dh+lib ← where the digital humanities and librarianship meet ← Page 150

JOB: Digital Curation Librarian, Fort Hays State University

Oct

20

2016

From the announcement: Job Description: Forsyth Library, Fort Hays State University (FHSU) seeks a creative and service-oriented colleague to build, curate, and promote the library’s unique digital collections and to partner with others across campus in a variety of academic digital initiatives. The Digital Curation Librarian will work closely with colleagues from the library, the ...

JOB: Assistant Manager for Audio and Moving Image Preservation at NYPL

Oct

20

2016

From the announcement: The New York Public Library audio and moving image preservation program safeguards the audio, video, and film research collection holdings through physical treatment and reformatting. In response to a recent Mellon-funded assessment, the Library is moving forward with an ambitious plan to digitize and preserve its critically at-risk media holdings over the ...

dh+lib/DLF Digital Library Pedagogy group/DHIG meetup at DLF 2016

Oct

18

2016

Attending the 2016 DLF Forum? Interested in chatting about libraries, archives, and museums and their intersections with digital humanities? Join dh+lib, DLF’s Digital Library Pedagogy group, dh+lib, and the Association of College and Research Libraries’ Digital Humanities Interest Group for a happy hour starting at 5:30 PM on Tuesday, November 8 at 42 Lounge. Hosts ...

POST: Libraries, Technology, and Social Justice

Oct

13

2016

Chris Bourg (MIT Libraries) has posted the text of her Access 2016 talk, “Libraries, Technology, and Social Justice,” in which she takes on the notion of library neutrality and imagines what a social justice agenda would look like in academic libraries. Drawing on the work of scholars such as Safiya Noble and Sapna Cheryan as ...

OPPORTUNITY: Libraries and Museums Advance the Digital Humanities

Oct

13

2016

The Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) has announced that it will now jointly fund Digital Humanities Advancement Grant projects with the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH): The field of digital humanities is increasingly moving into the domains of library and museum professionals, such as curation, preservation, information architecture, metadata, and sustainability. We ...

PROJECT: Mediate: Identifying the Real Bestsellers of the 18th Century

Oct

13

2016

Eleanor Shevlin (West Chester University of Pennsylvania) has written a post for the Early Modern Online Bibliography (EMOB) blog introducing Mediate, a project based at Radboud University and led by Prof. Alicia C. Montoya. As Shevlin explains, “While prior lenses for studying the Enlightenment have focused on either the canonical, history-of-ideas texts or the forbidden, ...

RESOURCE: State of the Art Report on Open Access Publishing of Research Data in the Humanities

Oct

13

2016

A recent report, released as part of DARIAH’s Humanities at Scale (HAS) project, provides an overview of research data publishing in the humanities. The report, as a post from the project site explains, is the “first step in the design process of an Open Humanities Data Platform,” and is one of the eight “work packages” ...

RESOURCE: Tabulizer, an R package for working with Tabula

Oct

13

2016

The rOpenSci project has released tabulizer, an R package that provides bindings to the Tabula java library. Tabula is a tool for extracting data from PDF tables: If you’ve ever tried to do anything with data provided to you in PDFs, you know how painful it is — there’s no easy way to copy-and-paste rows ...

JOB: Digital Library Developer, Vassar College

Oct

13

2016

From the announcement: The Vassar College Libraries seek a collaborative, entrepreneurial, and experienced professional for the position of digital library developer. We are looking for a creative problem-solver with a passion for libraries who enjoys the design, development, and implementation of technical solutions that will bring our digital scholarship and library technology services to new ...

POST: Researching While Unaffiliated

Oct

6

2016

Sarah Werner (@wynkenhimself) has written a post, “researching while unaffiliated,” on the widespread issue of access to research materials and how, as an independent scholar, she has dealt with this difficulty. It’s been just over a year since I left my job to become an independent scholar/freelance writer/humanist at large/wow this terminology is bad. I’ve been ...

RESOURCE: Preserving & Curating ETD Research Data & Complex Digital Objects

Oct

6

2016

The Educopia Institute has released a set of six Guidance Briefs on the curation and preservation of electronic theses and dissertations as part of their ETDplus project: These Guidance Briefs have been authored by the ETDplus project team as short (3-4 page) “how-to” oriented briefs that will help ETD/IR programs build and nurture supportive relationships ...