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POST: University Futures, Library Futures: a multi-dimensional model of US higher education institutions

Feb

15

2018

Rona Stein (OCLC) has published a post on the Hanging Together blog entitled “University Futures, Library Futures: a multi-dimensional model of US higher education institutions,” which reports on a collaborative project between OCLC and Ithaka S+R, supported by the Mellon Foundation. The project involved developing a model and a framework for use in “exploring emerging ...

EVENT: 2018 Virtual Symposium on Information & Technology in the Arts and Humanities

Feb

15

2018

The 2018 Virtual Symposium on Information & Technology in the Arts and Humanities will take place on April 10, 2018 from 12:00pm-5:00pm EST. The theme for this year’s Virtual Symposium is “Users of Arts & Humanities Digital Collections.” Digital libraries and archives enable Internet users to access entire worlds of information at their fingertips. Who are these ...

OPPORTUNITY: ARL/SAA Mosaic Program II 2018-2019

Feb

15

2018

The ARL/SAA Mosaic Program is now accepting applications for its 2018-2019 cohort. The program, which provides “financial support, practical work experience, mentoring, career placement assistance, and leadership development to emerging professionals from traditionally underrepresented racial and ethnic minority groups,” is supported by a Laura Bush 21st Century Librarians Program from the IMLS. Applications are due on ...

POST: Building Collaboration between Wikipedia and West Virginia University Libraries

Feb

8

2018

From the special edition of #DLFcontribute, Kelly Doyle (West Virginia University Libraries) and Ashleigh D. Coren (University of Maryland, College Park) discuss how they leveraged Wikimedia Foundation’s #1lib1ref (1 librarian, 1 reference) campaign “to highlight how librarians use Wikipedia to fill in public knowledge gaps about local and marginalized knowledge.” We wanted to challenge our participants’ preconceived ...

RESOURCE: A Digital Humanities Reading List: Part 2

Feb

8

2018

LIBER‘s (Ligue des Bibliothèques Européennes de Recherche – Association of European Research Libraries) Digital Humanities & Digital Cultural Heritage Working Group has released its second installment of “must-read papers, articles and reports.” The second theme focuses on libraries finding and connecting with DH research communities and includes eleven pieces that speak to how “DH offers ...

CFP: 5th Annual Digital Pedagogy Institute Conference

Feb

8

2018

The 5th Annual Digital Pedagogy Institute, which will be held at Brock University on August 9-10, 2018, seeks presentation and workshop proposals. From the call: Faculty, educational developers, librarians, graduate students, and other university personnel are invited to submit up to two presentation proposals – a 20 minute presentation or a 60 minute interactive workshop ...

OPPORTUNITY: NEH Summer Institute, The Book: Material Histories and Digital Futures

Feb

8

2018

The NEH and Salt Lake Community College seek applicants for their 2018 summer institute, The Book: Material Histories and Digital Futures to “explore how the book’s evolving material qualities promote and circulate cultural knowledge” and “consider the present moment of the book’s evolution as a prologue to humanist innovation, as developing technologies, digital and multimodal, offer a host ...

OPPORTUNITY: 2018 DLF + DHSI Tuition Awards

Feb

8

2018

DLF is now accepting applications for their DLF-DHSI Cross-Pollinator tuition fellowships to participate in the the 2018 Digital Humanities Summer Institute (DHSI) in Victoria, British Columbia. Participants from DLF member institutions are eligible for the award. The application requests the following information: contact information brief, one-paragraph bio a one-paragraph statement about how attending DHSI might expand your professional horizons, what you ...

JOB: Digital Scholarship Fellow at University of Cincinnati

Feb

8

2018

From the announcement: The Digital Scholarship Center of the University of Cincinnati invites applicants to apply for our Digital Scholarship Library Fellow. Successful candidates should have digital scholarship skills built on their training in librarianship, digital humanities, or informatics, and will contribute to the development and deepening of transdisciplinary digital scholarship work across the university. ...

JOB: Director for Teaching, Learning & Digital Scholarship

Feb

8

2018

From the announcement: Reporting to the Dean of BLAIS, the Director for Teaching, Learning & Digital Scholarship is a new position dedicated to leading and shaping the instruction and liaison program and agenda in the Barnard Library. The Director coordinates the Personal Librarian program, a liaison program designed to create unique, specialized services for students and ...

PROJECT: Enslaved: People of the Historic Slave Trade

Feb

1

2018

Matrix: The Center for Digital Humanities & Social Sciences at Michigan State University has just announced Enslaved: People of the Historic Slave Trade, a “constellation of software and services built to address the challenges of connecting archives, databases, and collections that record the histories of slavery and enslaved peoples.” Funded by the Andrew W. Mellon ...