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POST: Open Access: The View from Latin America

Oct

25

2018

Emma Clarke (Peter Lang Publishers) has contributed a post on the International Open Access Week website discussing the adoption of open access (OA) publishing in Latin America. She notes that, The popularity of OA in Latin America is soaring. Scholars in the region understand the importance of making their research accessible to all, especially since ...

RESOURCE: Archive of Hispanic Literature on Tape

Oct

25

2018

This week, the Library of Congress (LOC) released new streaming materials within the Archive of Hispanic Literature on Tape, which includes over 200 digitized recordings available online from analog collection of over 800 audio recordings of poets and writers representing 32 countries, such as Spain, Portugal, Latin America, the Caribbean, and the United States, reading from ...

JOB: Data Services Librarian, Bucknell University

Oct

25

2018

From the announcement: Library and Information Technology at Bucknell is a unified organization that has evolved dramatically in the past decade, shedding over time many of the distinctions that frequently separate university library and information technology departments. Since 2008, the organization, comprised of eighty-five staff members, has been led by Param Bedi, Vice-President for Library ...

JOB: Digital Humanities Librarian, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Oct

25

2018

From the announcement: The University Library at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign is seeking a creative, innovative, collaborative, and intellectually curious individual to lead digital humanities services in the Library. The successful candidate will contribute to engaged, inclusive digital scholarship across campus. We encourage applicants who are committed to the principle that a diverse ...

JOB: Digital Scholarship Librarian, UC Santa Cruz

Oct

25

2018

From the announcement: The Digital Scholarship Commons (DSC) at the Library of the University of California, Santa Cruz (https://library.ucsc.edu/) invites applications for a Digital Scholarship Librarian who will work under the direction of the DSC Director. The DSC is a growing program that provides student access to technology and learning through experimentation in a low ...

POST: Hyperlocal Histories and Digital Collections

Oct

18

2018

Jim McGrath (Brown University) has posted an extended version of a talk he gave at the 2018 Digital Library Federation Forum to his website. The talk, entitled “Hyperlocal Histories and Digital Collections,” examines collecting, curating, and preserving local history in conjunction with digital projects. McGrath opens by describing how he became attached to the term ...

RESOURCE: A Grand-Challenges Based Research Agenda for Scholarly Communication and Information Science

Oct

18

2018

MIT hosted a Grand Challenges Summit in March 2018, and participants from that summit have released a white paper, “A Grand-Challenges Based Research Agenda for Scholarly Communication and Information Science.” From the introduction: A global and multidisciplinary community of stakeholders came together in March 2018 to identify, scope, and prioritize a common vision for specific ...

RESOURCE: Open Data, Grey Data, and Stewardship: Universities at the Privacy Frontier

Oct

18

2018

Christine L. Borgman (UCLA) has uploaded “Open Data, Grey Data, and Stewardship: Universities at the Privacy Frontier” to arXiv.org. From the abstract: As universities recognize the inherent value in the data they collect and hold, they encounter unforeseen challenges in stewarding those data in ways that balance accountability, transparency, and protection of privacy, academic freedom, ...

RESOURCE: Format Shift: Information Behavior and User Experience in the Academic E-book Environment

Oct

18

2018

The new issue of Reference & User Services Quarterly includes an article by Daniel G. Tracy (University of Illinois) entitled “Format Shift: Information Behavior and User Experience in the Academic E-book Environment.” From the abstract: This article seeks to understand information behavior in the context of the academic e-book user experience, shaped by a disparate set ...

EVENT: OASPA Webinar: The Economics and Sustainability of Open Access

Oct

18

2018

Open Access Scholarly Publishers Association (OASPA) is offering a series of free webinars, “The Economics and Sustainability of Open Access.” What are the economic implications of publishing research open access? What do economically efficient models for open access look like at the moment, how do they differ between different kinds of publishers, and what might ...

CFP: Global Digital Humanities Symposium 2019

Oct

18

2018

Digital Humanities at Michigan State University has released a call for proposals for the 4th Global Digital Humanities Symposium (or Global DH), to be held March 21-22, 2019 at Michigan State University. The 2019 symposium invites “work at the intersections of critical DH; race and ethnicity; feminism, intersectionality, and gender; and anti-colonial and postcolonial frameworks to participate.” ...