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RECOMMENDED: Implications of Archival Labor

Apr

14

2016

Stacie Williams (University of Kentucky) published a post in Medium’s On Archivy this week, “Implications of Archival Labor,” building upon the “Leading Together: Archivists and Historians Shaping the Digital Archive” panel discussion from the Organization of American Historians’ 2016 annual conference. Williams’ post delves into the often hidden labor that goes into making archival collections ...

POST: Data Praxis in the Humanities: Function and Ethic

Apr

14

2016

Thomas Padilla (UC Santa Barbara) recently posted a portion of a talk he’d given at the University of Wisconsin Madison’s Digital Humanities Research Network on his blog. The extract, “Data Praxis in the Humanities: Function and Ethic,” focuses on Padilla’s efforts at communicating “the concept of data in the Humanities”: Seeing and working with an ...

RESOURCE: OER Outreach for Newbies

Apr

14

2016

Sarah Crissinger (Davidson College) has authored a three-part series on “OER Outreach for Newbies” for the ACRLog blog. The first post, “What I Would Do Differently” details current OER faculty stipend projects at Davidson College, and how Crissinger might approach launching similar projects for other institutions: As I answered questions about the stipend program, OER, ...

RESOURCE: Calculating All that Jazz: Accurately Predicting Digital Storage Needs Utilizing Digitization Parameters for Analog Audio and Still Image Files

Apr

14

2016

Krista White (Rutgers University Newark) published “Calculating All that Jazz: Accurately Predicting Digital Storage Needs Utilizing Digitization Parameters for Analog Audio and Still Image Files” in Library Resources & Technical Services. White’s paper on determining digitization parameters is aimed at information professionals writing digital project proposals, and offers practical guidelines on approaching such projects. The abstract: ...

JOB: Assistant Professor – Digital Engagement Librarian, University of Nebraska at Omaha

Apr

14

2016

From the announcement: The Digital Engagement Librarian creatively collaborates with and supports faculty, students, and community members involved in digital scholarship and digital projects. Participates in the development of digital projects and collections by providing a full range of instruction and sustainability services and best practices. Responsible for consulting with faculty, staff, and students from ...

JOB: Digital Scholarship Librarian, University of Colorado Boulder

Apr

14

2016

From the announcement: The Digital Scholarship Librarian will foster partnerships that encourage the exploration and adoption of evolving modes of digital research and pedagogy on campus, particularly in the humanities. The successful candidate will work with colleagues in the CU-Boulder Libraries and campus units to build a community around digital scholarship on campus and in ...

CFP: Library DH (a dh+lib Special issue)

Apr

7

2016

Librarians have a long history with the digital humanities. And yet, here we are: four years after the first meeting of the ACRL Digital Humanities Interest Group, three years after digital humanities in libraries was framed as an “emerging trend” in a special issue of the Journal of Library Administration, two years after ACRL crowned ...

CFP: Web Archiving and Digital Libraries

Apr

7

2016

The Joint Conference on Digital Libraries (JCDL) extended its conference proposal deadline to April 17, 2016 with notifications sent on May 2, 2016. The organizers welcome posters+lightning talk, demonstrations + lightning talk, presentations, and panel presentations. Areas of interest include: Archiving (events) Big data Classification, clustering Client/proxy/server side collecting Crawling (focused) Curation, quality control Databases ...

JOB: Digital Projects Coordinator, Hunter College

Apr

7

2016

From the announcement: Responsibilities: • Coordinates the implementation of assigned digital projects • Contributes to the development of digital collections. • Enforce best practices for processing, quality control, content management, and preservation of digital collections according to national standards. • Solve problems, answer questions and provide technical solutions to supervisor and staff. • Oversee training ...

JOB: Head Librarian, Digital Scholarship, Boston College

Apr

7

2016

From the announcement: The Head of Digital Scholarship will lead the team and colleagues across the libraries to envision, plan and deliver innovative and sustainable digital research services in concert with student, faculty, and library needs. Through exploration of new technologies, and engagement with digital scholarship and digital library practices, standards and systems, this individual ...

POST: Learning Git to Share More Free Stuff

Apr

7

2016

Jessamyn West (Open Library) wrote a post that eloquently explains git, GitHub, and how they empower users to work on open source projects: In the past we’ve always said that Open Source was great because if you didn’t like something you could change it. However it’s only been recently that the tools to do this ...