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POST: Why Digital Literacy Should Include Privacy Education

Oct

15

2013

In a new post, Jessamyn West, librarian and author of Without a Net: Librarians Bridging the Digital Divide, responds to a recent article, published by the New America Foundation, about incorporating discussions of privacy into digital literacy training. West’s post highlights some of the more salient points of the article, “Joining the Surveillance Society? New Internet Users in ...

POST: Notes from the Research Data Alliance (RDA) Plenary

Oct

15

2013

Inna Kouper has shared her summary from the second bi-annual Research Data Alliance (RDA) Plenary that took place in September in Washington, D.C. (a meeting we’ve featured previously on dh+lib). In reviewing the keynotes, she observes: This new evidential culture requires better documentation and provenance and more effective techniques of data collection, sharing and re-use. And how ...

CFP: Now Accepting Proposals for CNI Fall Meeting

Oct

15

2013

The Coalition for Networked Information (CNI) is now accepting proposals for project briefings at its next membership meeting, December 9-10 in Washington, D.C. Project briefings are 45-minute or 1-hour sessions that focus on a discussion of a hot topic, or on a specific institutional/organizational project related to digital information. A limited number of project briefings are accepted. The ...

JOB: Research/Scholarship Initiatives Manager at Columbia University

Oct

15

2013

From the announcement: The Center for Digital Research and Scholarship (CDRS) (cdrs.columbia.edu), a division of the Columbia University Libraries/Information Services (CUL/IS), seeks a full-time Research/Scholarship Initiatives Manager. Reporting to CDRS’ director, this newly created position will be responsible for devising, implementing, and leading outreach activities promoting CDRS’ digital projects, the institutional repository, and scholarly communication ...

POST: Experimental Typesetting with Neatline and Shakespeare

Oct

8

2013

“Does a jagged, unjustified border make the text feel more tumultuous and Dionysian? Would the same text, printed with a justified margin, become more emotionally controlled and orderly?” David McClure (University of Virginia Scholars’ Lab) asks these questions as part of a digital typesetting experiment using Neatline and a single Shakespearean couplet, where each each ...

RESOURCE: Writing History in the Digital Age

Oct

8

2013

The digitalculturebooks imprint of the University of Michigan Press has released Writing History in the Digital Age, edited by Kristen Nawrotzki (Heidelberg University of Education) and Jack Dougherty (Trinity College). The volume is born-digital and open access, and used CommentPress to facilitate open peer review. Readers can view the final online version, the CommentPress version, ...

JOB: Digital Preservation Librarian, Marshall University

Oct

8

2013

From the job description: As a member of the Special Collections Department team, research, develop, document, and implement a digital preservation program to ensure preservation of all the University’s archival, manuscript, map, rare book, and other special collections of enduring value.

JOB: Director, Digital Initiatives and Services, NYPL

Oct

8

2013

From the position announcement: Reporting to the Chief Library Officer of The New York Public Library, the Director, Digital Initiatives and Services leads the experimentation, implementation and portfolio management of the digital user experience. This person partners with internal and external stakeholders to identify, design, incubate and ensure delivery of an excellent user experience across ...

CFProposals: Data Driven: Digital Humanities in the Library

Oct

1

2013

Proposals are currently being accepted for Data Driven: Digital Humanities in the Library. The conference, sponsored by the South Carolina Digital Library, the College of Charleston and the Charleston Conference, will be held June 20-22, 2014 in Charleston, South Carolina. Submissions are being accepted for lightning rounds (250-500 word abstract), long papers (abstract of 1500 ...

CFProposals: Personal Digital Archiving Conference

Oct

1

2013

This year’s Personal Digital Archiving Conference, hosted by the Coalition for Networked Information, will take place April 10–11, 2014, in Indianapolis, Indiana (n.b. the conference date has been changed; it was originally announced to be held April 17-18). The organizers are accepting proposals for 20-minute paper presentations, lightning talks, and posters on the theme of ...

POST: Collaboration Before Preservation: Recovering Born Digital Records in the Stephen Gendin Papers

Oct

1

2013

Mark Matienzo, Digital Archivist at the Yale University Library, wrote a blog post for Yale’s Manuscripts and Archives Blog about “the importance of collaboration both within Yale and beyond about our efforts to preserve and provide access to born digital records.” Matienzo describes how he collaborated to process the born digital records in the Papers ...