for the Special Collections Department: what can “we” do to help?
Public history aspect

6. THE PLAN
Meeting with the Learning Technologies Team (wow, what an experience)
Should have started 6 months ago
Clearly identified learning objectives and outcomes
Constant communication: s and meetings before classes begin…and after classes begin

7. COURSE STRUCTURE Identification of Learning Objectives:
Content Development
Technical Skills
Design Skills
Project Management

8. CONTENT DEVELOPMENT Available content/collection overview
History of Eugenics Movement
Exhibition Development
Themes
stylistic features (i.e. timelines)
rubric/measurement of success
Issues: Privacy & Copyright

9. TECHNICAL DEVELOPMENT
Platform
WordPress
Google Sites
Wiki
Plugins
Timelines
Image Galleries
Digitization
Scanners
OCR & Metadata
Image Manipulation
Photoshop

10. DESIGN DEVELOPMENT Information Architecture Exhibition Development
Schemes & Structures
Navigating & Searching
User experiences
Reading the Web
Exhibition Development
Types of Exhibits
Audience
Storyboard/Wireframing
Design Elements (color, light, font, etc.)

11. TEACHING the course Content First? Integrated? Before MIDTERM
Research Instruction (3rd class period)
Designing a Web Exhibit (5th class period)
Lab Session: Intro to WordPress (7th class period)
After MIDTERM
Privacy and Copyright (Selection of material)
Digitization Demo
WordPress sessions tailored on as needed basis (2)
Open lab & Independent work

12. OUTCOMES/ASSIGNMENTS
Storyboard/Wireframe
Overall design
Thematic pages
Script
Document Selection
Copyright and Privacy Justification statement for online publication

13. WEB EXHIBIT RUBRIC Design (30%) Content (30%) Navigation (30%)
Documentation Citation (10%)

14. BECOMING THE DH TEAM Library Faculty ITS
COLLABORATION: SPACE & MATERIALS
Focus of course on library material
Special Collections/Unique material
Data sets/Text Mining (Content Vendors)
Familiarity with projects that can be incorporated into curriculum
Providing lab space, demonstrations in library facilities
Library
Faculty
ITS

15. BECOMING THE DH TEAM Library Faculty ITS
COLLABORATION: Course Designers & Instructors
Facilitating specialized instruction specific to courses
Researching techniques
Content analysis
Copyright specialists
Tech instruction
Web design
Scanning
OCR/Metadata
WordPress
Library
Faculty
ITS

16. Moving forward Planning time Staff expertise
Lab space/tech availability
Flexibility vs Structure
Determining level of Tech instruction (Self-Assessment vs Reality)
Content vs Skill Development

17. QUESTIONS? Amanda Langendoerfer: alang@truman.edu
Janet Romine: