Empowering Librarians to Support Digital Scholarship Research: Professional Development Training on Text Analysis with the HathiTrust

 

Session Description:
This presentation will provide an overview of the “Digging Deeper, Reaching Farther: Libraries Empowering Users to Mine the HathiTrust Digital Library” project, an IMLS-funded initiative aiming to train librarians on methods and tools in text data mining. The presenter will provide an in-depth report of the results from the assessment study on professional development for librarians: the strategies implemented to develop the ‘train the trainer’ curriculum and conduct workshops for librarians on text data mining and how to support digital scholarship at their home institutions.

 

Posted in 2019 Contributed Paper.