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We’re Looking for dh+lib Review Editors-at-Large for Fall 2014

Aug

18

2014

The dh+lib Review, a volunteer-driven service for highlighting and sharing the best of digital humanities and libraries, is looking for editors-at-large for the Fall 2014 semester. We’ve had a steadily increasing number of editors-at-large for each of the five semesters the Review has been in operation, and we’re hoping to continue the trend. Sign up ...

CFParticipation: The Collective, a New Conference Concept

Aug

11

2014

The Library Collective is a two-day conference that will take place February 19-20, 2015, in Knoxville, Tennessee, and explore the theme “libraries as curators and creators.” Aimed at “library stakeholders” and “next-generation librarians,” the conference’s goals are “learning, networking, and kickstarting new ideas.” The Library Collective, chaired by Ashley Maynor and Corey Halaychik (both University of Tennessee, ...

JOB: Digital Projects Librarian, Arizona State University

Aug

11

2014

From the position announcement: The digital projects librarian will help to identify, create, and maintain unique scholarly and general interest collections for the Libraries digital repositories. He/she must also work on continuously improving customer services, assisting with project documentation, and facilitating change for the ASU Digital Repository, data management assessment and planning, and other repository ...

JOB: Digital Archivist, UCLA

Aug

11

2014

From the position announcement: Reporting to the Head, Center for Primary Research & Training and Digital Initiatives, the Digital Archivist leads and supports LSC efforts to acquire, describe, preserve, and provide access to born-digital special collections material and to facilitate projects and programs that provide digital access to analog holdings. The Digital Archivist works in ...

POST: Making Scanned Content Accessible Using Full-text Search and OCR

Aug

11

2014

Chris Adams (Library of Congress) has written a guest post for The Signal detailing how the library community can affordably meet the challenge of creating metadata for “our terabytes of carefully produced and diligently preserved TIFF files” to promote discovery and engagement. In “Making Scanned Content Accessible Using Full-text Search and OCR,” Adams documents how to get “from scan to search” in four steps. ...

RESOURCE: Interdisciplining Digital Humanities

Aug

11

2014

The University of Michigan Press’s digitalculturebooks imprint has published a new title by Julie Thompson Klein (Wayne State University): Interdisciplining Digital Humanities: Boundary Work in an Emerging Field. The text “explores how digital technologies and new media are changing the nature of research, teaching, and learning in the humanities.” By examining the boundary work of constructing, expanding, and ...

The Opportunistic Librarian

Aug

6

2014

In this post summarizing his Digital Humanities 2014 conference paper, Demmy Verbeke (KU Leuven) argues for a scholar-practitioner model of librarianship, with academic libraries structured to incorporate their own research and development. Generally speaking, Digital Humanities practitioners agree that what they do is in essence a collaborative activity, which connects people in different positions – such ...

POST: Humanities Savior Narrative (The First Draft)

Aug

5

2014

Glen Worthey joins The First Draft podcast hosts Elijah Meeks, Jason Heppler, and Paul Zenke (all of Stanford University) for an episode entitled “Humanities Savior Narrative.” Their lively, wide-ranging conversation touches on the recent Digital Humanities 2014 conference (including discussion of keynotes, #dhsheep, and multilinguality), the “big tent,” the question of whether DH will save or become synonymous with ...

POST: Why Digital Humanities Researchers Support Google’s Fair Use Defense

Aug

5

2014

Matthew Sag (Loyola University Chicago School of Law) has contributed a guest post for the Authors Alliance blog, explaining “Why Digital Humanities Researchers Support Google’s Fair Use Defense.” Sag co-authored the amicus brief “urging the Second Circuit Court of Appeals to side with Google in this dispute.” He explains: Digital Humanities scholars fervently believe that text mining ...

POST: The Networked Catalog

Aug

5

2014

Matt Miller (NYPL Labs) has written a post introducing an experimental interactive network visualization of the New York Public Library’s catalog data. The NYPL Labs team have been “fascinated with our catalog and the possibilities its data represent,” and asked: [W]hat if the catalog had a “See All” button? What if you could see everything at once, ...

CFP: Beyond the Proto-Monograph: New Models for the Dissertation

Aug

5

2014

A new section of the Mediacommons project known as #alt-academy is dedicated to “Graduate Training in the 21st Century.” Edited by Melissa Dalgleish (York University) and Daniel Powell (University of Victoria), the first “cluster” is exploring “how the prototypical graduate project in the humanities—the dissertation—is changing in the face of the digital turn, shifting job markets, and ...