OPPORTUNITY: Humanities Intensive Learning & Teaching Institute

Registration is open for the 2016 slate of Humanities Intensive Learning & Teaching Institute offerings. This year’s program takes place at Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis from Monday, June 13 to Thursday, June 16th. Courses include: Building and Sustaining Digital Humanities Centers Digital Pedagogy and Networked Learning Getting Started with Data, Tools, and Platforms Humanities Making Humanities Programming ...

JOB: Technology Initiatives Coordinator, Triangle Research Libraries Network

From the announcement: The Triangle Research Libraries Network (TRLN) seeks a collaborative, tech-savvy, and highly motivated individual to join our team as a Technology Initiatives Coordinator. A newly-envisioned position, the TRLN Technology Initiatives Coordinator will work closely with talented librarians, technologists, and developers across four academic institutions to lead the development of a variety of ...

JOB: Digital Initiatives Librarian, University of Toronto Libraries

From the announcement: The University of Toronto Libraries seeks a highly organized, flexible, and creative professional librarian to work in the Information Technology Services Department. Reporting to the Director, ITS, the Digital Initiatives librarian is responsible for the support and continued development of innovative local digital scholarly projects and collections that support the teaching and ...

JOB: Digital Humanities Librarian, San Diego State University

From the announcement: San Diego State University Library & Information Access seeks applications and nominations of dynamic, innovative, and service-oriented candidates for the position of Digital Humanities Librarian. This is an exciting opportunity for a forward-thinking individual to collaborate with SDSU’s Digital Humanities Initiative to envision and develop digital scholarship services at SDSU. This position ...

JOB: Digital Services Coordinator, Loyola Notre Dame Library

From the announcement: The Loyola Notre Dame Library seeks a dynamic, innovative and experienced individual to provide leadership to support digital and technology services. The Digital Services Coordinator will coordinate and support digital and technology services that support research, teaching and learning programs in the Library. The successful candidate will communicate effectively and work collaboratively with units throughout ...

JOB: Solutions Architect, University of Michigan Library

From the announcement: The University of Michigan Library is seeking a talented and experienced Solutions Architect to join the Library Information Technology (IT) division in designing, engineering, and building solutions for enterprise architecture, technology infrastructure, and large-scale application integration for the U-M Library. The successful candidate will first focus on the large-scale implementation of a ...

POST: Using Networks to Re-think Periodization

In a blog post at Modeling Literary History, entitled “Using Networks to Re-think Periodization,” Michael Gavin (University of South Carolina) considers the challenge of communicating more than the mere scope of a dataset with large-scale network visualizations, in this case using EEBO-TCP (Early English Books Online, Text Creation Partnership) data. After identifying and highlighting dense ...

POST: The Facilitated Collection

In a recent blog post on “The Facilitated Collection,” Lorcan Dempsey (OCLC) builds on OCLC’s previous work on networked collections with a consideration of the emergence of “the facilitated collection.” Defined as “a coordinated mix of local, external and collaborative services assembled around user needs,” this type of collection is necessarily organized around network logic rather that print logic. Dempsey points to ...

EVENT: Planning a Digital Scholarship Center: Registration Open

Registration is now open for the The Coalition for Networked Information’s “Planning a Digital Scholarship Center,” a two-day workshop to be held May 17-18, 2016, in Arlington, VA. The workshop is focused on institutions in the early stages of planning digital scholarship services “that will help institutions make informed choices that address institutional needs and ...

CFP: Manuscript Studies: A New Journal from the Schoenberg Institute

The Schoenberg Institute for Manuscript Studies has announced the creation of a new journal, Manuscript Studies, which aims to embrace “the full complexity of global manuscript studies in the digital age.” The journal is designed to approach four goals: First, to bridge the gaps between material and digital manuscript research; second, to break down the walls ...

JOB: Digital Services Coordinator DePaul University

From the announcement: Reporting to the Associate University Librarian for Information Technology and Discovery Services, the  Coordinator of Digital Services provides broad oversight and leadership for the Library’s overall Web presence and related digital access platforms and services; works collaboratively with Library colleagues, university stakeholders, and consortial partners to facilitate teaching, learning, scholarly publishing, and ...