ABSTRACT
Digital Humanities (DH) and Library & Information Studies share a common interest in the collection, organisation, preservation, and use of digital materials. Focusing on how DH changes the library fits the normal order of technological discourse whereby it is often assumed that the new, seemingly more complex innovation must inevitably enact transformation upon the traditional institutions that it operates within, and upon. The empirical tradition of library research, which arguably emerges from a historical view of information work as a profession in the positivist tradition, has given way over time to a pragmatic acceptance that mixed methods are vital to allow deeper insights to emerge by placing methods in conversation with each other. DH scholars have been key contributors to work that unpicks the technical infrastructures of humanities research, providing key insights into the aspects of power, gender, and race that are associated with academic institutional hierarchies and ways of working.
