The Digital Humanities 2015 conference, to be held June 29 – July 3, 2015, in Sydney, Australia, is accepting proposals. Session types include: posters (abstract maximum 750 words); short papers (abstract maximum 1500 words); long papers (abstract maximum 1500 words); multiple paper sessions, including panels (regular abstracts + approximately 500-word overview); and pre-conference workshops and ...

The Library Publishing Coalition is accepting proposals for the second Library Publishing Forum, to be held March 29 – 30, 2015, in Portland, Oregon. The Coalition welcomes  individual papers/presentations, posters, full panels (3-5 speakers), birds of a feather discussions, lightning panels (5-8 speakers), and workshops on the theme: “Creating and Supporting Sustainable Publishing Programs.” The ...

The American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS) is accepting applications for Digital Innovation Fellowships. The program seeks to “provide [PhD holding] scholars the means to pursue intellectually significant projects…that help advance digital humanistic scholarship by broadening understanding of its nature and exemplifying the robust infrastructure necessary for creating such works.” Fellows should plan to complete their ...

The Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) is accepting preliminary proposals for National Leadership Grants for Libraries (NLG-Libraries). The IMLS is offering informational webinars for groups interested in learning more about the application process; webinars will be held August 20 at 3:00pm and September 16 at 3:00pm ET. The three strategic priorities of the grant are: ...

The Library Collective is a two-day conference that will take place February 19-20, 2015, in Knoxville, Tennessee, and explore the theme “libraries as curators and creators.” Aimed at “library stakeholders” and “next-generation librarians,” the conference’s goals are “learning, networking, and kickstarting new ideas.” The Library Collective, chaired by Ashley Maynor and Corey Halaychik (both University of Tennessee, ...

A new section of the Mediacommons project known as #alt-academy is dedicated to “Graduate Training in the 21st Century.” Edited by Melissa Dalgleish (York University) and Daniel Powell (University of Victoria), the first “cluster” is exploring “how the prototypical graduate project in the humanities—the dissertation—is changing in the face of the digital turn, shifting job markets, and ...

Two conferences scheduled for this Fall have recently opened registration, with registration costs aimed at encouraging attendance by early career professionals and students. Digital Humanities Forum 2014: Nodes & Networks in the Humanities: Geometries, Relationships, Processes To be held September 12-13, 2014 in Lawrence, Kansas, including keynotes by Isabel Meirelles (Northeastern University), Steven Jones (Loyola University ...

LITA is accepting proposals for preconference workshops for the ALA Midwinter conference, to be held January 30 – February 3, 2015, in Chicago (the workshops will be held on January 30). Presenters do not need to be LITA members to apply. Proposals should include a 75-word description of the program, and are due August 4, 2014. ...

The BitCurator Project has announced the foundation of The BitCurator Consortium. With initial funding from Mellon, the BitCurator Project, based at MITH and the University of North Carolina SILS, “has developed, packaged and documented open-source digital forensics tools to allow libraries, archives and museums (LAMs) to extract digital materials from removable media in ways that reflect ...