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POST: Ethnography Beyond Text and Print: How the Digital Can Transform Ethnographic Expressions

Dec

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2013

Wendy Hsu (City of Los Angeles Department of Cultural Affairs) asks in the final post of a four-part On Digital Ethnography series for Ethnography Matters, “If ethnography is an investigation of how a group of people sense and know their world, then how do we express that while staying true to its structure of epistemology?” Hsu ...

RESOURCE: Staffing for Effective Digital Preservation: An NDSA Report

Dec

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2013

The National Digital Stewardship Alliance Standards (NDSA) and Practices Working Group have released “Staffing for Effective Digital Preservation: An NDSA Report,” a survey of 85 institutions with a mandate to preserve digital content. The questions focused on staffing and organization, and some of the key findings include: There is no dedicated digital preservation department in most ...

RESOURCE: A Million First Steps

Dec

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2013

The British Library (BL) has released over one million images from 17th, 18th, and 19th century books on Flickr. Equally important, the images and metadata have been released into the public domain. While the metadata is currently limited, BL plans to release a crowdsourcing application next year that will build on human-provided descriptions to facilitate ...

JOB: Strategic Programs Specialist, METRO

Dec

17

2013

From the position description: The position’s main responsibility will be as day-to-day manager of METRO’s National Digital Stewardship Residency in New York (NDSR-NY) program, an expansion of the NDSR program launched by the Library of Congress and Institute of Museum and Library Services in 2012. The NDSR-NY program is a three-year, IMLS-funded initiative to build ...

JOBS: CLIR Postdoctoral Fellowships

Dec

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2013

The Council on Library and Information Resources released its list of postdoctoral fellowships for 2014-2016. There are currently 25 fellowships available, which fall under three categories: Fellowships in Academic Libraries Fellowships in Data Curation for the Sciences and Social Sciences Fellowships in Data Curation for Early Modern Studies Applications are due December 26, 2013. dh+lib ...

OPPORTUNITY: Code4Lib 2014 Diversity Scholarships

Nov

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2013

Code4Lib has nine diversity scholarships available for its 2014 conference, to be held March 24 – 27 in Raleigh, North Carolina. The scholarships, sponsored by CLIR/DLF, EBSCO, ProQuest, and Sumana Harihareswara, will be awarded to applicants “interested in actively contributing to the mission and goals of the Code4Lib conference.” Scholarships will be awarded based on merit ...

POST: What Alt-Ac Can Do, and What It Can’t

Nov

26

2013

Miriam Posner (UCLA) has posted her remarks from a panel she participated in on November 22, 2013, at the American Studies Association conference, sponsored by the Digital Humanities Caucus and chaired by Susan Garfinkel. The panel, Digital Humanities and the Neoliberal University: Complicity and/or Resistance?, featured Posner, Frances Abbott, Natalia Cecire, Alex Gil, and Lauren F. ...

JOB: GIS Services Librarian, New York University

Nov

26

2013

From the position description: The successful candidate will work collaboratively with colleagues in Data Services, across the Division of Libraries, Information Technology Services, and across NYU’s Global Network University to provide access to spatial data collections. He or she will research and select GIS data resources, support spatial data preservation activities, and work with others ...

JOB: Digital Conservator, Rhizome

Nov

26

2013

From the job ad: Rhizome is seeking a digital preservation leader to bring our award-winning digital art conservation program to its next phase, and to steward the ArtBase archive of born digital, internet-based, software, and computer art. The successful candidate will work inside a lively contemporary art museum alongside a dynamic team at the forefront ...

CFP: ACRL 2015

Nov

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2013

ACRL is seeking proposals for its 2015 conference, to be held March 25-28, 2015, in Portland, Oregon. Sessions may fall into one of eight categories: contributed paper, panel session, poster session, preconference, roundtable discussion, TechConnect presentation, virtual conference webcast, or workshop. Proposals for contributed papers, panel sessions, workshops, and preconferences and due May 9, 2014. ...

We’re Looking for dh+lib Review Editors-at-Large for Spring

Nov

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2013

The dh+lib Review, a volunteer-driven service for highlighting and sharing the best of digital humanities and libraries, is looking for editors-at-large for the Spring 2014 semester. We’ve had a steadily increasing number of editors-at-large for each of the three semesters the Review has been in operation, and we’re hoping to continue the trend. Sign up ...