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RESOURCE: American Archive of Public Broadcasting Online Reading Room

Nov

5

2015

The Library of Congress’ blog, The Signal: Digital Preservation has published a guest post by Karen Cariani, Alan Gevinson, and Casey Davis (WGBH), on the American Archive of Public Broadcasting’s (AAPB) Online Reading Room. The AAPB Online Reading Room is a collaboration between WGBH Educational Foundation and the Library of Congress, and is designed to ...

OPPORTUNITY: ACLS Digital Extension Grant Program

Nov

5

2015

The American Historical Association‘s AHA Today blog highlighted a new grant program from the American Council of Learned Societies‘ (ACLS). The ACLS Digital Extension Grant program is designed to provide “flexible support at the level of the digital research project as opposed to the individual scholar.” This funding can cover a range of project activities, such as: ...

JOB: Open Access and Institutional Repository Librarian, University of Massachusetts Amherst

Nov

5

2015

From the announcement: UMass Amherst, the flagship campus of the University of Massachusetts system, sits on nearly 1,450-acres in the scenic Pioneer Valley of western Massachusetts, 90 miles from Boston and 175 miles from New York City. The campus provides a rich cultural environment in a rural setting close to major urban centers. As a ...

JOB: Literatures & Digital Humanities Librarian, University of California, Berkeley

Nov

5

2015

From the announcement: The University of California, Berkeley seeks a collaborative and service-oriented librarian to support world-class research and teaching through the development of the Library’s research collections and engagement with faculty and students associated with scholarship and practices in English and American Literature, comparative literature, and digital humanities. Responsibilities Reporting to the Head of ...

Welcome, Thomas Padilla!

Nov

4

2015

We are pleased to welcome Thomas Padilla to the dh+lib editorial team as a Contributing Editor. As Digital Scholarship Librarian at Michigan State University Libraries, Thomas develops and promotes data collections to Humanists, teaches on Digital Humanities methods and tools, and engages scholars across disciplines on data curation and research data management needs. Previously, Thomas ...

POST: Academia, Not Edu

Oct

29

2015

In “Academia, Not Edu,” a post published on the heels of Open Access Week, Kathleen Fitzpatrick (Modern Language Association) argues that scholars should move away from sharing work on proprietary social networks, proposing disciplinary repositories as more ethical, and ultimately, more viable, alternatives. Likening Academia.edu to Facebook, Fitzpatrick writes: The network, in other words, does ...

POST: Your First Twitter Bot, in 20 Minutes

Oct

29

2015

Peter Organisciak (University of Illinois) has written a short tutorial, “Your First Twitter Bot, in 20 Minutes,” taking readers through the process of creating a twitter account that automatically tweets according to programmatic specifications (a “bot”). To implement a bot usually requires some programming, some data wrangling, and a server. However, it can be easier. ...

RESOURCE: Exactly: A New Tool to Safely Transfer Born Digital Material to the Archive

Oct

29

2015

Doug Boyd (Louie B. Nunn Center for Oral History, University of Kentucky) has written a post offering a “sneak peak” of Exactly, a tool under development by the Nunn Center in partnership with AV Preserve, intended to bring digital preservation concepts of fixity directly to researchers working in oral history. Boyd notes: By the time ...

CFP: Personal Digital Archiving 2016

Oct

29

2015

A call for proposals for the Personal Digital Archiving 2016 conference has been posted on CNI. The conference, which typically draws a wide range of archivists, librarians, scholars, activists, and hobbyists, will take place at the University of Michigan on May 12-14, 2016. Suggested topics include: Personal digital archives and why they matter to individuals, ...

JOB: Digital Humanities Developer, Columbia University

Oct

29

2015

From the announcement: The Digital Humanities Developer will provide technology support for digital humanities-focused projects by evaluating, implementing and managing relevant platforms and applications; the Developer will also analyze, transform and/or convert existing humanities-related data sets for staff, engage in creative prototyping of innovative applications, and provide technology consulting and instructional support for Libraries staff. ...

JOB: Digital Collections Librarian, University of Wyoming

Oct

29

2015

From the announcement: The University of Wyoming seeks applicants for a Digital Collections Librarian to join our growing Digital Collections office. This position builds digital collections, manages the digital repository, and supports related initiatives and projects across multiple disciplines. Responsibilities: Manage Digital UW (http://uwdigital.uwyo.edu/), the Libraries’ digital repository, including daily operations, digitization of new content, ...