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POST: RadTech Meets RadArch: Towards A New Principle for Archives and Archival Description

Apr

7

2016

Jarrett M. Drake (Princeton University) wrote up the talk he gave at the 2016 Radcliffe Workshop on Technology & Archival Processing at the Schlesinger Library, “RadTech Meets RadArch: Towards a New Principle for Archives and Archival Description” where he critiques provenance “from appraisal through access.” Challenging the centrality of provenance in archival description, Drake considers its role in ...

RESOURCE: Ithaka S+R US Faculty Survey 2015

Apr

7

2016

Ithaka S+R released the 2015 Faculty survey. Deanna Marcum, Ithaka S+R Managing Director reflects on the findings: We find key shifts in the way faculty members are thinking about teaching and learning, with implications for both the university and the support provided by the academic library. We find evidence of ongoing changes in how faculty ...

RESOURCE: Bitstreams: The Future of Digital Literary Heritage

Mar

31

2016

Recordings of the 2016 Rosenbach Lectures in Bibliography at the University of Pennsylvania, given by Matthew Kirshenbaum (University of Maryland), are now available. Given as a series of three talks collectively titled, Bitstreams: The Future of Digital Literary Heritage, Kirschenbaum’s lectures examine “the prospects for archives, public memory, and scholarship” in literature’s digital age: The Transformissions ...

RESOURCE: Digital Humanities, Digital Hegemony: Exploring Funding Practices and Unequal Access in the Digital Humanities

Mar

31

2016

The March 2016 issue of the online newsletter, Computers and Society, includes an article by John D. Martin, III (University of North Carolina) and Carolyn Runyon (University of Tennessee), “Digital humanities, digital hegemony: exploring funding practices and unequal access in the digital humanities.” The abstract is reproduced here: The digital humanities represent, for many researchers, the ...

JOB: Digital Projects Coordinator, Virginia Polytechnic University

Mar

31

2016

From the announcement: The Digital Projects Coordinator manages projects for the newly launched Digital Imaging Service serving the campus as well as regional museums and archives. This position is a key component in a large initiative to develop unique and compelling digital collections for research and education. The successful candidate will have the opportunity to ...

JOB: Digital Humanities Librarian, Cornell University

Mar

31

2016

From the announcement: The Digital Humanities Librarian will contribute to and provide leadership for a growing dynamic, multifaceted program that addresses the demand for digital scholarship support on campus, primarily in the College of Arts and Sciences. Working with arts, humanities, and social sciences scholars, faculty, and students, the Digital Humanities Librarian will foster successful ...

JOB: Humanities and Digital Scholarship Librarian, MIT

Mar

31

2016

From the announcement: The MIT Libraries seek a knowledgeable and enterprising librarian to join a growing team of liaisons developing new services and collaborations in digital scholarship. The Humanities and Digital Scholarship Librarian will support and collaborate with students and faculty doing research in history and other selected humanities disciplines. The successful candidate will engage ...

CFP: Bucknell University Digital Scholarship Conference

Mar

31

2016

Bucknell University announced its annual digital scholarship conference, taking place on October 28-30, 2016, with the theme: “Negotiating Borders through Digital Collaboration.” The organizers invite “proposals that explore or critique digital modes of scholarly, cultural, and political intersectionality. Special consideration will be given to proposals that demonstrate how crossing institutional boundaries, whether within or beyond the university, can facilitate ...

The Big Tent on the Digital Frontier: An Interview with Spencer Keralis

Mar

30

2016

Spencer D. C. Keralis is Research Associate Professor and Digital Humanities Coordinator with the Public Services Division of the University of North Texas (UNT) Libraries. He is also the Founding Director of Digital Frontiers, an annual conference and THATCamp that brings together the makers and users of digital resources for humanities research, teaching, and learning. ...

RECOMMENDED: Disrupting Student Labor in the Digital Humanities Classroom

Mar

24

2016

Spencer Keralis (University of North Texas Libraries) has shared the slides and text of his talk to the Rice University Digital Humanities Group, entitled “Disrupting Student Labor in the Digital Humanities Classroom.” Based on Keralis’s forthcoming Disrupting the Digital Humanities chapter, the talk explores the ways in which “[d]igital humanities pedagogy involving students contributing to faculty projects ...

POST: Algorithms and Libraries: A Case for Paying Attention

Mar

24

2016

Amy Wickner (University of Maryland Libraries) has shared a post at Hack Library School entitled “Algorithms and Libraries: A Case for Paying Attention.” In this piece, she provides an overview of recent writing from within and outside the library world on issues of automation and algorithmic bias, including work by Safiya Noble, Matthew Reidsma, and Ian Milligan and ...