JOB: Digital Collections Manager, State Library of North Carolina

From the announcement: The State Library of North Carolina’s Government & Heritage Library (GHL) is looking for an experienced digital librarian who is passionate about digital preservation, committed to ensuring that digital government publications remain available to the public into the future, has innovative ideas, and has a strong customer service ethic. While this is ...

RECOMMENDED: What’s Next: The Radical, Unrealized Potential of Digital Humanities

Miriam Posner (UCLA) shared her keynote address from the Keystone Digital Humanities Conference, which took place at the University of Pennsylvania Libraries from July 22-24, 2015. In it, Posner explores the “radical, unrealized potential of digital humanities,” especially calling for engagement with gender, sexuality, and critical race theory: DH needs scholarly expertise in critical race theory, ...

JOB: Director, Metadata & Digital Strategies, Hamilton College

From the announcement: Hamilton College seeks a dynamic, innovative, and forward-thinking leader to join the strategic leadership team of an integrated information services organization.  This is a perfect professional opportunity for someone who enjoys collaborating with others to help guide Hamilton’s digital future while maintaining its excellence in traditional media.  We are looking for an ...

JOB: Digital Archivist, Emerson College

From the announcement: The Digital Archivist works with the Head of Archives and Special Collections and Digital Initiatives Librarian to plan and execute workflows for the digitization of analog records. Core responsibilities will include acquisition, appraisal, description, and preservation of both digitized and born-digital records. The Digital Archivist will also monitor the activities of interns ...

JOB: Scholarly Technologies Specialist, Washington and Lee University

From the announcement:  W&L University Library seeks to fill a four-year grant-funded position to implement technologies that will promote the Library’s role as a center of campus-wide academic engagement as well as modernize and streamline traditional library operations and services. As a member of a small organization, this position requires teamwork, collaboration, and self-motivation. The ...

POST: HILT2015, iSchools+DH, and deconstructive/critical digital pedagogy.

Micah Vandegrift (Florida State University) shared a post in which he considers how to build on the iSchools+DH project that cross-pollinated iSchool students with digital humanities centers. Vandegrift has set his focus on compiling syllabuses from DH courses taught in library schools, asking: How are DH courses being taught in LIS programs and iSchools? Is ...

POST: #guerrilladh

Alex Gil (Columbia University) shared a post collocating thoughts on the #dhpoco summer school in 2013 with more recent ruminations inspired by the work of Bess Sadler and Chris Bourg, Miriam Posner, and Tim Sherratt. Exploring questions of activism and the potential for digital humanities to work towards “one of the broadest universals we have known,” ...

POST: Omeka Curator Dashboard

Jess Waggoner (University of California, Santa Cruz) has written a post providing an overview of the Omeka Curator Dashboard, “a suite of fifteen plugins (though a bonus sixteenth will be coming soon!) designed to facilitate object import and export, manage metadata, and curate collections.” Waggoner explains how working on the Grateful Dead Archive Online project ...

RESOURCE: Beyond the Scanned Image: A Needs Assessment of Scholarly Users of Digital Collections

Harriet E. Green (University of Illinois) and Angela Courtney (Indiana University) authored an article “Beyond the Scanned Image: A Needs Assessment of Scholarly Users of Digital Collections” in the July 2015 issue of College & Research Libraries. The article “presents analysis of how humanities scholars use digital collections in their research and the ways in which digital ...

PROJECT: The Generative Literature Project

Hybrid Pedagogy Publishing introduced the Generative Literature Project, “which is producing a crowdsourced, gamified digital novel about a murder.” The post also helps define the genre: …a specific form of literature which challenges some aspects of classical literature.  Frequently associated with the power of the machine (read computer), generative literature is often understood as the production ...

OPPORTUNITY: New Online Courses in Digital Pedagogy

Adeline Koh (Richard Stockton College) authored a post for ProfHacker about the Digital Pedagogy Lab‘s offerings including upcoming courses: Teaching with Twitter and Learning Online. Koh adds: What I greatly appreciate about the Digital Pedagogy Lab courses is that they have provided adjunct and student rates for all the classes. They are also short–each of them ...