Digital Humanities call for article proposals

College & Undergraduate Libraries, a peer-reviewed journal published by Taylor & Francis, invites proposals for articles to be published in the fall of 2017. The issue will be co-edited by Kevin Gunn  of the Catholic University of America and Jason Paul of St. Olaf College.

Please submit proposals to Kevin Gunn  by August 17, 2016; please do not use Scholar One for submitting proposals. First drafts of accepted proposals will be due by February 1, 2017 with the issue being published in the fall of 2017. Feel free to contact the editors with any questions that you may have.

The issue will deal with the digital humanities in a very broad sense, with a major focus on their implications for the roles of academic librarians and libraries as well as on librarianship in general. Possible article topics include, but are not limited to, the following themes, issues, challenges, and criticism:

Developing the project development mindset in librarians

Creating new positions and/or cross-training issues for librarians

 Librarian as: point-of-service agent, an ongoing consultant, or as an embedded project librarian

 Developing managerial and technological competencies in librarians

 Administration support (or not) for DH endeavors in libraries

 Teaching DH with faculty to students (undergraduate and graduate) and faculty

Helping students working with data 
 Managing the DH products of the data life cycle

Issues surrounding humanities data collection development and management 
 Relationships of data curation and digital libraries in DH

Issues in curation, preservation, sustainability, and access of DH data, projects, and products

Linked data, open access, and libraries

Librarian and staff development for non-traditional roles

Teaching DH in academic libraries

Project collaboration efforts with undergraduates, graduate students, and faculty

Data literacy for librarians

The lack of diversity of librarians and how it impacts DH development

Advocating and supporting DH across the institution

Developing institutional repositories for DH

Creating DH scholarship from the birth of digital objects

 Consortial collaborations on DH projects

 Establishing best practices for dh labs, networks, and services

Assessing, evaluating, and peer reviewing DH projects and librarians.

Articles may be theoretical or ideological discussions, case studies, best practices, research studies, and opinion pieces or position papers.

Proposals should consist of an abstract of up to 500 words and up to six keywords describing the article, together with complete author contact information. Articles should be in the range of 20 double-spaced pages in length. Please consult  instructionsfor authors

Please submit proposals to Kevin Gunn  by August 17, 2016; please do not use Scholar One for submitting proposals. First drafts of accepted proposals will be due by February 1, 2017 with the issue being published in the fall of 2017. Feel free to contact the editors with any questions that you may have.

Kevin Gunn, Catholic University of America Jason Paul, St. Olaf College