Session Description:
One purpose of digital humanities applications is to spark new insights to textual data. This presentation details how Voyant Tools, a free, open source textual analysis tool, can help librarians better understand the teaching & learning and research interests of their departments. I will detail the process of compiling two corpuses and analysing their outputs, then explain some implications of text mining and topic modeling. What are the uses and limits of this approach in liaison work, particularly when librarians lack subject expertise in their liaison disciplines?
