RESOURCE: CNI Digital Scholarship Planning 2020 Webinar Series

The Coalition for Networked Information (CNI) has made available recordings of presentations from a nine part webinar series on Digital Scholarship Planning. As the webinar series page explains, this series “is designed both for those in the beginning of a planning process and for those from institutions seeking to take their program, services, and expertise ...

CFP: Exploring Inclusive & Equitable Pedagogies: Creating Space for All Learners

The editors for Exploring Inclusive & Equitable Pedagogies: Creating Space for All LearnersĀ (ACRL Press) have issued a call for chapter proposals. From the CFP: With this edited collection we seek to deepen our understanding of equitable and inclusive theories and practices in order to provide instructors with new grounding for both their individual teaching and ...

JOB: Digital Preservation Archivist (Georgia State University)

From the announcement [pdf]: The Georgia State University Library welcomes to our Atlanta campus team an innovative, collegial, and service oriented colleague to: develop policies and best practices to ensure long-term protection of and access to digital materials; collaborate on implementation of digital preservation workflows; and provide guidance on the strategies, tools, and processes for ...

JOB: Data Services Librarian (Indiana University Bloomington)

From the announcement: The IUB Libraries seek an innovative, collaborative, and team-oriented Data Services Librarian to provide research, teaching, and learning support across a wide variety of academic and research programs. The Data Services Librarian will develop, deliver, and assess library services, programs, infrastructure, and collections to support the use of data, data literacy, data ...

JOB: Data Services Librarian (Boston College)

From the announcement: Boston College’s seeks aĀ Data Services LibrarianĀ at the O’Neill Library, 140 Commonwealth Avenue, Chestnut Hill, MA 02467. Position Responsibilities: Provide advice and support for projects related to data collection, cleaning, analysis, curation, documentation, and management and establish working relationships with stakeholders across the university research enterprise. Provide assistance and training sessions on all ...

RECOMMENDED: The Index of Digital Humanities Conferences

The Index of Digital Humanities Conferences, a website that compiles Digital Humanities conference data from the 1960s until the present, has been released by its project team, Scott B. Weingart (Carnegie Mellon University), Nickoal Eichmann-Kalwara (University of Colorado Boulder), and Matthew Lincoln (Carnegie Mellon University). As the website’s “About” page explains, While the term “Digital ...

RESOURCE: Process as Product: Scholarly Communication Experiments in the Digital Humanities

Zach Coble (NYU), Sarah Potvin (Texas A&M), and Roxanne Shirazi (The Graduate Center, CUNY) have published “Process as Product: Scholarly Communication Experiments in the Digital Humanities” in theĀ Journal of Librarianship and Scholarly Communication.Ā  From the abstract: Scholarly communication outreach and education activities are proliferating in academic libraries. Simultaneously, digital humanists—a group that includes librarians and ...

RESOURCE: An ā€œOpen Lab?ā€ The Electronic Textual Cultures Lab in the Evolving Digital Humanities Landscape

Randa El Khatib, Alyssa Arbuckle, Lynne Siemens, Ray Siemens, Caroline Winter, and the ETCL Research Group (all University of Victoria) have published ‘An ā€œOpen Lab?’ The Electronic Textual Cultures Lab in the Evolving Digital Humanities Landscape” in Digital Humanities Quarterly. From the abstract: As the scholarly landscape evolves into a more ā€œopenā€ plain, so do ...

EVENT: Conference: Resources and Visibility in the Digital Humanities

The Digital Humanities Initiative at the University of Illinois at Chicago is hosting their inaugural conference, “Resources and Visibility in the Digital Humanities,”Ā  to take place online October 22 though 23, 2020. The conference, which “will gather an exciting range of speakers across the disciplines to discuss the place of race, class, and sexuality in ...

CFP: JASIST Special Issue on ā€œDigital Humanities (DH)ā€

The Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology (JASIST) has put out a call for papers for a special issue on Digital Humanities. From the call: This JASIST special issue aims to highlight concepts, theories, methods, and analyses, and showcases the infrastructures of DH and its standard practices, the methodological and technological advancements ...

CFP: Coalition for Networked Information, Fall 2020 Meeting

The Coalition for Networked Information (CNI) is now accepting proposals for project briefings at its next membership meeting, which will take place online November 10 through December 15, 2020. According to the call, Project briefingsĀ are typically live, 30-minute or one-hour sessions that focus on a discussion of a timely topic, or on a specific institutional/organizational ...