JOB: Ivy Plus Web Resources Collection Librarian, Columbia University Libraries

From the announcement: Columbia University Libraries is seeking an experienced information professional to build, maintain and promote a collaborative web resources collection program supporting the Ivy Plus partnership of academic research libraries. Since starting exploratory web archiving activity in 2008, Columbia has established a permanent web resources collection program and built rich thematic web archives ...

JOB: Program Assistant, Digital Public Library of America

From the announcement: The Digital Public Library of America seeks an energetic Program Assistant to help support activities across the organization. Duties include logistics, communication, and project support. This is an entry-level position that will serve an important role across the institution. At DPLA, we work as a team and all staff have the chance ...

JOB: Digital Humanities Analyst, University of Exeter

From the announcement: In order to support a growing portfolio of grant-funded research projects with digital outputs, the College is looking for an analyst to join Exeter’s Digital Humanities team. The successful applicant will collaborate with other analysts, developers and academic staff to deliver innovative and sustainable digital outputs. You will join a small team ...

POST: Police-Worn Body Camera Footage: A Public Record?

In a two–part series on the Society of American Archivists’ (SAA) Issues and Advocacy Roundtable blog, Rachel Mattson (Archives of La MaMa Experimental Theatre Club) addresses a contemporary debate surrounding police-worn body camera footage. Body-worn cameras (BWCs for short) began raising a range of legal and archival questions that municipalities and police departments were woefully ...

RESOURCE: The Printing Press as Metaphor

Digital Humanities Quarterly has released a preview version of Elyse Graham’s (SUNY Stony Brook) article “The Printing Press as Metaphor,” which examines the popular use of historical technologies of print as metaphors for making sense of our changing media and information landscape. Situating an examination of this rhetoric within a larger discussion of the market ...

RESOURCE: Lexington’s Early Marriage Indexes of African Americans Available Online

The University of Kentucky News points to the release of a new digital collection developed in partnership with the University of Kentucky Libraries’ Special Collections Research Center and the Fayette County Clerk’s Office. The project provides “access to the Colored Marriage Indexes dated 1866-1882 and 1958-1968. The purpose of the project is to provide researchers with ...

CFP: 17th ACM/IEEE-CS Joint Conference on Digital Libraries (JCDL)

The Association for Computing Machinery / IEEE Computer Society Joint Conference on Digital Libraries has issued a call for papers for their 2017 conference, to be held June 19-23, 2017, in Toronto. From the call: The field of digital libraries has undergone dramatic changes as digital collections grow in scale and diversity. These changes call ...

JOB: Process Manager, Digital Scholarship in the Humanities, KU Leuven University Library

From the announcement: As process manager ‘Digital Scholarship in the Humanities’, you are dedicated to supporting faculty and student use of digital information and computer-based methods to achieve research, teaching and learning goals. You are responsible for the support of digital projects initiated by researchers and teaching staff in the Arts and Humanities. You collaborate ...

JOB: Digital Curation Librarian, Fort Hays State University

From the announcement: Job Description: Forsyth Library, Fort Hays State University (FHSU) seeks a creative and service-oriented colleague to build, curate, and promote the library’s unique digital collections and to partner with others across campus in a variety of academic digital initiatives. The Digital Curation Librarian will work closely with colleagues from the library, the ...

JOB: Assistant Manager for Audio and Moving Image Preservation at NYPL

From the announcement: The New York Public Library audio and moving image preservation program safeguards the audio, video, and film research collection holdings through physical treatment and reformatting. In response to a recent Mellon-funded assessment, the Library is moving forward with an ambitious plan to digitize and preserve its critically at-risk media holdings over the ...

RECOMMENDED: Trans-ing History on the Web: The Digital Transgender Archive

In a post on AHA Today, Sadie Bergen (American Historical Association) discusses the Digital Transgender Archive (DTA) with K.J. Rawson (College of the Holy Cross, DTA). The DTA was established to enable researchers to locate and make use of transgender-related materials in digital and physical collections. The DTA, which continues to grow, currently contains some ...