JOB: Project Manager, Harvard Law School Library

From the announcement: “The new AT project manager will be responsible in part for H2O. H2O is transforming educational materials by catalyzing a suite of open source, online classroom tools that allows professors to freely develop, remix, and share elements of online textbooks, casebooks, and modules under a Creative Commons Attribution Noncommercial, Share Alike License. ...

JOB: American History / Digital Humanities Librarian, University of Notre Dame

From the announcement: “Serves as the primary liaison to faculty, students and researchers in the areas of American History and American Studies; works closely with these scholars to insure the Libraries have the resources and services needed for successful research and learning. In consultation with the relevant teaching faculty, this position is responsible for the ...

CFPatricipation: Showcase Your Undergraduates’ Digital Work at Re:Humanities

In a post for ProfHacker, Adeline Koh introduces Re:Humanities, “the first national digital humanities conference for and by undergraduates.” Re:Humanities is accepting applications for its fourth conference with the theme, Play, Power, Production. This year’s conference will be held at Haverford College, PA, on April 3-4, 2014. Re:Humanities is in its fourth year running, and the theme for 2014 is Play, Power, ...

RESOURCE: Introduction to Omeka, Amanda French’s Lesson Plan

Amanda French has posted an Introduction to Omeka Lesson Plan on her blog: I’ve taught “Introduction to Omeka” many times at various THATCamps but I’ve never done more than work from an outline. Today, however, I wrote it all down, and I am posting it for your edification here. The text is below, and here is a PDF: ...

JOB: Digital Humanities Specialist, University of California, Santa Cruz

From the announcement:  “The University of California, Santa Cruz (UCSC) Library offers a two-year CLIR Postdoctoral Fellowship in Academic Libraries supporting digital humanities scholarship, investigating emerging collaborative research practices and developing a pilot infrastructure to support this research. To this end, the University Library seeks an energetic and creative postdoctoral fellow who will demonstrate innovative ...

POST: Google Books: Fair Use and Public Benefits

Kenneth Crews has written a post summarizing the main points about the recent Google Books ruling that represents a significant victory for library services: The basic facts of the case are recounted in many places, but the Google Books project has involved building a digital library of millions of full-text books, many still under copyright ...

We’re Looking for dh+lib Review Editors-at-Large for Spring

The dh+lib Review, a volunteer-driven service for highlighting and sharing the best of digital humanities and libraries, is looking for editors-at-large for the Spring 2014 semester. We’ve had a steadily increasing number of editors-at-large for each of the three semesters the Review has been in operation, and we’re hoping to continue the trend. Sign up ...

RESOURCE: University of Minnesota Fair Use Checklist Tool

Jill Hurst-Wahl wrote a post on the Digitization 101 blog about the interactive Fair Use tool developed at the University of Minnesota. The University reminds potential users that: [T]his tool can help you organize your thoughts around the issues, although it does NOT tell you whether a proposed use is fair or not, and does NOT provide ...

JOB: Associate University Librarian for Library Information Technology, University of Michigan

From the announcement: “The University of Michigan Library is transforming the way libraries organize, preserve, and share access to knowledge in service of the mission of one of the world’s leading research universities. We seek a forward-thinking, collaborative, mission-driven, and innovative Associate University Librarian (AUL) to join the library’s leadership team, reporting to the Dean of Libraries. The ...

POST: Community Spotlight: ScholarSphere

The DLF Community Spotlight recently highlighted ScholarSphere, Penn State’s institutional repository. Authors Mike Giarlo and Patricia Hswe discuss how ScholarSphere differs from other IRs: “Having refrained from jumping on the IR bandwagon in the early 2000s, Penn State was an outlier among R1 university peers. The deliberation, however, allowed us to leverage lessons learned in hindsight from ...

RESOURCE: Getting Started with GIS

The American Library Association announced a LITA Web Course called “Getting Started with GIS,” based on the book of the same name by Eva Dodsworth. Aimed at librarians, this course will provide students with an introduction to geospatial thinking “through hands on exercises, discussions and recorded lectures, students will acquire skills in using GIS software ...