1st Edition

The Routledge Companion to Libraries, Archives, and the Digital Humanities

Edited By Isabel Galina Russell, Glen Layne-Worthey Copyright 2025
546 Pages 55 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

546 Pages 55 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

546 Pages 55 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

The Routledge Companion to Libraries, Archives, and the Digital Humanities covers a wide range of issues encountered in the world’s libraries and archives as they continue to expand their support of, and direct engagement in, Digital Humanities (DH) research and teaching.  In addition to topics related to the practice of librarianship, and to libraries and archives as DH-friendly... Read more

List of Figures

List of Contributors

 

Editors’ Introduction to Libraries, Archives, and the Digital Humanities

Glen Layne-Worthey and Isabel Galina Russell

Section 1: Ethical and Legal Foundations

1.The Illusion of Everything: Notions of Completeness in National Digital Collections    

Isabel Galina Russell

 

2.Bibliographic Diaspora and Cultural Heritage

Pablo Avilés

 

3.Nimble Tents and Bunkers: The Role of Libraries in Rapid-Response DH        

Quinn Dombrowski, Alex Gil, Anna E. Kijas, and Carrie Pirmann

 

4.Bridging Traditional Digital Humanities and Archives through Computational Archival Science          

Richard Marciano, Rosemary Grant, Alexis Hill, Phillip Nicholas, Noah Scheer, Alan Wierdak, Mark Conrad, Ray McCoy, Myeong Lee, and Priscilla Ndiaye Robinson

 

5.The Cruel Optimism of Infrastructure: A Call to Mend 

Sarah Potvin, Spencer D. C. Keralis, and Elizabeth Grumbach      

 

6.Infrastructures of Power: Archives as Epistemological Palimpsests      

James B. Harr III

 

7.Copyright Is the Lock; Non-Expressive Fair Use Is the Key: Research with In-Copyright Texts   

Glen Layne-Worthey

 

Section 2: Collections as Data

8.Getting Back in the Flow: An Outline for a Semi-Automated Digitisation Workflow to Improve the Quality of Digital Collections

Mirjam Cuper  

 

9.Archival Collections as Data: A Global View from Japan

Toru Aoike

 

10.Which Collections as Data? Advancing the Use of External Collections for Digital Scholarship

Kathi Woitas    

 

11.Libraries, Archives, and the Born-Digital Humanities

Paul Gooding   

 

12.Hidden Patterns: An Introduction to Text Mining for Libraries

Silvia Eunice Gutiérrez De la Torre

 

13.Selling Our Soul (For Total Control)? Linked Open Data and GLAM

Toby Burrows, Deb Verhoeven, and Mike Jones       

 

14.Publishing Large Collections of Digitised Printed Material: The National Library of the Netherlands

Steven Claeyssens

 

Section 3: Publishing and Other Public-Facing Practices

15.Digital Publishing for Smaller Libraries: The Case of Quire at Pitts Theology Library   

Spencer W. Roberts and Elizabeth R. Miller

 

16.The First World War Letters of H.J.C. Peirs: A Case Study of the Creation and Growth of a Collaborative, Pedagogy-Driven Digital History Project           

Amy Lucadamo, R.C. Miessler, and Ian Isherwood

 

17.Multidisciplinary Research on Family Historians: Framing Current Challenges in Cultural Heritage          

Henriette Roued and Ann-Sofie Klareld       

 

18.Preserving Digital Humanities Projects Using Principles of Digital Longevity

J. Matthew Huculak and Corey Davis

 

19.The Static Advantage: Increased Agility and Sustainability of Static-Web-Driven Development for Digital Humanities Projects    

Olivia M. Wikle, Devin Becker, and Evan Peter Williamson

 

20.Integrating Human-Centred Systems Design into Libraries’ Digital Ecosystems          

Talia Méndez

 

21.Development of an IIIF-Compatible Digital Collection and Image Usage Analysis: The Case of the Kyoto University Rare Materials Digital Archive

Chifumi Nishioki

 

Section 4: The Profession and the Disciplines

22.Essential Entanglements: Digital Preservation and the Digital Humanities   

Trevor Owens  

 

23.The Information Sciences and the Digital Humanities: Building an Information Ecosystem       

Sulema Rodríguez-Roche

 

24.Interfacing in the Archive: Making Online Collections Work for and with Digital Humanities Research

Tracy Stuber, Emily Pugh, Bryce Dwyer, and Megan Sallabedra

 

25.Interdisciplinarity as the Framework for Transition of Digital to Computational Archive: A Case Study of Digital Curation

Roxanne Missingham and Ingrid Mason

 

26.Towards a Framework for Digital Scholarship for Higher Education  

John Knox and Theresa Burress     

 

27.Archival and Artificial Intelligence: A Framework to Connect Them in Practice          

Isnardo Reducindo and Gustavo Olague     

Section 5: DH in Organisations

 

28.Leveraging and Creating Library Structures to Support Online Exhibitions

Tess Colwell and Trip Kirkpatrick

 

29.Digital Preservation Expertise and Labour throughout the Project Lifecycle

Emily Higgs Kopin and Mikala Narlock

 

30.Digital Humanities at the Bibliothèque nationale de France: Between Age-Old Objectives and New Uses

Marie Carlin, Arnaud Laborderie, and Antoine Silvestre de Sacy      

 

31.A Nation and Its Research: The National Library of Israel in Two Worlds

Tsafra Siew

 

32.Archives, Digital Search, and AI Ethics        

William A. Ingram and Sylvester A. Johnson

 

33.Embedding Digital Humanities in the British Library: The Digital Research Team at Ten

Mia Ridge, Adi Keinan-Schoonbaert, Neil Fitzgerald, Nora McGregor, Rossitza Atanassova, and Stella Wisdom

Index

 

Biography

Isabel Galina Russell is a researcher at the Instituto de Investigaciones Bibliográficas at the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM). Her main research interests are Digital Humanities, libraries and digital collections and digital preservation. She is a founding member of the Red de Humanidades Digitales (RedHD).

Glen Layne-Worthey is Associate Director for Research Support Services in the HathiTrust Research Center, based in the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign School of Information Sciences. Formerly, he was Digital Humanities Librarian at Stanford (1997–2019).

Both editors have served in leadership roles in the Alliance of Digital Humanities Organizations (ADHO).