Beyond Assisting Digital Humanities Scholars: 5 Years of Researchers-in-Residence at the National Library of the Netherlands

Slides of the paper presentation as presented at the Liber Conference 2019, Wednesday 26 June 2019, Dublin, Ireland. Abstract The rise of the digital humanities has posed research libraries to new challenges. Since researchers’ demands and requests are changing, libraries need to adopt their services while staff members need to update their knowledge of new methodologies to become the research librarian of the future (Ekstrøm et al, 2016). To learn more about the changing needs of researchers, the National Library of the Netherlands (KB) has set up the Researcher-in-Residence Program five year... Mehr ...