The digital divide and how to challenge the Eurocentric ‘exclusion zone’

by Talking Humanities | Apr 4, 2022 | Digital, Features, History & Classics, Languages & Literature, Research & Resources

Dr Usama Gad, classics and papyrology lecturer at Cairo’s Ain Shams University, calls on scholars to overturn tradition and harness the power of new digital tools to include the voices of the whole human family. The digital culture of digital humanities, in my case in...

Trust is the key to crowdsourcing search terms for museums

by Talking Humanities | Apr 4, 2022 | Archives & Libraries, Digital, Features, Research & Resources

For the best search for online collections, museums and cultural heritage institutions need to reflect the voices of the people they serve and collaborate in how they describe collections, says Jessica BrodeFrank, a doctoral student at the School of Advanced Study and...

Can we be ‘digitally correct’ in our mission for the humanities?

by Talking Humanities | Apr 4, 2022 | Digital, Research & Resources

Professor Jane Winters, director of the School of Advanced Study’s Digital Humanities Research Hub, introduces a selection of articles that consider access to digital resources and technologies through the lens of digital humanities. It is more than a decade since a...

‘De-silting’ libraries – releasing space to future-proof for the digital age

by Talking Humanities | Feb 4, 2022 | Archives & Libraries, Digital, Interviews, Libraries & Publications

Elizabeth Flower, an associate at Haworth Tompkins, the architectural practice working on the ‘Warburg Renaissance’ project, explains what goes into designing a library today. Which library projects has your practice worked on? How do they fit into your overall...

Research libraries as sites of collaboration

by Talking Humanities | Feb 4, 2022 | Archives & Libraries, Digital, Features, Libraries & Publications, Research & Resources

Jane Winters, the School of Advanced Study’s professor of digital humanities and director of the new Digital Humanities Research Hub, describes her work on a joint report on libraries as sites of collaboration. In 2021, Research Libraries UK, in partnership with the...

Teaching on the London Rare Books School

by sams | Sep 28, 2021 | Archives & Libraries, Digital, Features, Graduate Study, Libraries & Publications, Research & Resources, Training and Research

Dr David Pearson, retired librarian and creator of the electronic database, Book Owners Online, talks about the rewards of teaching and how his summer school students helped to hone his thinking and knowledge. Teaching on the London Rare Books School (LRBS) run the...