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CFParticipation: The Future of Crowdsourcing

Apr

30

2015

The Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) and the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) invite “interested members of the public” to participate in a discussion on the future of crowdsourcing, to take place May 6-8, 2015. “Engaging the Public: Best Practices in Crowdsourcing across the Disciplines” will “bring together by invitation over 60 ...

CFP: Journal of Digital and Media Literacy

Apr

30

2015

The Journal of Digital and Media Literacy invites submissions for its Winter 2015 issue, due by July 1, 2015. JoDML explores the ways people use technology to create, sustain, and impact communities on local, national, and global levels. Our content examines how civic leaders, media practitioners, scholars, and educators engage with all aspects of digital ...

JOB: Digital Initiatives Librarian, Salem State University

Apr

30

2015

From the announcement: The Digital Initiatives Librarian will provide leadership and vision in planning, implementing, managing and growing digital initiatives that support the mission of the library and the university. The digital initiatives librarian will provide specialized reference services, deliver library instruction sessions, create instructional materials, and develop the library’s collections. The incumbent will participate in ...

JOB: Head of Digital Preservation, New York Public Library

Apr

30

2015

From the announcement: The Head of Digital Preservation will lead efforts to create a long-term digital preservation strategy, establishing the policies and procedures that address the preservation of the digital assets the Library collects and generates. For over a decade, the Library has made significant investments in digitizing distinctive collections and building online systems to ...

Beyond Dead or Alive Books: Redefining and Repositioning Scholarly Content in a New Knowledge Environment

Apr

29

2015

In this post, Chad Gaffield (University of Ottawa) reflects on the Association of Research Libraries’ 2014 Fall Forum. The compelling, timely, and provocative title of the ARL Fall Forum 2014 could have been articulated several different ways. Rather than “Wanted Dead or Alive: The Scholarly Monograph,” the title might well have been “Wanted Dead or ...

POST: A Fun Way to Introduce DH Students to Dataviz

Apr

23

2015

In a new post, Miriam Posner (UCLA) shares a low-threshold activity to introduce students to data visualization techniques. Students are guided through the process of creating a simple quiz, collecting data, formatting the data in three formats, and exploring different visualization tools. Posner includes links to a variety of tutorials to get started.

POST: Libraries Looking Across Languages: Seeing the World Through Mass Translation

Apr

23

2015

Kalev Hannes Leetaru (George Washington University) wrote a post for The Signal exploring the landscape of statistical machine translation (SMT) and outlining the advances made in the last few years to move toward a more “post-lingual society.” Leetaru provides an overview of mass translation projects with a particular focus on GDELT Translingual (Global Database of ...

CFParticipation: DLF Forum, 2015

Apr

23

2015

The Digital Library Federation (DLF) seeks proposals for the 2015 DLF Forum Program, to be held October 26-October 28, 2015, in Vancouver, British Columbia. Proposals are invited from “within the broad framework of digital collections, infrastructure, resources, and organizational priorities” and across several session genres including panel presentations, workshops, project updates, working sessions, snapshots, and poster-based community idea exchange. ...

RESOURCE: Web Writing

Apr

23

2015

A new volume in the University of Michigan Press’s Digital Humanities series has been published. Web Writing: Why and How for Liberal Arts Teaching and Learning, edited by Jack Dougherty and Tennyson O’Donnell (Trinity College), is now freely available on the web (as a download or web edition) under a CC BY-NC-ND 3.0 license, and ...

JOB: Director of Research & Instructional Support, Mount Holyoke College

Apr

23

2015

From the position announcement: The Director of RIS leads a staff of 13 librarians and instructional technology professionals. The RIS team collectively develops the college’s instructional technology, information literacy initiatives, and library collection environments to advance the College’s teaching, learning, and research. As a member of the LITS leadership team, the Director collaborates with other ...

JOB: Associate University Librarian for Digital Strategies, Northwestern University

Apr

23

2015

From the announcement: As one of the portfolio leaders, the Associate University Librarian for Digital Strategies (AULDS) advances the library’s mission and contributes to the achievement of library and university strategic goals within a highly collaborative, user-focused, research and learning environment. Managers of the following three work groups report directly to the AULDS: Repository and Digital ...