JOB: Digital Publishing and Copyright Librarian, University of Delaware

From the announcement: The University of Delaware Library seeks a motivated, creative, and service-oriented professional to lead a new unit, Digital Scholarship and Research Services, which includes two vacant Digital Scholarship Librarian positions that are also being recruited at this time. The new unit will provide University faculty, researchers, and students with services for innovative ...

JOB: Digital Projects Librarian, Columbia University

From the announcement: Columbia University Libraries (CUL) seeks an innovative and energetic Digital Projects librarian to coordinate and participate in technical project planning and implementation of significant, high-visibility digitization and digital publishing projects involving the Libraries’ rich research collections. As part of the Digital Library and Scholarly Technologies (DLST) group, the incumbent will work with ...

Editorial Opportunities with dh+lib

dh+lib is looking for four new editors to join our editorial team: Technical Editor The Technical Editor will be responsible for maintaining the dh+lib website (which currently runs on WordPress and is hosted by ACRL) and working with ACRL to manage any problems that might arise. The person in this position would also take the ...

dh+lib/DSWG meetup at DLF 2018

Attending the 2018 DLF Forum? Interested in chatting about libraries, archives, and museums and their intersections with digital humanities? Join dh+lib and DLF’s Digital Scholarship Working Group, for a meetup starting at 7:30 PM on Monday, October 15 at 32 Degrees at the M Resort. Hosts include Sarah Melton (dh+lib), Roxanne Shirazi (dh+lib), Nickoal Eichmann-Kalwara (dh+lib), ...

JOB: Geospatial Data Services Postdoctoral Fellowship (CLIR), University of Colorado Boulder

From the announcement: The University Libraries at the University of Colorado Boulder seeks applications for a 24-month postdoctoral fellowship to focus on creating a program of research support for the current and evolving geospatial research needs of faculty and students across disciplines. The Fellow will be instrumental in planning and developing library services related to ...

JOB: Developer for Digital Arts and Humanities, Bard College

From the announcement: How does technology mediate what it means to be human? Bard’s Experimental Humanities initiative is Bard’s liberal arts-based answer to the Digital Humanities. It emphasizes both “new” media technologies and the reconsideration of “old” media in the study of what it means to be human, as well as the role of experimentation in humanistic scholarship, ...

JOB: Digital Scholarship Consultant, George Mason University

From the announcement: George Mason University Libraries is seeking a dynamic, innovative, and service-oriented individual to collaborate with colleagues on digital scholarship efforts, methods, and tools for the University Libraries’ Digital Scholarship Center (DiSC). George Mason University has a strong institutional commitment to the achievement of excellence and diversity among its faculty and staff, and ...

RECOMMENDED: American Quarterly Special Issue on Digital Humanities

American Quarterly has released a special issue exploring the intersections of digital humanities with American Studies, through critical essays, digital project reviews, and applications of computational and multimodal methods. From the introduction: As areas of inquiry in 2018, American studies and digital humanities share several characteristics: both are subject to frequent reflections on, and critiques ...

CFP: Lab and Slack. Situated Research Practices in Digital Humanities

Drs. Mila Oiva (University of Turku) and Urszula Pawlicka-Deger (Aalto University) have released a call for papers for a special issue of Digital Humanities Quarterly, which will explore two thematic clusters: 1) ​Lab: Physical Situatedness​; and 2) ​Slack: Virtual Situatedness​. From the call (.pdf): The purpose of this special issue is to examine the different aspects of situated ...

Announcing New Editors-in-Chief at dh+lib

We are pleased to announce that Sarah Melton (Boston College), John Russell (Penn State University), and Patrick Williams (Syracuse University) have signed on as the new Editors-in-Chief of dh+lib. All three have contributed to the project in various capacities: Sarah as a Review Editor (since 2017), John as editor of the Resources page (since 2015), ...

POST: Twitterature: Mining Twitter Data

Christian Howard (University of Virginia) details her work on using Twitter for literary research in a recent blog post. With her collaborator Alyssa Collins, Howard uses Python to scrape and visualize Twitter data about the usage of the term #twitterature. #twitterature became an increasingly global term between 2011 and 2017, with a noticeable contraction in ...