JOB: Scholarly Communications & Digital Scholarship Librarian (San Jose State University)

From the announcement: The Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Library at San José  State University (San José , CA) seeks a service-oriented, innovative, and collaborative individual for the full-time, tenure-track position of Scholarly Communications & Digital Scholarship Librarian. This position is one of three that will be hired in 2021–STEM Librarian, iSchool Librarian, and Scholarly Communications & ...

JOB: Digital Services Librarian (Florida State University)

From the announcement: Florida State University (FSU) Libraries invites applications for the position of Digital Services Librarian. Reporting to the Repository Developer in the Technology & Digital Scholarship Division, this position will primarily focus on providing key support and extension services for Diginole, FSU’s institutional repository which houses over 80,000 titles (over 34 TB of ...

RESOURCE: Reframing Digital Humanities

Season 2 of Reframing Digital Humanities, a podcast by Julian Chambliss (Michigan State University), is now available as an open access text. Season one drew Chambliss’ attention to the challenge of definition around digital humanities, so season two became a series of conversations with scholars about digital humanities. According to Chambliss, to create the list ...

EVENT: OCLC Research Discussion Series: Next Generation of Metadata

The third and final part of OCLC Research Discussion Series, the Closing Plenary webinar, will take place on Tuesday, April 13, and will bring together and highlight what was discussed in the previous sessions. The series focused around two reports: “Transitioning to the Next Generation of Metadata”, by Karen Smith-Yoshimura, which “brought together six years ...

CFP: ILiADS 2021

From the Call for Proposals: The ILiADS Steering Committee welcomes proposals for the sixth annual Institute for Liberal Arts Digital Scholarship! This year’s Institute, hosted by Macalester College, will be held virtually July 26-30, 2021. ILiADS offers a week-long intensive environment for collaborative project teams composed of some mix of researchers, librarians, technologists, and students to build ...

OPPORTUNITY: Building a National Finding Aid Network: we need your help!

OCLC Research has put out a call for focus group participants to help them improve access to their archival collections. The focus group is part of their work on the Building a National Finding Aid Network project and is intended to garner insight from those who work with an archival collection in a library, archive, museum, ...

JOB: Head of Library Digital Scholarship and Communication Services (Northern Kentucky University)

From the announcement: Primary Responsibilities Leadership in Digital Scholarship & Communications Supervises a team of librarians and staff responsible for implementing research services and outreach, including workload distribution, goal setting, performance evaluation, teaching observations, and professional development. Provides leadership for the development, maintenance, and support of digital scholarship services, programming, and research for both undergraduate ...

RECOMMENDED: Fostering Community Engagement through Datathon Events: The Archives Unleashed Experience

In the latest issue (2021 15.1) of Digital Humanities Quarterly, authors Samantha Fritz (Department of History, University of Waterloo), Ian Milligan (Department of History, University of Waterloo), Nick Ruest (Library, York University), and Jimmy Lin (David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science, University of Waterloo) reflect on their work on Archives Unleashed. In “Fostering Community ...

POST: Queers (in DH) Read This

In a recent blog post, HASTAC Scholar and PhD candidate at the University of Kansas Rebekah Jo Aycock shared her experiences exploring Queer DH Projects. Relying on Twitter, Aycock (@AycockRebekah) compiled a set of Queer DH projects and resources. These resources include: #QueerDH Projects and Resources #QueerDH Projects and Resources was started by Corey Clawson. It was ...

RESOURCE: Immersive Scholar: A Guidebook for Documenting and Publishing Experiential Scholarship Works

Authors Abigail E. Mann and Micah Vandegrift (NC State) have published a new open access resource, Immersive Scholar: A Guidebook for Documenting and Publishing Experiential Scholarship Works. From the abstract: A Guidebook for Documenting and Publishing Experiential Scholarship Works offers a model for librarians, technologists, and scholars collaborating on the production of new forms of ...

RESOURCE: Unsettling Knowledge Inequities

The Knowledge Equity Lab, in partnership with SPARC (the Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition), has launched a new podcast series, Unsettling Knowledge Inequities. The series explores “issues related to the politics of knowledge production, exchange and circulation and the structural, global power dynamics that shape it.” About the series: What do equitable systems for ...