JOB: Digital Archivist, Boise State University

From the announcement: Boise State University Albertsons Library invites applicants for the professional staff position of Digital Archivist in Special Collections and Archives (SCA). The Digital Archivist reports to the Head of Special Collections and Archives and works both individually and collaboratively with a team that includes two Librarian/Archivists, student assistants, and interns. Boise State ...

JOB: Data Manager & Project Coordinator, Digital Library of the Middle East, Stanford University

From the announcement: The Digital Library of the Middle East (DLME) project is an international effort, gathering digital resources of Middle East and North African (MENA) material from providers around the world. This initiative will create the first seamlessly interoperable, large-scale digital library of cultural artifacts from the region. Working as part of Stanford Libraries’ ...

JOB: Digital Scholarship Librarian, Barnard College

From the announcement: Barnard Library invites applications for a Digital Scholarship Librarian (DSL) to take the lead in creating, facilitating, and coordinating services and programming in the new Digital Humanities Center, opening Fall 2018. Reporting to the Director for Teaching, Learning & Digital Scholarship, the Digital Scholarship Librarian will work directly with the Faculty Director ...

POST: Six Years of Tracking MARC Usage

Roy Tennant (OCLC Research) has published a post on the Hanging Together blog entitled “Six Years of Tracking MARC Usage,” highlighting OCLC’s Ground Truthing the Use of MARC project and describing the reasons it was undertaken: If we are to make a smooth transition to a world of linked data, we need to know what we have ...

POST: Visualize It: Uncertainty

In a post at Hack Library School entitled “Visualize It: Uncertainty,” Sarah Davis discusses Alberto Cairo’s work in representing uncertainty in data visualization. Davis highlights Cairo’s treatment of “graphicacy,” and what creators of visualizations might assume about their audiences and the skills and attention they bring. It is easy it is to jump to conclusions in ...

POST: DLF Joins Library Publishing Coalition as Strategic Affiliate

The Digital Library Foundation announced last week that it will become a Strategic Affiliate to the Library Publishing Coalition. DLF is pleased to join the Library Publishing Coalition in promoting research and supporting vibrant digital publishing practices as a strategic affiliate. Central to DLF’s mission is advancing research, learning, social justice, and the public good through the creative ...

CFP: BitCurator Users Forum 2018

The BitCurator Consortium will hold its BitCurator Users Forum 2018, Living on the Edge: Extending Digital Forensics into New Sectors September 13-14 at the University of California, Los Angeles. From the call for proposals: As cultural heritage institutions borrow and adapt forensic techniques from criminal investigation, repurposing these context-specific forensic tools raises new questions and possibilities ...

CFP: Workshop on Computational Methods in the Humanities 2018 (COMHUM 2018)

Department of Language and Information Sciences (SLI) at the University of Lausanne is organizing a Workshop on Computational Methods in the Humanities to take place June 4-5, 2018. From the call: The goal of this workshop is to bring together researchers involved with computational approaches in the humanities with the objective of stimulating the research ...

OPPORTUNITY: Mentors Needed for Spectrum Scholars

In a post on the ACRL Insider, David Connolly (ACRL) announced an opportunity for librarians to mentor a member of this year’s major cohort ALA Spectrum Scholar through the ACRL Dr. E.J. Josey Spectrum Scholar Mentor Program.  Mentors will be responsible for: contacting the Spectrum Scholar on a regular basis (averaging at least once a month is ...

JOB: Head of Preservation and Digitization, Washington University in St. Louis

From the announcement: Under the direction of the Associate University Librarian for Special Collections Services Division, is responsible for the development and operation of a library-wide, comprehensive preservation and digitization program. Leads and manages all preservation/conservation and digitization efforts, including the management of general and special collection care and digitization activities, preservation/digitization lab and services, ...

JOB: Scholarly Communication Librarian, University of Albany

From the announcement: The University at Albany Libraries seek an enthusiastic, knowledgeable, creative librarian to serve as Scholarly Communication Librarian. This position reports to the Director of Scholarly Communication/Head, Dewey Graduate Library. Responsibilities: Develops and implements a program and policies to provide data management plan consultation services and coordinate data curation Provides outreach to faculty ...