Title of vid: The Humanist, the Library, and the Digital Future of Cultural Materials and their Interpretation by Johanna Drucker (2010)
Drucker’s lecture is pretty much a distillation of many broad, sticky topics I’ve been thinking on since I started my MLIS. She touches on a variety of ideas, including:
- the necessity of interdisciplinary practice at the crossroads of library practice and digital humanities;
- that digitization is not an preservation environment;
- the critical need for information professionals to incorporate the 30+ years of humanities research and theory on the nature of what an object is in relation to the materials being digitized;
- understanding information structure in relation to use of the object as well as what it actually is;
- the blurry lines between libraries, museums, and archives in the digital realm;
- and critically, sustainability of digital projects.
I encourage you to watch this, several times, and not just for her hilarious comparison between digital humanities projects and the Star Wars Cantina scene.
