JOB: Digital Projects Librarian, Arizona State University

From the position announcement:  The digital projects librarian will help to identify, create, and maintain unique scholarly and general interest collections for the Libraries digital repositories.  He/she must also work on continuously improving customer services, assisting with project documentation, and facilitating change for the ASU Digital Repository, data management assessment and planning, and other repository ...

JOB: Digital Archivist, UCLA

From the position announcement: Reporting to the Head, Center for Primary Research & Training and Digital Initiatives, the Digital Archivist leads and supports LSC efforts to acquire, describe, preserve, and provide access to born-digital special collections material and to facilitate projects and programs that provide digital access to analog holdings. The Digital Archivist works in ...

POST: Making Scanned Content Accessible Using Full-text Search and OCR

Chris Adams (Library of Congress) has written a guest post for The Signal detailing how the library community can affordably meet the challenge of creating metadata for “our terabytes of carefully produced and diligently preserved TIFF files” to promote discovery and engagement. In “Making Scanned Content Accessible Using Full-text Search and OCR,” Adams documents how to get “from scan to search” in four steps. ...

RESOURCE: Interdisciplining Digital Humanities

The University of Michigan Press’s digitalculturebooks imprint has published a new title by Julie Thompson Klein (Wayne State University): Interdisciplining Digital Humanities: Boundary Work in an Emerging Field. The text “explores how digital technologies and new media are changing the nature of research, teaching, and learning in the humanities.” By examining the boundary work of constructing, expanding, and ...

RECOMMENDED: Wrapping up DH 2014, Lausanne (Part 1)

The international Digital Humanities 2014 conference was held last week in Lausanne, Switzerland. Martin Grandjean and Yannick Rochat have created a visualization of the DH2014 network on Twitter; and ADHO has compiled a Storify with an overview of the conference. The full program of abstracts is available online. Dario Rodighiero has distributed his stunning visualization ...

RECOMMENDED: Reproducing the Academy: Librarians and the Question of Service in the Digital Humanities

Roxanne Shirazi (CUNY Graduate Center) has written up a talk delivered as part of a panel sponsored by the Women and Gender Studies Section of the ACRL on “Digital Humanities and Libraries: Power and Privilege, Practice and Theory.” The panel, at the American Library Association Annual Conference in Las Vegas, Nevada, on June 30, 2014, ...

CFParticipation: BitCurator Consortium

The BitCurator Project has announced the foundation of The BitCurator Consortium. With initial funding from Mellon, the BitCurator Project, based at MITH and the University of North Carolina SILS, “has developed, packaged and documented open-source digital forensics tools to allow libraries, archives and museums (LAMs) to extract digital materials from removable media in ways that reflect ...

CFParticipation: HASTAC 2015 Conference

HASTAC announced a call for proposals for their 2015 conference: Exploring the Art & Science of Digital Humanities, to be held May 27-30, 2015 at Michigan State University in East Lansing Michigan: “Join us on the campus of Michigan State University to celebrate and explore the range of Digital Humanities Scholarship, Research, and Performance! We ...

JOB: Deputy Director for Digital Strategies and Information Technology at Free Library of Philadelphia

From the advertisement: The Deputy Director for Digital Strategies and Information Technology is responsible for the planning, development, management, and implementation of customer-centered digital services activities, programs, services and initiatives consistent with the Library’s strategic direction and vision.  He or she will inspire staff to keep abreast of cutting-edge technologies and develop mechanisms for communicating ...

JOB: Digital Preservation Analyst, UC-San Diego

From the announcement: The UC San Diego Library is seeking an experienced digital preservation analyst to play a central role building and maintaining national digital preservation systems, to ensure future generations will have open access to our digital cultural materials. This person will be integral to several important digital preservation enterprises including Chronopolis, the Digital ...

POST: Digital Humanities Librarianship, Year One

Thomas Padilla (Michigan State University) has shared the slides and notes from his presentation for the RUSA History Librarians Discussion group panel that explored the ‘role/s of humanities librarians in the digital humanities.’ Harriett Green (University of Illinois) also presented with Padilla. His talk in part discusses the evolving nature of the Digital Scholarship Collaborative at Michigan State. ...