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POST: FADGI’s 10th Anniversary: Adapting to Meet the Community’s Needs

Feb

9

2017

Kate Murray (Library of Congress) has authored a guest post on the LoC blog The Signal, detailing changes to the Federal Agencies Digital Guidelines Initiative (FAGDI) in its 10th year of operation. After describing some of the accomplishments FADGI has achieved in the past ten years (see a summary chart here), Murray introduces some of ...

RESOURCE: Editorial: Introspection as Activism, or, Getting Our Houses in Order

Feb

9

2017

Code4Lib Journal has published an editorial by Ruth Kitchin Tillman (University of Notre Dame), “Introspection as Activism, or, Getting Our Houses in Order,” in the latest issue. But I see in this last year and these last few weeks the material for a call which I intend to make here, a call for action by ...

RESOURCE: Librarians’ Perspectives on the Factors Influencing Research Data Management Programs

Feb

9

2017

College & Research Libraries has made available a pre-print of Ixchel M. Faniel and Lynn Silipigni Connaway’s (both OCLC) article, “Librarians’ Perspectives on the Factors Influencing Research Data Management Programs.” Faniel and Connaway’s article details a qualitative research study they conducted, examining librarians’ experiences with research data management (RDM) and identifying factors that “facilitate or ...

RESOURCE: Announcing the new CC Search, now in Beta

Feb

9

2017

Creative Commons has announced the beta release of the new CC Search, designed to make CC content more easily findable and usable. The beta uses the Rijksmuseum, Flickr, 500px, the New York Public Library, and the Metropolitan Museum of Art as its test sources. “The new CC Search harnesses the power of open repositories, allowing ...

CFP: BH and DH: Book History and Digital Humanities

Feb

9

2017

The Center for the History of Print and Digital Culture at the University of Wisconsin-Madison has published a call for proposals for their BH and DH: Book History and Digital Humanities conference. To be held at the University of Wisconsin-Madison from September 22-24, 2017, the conference “aims to study how digital humanities grows out book ...

CFP: HASTAC 2017

Feb

9

2017

HASTAC has issued a call for proposals for the 2017 conference, with the theme, “The Possible Worlds of Digital Humanities.” HASTAC 2017 will be held at the University of Central Florida in Orlando, from November 2-4, 2017. Possible topics include: challenges of monolingualism within the digital humanities indigenous culture, decolonial and post-colonial theory and technology ...

OPPORTUNITY: Call for Subject Specialist Editor, The Programming Historian

Feb

9

2017

The Programming Historian has released a call for a subject specialist editor: The Programming Historian (http://programminghistorian.org) is seeking an editor to work actively to solicit and edit lessons in a specific area or areas within the digital humanities. These lessons will focus on the analysis and interpretation phase of the research process, helping readers to ...

JOB: Digital Projects Librarian, College of Charleston

Feb

9

2017

From the announcement: The Digital Projects Librarian serves as Project Coordinator to both the Lowcountry Digital Library (LCDL) and the Lowcountry Digital History Initiative (LDHI), striving to expand these projects and promote the history of the region. They will work with librarians, faculty members, and LCDL and LDHI partners, scholars, and contributors to digitize collections ...

JOB: Data Services Librarian, University of Maryland

Feb

9

2017

From the announcement: The primary responsibility of the Data Services Librarian is to serve as the program lead to implement and promote novel, sustainable data services throughout all stages of the research data lifecycle. The incumbent in this position should strive to become the Libraries’ primary expert for the technology required to support comprehensive data ...

POST: In defense of the MLS; or, confess your unpopular opinion

Feb

2

2017

Roxanne Shirazi (City University of New York Graduate Center) authored a post entitled “In defense of the MLS; or, confess your unpopular opinion” in response to recent debate about the educational qualifications for the Executive Director of the American Library Association. Shirazi challenges readers to consider how “to open the doors to our profession without ...

POST: The Profession Responds

Feb

2

2017

John Overholt (Harvard University) collocated statements from professional organizations responding to the recent Trump administration policies in a post on Medium as an update to his earlier post about how the professional is political: There is no longer, if there ever was, any distinction between the values that librarians and archivists consider essential to their professional ...