RESOURCE: Starting and Sustaining DH Centers

This past week, centerNet announced a new initiative around starting and sustaining DH Centers. A resources page, featuring “talks, articles, sample DH proposals, and other sources of information about ways to start and sustain DH centers,” has been added to the centerNet website. Additionally, a new centerNet listserv has been launched around the topic: DHCenterStartUp. ...

CFP: Digital Humanities Forum, Return to the Material, University of Kansas

The Institute for Digital Research in the Humanities at the University of Kansas has issued a CFP for their 2013 Digital Humanities Forum: Return to the Material. From the CFP: We welcome proposals for 20-minute papers, posters or panel sessions on topics from your own research that focus on the relationship between the digital and ...

CFP: What is Diplomatics in the Digital Environment?

The organizers of Digital Diplomatics 2013 have issued a call for papers for the conference taking place at the Archives Nationales de France, November 14-16, 2013. Following the two conferences on Digital Diplomatics that took place in 2007 in Munich and 2011 in Naples, this conference has the goal to further the scholarly reflection on the way ...

CFP: Responding to JLA’s DH in Libraries– Deadline Extended

dh+lib has received some excellent proposals in response to our call to address the recent Journal of Library Administration special issue dedicated to DH and Libraries. By request, we’ve extended the deadline to allow submissions through Friday, March 15, 2013. We’re looking for: 500-1500 word posts, to be featured on dh+lib, responding to the overall issue ...

CFParticipation: THATCamp ACRL 2013

It’s a THATCamp at ACRL – need we say more? Ok, a few words – THATCamps are informal, collaborative, productive, and spontaneous. This particular one will be held on Friday, April 12 from 8am-5pm, which is during ACRL – i.e. not a preconference. This is an excellent way to get involved in the dh+lib community, ...

CFP: Responding to JLA’s DH in Libraries

The editors of dh+lib would like to invite submissions in response to the recent special issue of the Journal of Library Administration. As noted earlier on dh+lib, JLA devoted its first issue of 2013 to DH in libraries. Digital Humanities in Libraries: New Models for Scholarly Engagement features six articles that address both the theoretical ...

CFP: ACRL Preconferences at 2014 ALA Annual Conference

ACRL is looking for applications for half-day or full-day preconferences for the 2014 ALA Annual Conference in Las Vegas, Nevada. ACRL is looking for programs that focus on interactive learning using a variety of presentation styles and offer practical tips. Deadline is March 27, 2013. Who’s doing the session on DH and libraries? This post ...

CFP: Composing In/With/Through Archives: An Open-Access, Born Digital Edited Collection

The Cultural Heritage Informatics Initiative at Michigan State University invites essays (8000 words) and case studies (3000 words) for a digital, OA edition that will examine, among other topics: How are we theorizing digital archives? How are we drawing from the work of digital archivists as we build our own archives and conduct digital archival ...

CFP: Day of DH 2013

Day of DH 2013 is April 8. The project brings together scholars interested in the digital humanities from around the world to document what they do on one day, answering the question, “Just what do digital humanists really do?” We’d love to see a strong turnout from librarians! The process is simple: before April 8, ...

RESOURCE: The Lib Pub blog

Lib Pub, a new group blog on library publishing, launched in January 2013. As blog founder Melanie Schlosser, the Digital Publishing Librarian at Ohio State University Libraries, writes in an introductory post: “Publishing efforts in libraries are becoming more and more common, but there aren’t yet a lot of venues for those involved to come ...

CFP: Digital Frontiers 2013

The University of North Texas Digital Scholarship Co-Operative invites proposals for Digital Frontiers 2013 (September 19-21), a conference that brings together the users and builders of digital resources for research and education. They seek submissions of individual papers, fully-constituted panels, birds-of-a-feather discussions, hands-on tutorials, or posters–all based on the use of digital archives, social media, ...