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JOB: Digital Scholarship Technologist, Florida State University

Jan

26

2017

From the announcement: Reporting to the Director of Digital Scholarship, this position will support applications and tools for incoming and ongoing research projects and pedagogical initiatives. As part of the newly established Office of Digital Research and Scholarship (DRS), the candidate will integrate with a productive and innovative team of librarians, archivists, and developers to ...

JOB: Open Publishing Librarian, Syracuse University

Jan

26

2017

From the announcement: This position leads the Libraries’ open publishing services for the University community. The position develops, champions, and assesses business models for open publishing, broad technical requirements, partnerships, strategy, and necessary policies and procedures. The position helps the Libraries serve the University not only as its principal buyer and lessor of scholarship, but ...

JOB: Data Services Librarian, UC Berkeley

Jan

26

2017

From the announcement: The Data Services Librarian develops, leads, and assesses an innovative outreach and service program to increase data and statistical literacy within the Library and across the curriculum. Reporting to the Head of the Library’s Social Sciences Division, the incumbent provides leadership for campus and library initiatives supporting data and digital scholarship, and ...

POST: Uncovering Activism and Engaging Students: The Colored Conventions Project

Dec

15

2016

John Rosinbum has written a post for AHA Today, the blog of the American Historical Association, discussing the ways he incorporates the Colored Conventions Project in his classroom teaching. “Uncovering Activism and Engaging Students,” which is part of a series on teaching with digital history, introduces the CCP and includes a sample assignment. Rosinbum explains: ...

POST: The Right to Be Forgotten

Dec

15

2016

Geoffry Rockwell (University of Alberta) has pointed to an essay from Cheryl Trepanier and Toni Samek (both also at the University of Alberta) that introduces recent approaches to the “right to be forgotten” debate with regard to the role of libraries. Trepanier and Samek note that as a profession librarians advocate for access to information ...

CFParticipation: Model Publishing Contract for Digital Scholarship

Dec

15

2016

Lisa Macklin (Emory University) and Meredith Kahn (University of Michigan) invite comments on drafts created through the “Model Publishing Contract for Digital Scholarship” project: With the generous support of the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, Emory University and the University of Michigan seek to develop a model author-publisher contract and relevant addenda optimized for the publication ...

CFP: Diverse, Inclusive, and Equitable Metadata (ALCTS)

Dec

15

2016

Laurie N. Taylor has shared a call for proposals on the topic of “Diverse, Inclusive, and Equitable Metadata” from the Metadata Interest Group of the Association for Library Collections and Technical Services (ALCTS), to be presented in a virtual preconference leading up to ALA Annual. The full CFP is reproduced below: How are metadata creators ...

JOB: Head of the Digital Library Program, UCLA

Dec

15

2016

From the announcement: Reporting to the Associate University Librarian (AUL) for Research and Development, the Head of the Digital Library Program works with the Digital Library Architect and other senior departmental managers to establish the vision, set strategic goals and identify projects and priorities for the Digital Library Program. The Head of the Digital Library ...

JOB: Digital Scholarship Coordinator, University of Houston

Dec

15

2016

From the announcement: Reporting to Head of Digital Research Services, the coordinator will partner with colleagues and units within the Libraries to advance digital research services and activities, including: providing services to publish, archive, and make accessible research data and scholarship; marketing UH Libraries’ digital scholarship expertise; and collaborating with Libraries’ stakeholders to enhance programming ...

JOB: Digital Humanities Librarian, UC Santa Cruz

Dec

15

2016

From the announcement: Reporting to the Director of the Digital Scholarship Commons, the Digital Humanities Librarian will be a self-directed, production-oriented individual who will work to increase and support the growing demand for digital humanities expertise on campus. Working with scholars in the Humanities, Social Sciences, and Arts divisions, the Digital Humanities Librarian will collaborate ...

POST: Libraries, Technology, and Social Justice

Oct

13

2016

Chris Bourg (MIT Libraries) has posted the text of her Access 2016 talk, “Libraries, Technology, and Social Justice,” in which she takes on the notion of library neutrality and imagines what a social justice agenda would look like in academic libraries. Drawing on the work of scholars such as Safiya Noble and Sapna Cheryan as ...