Recovering a Humanist Librarianship through Digital Humanities

The many discussions—at conferences, on blogs, and in the professional literature—about how librarians can best engage with the digital humanities (DH) reveal a notable absence. The position of digital humanities work in many academic research libraries—as a service point for specialized consulting or training—suggests that DH is widely seen as external to the core functions of research libraries. What this suggests, in the context of librarianship’s historical development as a profession, is that the possibilities of digital humanities research in the library have been shaped by the absence of a strong tradition of humanist library theory