Purpose/Significance Basic academic libraries play an important role in popularizing and promoting digital humanities (DH) in the whole ecosystem. The analysis of their development space is helpful to the construction and development of the digital humanistic ecosystem. Method/Process A semi-structured interview was conducted with 13 humanities scholars and 4 library managers to find out their awareness, understanding and demand of DH and their views on the position of basic academic libraries in the digital humanistic ecosystem. On this basis, this paper probes into the current situation and development strategies of DH in basic academic libraries. Results/Conclusions The development of DH in basic academic libraries has received less attention and does not match the huge demand for DH due to the shortage of funds, resources and technologies, the access of digital human resources is basically dependent on external open channels, and the digital and human foundations of digital human development are wea