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JOB: Research Data Specialist, Case Western Reserve University

Feb

1

2018

From the announcement: Working independently and with initiative, the Research Data Specialist position is a non-supervisory position that reports to the digital learning and scholarship team leader. The RDS will provide leadership and expertise in the areas of quantitative and qualitative data analysis, geospatial data visualization, working in collaboration with campus-wide initiatives around research data ...

JOB: Research and Instruction Librarian (2 Openings), Wellesley College

Feb

1

2018

From the announcement: Wellesley College seeks two highly motivated and creative social sciences Research & Instruction Librarians devoted to public service in a liberal arts college environment. We seek candidates who take an expansive approach to the work of libraries, to the possibilities afforded by information technologies for achieving the college’s goals for student and ...

First Things First: Conducting an Environmental Scan

Jan

31

2018

As a digital humanities librarian, E. Leigh Bonds (The Ohio State University) undertook an institutional environmental scan as the basis for assessment, identifying gaps, and developing recommendations. In this post, Bonds details her approach and framework, which prompted conversations and coordination across campus. In August 2016, I became The Ohio State University’s first Digital Humanities ...

POST: Race, Print, and Digital Humanities: Pedagogical Approaches

Jan

25

2018

AHA Today, the blog for the American Historical Association, has published a post by Amy E. Earhart and Maura Ives (both Texas A&M), “Race, Print, and Digital Humanities: Pedagogical Approaches.” The authors describe the teaching of a graduate and undergraduate course at Texas A&M that applied “the methods of book history—enumerative bibliography and scholarly editing—to the ...

POST: On creating tools with intentionality: a #BlackDigArchive recap

Jan

25

2018

Becca Quon (DLF) has published a write-up of her experience attending the Digital Blackness in the Archive symposium for the Digital Library Federation’s website. Quon summarizes the purpose of the symposium, “which brought together DocNow community members to ‘address issues at the intersection of archival practice and the existence of Black people on the web and social media.'” Quon also ...

EVENT: Digital Humanities & Social Justice Speaker & Workshop Series

Jan

25

2018

Recovering the US Hispanic Literary Heritage is hosting a speaker and workshop series, “Digital Humanities & Social Justice.” The series, held at the University of Houston between January 25 and May 18, will livestream the lectures on their Facebook and live-tweet the talks using the hashtag #usLdh. As per Recovery’s announcement, speakers include: Jeremey Boggs, Humanities ...

CFParticipation: Call for Program Committee Members: Association for Computers and the Humanities 2019

Jan

25

2018

The Association for Computers and the Humanities has posted a call for program committee members for the ACH’s first-ever digital humanities conference. The conference will be held in summer 2019 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. The program committee approves the structure and content of the entire academic program . The conference theme (if any) is decided by ...

OPPORTUNITY: Infrastructure and Capacity Building Challenge Grants

Jan

25

2018

The National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) Division of Preservation and Access is accepting applications for Infrastructure and Capacity Building Challenge Grants. These grants “aim to help institutions secure long-term support for their core activities and expand efforts to preserve and create access to outstanding humanities materials.” Potential proposal ideas include “the documentation of cultural heritage ...

JOB: Open Content and Digital Publishing Librarian, Ball State University

Jan

25

2018

From the announcement: The Open Content and Digital Publishing Librarian will play a central role in maximizing the visibility and impact of scholarship and creative content at Ball State University, classified as a “high research activity” institution by the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching. As a key team member within the University Libraries ...

JOB: Digital Publishing and Copyright Librarian, University of Delaware

Jan

25

2018

From the announcement (pdf): The Digital Publishing and Copyright Librarian will design, implement, and assess an active program of education, training, advocacy, and support to promote effective sharing and barrier-free access to scholarly resources, and will provide strategic leadership of the service team that supports the Library’s digital repositories, including UDSpace and ArtStor.

RECOMMENDED: DLF Fellow Reflections

Dec

14

2017

The Digital Library Federation (DLF) has been publishing reports from its 2017 Fellows. This round-up covers posts by fellows reflecting on the DLF Forum and the Liberal Arts Colleges/HBCUs pre-conference, held in October 2017 in Pittsburgh. In a post published this week, Nicola Andrews (North Carolina State University) writes: However, as I prepared to travel ...