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RESOURCE: 2013 LITA Forum Keynotes

Dec

10

2013

Recordings from the 2013 Library and Information Technology Association (LITA) Forum are now available via U-stream. The three keynote presentations are: Travis Good (Make Magazine), “Making Maker Libraries“ Providing resources for lifelong learning is taking on new meaning. Making is part of the mix. Tools are part of the mix. Project learning is part of ...

RESOURCE: Defining Digital Humanities: A Reader

Dec

10

2013

Ashgate Publishing Group has recently released Defining Digital Humanities: A Reader. Edited by Melissa Terras, Julianne Nyhan, and Edward Vanhoutte, the book includes contributions from Geoffrey Rockwell, John Unsworth, Jerome McGann, Willard McCarty, Julia Flanders, Chris Forster, Fred Gibbs, Bethany Nowviskie, and many others. The compilation includes essays and blog posts from the last 10 years, and ...

CFP: Publishing Text for a Digital Age

Dec

10

2013

Tufts University has issued a call for contributions to a two-day workshop on publishing textual data, to take place on March 27-30, 2014. From the announcement: As a follow-on to Working with Text in a Digital Age, an NEH-funded Institute for Advanced Technologies in the Digital Humanities and in collaboration with the Open Philology Project at the ...

OPPORTUNITY: Nominations Sought for DLF Advisory Committee

Dec

10

2013

From the Digital Library Federation (DLF) blog: The Council on Library and Information Resources (CLIR) is seeking nominations for appointments to the Digital Library Federation (DLF) Advisory Committee. The committee advises the DLF director on matters relating to program activity and initiatives, budget, and strategy. Members serve three-year terms, with the possible option to renew ...

OPPORTUNITY: Code4Lib 2014 Diversity Scholarships

Nov

26

2013

Code4Lib has nine diversity scholarships available for its 2014 conference, to be held March 24 – 27 in Raleigh, North Carolina. The scholarships, sponsored by CLIR/DLF, EBSCO, ProQuest, and Sumana Harihareswara, will be awarded to applicants “interested in actively contributing to the mission and goals of the Code4Lib conference.” Scholarships will be awarded based on merit ...

POST: What Alt-Ac Can Do, and What It Can’t

Nov

26

2013

Miriam Posner (UCLA) has posted her remarks from a panel she participated in on November 22, 2013, at the American Studies Association conference, sponsored by the Digital Humanities Caucus and chaired by Susan Garfinkel. The panel, Digital Humanities and the Neoliberal University: Complicity and/or Resistance?, featured Posner, Frances Abbott, Natalia Cecire, Alex Gil, and Lauren F. ...

JOB: GIS Services Librarian, New York University

Nov

26

2013

From the position description: The successful candidate will work collaboratively with colleagues in Data Services, across the Division of Libraries, Information Technology Services, and across NYU’s Global Network University to provide access to spatial data collections. He or she will research and select GIS data resources, support spatial data preservation activities, and work with others ...

JOB: Digital Conservator, Rhizome

Nov

26

2013

From the job ad: Rhizome is seeking a digital preservation leader to bring our award-winning digital art conservation program to its next phase, and to steward the ArtBase archive of born digital, internet-based, software, and computer art. The successful candidate will work inside a lively contemporary art museum alongside a dynamic team at the forefront ...

CFP: ACRL 2015

Nov

26

2013

ACRL is seeking proposals for its 2015 conference, to be held March 25-28, 2015, in Portland, Oregon. Sessions may fall into one of eight categories: contributed paper, panel session, poster session, preconference, roundtable discussion, TechConnect presentation, virtual conference webcast, or workshop. Proposals for contributed papers, panel sessions, workshops, and preconferences and due May 9, 2014. ...

CFP: Book Chapter Proposals, Digital Humanities in the Library: Challenges and Opportunities for Subject Specialists

Nov

19

2013

Editors Arianne Hartsell-Gundy, Laura Braunstein, and Liorah Golomb have put out a call for book chapter proposals for Digital Humanities in the Library: Challenges and Opportunities for Subject Specialists, with the Association of College & Research Libraries as the potential publisher. “Digital humanities is changing the way that humanities scholars research and teach, and libraries ...

CFParticipation: DH Curation Institute

Nov

18

2013

Applications are now being accepted for the third (and final) Digital Humanities Data Curation Institute workshop, to be held at Northeastern University, April 30-May 2, 2014. Visit the Institute Web site to complete an application by January 31, 2014. Workshops are limited to 20 participants, and applicants will be notified regarding acceptance in mid-February. As the ...