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RESOURCE: Finding the Public Domain: The Copyright Review Management System

Oct

27

2016

Ithaka S+R has published “Finding the Public Domain: The Copyright Review Management System,” an issue brief written by Melissa Levine (University of Michigan). Providing an overview to the Copyright Review Management System (CRMS), “a system to train and coordinate reviewers to assess the copyright status of digitized books held in the HathiTrust Digital Library,” the ...

RESOURCE: Institute-wide Task Force on the Future of Libraries

Oct

27

2016

The Massachusetts Institute of Technology released their Institute-wide Task Force On the Future of Libraries report. The task force, comprised of 30 people representing faculty, graduate students, undergraduate students, and staff were divided into three working groups: Community and Relationships, Discovery and Use, and Stewardship and Sustainability. Collectively, they offer a vision for the libraries, “using the ...

JOB: Research Data Curation Metadata Librarian, UC San Diego

Oct

27

2016

From the announcement: The successful candidate for Research Data Curation Metadata Librarian will be a part of the Research Data Curation Program, working integratively with the Digital Object Metadata Management unit within Metadata Services. They will provide consultation services to researchers and other data owners, assisting in analysis of their materials, modeling their collections, advising ...

CFP: Discussion Topics-DLF Digital Pedagogy Interest Group Working Lunch

Oct

27

2016

The DLF Digital Pedagogy Interest Group issued a call for discussion topics for the Working lunch at the DLF Forum on November 8, 2016 from noon-1:30pm. Potential participants can add topics to this Google Document. dh+lib ReviewThis post was produced through a cooperation between Caleb Derven,Rachel DiCresce,Heather Hill, Kathryn Kuntz, Ariadne Rehbein, Samuel Russell, and Ashley ...

POST: Alternate Futures, Usable Pasts

Oct

26

2016

Bethany Nowviskie posted the text of the talk she gave at the Marquette University Digital Scholarship Symposium in September, 2016 where she explores “the temporal orientation of the next generation of digital libraries and digital scholarly projects.” Citing Jarrett Drake’s essay “#Archives for Black Lives: Building Community Archives of Police Violence in Cleveland,” Nowviskie asks, “can we ...

OPPORTUNITY: IMLS National Leadership Grants for Libraries

Aug

4

2016

The Institute of Museum and Library Services released application guidelines for the Fiscal Year 2017 round of National Leadership Grants for Libraries (NLG). These grants “support projects that address significant challenges and opportunities facing the library and archive fields and that have the potential to advance theory and practice. Successful proposals will generate results such as new ...

JOB: Assistant Director for Digital Platforms, University of West Florida, Florida Academic Library Services Cooperative

Aug

4

2016

From the position announcement: This position manages the suite of digital library platforms and services provided by FALSC. Supervises digital platforms staff. Serves as the lead for Islandora development and implementation, and actively engages in the Islandora community on state and national level. Sets strategic direction and oversees projects to ensure that the goals of ...

JOB: Digital Library Developer, Vassar College

Aug

4

2016

From the position announcement: The Vassar College Libraries seek a collaborative, entrepreneurial, and experienced professional for the position of digital library developer. We are looking for a creative problem-solver with a passion for libraries who enjoys the design, development, and implementation of technical solutions that will bring our digital scholarship and library technology services to ...

JOB: Applications Developer, Ohio State University

Aug

4

2016

From the position announcement: The new and innovative University Libraries Research Commons (library.osu.edu/researchcommons) is on a mission to provide services and support to faculty and graduate student researchers at Ohio State. We need a creative, service-oriented developer like you to join our IT team to solve technical problems for researchers in a wide range of ...

PROJECT: College Women

Aug

4

2016

In a post on the National Endowment for the Humanities entitled “History Through the Eyes of College Women,” Mariam Abdullah features College Women, a project of the division of preservation and access. … a searchable collection of diaries, letters, scrapbooks, and photography from the archives of the earliest women’s college in the United States, the Seven ...

POST: A Historian in the Stacks: Finding a Professional Home in the Library

Aug

4

2016

In a post on the AHA Today blog, Annie Johnson (Temple University) discussed her trajectory from history graduate student to library publishing and scholarly communications specialist. I got involved with the DH community in these ways not because I thought it would lead to a job, but because I believed that DH had the potential to ...