About the Project

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Four librarians from across divisions at the Claremont Colleges Library were challenged to learn about new tools in the digital humanities and to think of how we might apply digital humanities concepts to library services. After participating in a DH crash course taught by or own digital scholarship coordinator, Ashley Sanders, our group experimented with DH tools such as Voyant Tools, TimelineJS, and Tableau to answer questions about how our historic collecting patterns aligned to changes in the national political landscape. Our first test case focuses on identifying collecting patterns in the field of terrorism studies.

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Our Team

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Lydia Bello, STEM Team Librarian
Nina Clements, Social Sciences Team Librarian
Madelynn Dickerson, Information Resources Coordinator
Margaret Hogarth, Information Resources Acquisitions Team Leader

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Research Questions

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What trends can we identify in Claremont Colleges Library collecting practices of print materials related to terrorism?

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• Has print material collecting in terror studies  changed over time?

• Do collecting patterns correlate to transnationally significant terror events?

• What is the nature of the research we are collecting?

• What DH tools best support this type of analysis?

• How best can we visualize our data and results?