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CFP: BH and DH: Book History and Digital Humanities

Feb

9

2017

The Center for the History of Print and Digital Culture at the University of Wisconsin-Madison has published a call for proposals for their BH and DH: Book History and Digital Humanities conference. To be held at the University of Wisconsin-Madison from September 22-24, 2017, the conference “aims to study how digital humanities grows out book ...

CFP: HASTAC 2017

Feb

9

2017

HASTAC has issued a call for proposals for the 2017 conference, with the theme, “The Possible Worlds of Digital Humanities.” HASTAC 2017 will be held at the University of Central Florida in Orlando, from November 2-4, 2017. Possible topics include: challenges of monolingualism within the digital humanities indigenous culture, decolonial and post-colonial theory and technology ...

OPPORTUNITY: Call for Subject Specialist Editor, The Programming Historian

Feb

9

2017

The Programming Historian has released a call for a subject specialist editor: The Programming Historian (http://programminghistorian.org) is seeking an editor to work actively to solicit and edit lessons in a specific area or areas within the digital humanities. These lessons will focus on the analysis and interpretation phase of the research process, helping readers to ...

JOB: Digital Projects Librarian, College of Charleston

Feb

9

2017

From the announcement: The Digital Projects Librarian serves as Project Coordinator to both the Lowcountry Digital Library (LCDL) and the Lowcountry Digital History Initiative (LDHI), striving to expand these projects and promote the history of the region. They will work with librarians, faculty members, and LCDL and LDHI partners, scholars, and contributors to digitize collections ...

JOB: Data Services Librarian, University of Maryland

Feb

9

2017

From the announcement: The primary responsibility of the Data Services Librarian is to serve as the program lead to implement and promote novel, sustainable data services throughout all stages of the research data lifecycle. The incumbent in this position should strive to become the Libraries’ primary expert for the technology required to support comprehensive data ...

POST: In defense of the MLS; or, confess your unpopular opinion

Feb

2

2017

Roxanne Shirazi (City University of New York Graduate Center) authored a post entitled “In defense of the MLS; or, confess your unpopular opinion” in response to recent debate about the educational qualifications for the Executive Director of the American Library Association. Shirazi challenges readers to consider how “to open the doors to our profession without ...

POST: The Profession Responds

Feb

2

2017

John Overholt (Harvard University) collocated statements from professional organizations responding to the recent Trump administration policies in a post on Medium as an update to his earlier post about how the professional is political: There is no longer, if there ever was, any distinction between the values that librarians and archivists consider essential to their professional ...

JOB: Digital Application Development Librarian, University of Miami

Feb

2

2017

From the position announcement: The University of Miami Libraries seeks applications for a collaborative and innovative Digital Application Development Librarian. Reporting to the Head of Web & Application development, this position will develop software and applications in support of digital initiatives and library infrastructure, help establish practices for software development and deployment, investigate and evaluate ...

CFParticipation: Digital Humanities Summer Institute 2017 | DHSI Colloquium

Feb

2

2017

Digital Humanities Summer Institute Colloquium is now accepting applications for the upcoming session at DHSI at the University of Victoria in June, 2017. They welcome proposals of 300-500 words in several categories including short papers, posters and digital demonstrations. Proposals should be submitted through this Google Form by February 20, 2017, at 8:00pm PST. Interested parties can contact ...

POST: Library/IT Partnerships with Campus Museums & Archives” Executive Roundtable Report

Feb

1

2017

The Coalition for Networked Information (CNI) released the report of the Fall 2016 Executive Roundtable: The discussion covered a wide range of topics related to the development of institution-wide strategies for describing, managing, curating, enhancing access, preserving, and disseminating surrogates or born-digital representations of objects housed in those institutions, and ways in which these collections can ...

Engaging Open Cultural Data

Feb

1

2017

Mia Ridge is a Digital Curator, working within the Digital Scholarship team at the British Library. Mia holds a PhD in Digital Humanities (Department of History, Open University). She has published and presented widely on user experience design, human-computer interaction, open cultural data, audience engagement and participation in the cultural heritage sector, and digital history. Her ...