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POST: Congress Renews $5 Million Open Textbook Pilot For Second Year

Oct

4

2018

In a blog post for the Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition (SPARC), SPARC Director of Open Education Nicole Allen outlines the extension of the Open Textbook Pilot, first established in March 2018. The bill, which will likely be signed into law in the next few days, provides “grants to colleges and universities to expand ...

POST: Digital Strategy for the Library of Congress

Oct

4

2018

The Library of Congress has released its Digital Strategy, an accompaniment to the organization’s 2019-2023 strategic plan, Enriching the User Experience. The Strategy major goals include “throwing open the treasure chest, connecting, and investing in the future.” In addition to pledging to “exponentially grow” the organization’s digital content, the Library of Congress plans to expand ...

RESOURCE: Setting a Foundation for Assessing Content Reuse White Paper

Oct

4

2018

The Digital Library Federation’s Assessment Interest Group (AIG) has released a white paper on the results of its IMLS-funded Developing a Framework for Measuring Reuse of Digital Objects project. This white paper (a) provides a broad overview of the Measuring Reuse project, including background information on the AIG, (b) outlines the methods used by the ...

CFP: DH2019

Oct

4

2018

The Alliance of Digital Humanities Organizations (ADHO) have released the call for proposals for the 2019 Digital Humanities conference, scheduled for July 9–12, 2019 at Utrecht University in the Netherlands. The organizers welcome panels, papers, posters, workshops, and tutorials on a wide variety of DH topics, including: Theoretical, epistemological, methodological or historical aspects of Digital ...

JOB: Digital Library Applications Developer, University of Michigan

Oct

4

2018

From the announcement: The University of Michigan Library is seeking a skilled programmer to help create and maintain large scale digital library systems. The successful candidate will work as part of a team of programmers, librarians, and designers on major initiatives including HathiTrust, and the creation of a new system architecture to serve the U-M ...

JOB: Digital Preservation Librarian, Louisiana State University

Oct

4

2018

From the announcement: The Digital Preservation Librarian will be forward-thinking, capable of conveying technical issues to diverse constituencies, enjoy working in a collaborative team environment, and be experienced with varied digital preservation services/systems. S/he provides expertise and coordinates efforts to develop and maintain a digital preservation program safeguarding LSU Libraries’ digital assets, both born digital ...

RECOMMENDED: Archive Journal Special Issue: Digital Medieval Manuscript Cultures

Sep

27

2018

The latest from Archive Journal is a Special Issue on Digital Medieval Manuscript Cultures. In their introduction to the essays, Michael Hanrahan (Bates College) and Bridget Whearty (Binghamton University-SUNY) outline key questions and concerns present in the issue: More than two decades into the ‘incunabula’ period of digitization, as digital manuscripts are regularly incorporated into ...

POST: HathiTrust Research Center Extends Non-Consumptive Research Tools to Copyrighted Materials

Sep

27

2018

HathiTrust has announced the extension of their non-consumptive research tools to copyrighted materials, expanding researchers ability to explore and data mine the complete 16.7-million-item HathiTrust corpus. From the announcement: This work has been several years in the making. A primary goal of HathiTrust is to enable the widest possible lawful research and educational uses of the ...

RESOURCE: Software Preservation Best Practices in Fair Use to Help Safeguard Cultural Record, Advance Research

Sep

27

2018

In an Association for Research Libraries News item, Krista Cox (ARL) announced the release of the ARL’s Code of Best Practices in Fair Use for Software Preservation. From the announcement: This Code was made by and for the software preservation community, with the help of legal and technical experts. The publication provides librarians, archivists, curators, and ...

JOB: Developer and Outreach Coordinator, University of Virginia Scholars’ Lab

Sep

27

2018

From the announcement: This is a 2-year term-limited Developer Outreach & Testing Coordinator role located in the University of Virginia Library‘s Scholars’ Lab. The primary purpose of this role is to apply working knowledge of design, development, and project management to advocate on the behalf of our various DH project user communities. You’ll do this ...

JOB: Associate University Librarian for Digital Initiatives and Information Technology – University of California, Berkeley

Sep

27

2018

From the announcement: The UC Berkeley Library is embarking on an ambitious new course to rapidly expand our digital services — and we seek a dynamic leader to manage and grow this initiative at one of the world’s most iconic teaching and research institutions. The Associate University Librarian for Digital Initiatives and Information Technology will ...