POST: Race, Print, and Digital Humanities: Pedagogical Approaches

AHA Today, the blog for the American Historical Association, has published a post by Amy E. Earhart and Maura Ives (both Texas A&M), “Race, Print, and Digital Humanities: Pedagogical Approaches.” The authors describe the teaching of a graduate and undergraduate course at Texas A&M that applied “the methods of book history—enumerative bibliography and scholarly editing—to the ...

POST: On creating tools with intentionality: a #BlackDigArchive recap

Becca Quon (DLF) has published a write-up of her experience attending the Digital Blackness in the Archive symposium for the Digital Library Federation’s website. Quon summarizes the purpose of the symposium, “which brought together DocNow community members to ‘address issues at the intersection of archival practice and the existence of Black people on the web and social media.'” Quon also ...

EVENT: Digital Humanities & Social Justice Speaker & Workshop Series

Recovering the US Hispanic Literary Heritage is hosting a speaker and workshop series, “Digital Humanities & Social Justice.” The series, held at the University of Houston between January 25 and May 18, will livestream the lectures on their Facebook and live-tweet the talks using the hashtag #usLdh. As per Recovery’s announcement, speakers include: Jeremey Boggs, Humanities ...

CFParticipation: Call for Program Committee Members: Association for Computers and the Humanities 2019

The Association for Computers and the Humanities has posted a call for program committee members for the ACH’s first-ever digital humanities conference. The conference will be held in summer 2019 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. The program committee approves the structure and content of the entire academic program . The conference theme (if any) is decided by ...

OPPORTUNITY: Infrastructure and Capacity Building Challenge Grants

The National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) Division of Preservation and Access is accepting applications for Infrastructure and Capacity Building Challenge Grants. These grants “aim to help institutions secure long-term support for their core activities and expand efforts to preserve and create access to outstanding humanities materials.” Potential proposal ideas include “the documentation of cultural heritage ...

JOB: Open Content and Digital Publishing Librarian, Ball State University

From the announcement: The Open Content and Digital Publishing Librarian will play a central role in maximizing the visibility and impact of scholarship and creative content at Ball State University, classified as a “high research activity” institution by the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching. As a key team member within the University Libraries ...

JOB: Digital Publishing and Copyright Librarian, University of Delaware

From the announcement (pdf): The Digital Publishing and Copyright Librarian will design, implement, and assess an active program of education, training, advocacy, and support to promote effective sharing and barrier-free access to scholarly resources, and will provide strategic leadership of the service team that supports the Library’s digital repositories, including UDSpace and ArtStor. dh+lib ReviewThis ...

RECOMMENDED: DLF Fellow Reflections

The Digital Library Federation (DLF) has been publishing reports from its 2017 Fellows. This round-up covers posts by fellows reflecting on the DLF Forum and the Liberal Arts Colleges/HBCUs pre-conference, held in October 2017 in Pittsburgh. In a post published this week, Nicola Andrews (North Carolina State University) writes: However, as I prepared to travel ...

POST: What We Know and What They Know: Scholarly Communication, Usability, and Un-Usability

In a post for the ACRLog entitled, “What We Know and What They Know: Scholarly Communication, Usability, and Un-Usability,” Dylan Burns (Utah State University) considers the usability of library collections in relation to the growing use of SciHub, #Icanhazpdf, and #Twitterlibraryloan. He points out that students at his institution use SciHub because, as they have reported ...

POST: Memory Lab Network: An interview with Project Manager Lorena Ramirez-Lopez

Jaime Mears (LoC) has posted an interview with Lorena Ramírez-López (the Memory Lab Network) on The Signal, the Library of Congress’ digital stewardship blog. Ramírez-López, the Project Manager for the Memory Lab Network, has been hosting weekly FAQ sessions for potential partners interested in applying to the newly formed network. Funded by an Institute of ...

RESOURCE: The East St. Louis Digital Humanities Club

This week, Howard Rambsy II (Southern Illinois University Edwardsville) published his last post on a semester of working with the East St. Louis Digital Humanities Club on his blog, Cultural Front. Rambsy, along with graduate student Rae’Jean Spears (SIUE), posted weekly reflections on the newly formed partnership between Southern Illinois University Edwardsville (SIUE) and an after-school digital humanities ...