I’m currently on my way to Philadelphia to attend the last day of the Code4Lib 2026 conference. While I would have loved to attend the whole thing, available days and budget were real limiting factors. I will be attending two workshops tomorrow which both sound really interesting.

I’m also hoping to have some conversations about Humanities Methods in Librarianship while I’m there. There has been some interest among Code4Libbers; while this may initially seem surprising, it speaks to the fact that there are secretly-humanities people absolutely everywhere in librarianship.

You might, at first glance, assume that Code4Libbers would be interested in HML from a digital humanities perspective. And that perspective certainly does exist. Yet as @edsu aptly pointed out in the C4L slack, there is room for a conversation around humanities and librarianship that is not digital humanities. The editors are emphatic that librarianship has been under-theorized from humanities perspectives tout court. Much of this work falls outside the remit of conversations like DH.

This may not be a conversation that reaches the radar of the majority of Code4Lib. But it has become clear is that some librarians are interested.