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CFP: Current Research in Digital History 2019

Sep

6

2018

The Roy Rosenzweig Center for History and New Media has released a call for papers for the Current Research in Digital History conference, to be held at George Mason University in Arlington, Virginia on March 9, 2019. Following the event, “presentations will be peer-reviewed and published in an online publication that accommodates dynamic visualizations and narrative.” Successful ...

CFP: Terms of Service: Affective Labor and Alt-Ac Careers

Sep

6

2018

Editor Lee Skallerup Bessette (Georgetown University) has issued a call for submissions for a collection of short essays entitled, Terms of Service: Affective Labor and Alt-Ac Careers, which will be released by the University of Kansas Press. This collection seeks to focus on “the experience of those who have chosen alt-ac careers (aka ‘staff’)”: Librarians are ...

CFP: Collections as Data: Part to Whole

Sep

6

2018

The Collections as Data team have issued a call for proposals for project teams to “further develop approaches to integrating and sustaining collections as data implementation and use as a core organizational activity” and develop “broadly viable models that support implementation and use of collections as data.” Successful proposals will receive funding and support from ...

OPPORTUNITY: 2018 GLAM Cross-Pollinator Registration Awards

Sep

6

2018

The Digital Library Foundation and its partners have opened applications for GLAM cross-pollinator awards, intended to fund DLF-affiliated professionals to attend the conferences of the American Institute for Conservation of Historic and Artistic Works (AIC), the Museum Computer Network (MCN), and the Visual Resources Association (VRA): Museum and library staff face similar challenges in the digital ...

JOB: Archivist, Digital Archives, Canadian Centre for Architecture

Sep

6

2018

From the announcement: The responsibilities of this job include the supervision, coordination and monitoring of the archival projects, and specifically the born-digital archives. The incumbent oversees and develops local practices for managing born-digital material held and acquired by the CCA and assists in the strategic direction of acquisition, preservation, and access to born-digital and paper-based ...

JOB: Knowledge Services Librarian, Harvard University

Sep

6

2018

From the announcement: This Knowledge Services Librarian position is in Library & Knowledge Services (LKS) reporting to the Associate Director, Library and Knowledge Services. The Knowledge Services Librarian manages several projects and systems in support of the LKS digital initiatives strategy, including but not limited to identifying and implementing new business processes around the digital ...

RECOMMENDED: Piloting Digital Scholarship with the John W. Kluge Center and LC Labs

Aug

30

2018

In a post at the Library Of Congress’s blog, The Signal, Eileen Jakeway (Library of Congress) reported on a recent collaborative Digital Scholarship pilot with the John W. Kluge Center. Jakeway drew on a variety of tools and resources to design the program based on the needs of “all the fellows, interns and staff in ...

PROJECT: Torn Apart / Separados Volume 2

Aug

30

2018

Manan Ahmed (Columbia University, xpMethod), Maira E. Álvarez (University of Houston), Sylvia A. Fernández (University of Houston), Alex Gil (Columbia University, xpMethod), Rachel Hendery (Western Sydney University), Moacir P. de Sá Pereira (xpMethod), and Roopika Risam (Salem State University) have released Volume 2 of Torn Apart / Separados, building on the work in Volume 1, ...

RESOURCE: Using Palladio to Analyze Historical Migration Patterns

Aug

30

2018

Sarah Zhang (Simon Fraser University) has published a tutorial for using spatial network visualization tool Palladio to analyze migration patterns. Zhang wrote the tutorial to elucidate details of the visualizations it creates, using a dataset that diverges from those in use in other tutorials. …when I drilled in the visualization produced by Palladio based off ...

POST: IMLS Announces Investment of $8.1 Million to Strengthen America’s Libraries

Aug

30

2018

Late last week, the IMLS announced 45 grants (totaling $8,155,005) to libraries and other information organizations. These include awards to many digitally-inflected projects including The Democratic Knowledge Project at Harvard University, The Trustees of Indiana University’s Shared BigData-Gateway for Research Libraries, and The Digital Library Federation (DLF) and HBCU Library Alliance. Information on all of the ...

JOB: Digital Initiatives Projects Librarian, University of Alberta Libraries

Aug

30

2018

From the announcement: The University of Alberta Libraries (UAL), with a long tradition of technological innovation and service excellence, seeks a dynamic and engaged professional to play a key role in the planning and execution of a growing program of digital library initiatives.Reporting to the Head, Library Publishing and Digital Production Services, and working within ...