JOB: Digital Services Coordinator DePaul University

From the announcement: Reporting to the Associate University Librarian for Information Technology and Discovery Services, the  Coordinator of Digital Services provides broad oversight and leadership for the Library’s overall Web presence and related digital access platforms and services; works collaboratively with Library colleagues, university stakeholders, and consortial partners to facilitate teaching, learning, scholarly publishing, and ...

JOB: Sound Archive Librarian, Stanford University

From the announcement: The sound archives librarian is responsible for the arrangement and description of archival collections of sound recordings and related materials in the Archive of Recorded Sound to allow efficient discovery of the items and collections, assuring the discoverability of published sound recordings, providing public service and reference to ARS patrons, collaborating with ...

JOB: Geographic Information Systems Librarian, University of California, San Diego

From the announcement: As the use of geospatial data across academic disciplines and the broader UC San Diego campus continues to expand, the GIS Librarian plays a critical role in leading and developing the Library’s GIS services for learning, teaching, and research. GIS is a vital component of RRAS, and the GIS Librarian is the ...

PROJECT: Open Syllabus Project (post updated)

In the New York Times, Joe Karaganis (Columbia University) and David McClure (Stanford University Library), announced the Open Syllabus Project, an open platform that aggregates more than 1 million syllabi and allows users to explore them via its Syllabus Explorer tool. At present, the Syllabus Explorer is mostly a tool for counting how often texts ...

CFP: How Did They Make That?

Inspired by Miriam Posner’s “How did they make that?,” DHCommons Journal seeks proposals that provide “procedural descriptions of how to launch and/or maintain and exemplary aspect of a stable digital project.”  The journal intends to publish 1-3 descriptions in each issue, following the examples of “Editorial Sustainability and Open Peer Review at Programming Historian” and “How ...

CFP: Project Proposals, Institute for Liberal Arts Digital Scholarship

ILiADS (Institute for Liberal Arts Digital Scholarship) issued a call for project proposals for the Institute for Liberal Arts Digital Scholarship, to be held July 24-29, 2016, at Hamilton College: ILiADS offers participants a summer institute where they may develop projects as a team (faculty, student, librarian, technologist, other experts) and also interact with method ...

EVENT: The Fair Use Factors: Their History and Application

The Association of College and Research Libraries (ACRL) will freely broadcast the webinar, The Fair Use Factors: Their History and Application, with copyright lawyer Ana Enriquez (Copyright X) on Thursday, February 25, 2016, 1:00 – 2:00 PM CST. The language of the fair use factors has changed very little since the nineteenth century, but the doctrine of fair ...

JOB: Head of the Office of Digital Innovation and Stewardship, University of Arizona

From the announcement: The University Libraries seek a dynamic, innovative Head of the Office of Digital Innovation and Stewardship (ODIS), a position with the primary responsibility of providing leadership and strategic direction for digital innovation and stewardship within the broader context of the strategic plans of the University Libraries and the University of Arizona. ODIS ...

JOB: Informatics Project Coordinator, Virginia Tech

From the announcement : The University Libraries of Virginia Tech seek a project coordinator for an expanding suite of informatics consulting services. This new position is part of a team of data and informatics consultants offering critical and sophisticated new technology development services that enhance the scholarly, scientific, and creative expression of researchers at Virginia Tech. ...

PROJECT: Open Syllabus Project

Note from the dh+lib Review editors: Please see the updated version of this post. David Weinberger (Harvard Library Innovation Lab) announced the launch of the Open Syllabus Project (OSP) and its Syllabus Explorer in a recent blog post: The OSP is an open platform that so far has aggregated over a million syllabi. At the beta version of their ...

POST: ‘Q i-jtb the Raven’: Taking Dirty OCR Seriously

Ryan Cordell (Northeastern University) has shared the text of his talk at MLA2016, “‘Q i-jtb the Raven’: Taking Dirty OCR Seriously,” in which he considers the place of the digital products of mass-digitization efforts within the practice of bibliography and scholarly editing. Cordell posits that the digitized texts should themselves be considered a new edition: ...