POST: Open-Access Publishing: What Authors Should Know

In a post at AHA today, Kritika Agarwal (AHA) interviews William Deverell (Huntington-USC Institute on California and the West) about the publication of his new OA monograph Water and Los Angeles: A Tale of Three Rivers, 1900–1941, released in 2016 by the University of California’s Luminos OA imprint. Q. Do you see any clear advantages ...

POST: Zines vs. Google Vision API?—? Part 1: Process

Matt Miller (Pratt Institute) has written a post on Medium entitled “Zines vs. Google Vision API?—? Part 1: Process,” which details the first phase of a project he has begun with digitized zines from the Solidarity! Revolutionary Center and Radical Library. Miller discusses the early steps of the project and walks users through the steps of beginning to ...

CFP: Graphics and Cultural Heritage (GCH)

The 15th EUROGRAPHICS Workshop on Graphics and Cultural Heritage will be held in Graz, Austria, September 27-29, 2017. It aims to foster an international dialogue between ICT experts and CH scientists to advance the understanding of critical requirements for processing, managing, and delivering cultural information to a broad audience. A call for papers is currently open. Submission deadlines ...

JOB: Digital Scholarship & UX Design Librarian, Middlebury College

From the announcement: The Digital Scholarship & UX Design Librarian supports and promotes the use of digital research methods within the library and across academic disciplines. The person in this position applies user-centered, universal design principles to digital projects, library web content and printed materials in a team-based work environment. Under the general direction of ...

JOB: Head Curator, Latin American and Caribbean Collection, University of Florida

From the announcement: The Special and Area Studies Collections Department seeks an experienced leader to provide strategic vision and overall management of a preeminent collection in a dynamic, engaging environment at the University of Florida. The Head Curator of the LACC will contribute to scholarship at the Smathers Libraries in this full-time, tenure-track faculty position. ...

POST: The Realities of Research Data Management

In a post on hangingtogether.org, Brian Lavoie (OCLC) announces the release of “A Tour of the Research Data Management (RDM) Service Space”, the first report in a series entitled “The Realities of Research Data Management” produced by OCLC Research. The series “explores the context and choices research universities face in building or acquiring RDM capacity,” ...

POST: Software Carpentry at the Library of Congress

In a post on The Signal, Kate Zwaard (National Digital Initiative, LOC) reports on the recent Software Carpentry workshop held at the Library of Congress, which hosted 40 “librarians, archivists and data wranglers,” who came together for hands-on learning in the management of digital collections. Software Carpentry is a volunteer, non-profit organization that provides short, ...

POST: Make it Work!: Starting a Makerspace in an Academic Library Phase 2

In a post at the ACRLog, Hannah Pope (Appalachian State University) follows up on the Makerspace opened in her library late last year (and covered in a previous post). In this second phase, Pope suggests a variety of ways for librarians to welcome and attract users into a space they may not quite know what ...

EVENT: BitCurator Users Forum 2017

The BitCurator Users Forum 2017, on the theme of Digital Forensics: The Academic Library and Beyond, will take place April 27 and 28 at Northwestern University. The full program has been released and registration is open. More on the event: Day 1 of the Forum will consist of two workshop tracks focusing on digital forensics ...

EVENT: Digital Humanities Summer Institute: Technologies East

EADH has posted details for the 2017 Digital Humanities Summer Institute: Technologies East (DHSITE),  which will take place May 17-20, 2017, in Ottawa. A joint endeavor of the University of Ottawa and Carleton University, the event features dual keynotes and workshops on a variety of topics: Creative Data: New Media Interdisciplinary Design http://bit.ly/2mp67lq Introduction to ...

JOB: Data Concepts Librarian, College of the Holy Cross

From the announcement: Reporting to the Head of Research, Teaching & Learning, the Data Concepts Librarian will coordinate instructional and learning assessment initiatives within the library, working closely with the Office of Assessment and other pertinent offices. He/she will initiate projects surrounding Research, Teaching and Learning data collection and management, and serve as liaison to ...