EVENT: Digital Initiatives Symposium at U. San Diego – Registration Open

Registration is now open for the Sixth Annual Digital Initiatives Symposium at the University of San Diego’s Copley Library on April 29-30, 2019. This year’s symposium features six pre-conference workshops, including: Collections as Data: Digital Collections for Emerging Research Methods, Text Mining with HathiTrust: Empowering Librarians to Support Digital Scholarship Research, and Metadata for Digital ...

EVENT: Digital Pedagogy Lab – Registration Open

Digital Pedagogy Lab will once again host its annual week-long event at the University of Mary Washington from August 5-9, 2019. The event features a cohort of faculty and keynotes from the US, Canada, the UK, and Europe. The event includes a weekend intensive: Camp Critical Pedagogy. Ruha Benjamin, Associate Professor of African American Studies, ...

CFP: Workshop on Digital Humanities to Preserve Knowledge and Cultural Heritage

Stanford University and the Université de Lille (France) invite submissions for “Digital humanities to Preserve Knowledge and Cultural Heritage: Collaborate, Compute, Share, and Visualize,” a workshop at the Center for Spatial and Textual Analysis (CESTA), Stanford University, on Monday, April 15, 2019. From the call: As Digital Humanities continue to gain momentum, the field is ...

JOB: Digital Program Librarian, Syracuse University

From the announcement: Reporting to the Associate Dean of Research and Scholarship, the Head of the Digital Library Program (DLP) works with the Digital Library Core Team, Libraries’ administration, and relevant senior departmental managers to establish the vision, set strategic goals, and identify projects and priorities for the Digital Library Program. The Head of the ...

JOB: Assistant Research Scholar: Digital Initiatives, New York University, Division of Libraries

From the announcement: The Library of the Institute for the Study of the Ancient World (ISAW) at New York University seeks an Assistant Research Scholar to help develop, implement, and extend its digital projects and to participate in the scholarly life of the ISAW community. A key component of the ISAW Library’s mission is to ...

“Peripheries, Barriers, Hierarchies”: Toward a Praxis of Critical Librarianship and Digital Humanities

Academic libraries have engaged increasingly in both critical librarianship and critical pedagogy, calling, for example, for “a more critical praxis for ILI [information literacy integration],” (Baer) and exploring the intersections between critical information literacy and scholarly communications (Roh). The digital humanities sit at the nexus of these various conversations, as DHers—librarians and non-librarians—cast a critical ...