Networking the Regional Comprehensives: A Summary of a DH Summit
Channel: The IRIS Center at SIUe
Date: 2018-09-11

Humanities Librarian Lora Del Rio shares her experience as a participant and speaker at a 3-day digital humanities summit, Networking the Regional Comprehensives, this past July at Salem State University. This event brought together leaders in digital humanities at regional comprehensive universities around the United States to share their successes and challenges developing digital humanities initiatives in their local university contexts. The assembled group looked a t similarities between institutions and developed plans for a network of regional comprehensive digital humanities practitioners to leverage our resources and do outreach to practitioners at other universities. Lora discusses highlights and future plans.