This paper examines the intersection of Digital Humanities, digital libraries, and Islamic studies focusing on the role of librarians in managing and organising non-Latin script materials. Starting from consideration on the Digital Maktaba project and dataset, the study explores how digital technologies have transformed cataloguing practices, particularly in relation to metadata standards, transliteration, and the representation of Arabic-script texts. By tracing the historical development of Digital Humanities, digital libraries and computational methods in text preservation and access, the study aims to highlight how previous historical and cultural imbalances are reflected in the digital realm. The main focus revolves around the issue of romanisation, its nature, evolution and role in digital cataloguing processes as a possible cultural obstacle reproposing past motives of superiority of a culture onto others, ultimately affecting resources accessibility. The present contribution aims also to analyse the impact of dominant cataloguing frameworks, such as Dewey Decimal Classification and International Standard Bibliographic Description (ISBD), in shaping access to Islamicate texts and examines how digital libraries, intended as dynamic spaces where technology and humanities converge, address these challenges.