JOB: Web Archivist for ArchiveIt, Internet Archive

From the announcement: The Internet Archive is seeking a Web Archivist for ArchiveIt. Come help us help others save the web! Archive­It is a web archiving service first launched in 2006 that enables our 350+ library and archive partners to capture, manage, preserve, and provide access to the highest quality content from the web. As ...

PROJECT: ‘A Shaky Truce’: Starkville Civil Rights Struggles, 1960-1980

The Mississippi State University History Department and Libraries have launched a digital history project entitled ‘A Shaky Truce’: Starkville Civil Rights Struggles, 1960-1980. Developed by a cross-disciplinary team of faculty, librarians, graduate and undergraduate students, the project documents two decades of civil rights struggles in Starkville, MS. The purpose of this project is to tell a ...

POST: Opportunities Created by Emerging Technologies

Katina Rogers (The Futures Initiative, Graduate Center, CUNY) has posted her position paper for an upcoming Council of Graduate Schools workshop on the future of the dissertation. In it, she links the changes and challenges afoot for dissertations with those facing the greater landscape of scholarship and scholarly publishing. The same questions of values, methods, and ...

POST: Agile Development: Building an Agile Culture

Leo Stezano (Columbia University Libraries) wrote a post for the LITA Blog entitled Agile Development: Building an Agile Culture. In the post, Stezano outlines some tips for fostering a successful agile development shop in a library setting. Additionally, he provides links for further reading on agile development teams and the broader discussion of institutional culture issues ...

RESOURCE: ARL Fall Forum Overview and Roundup

Liz Hamilton (Northwestern University), the recipient of the inaugural Julia C. Blixrud Scholarship, has written an overview of the 2015 ARL Fall Forum on Research Partnerships in Digital Scholarship for the Humanities and Social Sciences. In the overview, Hamilton provides highlights (and links to materials) from the speakers’ presentations, including Tara McPherson’s Julia C. Blixrud ...

JOB: Digitization and Metadata Specialist, Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum

From the announcement: The Digitization and Metadata Specialist will digitize collections and enter metadata of Collection into Country Music Foundation’s digital asset management system, to include cataloging and migration of existing digitized collections. Properly handle fragile and rare archival materials. Role Summary: Digitization of project specific video, audio, print and photo collections Migration of existing ...

JOB: Digital Programs and Initiatives Manager, University of Maryland Libraries

From the announcement: The Digital Programs and Initiatives (DPI) Manager is responsible for providing visionary leadership and oversight for the Digital Programs and Initiatives department. The DPI Manager initiates and is the first point of contact for all new digital projects and digital initiatives, and works with both internal and external project stakeholders to develop ...

JOB: Digital Humanities Developer, Carnegie Mellon University

From the announcement: The Developer would work alongside researchers from Dietrich and elsewhere to plan and implement digital humanities projects, from statistical analyses of millions of legal documents to websites that crowdsource grammars of endangered languages. Located in the the Office of The Dean under CMU’s Digital Humanities Specialist, the developer will help start up ...

JOB: Digital Library Applications Administrator, Smith College

From the announcement: Administer digital library applications used by faculty, staff, and students, such as web content management, digital collection repositories, and archives information management and other tools used in support of teaching and learning with library content and services. Consult with content and technology specialists in the Libraries, Information Technology Services and other campus ...

POST: The World As Seen Through Books: An Interview with Kalev Hannes Leetaru

Erin Engle (Library of Congress) has posted an interview with Kalev Hannes Leetaru (George Washington University Center for Cyber and Homeland Security) at the Signal Digital Preservation blog, detailing research he recently completed comparing the Internet Archive, HathiTrust, and Google Books Ngrams Collections. Kalev: … To explore this further, with the assistance of Google, Clemson University, the Internet ...

CFP: Debates in the Digital Humanities 2017

Matthew K. Gold (City University of New York) and Lauren Klein (Georgia Tech), editors of Debates in the Digital Humanities 2017, have released a call for proposals . Suggested topics of particular interest to those working in libraries, archives, and museum include: DH, diversity, and difference. How should DH account for diversity and difference–in terms ...