Leading Academic Library in the Exploration of Digital Humanities Strategy: Mission and Direction

Abstract

[Purpose/Significance] During the ecological construction of digital humanities, leading academic libraries are shouldering the important task of leading the development of academic libraries and it is an inevitable trend for them to include the digital academic strategy into the consideration of their strategic planning. [Method/Process] This paper analyzes the representative strategic planning texts and investigates the development of several representative digital humanities centers by using content analysis, the Internet survey and case analysis methods. [Results/Conclusions] In this paper, the development of leading academic libraries under the digital humanistic ecology is summarized into four characteristics: systematization, tridimensional, scale and openness. The authors suggest that academic libraries should take demand inspection as the key basis for digital humanities strategic planning, "open system" as the primary goal of digital humanities strategic planning, and key projects as the starting point for digital humanities strategic planning.

Keywords

• digital humanities|academic library|mission of library