EVENT: Data4Justice Conference 2023

Registration is open for the Data4Justice Conference 2023. Held online Friday, April 28, 2023, this event features a keynote by Elie Mystal, the Justice Correspondent for The Nation, author, and legal contributor to the More Perfect podcast on WNYC. Other presentations include: The Small town police accountability (STOPA) toolkit and research lab The Stopping trafficking ...

EVENT: Jackson State University Black Digital Humanities Speaker Series

The Diversity Working Group (DWG) at the University of Toronto and the Department of Arts and Theatre at Jackson State University are hosting the Black Digital Humanities Speaker Series in March and April. As the landing page describes, In a recently published special issue of Digital Humanities Quarterly on Black Digital Humanities, editors Alanna Prince and Cara ...

EVENT: CDHI Visiting Speaker Series: Allie Martin on Black Sonic Life

The Critical Digital Humanities Initiative (CDHI) at the University of Toronto is hosting a talk by Allie Martin (Dartmouth College), tentatively entitled “Black Covid Care: Building Sonic Constellations of Black Life.” From the talk description: Her work is attuned to questions of race, sound and power. Her forthcoming first book, Intersectional Listening: Gentrification and Black Sonic ...

CFP: 2023 CLIR Events: DLF Forum, Learn@DLF, and Digital Preservation 2023

The Council on Library and Information Resources (CLIR) has released the call for proposals for the Digital Library Federation (DLF) Forum, Learn@DLF, and the National Digital Stewardship Alliance (NDSA) Digital Preservation conference. All three allied events will be held in-person in St. Louis, MO in mid-November: the Learn@DLF pre-conference on November 12, DLF Forum November ...

JOB: Digital Engagement Librarian, York University

From the announcement: York University Libraries (YUL) seeks a collaborative and innovative individual with strong leadership capacity for the position of Digital Engagement Librarian located at the Markham Centre Campus Library. This is a continuing appointment position with a focus on advancing and disseminating digitally-mediated scholarly research at York University with a multi-disciplinary, inclusive, and community-engaged ...

JOB: Assistant Professor & Digital Pedagogy Librarian, University of Dayton

From the announcement: The University of Dayton seeks an innovative, collaborative, flexible, and service-oriented professional to serve as the Digital Pedagogy Librarian. This is a 12-month, tenure-track faculty position at the rank of assistant professor with an anticipated start of July 1, 2023. The successful candidate will play an important role in developing and advancing ...

JOB: Digital Initiatives Librarian, University of Idaho

From the announcement: The University of Idaho Library seeks an innovative, flexible, and highly collaborative librarian who will help promote, develop, and maintain the digital services and projects of the library and the relationships that make these services and projects possible. Reporting to the Dean, this position will work within the Digital Scholarship and Open ...

JOB: Digital Initiatives Coordinator, Rice University

From the announcement: Fondren Library seeks a creative, collaborative digital initiatives coordinator to help plan, develop and maintain digital scholarship and digital collections projects. As Fondren Library expands digital scholarship partnerships, the digital initiatives coordinator will help to devise strategies for supporting and sustaining such projects, conduct outreach, perform consultations, and develop and implement project ...

RECOMMENDED: Ithaka S&R Brief: “Are the Humanities Ready for Data Sharing?”

An issue brief from Ithaka S+R, “Are the Humanities Ready for Data Sharing?” reports on the paucity of data sharing practices in the humanities, on the heels of the “Nelson Memo,” which states that publicly funded publications (including those with NEH funds) must to deposit their datasets into publicly accessible repositories. The brief introduces the ...

RECOMMENDED: “DH Eh? A Survey of Digital Humanities Courses in Canadian LIS Education”

Marcela Y. Isuster (McGill University) and Donna Langille (University of British Columbia – Okanagan) analyzed course offerings in eight Library and Information Science Programs in Canadian Universities in the March 2023 Issue of College and Research Libraries. Their article finds that “[w]all institutions offer at least a few elective courses on data management topics such ...

POST: Fight for the Future Statement on Libraries’ Digital Rights

Fight for the Future, a group of artists, engineers, activists, and technologists, published a statement about the ongoing lawsuit against the Internet Archive’s digital library. Oral arguments are scheduled for March 20, 2023 in this suit brought by four major publishers. The post quotes Lia Holland (they/she), Campaigns and Communications Director at Fight for the Future: ...