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Situated Interpretation, Capacious Computation, Empowered Discovery

Nov

8

2016

Tanya Clement is Assistant Professor in the School of Information at the University of Texas at Austin. Her research centers on scholarly information infrastructure as it impacts academic research, research libraries, and the creation of research tools and resources in the digital humanities. She has published in a wide range of publications including Cultural Analytics, Digital Humanities ...

JOB: Library or Librarian and Instructional Technology Liaison Data Services, Mount Holyoke College

Nov

3

2016

From the announcement: As a member of a fully blended group of librarians and instructional technologists in the Research & Instructional Support (RIS) department, the Librarian/Library and Instructional Technology Liaison (title dependent on qualifications) will work closely with fellow liaisons in RIS to provide forward-looking library research and instructional technology services to faculty and students, ...

JOB: Digital Preservation Librarian, Northwestern University

Nov

3

2016

From the announcement: Reporting to the Head of Repository and Digital Curation, the Digital Preservation Librarian designs, coordinates and executes the day-to-day operations of repository preservation services for significant digitized and born-digital collections. The Digital Preservation Librarian will provide leadership and collaborate with library experts to help manage digitized and born digital collections for preservation ...

POST: Wrestling with The Digital Dissertation in Anthropology

Nov

3

2016

Nikki Silva (Cultural Heritage Informatics Initiative) authored a blog post reflecting on the changing state of the dissertation across disciplines. Silva lists examples of hybrid and digital dissertation projects: Knowing that these projects are out there, may lead other PhD Students to start the conversation with their committee and may lead to more digital dissertation ...

POST: On Digital Literacies

Nov

3

2016

Lee Skallerup Bessette (University of Mary Washington), Autumn Caines (Capital University), and Maha Bali (American University in Cairo) co-authored a post on ProfHacker responding to The New Media Consortium’s report, “Strategic Brief on Digital Literacy.” Responding to five different points, the authors reflect on the relationship between organizations like The New Media Consortium and various ...

RESOURCE: Digital Humanities: What Can Libraries Offer?

Nov

3

2016

Shun Han Rebekah Wong (Hong Kong Baptist University) has authored an article analyzing collaborative authorship and library involvement in the digital humanities: Wong, S. H. R. (2016). Digital Humanities: What Can Libraries Offer? [pdf postprint] portal: Libraries and the Academy, 16(4), 669-690. The abstract is reproduced below: The collaborative aspect of digital humanities is one ...

TOOL: Fulcrum

Nov

3

2016

The University of Michigan Press/Michigan Publishing and the University of Michigan Library IT announced the beta launch of the new digital tool, Fulcrum. This platform uses the Hydra/Fedora Framework and “helps publishers present the full richness of their authors’ research outputs in a durable, discoverable, and flexible form.” During this beta phase, the platform will feature its ...

RECOMMENDED: Speculative Collections

Nov

3

2016

Bethany Nowviskie (Digital Library Federation) published the text of the talk she gave at the Harvard Symposium about the future of library collecting, “The Transformation of Academic Library Collection: A Symposium Inspired by Dan C. Hazen.” It is the sequel to her talk, “Alternate Futures, Usable Pasts,” featured in the Review last week. In this talk, entitled ...

RESOURCE: Finding the Public Domain: The Copyright Review Management System

Oct

27

2016

Ithaka S+R has published “Finding the Public Domain: The Copyright Review Management System,” an issue brief written by Melissa Levine (University of Michigan). Providing an overview to the Copyright Review Management System (CRMS), “a system to train and coordinate reviewers to assess the copyright status of digitized books held in the HathiTrust Digital Library,” the ...

RESOURCE: DHCommons Journal, 2016

Oct

27

2016

DHCommons has released their second publication, and announced an expanded remit that can include completed as well as mid-stage projects, and that future publications will be published on a rolling schedule: We have also reconsidered our publishing schedule as we felt that the digital-only nature of DHCommons meant it no longer needed to be tied ...

RESOURCE: Institute-wide Task Force on the Future of Libraries

Oct

27

2016

The Massachusetts Institute of Technology released their Institute-wide Task Force On the Future of Libraries report. The task force, comprised of 30 people representing faculty, graduate students, undergraduate students, and staff were divided into three working groups: Community and Relationships, Discovery and Use, and Stewardship and Sustainability. Collectively, they offer a vision for the libraries, “using the ...