id author title date pages extension mime words sentence flesch summary cache txt pipe-0183 Editorial Board Editorial: Rising through the Ranks: On Upward Mobility in Librarianship 2010 .html text/html 2996 101 39 Although it is illusionary to claim that we can really overcome the increasing compartmentalization of academic disciplines and the resulting communication barriers between many fields, I think that as librarians, we do not just have the opportunity, but also the obligation to encourage and enable more collaboration between different academic disciplines and cultures, such as the sciences and humanities. When I was a student in the Humanities Computing program at the University of Alberta, a professor mentioned that he envisioned the program’s graduates as mediators, or translators, in digital humanities projects between academic researchers—the subject specialists—and the technical support who would be responsible for the implementation of a project’s technical aspects. cache/pipe-0183.html txt/pipe-0183.txt