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JOB: Digital Collections Librarian, Texas State University

Mar

9

2017

From the announcement: The Albert B. Alkek Library at Texas State University is seeking a Digital Collections Librarian. Reporting to the Head of Digital and Web Services, the Digital Collections Librarian will provide daily management and oversight of the university’s institutional repository, data repository and assistance with metadata on digital projects. The library at Texas ...

RECOMMENDED: DLF Fellow Reflections

Feb

16

2017

The Digital Library Federation has been publishing reports from its 2016 Fellows. This round-up covers posts reflecting on Fellows’ recent attendance at the DLF forum last November in Milwaukee. This week, Stacy Williams (USC) published a post reflecting on her experience on attending DLF 2016: I attended DLF 2016 for the first time during what ...

POST: Map Games and Odyssey Jam

Feb

16

2017

Stella Wisdom and Gary Green (both British Library) have written a post on the British Library Digital Scholarship blog reporting on the Map Games and Odyssey Jam programming they undertook as a part of the library’s recent Late at the Library: You are here! event. The post provides details on the wide variety of map-concerned tabletop and digital ...

POST: IEEE Big Data Conference 2016: Computational Archival Science

Feb

16

2017

Meredith Claire Broadway (World Bank) has written a post for the Library of Congress blog, The Signal, reporting on the IEEE Conference on Big Data 2016, focusing specifically on Computational Archival Science (CAS). The assembly agreed that CAS differs enough from the traditional Library and Information Science and Archival tracks, in both the United States and ...

RESOURCE: No Scholar Is an Island: The Impact of Sharing in the Work Life of Scholars

Feb

16

2017

The latest issue of Learned Publishing features an article by Carol Tenopir, Suzie Allard, Lisa Christian, Robert Anderson, Suzan Ali-Saleh (all University of Tennesee), Dave Nicholas, Anthony Watkinson(both CIBER Researdh Ltd.), and Hazel Woodward (Informatuion Power Ltd.) entitled “No scholar is an island: The impact of sharing in the work life of scholars.” From the ...

CFP: First 3 Chapters of Theory and Craft of Digital Preservation for Comment

Feb

16

2017

Trevor Owens (IMLS) has released a call for comments to the first three chapters of the book he’s writing for Johns Hopkins University Press, Theory & Craft of Digital Preservation. At this point I have a full working rough draft of the book together and I’m getting to a point where it could really benefit from readers ...

CFP: Innovations in Digital Humanities Pedagogy: Local, National, & International Training

Feb

16

2017

From the call: A mini-conference and member meeting sponsored by the International Digital Humanities Training Network / ADHO Training Group 8 August 2017 @ Digital Humanities 2017, Montreal CA Applications Due: 15 February 2017 Acceptance Notification: 15 March 2017 Context: Only recently have the digital humanities begun to take firm root in the humanities curriculum, with institutions around ...

JOB: Digital Content Development Manager, California Digital Library

Feb

16

2017

From the announcement: The California Digital Library seeks a dynamic, forward-looking digital library professional as its next Manager of Digital Content Development and Strategy. Working in a highly collaborative environment, this position is responsible for cultivating new opportunities and partnerships in shared digital collection development and web archiving across the ten campuses of the University ...

We’re Looking for dh+lib Review Editors-at-Large for Spring 2017

Nov

28

2016

The dh+lib Review, a volunteer-driven service for highlighting and sharing the best of digital humanities and libraries, is looking for editors-at-large for Spring 2017. Sign up for a shift today! dh+lib Review posts appear on the dh+lib homepage, in a weekly newsletter sent to the ACRL Digital Humanities Interest Group listserv, and in our Twitter ...

RESOURCE: Growing Pains and Growing Pleasures in Digital History: Announcing the November Issue of Perspectives

Nov

10

2016

A post at AHA Today announces the release of the latest issue of Perspectives, which takes on the topic “Doing History in the Digital Age.” …we’ve assembled a group of articles that do not issue the “go digital or else” imperatives that rightly ruffle many in our community—they explore possibilities and complications of the digital ...

PROJECT: Early African American Film: Reconstructing the History of Silent Race Films, 1909-1930

Nov

10

2016

A story at the UCLA Daily Bruin details the development and release of Early African American Film: Reconstructing the History of Silent Race Films, 1909-1930. Seven digital humanities students found 759 entertainment industry professionals involved in early silent race films and compiled them into a centralized database for the first time. The students, as well ...