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OPPORTUNITY: DPLA + DFL Cross-Pollinator Travel Grants

Feb

12

2015

The Digital Public Library of America (DPLA) and the Digital Library Federation (DLF) have announced a new program to “to engage DLF community members and connect them to exciting areas of growth and opportunity at DPLA” by facilitating attendance at the upcoming DPLAfest, which will take place April 17-18, 2015, in Indianapolis. The purpose of ...

RESOURCE: #c4l15 URLs (as mentioned in Twitter)

Feb

12

2015

The Code4Lib conference is wrapping up today in Portland, Oregon. To help keep track of all the tools and projects mentioned in the conference tweets, Ed Summers (Maryland Institute for Technology in the Humanities) experimented with making a web app that “will watch the Twitter stream for #c4l15 tweets, and keep track of which URLs people ...

JOB: Digital Initiatives Librarian, Maryland Institute College of Art

Feb

12

2015

From the announcement: Maryland Institute College of Art is currently accepting applications for a full-time Digital Initiatives Librarian. The Digital Initiative Librarian provides expertise in creating and managing library digital collections, such as digital special collections, electronic theses, and other born-digital or retrospectively digitized materials. This librarian participates in the planning, implementation, maintenance, expansion, communication ...

JOB: Digital Initiatives Librarian, Rochester Institute of Technology

Feb

12

2015

From the announcement: The Digital Initiatives Librarian works collaboratively to: assess and implement initiatives related to digital content in the library, archives and special collections; develop and implement digital preservation strategies and policies, develop new digital library offerings; outreach to the campus on the library’s digital and open access projects and services; advance infrastructure supporting ...

JOB: Digital Technologies Development Librarian, NCSU

Feb

5

2015

From the announcement: The Digital Technologies Development Librarian provides technical leadership and hands-on programming expertise for a portfolio of library projects. In close collaboration with technical and non-technical partners across the Libraries, she or he identifies emerging technologies that have potential for new and improved library services. Working both independently and in team settings, the ...

POST: 3 Reasons Why REF2014 was Good for Digital Humanities Scholars

Feb

5

2015

Simon Tanner (King’s College, London) authored a post proposing three reasons why the much-debated Research Excellence Framework (REF2014) benefited Digital Humanities scholars: The framework recognizes digital humanities research resources The framework demonstrates that digital humanities “enhances the research environment” The framework shows that digital humanities “has impact” Tanner ponders whether research excellence can truly be measured, but reiterates that this ...

We’re Looking for a New dh+lib Review Editor

Feb

4

2015

The dh+lib Review, a volunteer-driven weekly roundup of DH material, is looking for an editor to join the editorial team. The editor will work with the current dh+lib Review team (Caro Pinto and Roxanne Shirazi) to produce each week’s Review and will be the primary contact person for our editors-at-large. Review editors work on rotations: ...

CFP: Summer Institute, Beyond the Digitized Slide Library

Feb

4

2015

The University of California, Los Angeles will host an eight-day summer institute that will teach participants “about debates and key concepts in the digital humanities and gain hands-on experience with tools and techniques for art historical research…More fundamentally, the Institute will be an opportunity for participants to imagine what digital art history can be.” The ...

JOB: Digital Archivist, Harry Ransom Center

Feb

4

2015

From the announcement: This full-time, professional archivist position will lead the stewardship of born-digital archival materials as well as collaborate with staff to develop access methods for born digital materials at the Center. The archivist will also process hybrid manuscript collection and create finding aids using EAD and DACS…Leads the Ransom Center’s ongoing development and ...

POST: Google Earth Pro Is Now Free

Feb

4

2015

Jason B. Jones (Trinity College) has written a post on ProfHacker reflecting on the news that Google Earth Pro is now being offered for free. The Pro version of the software “adds several interesting features, some of which might be more widely interesting: it lets you work with ArcGIS data, access different data layers, batch geocode addresses, print ...

POST: Data Librarianship Educational Resources

Feb

4

2015

Jenny Mullenburg (University of Washington) has authored a post recounting her experience with several online courses that relate to data librarianship and data science. The resources she has compiled are aimed at beginners who are interested in “understanding what data management is, how the library can and should be involved, and what it means to be a ...