Scholars, Librarians, and the Future of Primary Records

Franklin, Phyllis

doi:10.5860/crl_54_05_397

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“…For large numbers of scholars, digitized copies cannot replace originals. 29 On an individual level, the experience of the fellows suggests that mature humanists will expand their use of technology slowly. While scholars with ten to thirty years' experience will eventually give way to younger persons, they will still be a substantial proportion of humanists for the next twenty-five years.…”

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Humanists Revisited: A Longitudinal Look at the Adoption of Information Technology

Wiberley¹,

Jones²

1994

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Developments in information technology have had a major impact on the conduct of research and scholarship. In general, humanists have been slower than scientists and social scientists to adopt new technologies in their work. This paper, a longitudinal study of eleven humanists, corroborates the general pattern and provides insight into why humanists use technology as they do. It relates its findings to a definition of the humanities: those fields of scholarship that strive to reconstruct, describe, and interpret the activities and accomplishments of men and women by establishing and studying documents and artifacts created by those men and women. The discussion emphasizes that the primary evidence that humanists use differentiates them from scientists and social scientists.

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Section: Resultsmentioning

confidence: 99%