Engaging the Digital Humanities: Collaborating
throughout the Research Lifecycle - ACRL Webcast

Joyce Martin, Matthew Harp, Joe Buenker

Outline
Project Background
Collaborators
ASU Digital Repository
ASU Nexus Lab

Outcomes
Collaborations
Overcoming Limitations
Exposure
DH Integrating

Outcomes:
1. Working with diverse communities and collaborative strategies
2. Overcoming technical limitations of library CMS
3. Increase Exposure through online digital exhibitions and integrating digital
humanities research and instruction

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“Carlos Montezuma’s Wassaja Newsletter: Digitization, Access and
Context”

wassaja.lib.asu.edu

OAI-PMH data dump

Which takes us to the Carlos Montezuma Website. A website dedicated to the project
with a DH perspective.

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Project led by Assistant Director of the Institute for Humanities Research
Volunteer project featuring a mixture of undergraduate and graduate students
as well as university staff and academic professionals (i.e. librarian)
One undergraduate student (Laura Keller) was in her last semester and would
soon be hired by the Arizona State Library as a Digital Archivist
A doctoral student finishing her dissertation was hired by the IHR

The ASU grant team hopes to greatly expand our pilot project. To that end we have
partnered with three additional institutions with Carlos Montezuma holdings, The
Newberry, The Wisconsin Historical Society, and the University of Arizona, to digitize
and present together online all of our collective holdings of Wassaja Newsletter and
our Carlos Montezuma Collections. This would make over 16,000 pages of material
available online. We continue to apply for funding to support this work.

Thank you!

Martin, J.A. and Jodi Flores (2015, October). Digitization, Access, and Context for Carlos
Montezuma’s Wassaja Newsletter. Presented at the Library Journal’s The Digital Shift: Libraries
Connecting Communities Conference, webcast.
Image citation: Carlos Montezuma, 1896 Photographic reproduction: From collections of the
National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution.