JOB: Director of Research & Instructional Support, Mount Holyoke College

From the position announcement:  The Director of RIS leads a staff of 13 librarians and instructional technology professionals. The RIS team collectively develops the college’s instructional technology, information literacy initiatives, and library collection environments to advance the College’s teaching, learning, and research. As a member of the LITS leadership team, the Director collaborates with other ...

JOB: Associate University Librarian for Digital Strategies, Northwestern University

From the announcement:  As one of the portfolio leaders, the Associate University Librarian for Digital Strategies (AULDS) advances the library’s mission and contributes to the achievement of library and university strategic goals within a highly collaborative, user-focused, research and learning environment. Managers of the following three work groups report directly to the AULDS: Repository and Digital ...

CFParticipation: Introducing the Digital Pedagogy Lab

In her latest ProfHacker post, Adeline Koh (Stockton University) highlighted the upcoming Digital Pedagogy Lab taking place this summer at the University of Wisconsin, Madison from August 10-14, 2015. Offered by the journal Hybrid Pedagogy, “the lab is a five-day practical institute that will combine discussions of digital pedagogy theory with hands-on practice.” The institute ...

JOB: Digital Scholarship Projects Librarian, Georgia State University

From the announcement:  Georgia State University Library seeks a collegial, entrepreneurial, and hands-on Digital Scholarship Projects Librarian skilled at using technology to support interdisciplinary digital projects in a wide array of subject areas, including but not limited to the digital humanities. The Digital Scholarship Projects Librarian will be engaged in the exploration of new forms ...

JOB: Digital Projects & Archives Librarian, Middlebury College

From the announcement: Middlebury seeks a Digital Projects and Archives Librarian to join its Special Collections & Archives. Reporting to the Director and Curator of Special Collections, the Digital Projects and Archives Librarian contributes to the shaping of digital collections and digital archives at the Middlebury College Library.  The Digital Projects and Archives Librarian plays ...

POST: The Invention & Dissemination of the Transparent GIF

Trevor Owens (Institute of Museum and Library Services) authored a post about the invention and dissemination of the transparent GIF, noting: “These invisible files have a story to tell, and I think exploring there presence and traces in web archives can end up illustrating some ideas for modes of researching in web archives.” [sic] Owens ...

CFP: 21st Century Skills: Digital Humanities Institute for Mid-Career Librarians

The University of Rochester River Campus Libraries is accepting applications for 21st Century Skills: Digital Humanities Institute for Mid-Career Librarians in July 2015. The institute “consists of a three-day residential experience for 20 mid-career librarians, followed by one year of online engagement and support. The instruction team includes four CLIR fellows, supported by University of Rochester ...

CFParticipation: Revising the Library of Congress’ Recommended Format Specifications

Ted Westervelt (Library of Congress) has written a post about the Library of Congress’ new Recommended Format Specifications. These specifications provide resources for libraries and librarians about how to select content that has the greatest chance of long term preservation and access. It is not merely the Library of Congress which might benefit from something like ...

JOB: Center for Humanistic Inquiry (CHI) Fellows, Amherst College

From the announcement:  The Center for Humanistic Inquiry at Amherst College, in its inaugural year, seeks three one-year full-time CHI Fellows from varied disciplines to explore the theme of “Mattering Lives.”  Our theme resonates with urgent ongoing cultural and political conversations about the ways in which lives matter—that is, take on meaning and value—in differing ways.  It also ...

JOB: Digital Scholarship Projects Librarian, Georgia State University

From the announcement:  Georgia State University Library seeks a collegial, entrepreneurial, and hands-on Digital Scholarship Projects Librarian skilled at using technology to support interdisciplinary digital projects in a wide array of subject areas, including but not limited to the digital humanities.  The Digital Scholarship Projects Librarian will be engaged in the exploration of new forms ...

POST: Making Story Games with Twine 2.0

Anastasia Salter (University of Central Florida) has written a post for ProfHacker about creating story games with Twine 2.0 . Salter warns long time Twine users that Twine 2.0 is not backwards compatible, but assures readers that the changes to 2.0 will welcome new users and broaden the community, especially as many of the changes to ...