The Rosarium Project: A case of merging traditional reference librarian skills with digital humanities technology |
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| Authors: | Julia R Tryon |
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| Institution: | 1. Phillips Memorial Library + Commons, Providence College, Providence, Rhode Island, USAjtryon@providence.edu |
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| Abstract: | ABSTRACTThe role of the reference librarian has changed considerably over the past thirty years. Today reference librarians spend as much time on public relations as on answering reference questions and more time solving log-in issues than on helping with research. Despite this, there is still a role for reference librarians to play using their research and curation skills. That role involves the digital humanities, particularly text encoding projects following the guidelines of the Text Encoding Initiative Consortium (TEI). One such TEI project is the Rosarium Project, which curates online popular materials about roses. |
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| Keywords: | Digital humanities reference librarians roses TEI text encoding |
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