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JOB: Head of Scholars’ Lab Graduate Programs, University of Virginia Library

Sep

29

2016

From the announcement: “We build up people and practices more than products.” That’s part of our charter, and the Head of Graduate Programs is essential to this mission. We in the Scholars’ Lab and University of Virginia Library are thrilled to alert you to the new job posting https://jobs.virginia.edu/applicants/Central?quickFind=80148 As the description on the University ...

JOB: National Digital Stewardship Resident, Various Institutions (5 positions)

Sep

29

2016

From the announcement: The National Digital Stewardship Residency (NDSR) is a collaborative field experience program developed by The Library of Congress Office of Strategic Initiatives and the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS). The program aims to develop a community of professionals in the dynamic fields of digital stewardship and (biodiversity) informatics. This resident ...

POST: Doing not Being a Book

Sep

15

2016

Jacqueline Wernimont (Arizona State University) has published the slides and text of a recent talk she gave at the Yale Book History Seminar,”Doing not Being a Book.” Wernimont’s post focuses on “the death of the book” by looking at its history and academic current uses, including “affordances of digital ‘dynamic knowledge systems’ that (like books) ...

POST: The Open Library of Humanities: Year One

Sep

15

2016

Open Library of Humanities (OLH) founders and Academic Project Directors Martin Paul Eve and Caroline Edwards (both Birkbeck, University of London) have authored a post celebrating the one year anniversary of the launch of the OLH. The post provides information on the journals published by OLH, as well as statistics on publication, subscriptions, and views ...

POST: There’s A (Digital) Outcome For That!

Sep

15

2016

Cinthya Ippoliti (Oklahoma State University) has authored a post for the LITA blog on creating information literacy learning outcomes for digitally inflected assignments. How do we know that students know how to use a 3D printer successfully? How can we measure the learning that occurred when they designed a file for upload into a visualization ...

CFP: Histories of Digital Labor, Past and Present

Sep

15

2016

Shawna Ross and Andrew Pilsch (both Texas A&M University) have issued a call for proposals for an edited collection, Histories of Digital Labor, Past and Present: This edited collection will not only continue to uncover … occluded histories, but also will interrogate our definitions of and assumptions about labor, effort, merit, and reward structures as they relate ...

CFP: Digital Humanities Centres: Experiences and Perspectives

Sep

15

2016

The Digital Humanities Laboratory at the University of Warsaw is hosting a two-day conference on “Digital Humanities Centres: Experiences and Perspectives.” The Alliance of Digital Humanities Organizations (ADHO), the Digital Research Infrastructure for the Arts and Humanities (DARIAH EU), Poland’s Ministry of Science and Higher Education, Poland’s Ministry of Digital Affairs, and the Committee of Linguistics of ...

OPPORTUNITY: NFAIS 2016 Humanities Roundtable

Sep

15

2016

Onsite and virtual registration is open for the National Federation of Advanced Information Systems (NFAIS) 2016 Humanities Roundtable. The theme of this year’s roundtable is “Digital Humanities: Preserving the Past, Capturing the Present & Building the Future.” The roundtable “will explore the world of digital humanities through various lenses”: How scholarly communications supports Digital Humanities ...

JOB: Digital Initiatives Librarian & Curator of OWU Historical Collection, Ohio Wesleyan University

Sep

15

2016

From the announcement: Background Experience General knowledge of library procedures; demonstrated technological acumen; knowledge of and comfort with emerging technologies; knowledge of copyright, intellectual access and digital rights management issues; knowledge of cataloging, metadata, and archival storage standards; experience with digitization projects/initiatives; familiarity with digital asset management systems such as CONTENTdm and Digital Commons; and ...

JOB: Metadata Technologies Librarian, Ohio University

Sep

15

2016

From the announcement: Ohio University Libraries seeks a dynamic and ambitious individual for the position of Metadata Technologies Librarian. The successful candidate will be motivated by metadata challenges in a changing library landscape; will be energized by collaborative efforts; and will work effectively with students, faculty, and staff from diverse backgrounds. Reporting to the Head ...

Digital Humanities In the Library / Of the Library

Jul

29

2016

What are the points of contact between digital humanities and libraries? What is at stake, and what issues arise when the two meet? Where are we, and where might we be going? Who are “we”? By posing these questions in the CFP for a new dh+lib special issue, the editors hoped for sharp, provocative meditations on ...