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CFP: ACRL 2017 TechConect Submissions due October 14

Sep

8

2016

From the announcement: ACRL 2017’s TechConnect committee is seeking 20-minute presentations for a session at the ACRL 2017 conference on March 22-25, 2017, in Baltimore, MD. We are interested in presentations that go beyond the technology show-and-tell format, from all sectors of library practice, from presenters who would like to speak and think critically about ...

CFP: IIPC 2017 Web Archiving Conference, Lisbon 29-30 March 2017

Sep

8

2016

From the announcement: Web archiving efforts have now been underway for over twenty years, generating an expanding core of data crucial for present and future explorations of human political, cultural, economic and social activity since the mid 1990s. Practices around both the creation and use of web archives are rapidly evolving. What technical, ethical, and ...

JOB: Grand Challenges Data Administrator, University of California, Los Angeles

Sep

8

2016

From the announcement: As part of UCLA’s Centennial, the University announced a series of Grand Challenges: ambitious research projects that connect hundreds of faculty, students, community members and leading experts across every field to solve society’s toughest problems. These Grand Challenges are the biggest, most collaborative, and potentially most transformative efforts UCLA has undertaken to ...

JOB: Academic Technology Librarian, North Carolina State University

Sep

8

2016

From the announcement: The NCSU Libraries invites applications and nominations for the position of Academic Technology Librarian. The Information Technology Department includes 22 staff across four units: Technology Services; Enterprise Operations; Academic Technology; and Discovery Systems and Applications. The department is critical to the Libraries’ success in charting a new path for research libraries, with ...

JOB: Digital Humanities Developer, Columbia University Libraries

Sep

8

2016

From the announcement: Columbia University Libraries seeks a collegial, collaborative, and creative Digital Humanities Developer to join our Libraries IT staff. The Digital Humanities Developer will provide technology support for digital humanities-focused projects by evaluating, implementing and managing relevant platforms and applications; the Developer will also analyze, transform and/or convert existing humanities-related data sets for ...

POST: Looking for Open Digital Collections

Jul

28

2016

In a post entitled “looking for open digital collections,” Sarah Werner (@wynkenhimself) returns to the problem of digital access to special collections, to detail the complexities of locating and working with digital images from the collections of libraries, archives, and museums. What I need for my work are images able to be freely used, whether because they ...

POST: Co-Hosting a Datathon at the Library of Congress

Jul

28

2016

In a post on the The Signal, Jaime Mears (Library of Congress) reflects on the June 2016 Archives Unleashed 2.0: Web Archive Datathon. With support from the National Science Foundation, Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada, the Internet Archive, Rutgers University, and the University of Waterloo, the workshop presented “an opportunity to collaboratively unleash our ...

RESOURCE: Digital Humanities and Digital Media: Conversations on Politics, Culture, Aesthetics and Literacy

Jul

28

2016

Earlier this month, Open Humanities Press released the new volume Digital Humanities and Digital Media: Conversations on Politics, Culture, Aesthetics and Literacy, edited by Roberto Simanowski. The observations shared in this book take the form of conversations about digital media and culture centered around four distinct thematic fields: politics and government, algorithm and censorship, art ...

CFP: ‘Lives of Data’ Workshop

Jul

28

2016

From the call for the Lives of Data Workshop, to be held January 6-7, 2017, at the Centre for the Study of Developing Societies in Delhi : The key questions which the workshop will explore are: What is data? How is it imagined, collected, archived, developed, scraped, parsed, mined, cleaned, used, interpreted, re-produced, circulated and deleted? How ...

CFP: LITA @ ALA Annual 2017

Jul

28

2016

From the call: The LITA Program Planning Committee (PPC) is now accepting innovative and creative proposals for the 2017 Annual American Library Association Conference. We’re looking for full or half day pre-conference ideas as well as 60- and 90-minute conference presentations. The focus should be on technology in libraries, whether that’s use of, new ideas ...

JOB: Digital Production Editor, New York University Libraries

Jul

28

2016

From the announcement: This position will work on a grant-funded project to create richly tagged online publications. Reporting to the project manager for the Enhanced Networked Monographs project, this position will have several components: work with a software developer and the project team to refine a set of terms from a large set of digital ...