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RESOURCE: Digital Scholarship and Digital Studies: The State of the Discipline

Oct

30

2014

Sarah Werner (Folger Shakespeare Library) has shared the online pdf of the paper she co-wrote with Matthew Kirschenbaum (MITH) for the journal Book History, titled “Digital Scholarship and Digital Studies: The State of the Discipline.” Reflecting on her blog, Werner writes that: Our review essay, “Digital Scholarship and Digital Studies,” takes as its argument our belief that book historians ...

OPPORTUNITY: iSchool at the University of Illinois Recruiting for PhD Students

Oct

30

2014

Laurie N. Taylor (University of Florida) has shared a recruiting call from the University of Illinois Graduate School of Library and Information Science for “high quality doctoral students who want to design, develop, and evaluate informatics solutions to the grand challenges of the twenty-first century. Admitted candidates typically receive up to 4 years of funding ...

JOB: Digital Liberal Arts Librarian, Hope College

Oct

30

2014

From the announcement: “The Digital Liberal Arts Librarian position is designed to enhance the liberal arts at Hope College by empowering faculty, librarians, and students to make full and better use of the digital technologies that are reshaping pedagogical approaches and transforming research throughout the liberal arts. This position is designed to allow the library ...

CFParticipation: DLF Program Planning Committee

Oct

30

2014

The Digital Library Federation (DLF) shared a call to encourage “members of our community, and those involved in the greater digital library community, to participate in the planning of the 2015 DLF Forum.” Participation requires monthly and then bi-weekly planning phone calls starting in December 2014. Planning Committee members are also expected to attend the ...

JOB: Digital Initiatives Librarian, University of South Alabama

Oct

29

2014

From the announcement: The Digital Initiatives Librarian will work with the Marx Library Head of Reference & Instruction and the Director of the Doy Leale McCall Rare Book and Manuscript Library to manage existing locally held digital content and to identify and develop prospective digital projects. Because the USA Libraries are new to locally managing ...

JOB: Tribal Digital Archives Curriculum Coordinator, Washington State University Libraries

Oct

2

2014

From the position announcement: This position will assist in the development, coordination and promotion of a fifteen month curriculum focused on emphasizing the lifecycle of digital preservation and access with specific attention to tribal needs and relevant issues. Reports to the Head of Digital Scholarship and Curation (DSC). DSC is a new unit within the ...

RESOURCE: Crowdsourcing our Cultural Heritage

Oct

2

2014

Mia Ridge (Open University) announced that her edited volume, Crowdsourcing our Cultural Heritage is now available for purchase. “Crowdsourcing, or asking the general public to help contribute to shared goals, is increasingly popular in memory institutions as a tool for digitising or computing vast amounts of data. This book brings together for the first time the collected ...

POST: Evaluating Non-Traditional Digital Humanities Dissertations

Oct

2

2014

Amanda Visconti (MITH) has written a post about how to “chart progress and record effort through the non-traditional dissertation.” She notes, Having a unique format scrubs a lot of the traditional methods for evaluating these factors: maybe there’s no “chapter” to turn in, or you’ve undertaken a critical building project in a programming language your committee ...

POST: We Have Never Been Digital

Oct

2

2014

Geoffrey Rockwell (University of Alberta) has written a post responding to Thomas Haigh’s reflection “on the intersection of computing and the humanities,” concluding that “we have never been and never will be entirely digital.” Rockwell explores the implications of this on digital humanities and whether the discipline can evolve to meet new scholarly demands. Citing Haigh: “There ...

JOB: Programmer & Born Digital Processor, Radcliffe Institute

Oct

2

2014

From the position announcement: The Programmer and Born Digital Processor has responsibility for developing technical strategies and workflows for arranging, describing, and delivering born digital records. Acts as liaison to library teams, providing technical instruction, and arranges and describes born-digital and AV collections. Uses open source code to create or maintain online delivery platforms for ...

CFParticipation: The Collective, a New Conference Concept

Aug

11

2014

The Library Collective is a two-day conference that will take place February 19-20, 2015, in Knoxville, Tennessee, and explore the theme “libraries as curators and creators.” Aimed at “library stakeholders” and “next-generation librarians,” the conference’s goals are “learning, networking, and kickstarting new ideas.” The Library Collective, chaired by Ashley Maynor and Corey Halaychik (both University of Tennessee, ...