Libraries & DH - Histories, Perspectives, Prospects Mini-Conference at DH2025
27 Mar 2025A one-day event associated with DH2025
When: Monday, 14 July 2025
1:30pm-8:00pm (Lisbon time, UTC+1) / 8:30am-3:00pm (Eastern Daylight Time, UTC-4)
Note that the 5:30pm end time listed in the official DH2025 Program is incorrect. This event will indeed run until 8:00pm.
Where: Room B210, Universidade NOVA de Lisboa, Faculdade de Ciências sociais e Humanas, Avenida de Berna campus; and online. Please complete this form to register for remote participation.
What:
Co-sponsored by the ADHO Libraries & DH Special Interest Group (celebrating 10 years of existence), dh+lib (celebrating over 12 years of publication), the ACH DH in Libraries Special Interest Group (celebrating and reporting on its first year), and the Data Speculations National Forum on Library Digital Stewardship for Copyrighted Contemporary Culture, this full-day event will consist of presentations, roundtables, and discussions of the history and state of our shared interdisciplinary community of practice. Topics of special concern will include research with in-copyright or otherwise restricted data; the promise and perils of LLMs and other AI-enabled approaches and their impact on libraries; the recent sunsetting of some of the research infrastructures supporting our areas of work; and the organizational and cultural structures underpinning our shared profession. Remote participation is available.
Program (Lisbon time, UTC+1)
(Program order and timing subject to change; please come back for updates as the date approaches.)
- 1:30pm - 2:00pm (8:30am-9:00am EDT): Welcome and introductions
- 2:00pm - 2:30pm (9:00am-9:30am EDT): 10-year anniversary (and business meeting) of the ADHO “Libraries & Digital Humanities” Special Interest Group
- 2:30pm - 3:00pm (9:30am-10:00am EDT): Report: “Data Speculations: A (US) National Forum on Library Digital Stewardship for Copyrighted Contemporary Culture” website
- 3:00pm - 3:30pm (10:00am-10:30am EDT): Discussion: International aspects of library & DH collaborations and funding
- 3:30pm - 4:00pm (10:30am-11:00am EDT): Coffee break
- 4:00pm - 4:30pm (11:00am-11:30am EDT): Preview of library-themed presentations at DH2025
- 4:30pm - 5:00pm (11:30am-noon EDT): Discussion: Text data mining infrastructures post-Constellate, post-HathiTrust Research Center, post-NEH ODH, post-whatever’s next
- 5:00pm - 6:00pm (noon-1:00pm EDT): Celebrating 12+ years of publication: dh+lib: “where the digital humanities and librarianship meet”
- 6:00pm - 6:30pm (1:00pm-1:30pm EDT): Coffee break
- 6:30pm - 7:00pm (1:30pm-2:00pm EDT): Launching the “ACH DH in Libraries Special Interest Group”
- 7:00pm - 7:30pm (2:00pm-2:30pm EDT): Discussion of liaison activities: the ACRL Digital Scholarship Section and others
- 7:30pm - 8:00pm (2:30pm-3:00pm EDT): Discussion of next steps for our community
Registration:
In-person attendees, please register for this mini-conference together with your DH2025 registration. Fees are listed on the DH2025 Conference website, or log in to ConfTool for DH2025 to register directly.
Online participation is free and open to all regardless of DH2025 registration. Please complete this form for information and a meeting link.
Organizers and contacts during the event:
In-person:
Caitlin Christian-Lamb caitlin.christianlamb@gmail.com
Glen Layne-Worthey gworthey@illinois.edu
Isabel Galina igalina@unam.mx
Sarah Potvin spotvin@tamu.edu
Remote:
Alex Wermer-Colan alex.wermer-colan@temple.edu
Nickoal Eichmann-Kalwara nickoal.eichmann@colorado.edu
Pamella Lach plach@sdsu.edu