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dh+lib/DHIG Meetup at DHSI 2017

Jun

13

2017

Attending week two of the Digital Humanities Summer Institute and interested in the role of librarians, archivists, and other information professionals within the wide world of digital humanities? Sad that you missed the Librarians Reception from week one? Join dh+lib and the Association of College and Research Libraries’ Digital Humanities Interest Group for an informal gathering on Wednesday, ...

RECOMMENDED: Statement on US Administration Budget Proposal by DLF Leadership

Mar

23

2017

Bethany Nowviskie (Digital Library Federation) has written a post on the new federal budget blueprint, published both on the Digital Library Federation site and her personal website. Nowviskie opens by describing the many agencies and offices “germane to the goals of the Digital Library Federation and its mission to ‘advance research, learning, social justice, and ...

POST: What happens to libraries and librarians when machines can read all the books?

Mar

23

2017

In a post sharing the text of a talk given at the Harvard Library Leadership in a Digital Age program, Chris Bourg (MIT) asks, “What happens to libraries and librarians when machines can read all the books?” Bourg posits that machine learning could play a key role in the future development of digital libraries. She ...

POST: Collecting Digital Content at the Library of Congress

Mar

23

2017

In a guest post on The Signal, the Library of Congress’ digital stewardship blog, Joe Puccio (LOC) describes the current status of digital collecting at LOC, as well as their future goals: The adopted strategy is based on a vision in which the Library’s universal collection will continue to be built by selectively acquiring materials ...

CFP: Remaking Collections

Mar

23

2017

The Open Library of Humanities (OLH) has released a call for papers for a special collection of articles that “will address emerging creative practices around digital collections” and “document current practice and theory through diverse case studies and articulate multidisciplinary understandings of the art, design, computing, heritage and humanities practices.” Potential topics include: Experimental and ...

CFP: Graduate Students Speak Out: Gaining Knowledge in Digital Humanities

Mar

23

2017

The Canadian Society of Digital Humanities / Société canadienne des humanités numériques has put out a call for papers for a panel at the annual CSDH/SCHN conference at the Congress of the Humanities and Social Sciences. The organizers are looking for short papers from current graduate students “that discuss or reflect on the opportunities they ...

JOB: Visiting Residency Librarian, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (4 positions)

Mar

23

2017

From the announcement: The University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign’s Library is pleased to announce a new opportunity for early-career librarians to gain professional experience and mentoring through a new library residency program. The residency program is offered to librarians within two years of receiving their degrees. The University Library seeks opportunities to help early career ...

JOB: Instruction and Outreach Librarian, University of Florida

Mar

23

2017

From the announcement: The Instruction and Outreach Librarian at the George A. Smathers Libraries is a 12 month, tenure track faculty position, which serves as the instruction, outreach, and student engagement librarian with additional responsibilities supporting Library West’s Humanities and Social Sciences (H&SS) reference and collection services. Develops and leads library programs related to student ...

POST: Assembling the Whole: An Interview with Librarian|Artist Oliver Baez Bendorf

Feb

23

2017

Jamie Mears (Library of Congress) has posted an interview with Oliver Baez Bendorf on LOC blog, The Signal. The post, entitled “Assembling the Whole: An Interview with Librarian|Artist Oliver Baez Bendorf,” focuses on the poster series Bendorf created for the Library of Congress, inspired by LOC’s Collections as Data summit this past fall. I was ...

POST: what do digitized first folios do for us?

Feb

23

2017

Sarah Werner (@wynkenhimself) has written a post, “what do digitized first folios do for us?,” detailing her piece in The Cambridge Companion to Shakespeare’s First Folio. Werner’s post and her piece in the Companion highlight why first folios are digitized, the complexities of the digitization process, and questions about access to the digitized material. We ...

RESOURCE: On a Collections as Data Imperative

Feb

23

2017

The Library of Congress has published “On a Collections as Data Imperative” by Thomas Padilla (UC Santa Barbara). The article focuses on rethinking and reframing collections as data, which then opens up “potential of a collections as data imperative”: To see collections as data begins with reframing all digital objects as data. Data are defined ...