The seminar will address a wide range of challenges and opportunities that electronic texts and software offer to teachers, scholars, and librarians in the humanities. The focus will be practical and methodological, with the immediate aim of assisting participants in their teaching, research and advising. In response to demand, we are expanding the seminar in 1995 to allow for sixty participants. There will be plenary sessions and six parallel tracks devoted to specific areas of humanities computing.
Participants attend all plenary sessions and select one parallel track for more detailed study.
They will work on their own projects and will have the opportunity to present them at the end of the seminar. Throughout the seminar, the instructors will provide assistance with designing projects, locating sources for texts and software, and solving practical problems. Ample computing facilities will be available. A small library of essential articles and books in humanities computing will be on hand to supplement printed seminar materials which include an extensive bibliography. The seminar is intended for faculty, students, librarians, technical advisers, and academic administrators with direct responsibilities for humanities computing support.