The integration of cutting-edge technologies such as AI and machine learning is crucial for advancing digital libraries and fostering digital literacies across the humanities. Gale Digital Scholar Lab embodies this integration, providing a robust platform that bridges technology and scholarship, empowering scholars from diverse disciplines to explore and utilise Gale’s, and their own, digital libraries effectively.

By encouraging exploration of the digital library through the use of established and cutting-edge technologies, Gale Digital Scholar Lab addresses the challenges of modern textual scholarship and knowledge preservation. This presentation will illustrate how the Lab empowers scholars across the humanities to build digital literacies, engage deeply with primary sources, and contribute to the evolution of digital libraries. As we look to the future, platforms like Gale Digital Scholar Lab will be essential in preparing the next generation of scholars to navigate and thrive in an increasingly digital world.