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JOB: Director, Georgia HomePLACE

Jun

16

2016

From the announcement: Serves as the primary liaison between the Digital Library of Georgia and the state’s public libraries. Oversees the Georgia HomePLACE (Providing Library and Archives Collections Electronically) project and provides support in planning, budgeting, scheduling, facilitating, reporting and publicizing HomePLACE collaborative digitization projects. Works with DLG to implement multiple collaborative HomePLACE digitization projects ...

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

Jun

16

2016

From the announcement: The National Digital Stewardship Residency (NDSR) is a collaborative field experience program developed by The Library of Congress and the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS). This will be the third cohort of residents based in Washington, D.C. The program aims to develop a community of professionals in the dynamic field ...

JOB: Digital Initiatives Librarian, Atlanta University Center

Jun

16

2016

From the announcement: The Atlanta University Center – Robert W. Woodruff Library is committed to displaying excellence in our delivery of service and is known for transformative change in innovative services and programs. Our organizational culture is represented by a staff of engaged and highly motivated individuals and is one in which entrepreneurial thinking is ...

POST: The new read–write API for [NARA’s] catalog

Apr

28

2016

This week, the U.S. National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) published a post on the NARA blog, NARAtions, about their newly-released online catalog API . The post begins with a simple introduction to APIs for those unfamiliar, and then breaks down specifics of why the NARA API has so much potential: The dataset for our ...

RESOURCE: Videos: Scholarly Record for Computational Research; Libraries & Multidisciplinary Research

Apr

28

2016

The Coalition for Networked Information (CNI) posted videos of two talks from their spring 2016 membership meeting in San Antonio, Texas: Victoria Stodden’s (University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign) opening plenary, “Defining the Scholarly Record for Computational Research,” and Tom Hickerson and Kathryn Ruddock (University of Calgary), Joan Lippincott (CNI), and Shawna Sadler’s (Deakin University) “The Role of Next Generation ...

RESOURCE: Developing Library GIS Services for Humanities and Social Science: An Action Research Approach

Apr

28

2016

Ningning Kong, Michael Fosmire, and Benjamin Dewayne Branch (all Purdue University) have released a pre-print of their article, “Developing Library GIS Services for Humanities and Social Science: An Action Research Approach” through College & Research Libraries. Kong, Fosmire, and Branch’s article establishes a research framework for academic libraries to develop GIS services. In the academic ...

CFP: Special Issue of DHQ: French-language Digital Humanities

Apr

28

2016

Digital Humanities Quarterly has released a call for proposals for a special issue of the journal, highlighting digital humanities work in French. According to this CFP, this issue “is the second of several planned for DHQ in different languages or regional traditions,” following DHQ‘s call for submissions for a Spanish-language special issue last fall. Submissions ...

CFP: The Caribbean Digital III

Apr

28

2016

Small Axe Project (Columbia University) has issued a call for papers for The Caribbean Digital III, to be held 2 December 2016 at Barnard College / Columbia University. Suggestion submission topics include: the transatlantic, collaborative, and/or interdisciplinary possibilities and limitations of digital technologies in the Caribbean metaphorical linkages between the digital and such Caribbean philosophical, ...

JOB: Senior Grant Program Specialist, Institute of Museum and Library Services

Apr

28

2016

From the announcement: This is the position of Senior Grant Program Specialist with responsibility for priorities within the national digital platform portfolio development within the Office of Library Services and common applications across the agency. Incumbent provides expert advice on significant aspects of digital infrastructure, services and policy matters, including issues relating to research, practice, and ...

JOB: Head, Digital Services Unit – Library Information Technology, Georgetown University

Apr

28

2016

From the announcement: The Unit Head, Digital Services coordinates the planning, designing, implementation, maintenance, expansion and communication/outreach of the digital collections/projects, digital services, and institutional repository services, collections and content, including the design, deployment and maintenance of digital services and platforms which includes DigitalGeorgetown and related digital tool sets, representations of digital content, digital conversion, ...

RECOMMENDED: Implications of Archival Labor

Apr

14

2016

Stacie Williams (University of Kentucky) published a post in Medium’s On Archivy this week, “Implications of Archival Labor,” building upon the “Leading Together: Archivists and Historians Shaping the Digital Archive” panel discussion from the Organization of American Historians’ 2016 annual conference. Williams’ post delves into the often hidden labor that goes into making archival collections ...