This special issue of dh+lib began with a call for proposals early last Fall and a goal of publishing in February. In the middle of the article review process came the COVID-19 pandemic and for the health and sanity of our authors and editors, we delayed a few months. Now, amidst an ongoing pandemic and ...

At their core, libraries offer participatory learning environments geared towards optimizing the potential for the creation and distribution of knowledge, a paradigm developed around traditional concepts of literacy. Libraries traditionally facilitate literate practices; they are institutions by which patrons can locate, contextualize, contribute to, and create information. However, with the continued proliferation of digital technologies, ...

Almost a decade ago, Matthew Kirschenbaum and Micah Vandegrift presented compelling and well-argued ideas about where the locus of digital humanities, or, more broadly, digital humanists should be within the academic context. The intervening years have demonstrated the unique capacity of DH to thrive in a variety of departments, centers, and libraries with specialties that ...

Developing literacies in the digital humanities classroom include, yet transcend, the ‘traditional’ passive literacies of reading, hearing, and seeing into the active realms of finding, evaluating, creating, engaging and communicating with an audience that may extend beyond institutional boundaries. These skills have been presented as a theoretical framework by Yoram Eshet et al. (2004, 2006, ...

For those who are both librarians and digital humanities instructors, we must either create new frameworks for teaching and learning or attempt to map existing ones to library instruction. “Digital humanities literacy” is a combination of many literacy areas. Still, the prevalence of data in both our daily lives and in digital humanities places data ...

My main goal in life is to build a good library of Black history – knowledge is a form of Black power and this is my part in it.  – Charles L. Blockson Introduction: Immersive Archives and Virtual Literacies By overviewing a collaborative project between Temple University’s Charles L. Blockson Afro-American Collection, the Loretta C. ...