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POST: Acquiring at Digital Scale: Harvesting the StoryCorps.me Collection

Dec

10

2015

StoryCorps, a large-scale oral history project archived at the American Folklife Center, recently created the StoryCorps.me mobile application to act as “a global platform where anyone in the world can record and upload an oral history interview.” In a post to The Signal, the Library of Congress digital preservation blog, Nicole Saylor (American Folklife Center Archive) ...

CFParticipation: DLF Digital Library Pedagogy Interest Group

Dec

10

2015

Elizabeth Kelly (Loyola University) and Eleanor Dickson (HathiTrust Research Center) have authored a guest post on the Digital Library Federation‘s blog, announcing the Digital Library Pedagogy Interest Group. Possible discussion topics for the group include: assignments and instructional techniques using digitized and born-digital cultural heritage collections emerging digital pedagogy tools and digital humanities projects reviewing ...

CFP: Library Publishing Forum 2016

Dec

10

2015

The Library Publishing Coalition has released a CFP for the 2016 Library Publishing Forum, to be held May 17-19 in Denton, Texas. The theme of this year’s conference will be “Amplifying Scholarship: More Choices, More Voices.” As the post states, “Libraries as publishers have the means to expand access to publishing, creating opportunities for diverse ...

JOB: Assistant Professor (Digital Resources Librarian), Sam Houston State University

Dec

10

2015

From the announcement: Position will provide leadership in planning, selection and organizing digital projects, including electronic thesis and dissertations and an institutional repository. Participates in professional activities, professional development, scholarly research, publication and service activities as outlined in Academic Policy Statement 900417,Faculty Reappointment, Tenure and Promotion.

JOB: Head of Digital Library Services, University of Utah

Dec

10

2015

From the announcement: The J. Willard Marriott Library seeks an energetic, visionary, innovative, and accomplished professional for the position of Head, Digital Library Services (DLS). This is an excellent opportunity to work with collaborative, energetic, and enthusiastic colleagues in developing and delivering an information environment that significantly advances end-user resource discovery and use of digital ...

Cultivating a New Design Lab: An Interview with Justin Schell

Dec

2

2015

Justin Schell is the Learning Design Specialist at the University of Michigan Library, where he is leading the development of the Shapiro Design Lab. Alix Keener, who conducted this interview, is the Digital Scholarship Librarian at the U-M Library. Alix: I’m enjoying that there’s a Star Wars BB-8 robot rolling around in the background of ...

“A Natural Symbiosis”: An Interview with Ashley Sanders

Dec

2

2015

Chelcie Juliet Rowell, Digital Initiatives Librarian at Wake Forest University, interviews Ashley Sanders, the Digital Scholarship Librarian for the Claremont Colleges. After meeting at the 2015 Digital Library Federation Forum in Vancouver, BC, Ashley and Chelcie are glad to have identified each other as fellow learners in a digital humanities, libraries, and liberal arts community ...

PROJECT: ‘A Shaky Truce’: Starkville Civil Rights Struggles, 1960-1980

Nov

19

2015

The Mississippi State University History Department and Libraries have launched a digital history project entitled ‘A Shaky Truce’: Starkville Civil Rights Struggles, 1960-1980. Developed by a cross-disciplinary team of faculty, librarians, graduate and undergraduate students, the project documents two decades of civil rights struggles in Starkville, MS. The purpose of this project is to tell a ...

POST: Opportunities Created by Emerging Technologies

Nov

19

2015

Katina Rogers (The Futures Initiative, Graduate Center, CUNY) has posted her position paper for an upcoming Council of Graduate Schools workshop on the future of the dissertation. In it, she links the changes and challenges afoot for dissertations with those facing the greater landscape of scholarship and scholarly publishing. The same questions of values, methods, and ...

POST: Agile Development: Building an Agile Culture

Nov

19

2015

Leo Stezano (Columbia University Libraries) wrote a post for the LITA Blog entitled Agile Development: Building an Agile Culture. In the post, Stezano outlines some tips for fostering a successful agile development shop in a library setting. Additionally, he provides links for further reading on agile development teams and the broader discussion of institutional culture issues ...

RESOURCE: ARL Fall Forum Overview and Roundup

Nov

19

2015

Liz Hamilton (Northwestern University), the recipient of the inaugural Julia C. Blixrud Scholarship, has written an overview of the 2015 ARL Fall Forum on Research Partnerships in Digital Scholarship for the Humanities and Social Sciences. In the overview, Hamilton provides highlights (and links to materials) from the speakers’ presentations, including Tara McPherson’s Julia C. Blixrud ...