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JOB: Associate University Librarian for Special Collections and Archives, GW

Feb

17

2014

From the announcement: The GW Libraries seeks nominations and applications for an Associate University Librarian for Special Collections and Archives (AUL/SC&A). The person in this recently redefined position will lead a dynamic team in developing policies, strategies and innovative approaches to growing the collections and services that give the twenty-first century research library its identity. ...

PROJECT: Calling All Walt Whitman Fans

Feb

17

2014

The Chief Archivist of the United States, David Ferriero, issued a call to assist The Walt Whitman Archive at the University of Nebraksa-Lincoln in discovering new Walt Whitman documents. In 2011, the Archive discovered 3,000 documents penned by the famous author during his years working as a clerk in the Office of the Attorney General, ...

TOOL: etcML: text classification tool

Feb

14

2014

Geoffrey Rockwell has written a post introducing etcML (Easy Text Classification Machine Learning) a new, freely available, text analysis tool developed at Stanford. The tool’s “primary mode of analysis is ‘classification,’ which you can think of as automatic categorization”: The tool allows you to pass a text (or a Twitter hashtag) to an existing classifier like the ...

What if we do, in fact, know best?: A Response to the OCLC Report on DH and Research Libraries

Feb

12

2014

In this post, Dot Porter (University of Pennsylvania) critiques a recently-published OCLC report (“Does Every Research Library Need a Digital Humanities Center?”), drawing attention to the range of backgrounds and stations occupied by those who practice DH, inside or outside of the library. Reading through the OCLC report authored by Jennifer Schaffner and Ricky Erway, Does ...

RECOMMENDED: Asking For It

Feb

11

2014

Last week, OCLC Research released the report “Does every research library need a digital humanities center?” Written by Jennifer Schaffner and Ricky Erway, the report is aimed at helping library administrators communicate with their deans and provosts about the library’s roles in digital humanities. Bethany Nowviskie (University of Virginia) offers a response that acknowledges the report’s value ...

RESOURCE: Does Every Research Library Need a Digital Humanities Center? An OCLC Research Report

Feb

11

2014

OCLC Research has released a new report, “Does every research library need a digital humanities center?” [PDF]. Written by Jennifer Schaffner and Ricky Erway, it: [I]s intended to prepare research library directors and other decision-makers to respond to questions from deans or provosts who may ask what the library is doing about the digital humanities. It discusses specific ...

POST: Scholar Sourcing, Crowdsourcing, and Community Sourcing

Feb

11

2014

In a post to her website, Digital Humanities Librarian Laurien Taylor (University of Florida) discusses the use of community-sourcing and scholar-sourcing in her work. These terms, Taylor argues, are distinct from “crowdsourcing” because they are more targeted in scope, focusing not on “the entire online world” but on commitments at the institutional level, which in ...

CFP: Digital Preservation 2014

Feb

11

2014

The Library of Congress is accepting proposals for its Digital Preservation 2014 conference, to be held July 22-24 in the Washington, DC, area. Session types include panels or presentations, 5-minute lightning talks, demonstrations, and posters. To be considered, submit a proposal (up to 300 words) describing what you would like to present to ndiipp [at] ...

CFP: Digital Libraries 2014

Feb

11

2014

Proposals are being accepted for the Joint Conference on Digital Libraries (JCDL) and the International Conference on Theory and Practice of Digital Libraries (TPDL), which will be held together as the International Digital Libraries Conference (DL2014) from September 8 – 12, 2014 in London, UK. Workshop, tutorial, and panel submissions due: March 2, 2014 Full ...

Why I Go To MLA

Feb

5

2014

Patrick Williams (Syracuse University Libraries) shares his recent experience at some of the digital scholarship sessions at #MLA14, and ponders the impact of librarians attending a conference outside of the library discipline. In January, I joined thousands of faculty, researchers, graduate students, job-seekers, librarians, and others in the fields of language and literature in Chicago ...

MLA 2014: A Quick Reflection

Feb

5

2014

In this post, Robin Davis (Emerging Technologies & Distance Services Librarian at John Jay College of Criminal Justice) reports on 2014 MLA Convention sessions of interest to librarians who work in the digital humanities. As the Chicago River thawed and refroze outside the Modern Language Association Convention (Jan. 9-12, 2014), the array of digitally-themed sessions warmed this ...