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Digital Humanities in the Library: Challenges and Opportunites for Subject Specialists. ACRL. 2015.312p. ed. by Arianne Hartsell-Gundy & others. ISBN 9780838987674. pap. $68; ebk. ISBN 9780838987698. What is digital humanities (DH)? This question has been asked many times over, and definitions abound, but is it the question we should be asking? In order to understand DH, we have to experience it for ourselves. Editors Hartsell-Gundy (head, humanities sec­tion and librarian for literature and the-ater studies, Duke Univ.), Laura Braun-stein (digital humanities and English librarian, Dartmouth Coll.) and Liorah Golomb (humanities librarian, Univ. of Oklahoma) give examples of DH work from academie institutions across the country. DH is different from humani­ties even aside from the "digital" part: it's crossdisciplinary and not solitary but based in communities of practice. Ex­amples of DH work include text encod-ing, text mining, metadata creation, and preservation, to name but a few. This book focuses primarily on humanities subject librarians new to DH and how they came to understand this field of work, but DH isn't just for the humani­ties anymore. One chapter shows how sciences and social sciences librarians can use transferable skills to get in-volved in promoting and supporting DH. DH is a "disrupter" in academie librar-ies but also might be the institutions' savior. VERDICT Highly recommended for all subject librarians, and any librar­ian who does outreach.