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JOB: Data Services Librarian (Associate Professor), University of Rhode Island

May

12

2016

From the announcement: We seek an experienced data specialist to lead the Libraries’ efforts to support work with data across our University and within the University Libraries. The use of data and statistics is growing quickly as computational methods expand across many disciplines and as better tools make statistical analysis more widely available. The Libraries ...

JOB: User Experience (UX) Web Developer, Claremont Colleges Library

May

12

2016

From the announcement: Reporting to the Director of User Services and Resource Sharing (USERS), the developer will engage in the virtual and physical user interface (UI) environments of the library. The incumbent will fully integrate a high quality user experience design that supports the efforts of the library to serve the educational and information needs ...

JOB: Digital Library Developer, University of Nevada, Las Vegas

May

12

2016

From the announcement: This position is located within the Web and Application Development Services Department, part of the Library Technologies Division. The Web and Application Development Services Department develops and deploys webpages, websites, and related applications within the Libraries, and collaboratively helps maintain existing web-based systems and services, including the primary library website and digital ...

Forging a community of practice for digital library pedagogy: An update from the new Digital Library Federation Digital Library Pedagogy group

May

11

2016

Eleanor Dickson (University of Illinois) and Elizabeth Kelly (Loyola University New Orleans) are the founders and co-chairs of the Digital Library Federation (DLF) Digital Library Pedagogy group, launched in late 2015 with the goal of building a community of practice around teaching with and about digital collections. In this post, Dickson and Kelly report on the activities ...

ROUND-UP: Neoliberal Tools (and Archives): A Political History of Digital Humanities (and Responses)

May

5

2016

Daniel Allington (University of the West of England), Sarah Brouillette (Carleton University) and David Golumbia (Virginia Commonwealth University) published “Neoliberal Tools (and Archives): A Political History of Digital Humanities” in the Los Angeles Review of Books, arguing that the digital humanities have “played a leading role in the corporatist restructuring of the humanities.” Positioning DH ...

RECOMMENDED: Everywhere, Every When

May

5

2016

Bethany Nowviskie (Digital Library Federation) has shared the text of a talk given at Columbia University’s Insuetude symposium, which brought together scholars in archaeology and media archaeology to examine how the past is “made present both in and through its traces.” Among her comments in “Everywhere, Every When,” Nowviskie asks, “What would it mean to ...

RESOURCE: Digitizing Books, Obscuring Women’s Work: Google Books, Librarians, and Ideologies of Access

May

5

2016

The latest issue of Ada: A Journal of Gender, New Media, and Technology includes an article by Anna Lauren Hoffman (University of California, Berkeley) and Raina Bloom (University of Wisconsin, Madison) that examines the Google Books project “using the gendered history of librarianship” as a critical lens. The full abstract is reproduced below. Hoffman, Lauren, ...

RESOURCE: Fifty Shades of Open

May

5

2016

The newest issue of First Monday includes an article by Jeffrey Pomerantz (EDUCAUSE) and Robin Peek (Simmons College) that attempts to disambiguate the various meanings of the word “open.” The brief introduction is reproduced below. Pomerantz, Jeffrey, and Robin Peek. “Fifty Shades of Open.” First Monday 21, no. 5 (2016). doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.5210/fm.v21i5.6360 Open source. Open ...

JOB: Digital Scholarly Publishing Librarian, University of Pennsylvania

May

5

2016

From the announcement: The University of Pennsylvania Libraries seek a creative, collaborative and enthusiastic librarian to join the Digital Scholarship team as the Digital Scholarly Publishing Librarian. Under the leadership of the Digital Publishing and Repository Coordinator and in collaboration with the Digital Scholarship and Data Curation Librarian, the incumbent will manage the day-to-day operations ...

POST: The new read–write API for [NARA’s] catalog

Apr

28

2016

This week, the U.S. National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) published a post on the NARA blog, NARAtions, about their newly-released online catalog API . The post begins with a simple introduction to APIs for those unfamiliar, and then breaks down specifics of why the NARA API has so much potential: The dataset for our ...

RESOURCE: Videos: Scholarly Record for Computational Research; Libraries & Multidisciplinary Research

Apr

28

2016

The Coalition for Networked Information (CNI) posted videos of two talks from their spring 2016 membership meeting in San Antonio, Texas: Victoria Stodden’s (University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign) opening plenary, “Defining the Scholarly Record for Computational Research,” and Tom Hickerson and Kathryn Ruddock (University of Calgary), Joan Lippincott (CNI), and Shawna Sadler’s (Deakin University) “The Role of Next Generation ...