Program Schedule: e-LAN 2021
Live e-Conference : YouTube
Concept Note
“…technology alone is not enough—it's technology married with liberal arts, married with the humanities, that yields us the results that make our heart sing.” -Steve Jobs
Libraries are the repository of knowledge since they house the books and other knowledge resources that are available, most of which are in print form.
With the introduction of digital technology and Internet connectivity, however, the library landscape and methodologies in relation to collection and curation are rapidly changing.
With the development of techniques and technology, the digital revolution of the twentieth and twenty-first century has created new knowledge and spaces for humankind to evolve culturally.
A digital library or a source of new information can be generated by combining digital technology, Internet connectivity, and physical content. A digital library, by redifinition, is not only a special library space with a focused collection of digital objects that can include text, visual materials, audio materials, and video materials stored in electronic media formats (rather than print, microform, or other media), as well as a means of organizing, storing, and retrieving the library collection's files and media, but it is also a method of enquiring and curating knowledge body and a creative space. It enhances the scale of access to information and knowledge by bridging barriers of time and space, and affords certain tools for remote reading. It prepared the way for Digital Humanities study in the 2000s, which looked at how digital technologies were used and used in the humanities, liberal arts, social scientific scholarship, and beyond.
This branch of studies, which is sometimes referred to as "Digital Humanities," takes a critical approach to examining the role, use, application, and impact of digital tools in our daily lives, our society, economy, cultures, and governments. Following the digital turn in memory institutions, the availability of a huge corpus of cultural artefacts, as well as the creation of new forms of digital objects and embodiments, has opened up various possibilities for computational social science and humanities research, practise, and teaching. As numerous kinds of culture are mediated, produced, accessed, distributed, or consumed through digital devices and technology, the question of whether something is 'digital' or not will become more secondary. The e-Conference on the interface of librarianship and digital humanities aims to generate fresh ideas about the future of scholarship that it may influence.This interdisciplinary e-Conference will bring together important people from the Indian and international Digital Humanities and Library and Information Science communities to offer their perspectives on this e-Platform. After the conference, we'll compile these ideas into an edited version of the book.