Introduction

Abstract

The diversity of skills, knowledge, and experience exhibited by librarians in the digital humanities continues to extend, deepen, and evolve. The Digital Humanities: Implications for Librarians, Libraries, and Librarianship is a special issue of College and Undergraduate Libraries that reflects some of the challenges that occupy librarians who are engaging the academic community in the digital humanities. Librarians are discovering scholarly opportunities by transforming traditional physical collections into digital projects that highlight new insights. A major theme that permeates any discussion of digital humanities work is the concept of collaboration in that there is a variety of challenges in working with the stakeholders involved. Developing planning and project management skills is part of the traditional librarian education yet such skills are essential for developing successful digital humanities projects and are often learned ‘on the job.’ Many librarians courageously have moved beyond the one-time, 50-minute information literacy session.