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JOB: Programmer Analyst, University of Alberta Digital Initiatives (2 positions)

Aug

11

2016

From the announcement: We are looking for two passionate and knowledgeable Programmer Analysts. As a member of the Digital Initiatives and Information Technology Teams, you will develop and implement applications and tools to support a growing range of digital asset management use cases, including: deposit, access, management, analysis and preservation. Digital material we frequently interact ...

OPPORTUNITY: IMLS National Leadership Grants for Libraries

Aug

4

2016

The Institute of Museum and Library Services released application guidelines for the Fiscal Year 2017 round of National Leadership Grants for Libraries (NLG). These grants “support projects that address significant challenges and opportunities facing the library and archive fields and that have the potential to advance theory and practice. Successful proposals will generate results such as new ...

JOB: Assistant Director for Digital Platforms, University of West Florida, Florida Academic Library Services Cooperative

Aug

4

2016

From the position announcement: This position manages the suite of digital library platforms and services provided by FALSC. Supervises digital platforms staff. Serves as the lead for Islandora development and implementation, and actively engages in the Islandora community on state and national level. Sets strategic direction and oversees projects to ensure that the goals of ...

JOB: Digital Library Developer, Vassar College

Aug

4

2016

From the position announcement: The Vassar College Libraries seek a collaborative, entrepreneurial, and experienced professional for the position of digital library developer. We are looking for a creative problem-solver with a passion for libraries who enjoys the design, development, and implementation of technical solutions that will bring our digital scholarship and library technology services to ...

JOB: Applications Developer, Ohio State University

Aug

4

2016

From the position announcement: The new and innovative University Libraries Research Commons (library.osu.edu/researchcommons) is on a mission to provide services and support to faculty and graduate student researchers at Ohio State. We need a creative, service-oriented developer like you to join our IT team to solve technical problems for researchers in a wide range of ...

PROJECT: College Women

Aug

4

2016

In a post on the National Endowment for the Humanities entitled “History Through the Eyes of College Women,” Mariam Abdullah features College Women, a project of the division of preservation and access. … a searchable collection of diaries, letters, scrapbooks, and photography from the archives of the earliest women’s college in the United States, the Seven ...

POST: A Historian in the Stacks: Finding a Professional Home in the Library

Aug

4

2016

In a post on the AHA Today blog, Annie Johnson (Temple University) discussed her trajectory from history graduate student to library publishing and scholarly communications specialist. I got involved with the DH community in these ways not because I thought it would lead to a job, but because I believed that DH had the potential to ...

POST: Sharing historic moments through Google Arts & Culture’s American Democracy Collection

Aug

4

2016

In a post on The National Archives Narations blog, Meredith Doviak (The National Archives) announced the National Archives’ contributions to Google Arts & Culture’s American Democracy Collection. The collection of interactive exhibits about presidential elections in the United States involved collaborations with the WNET Thirteen, The Thomas Jefferson Foundation, the Archive of American Television, and the National ...

POST: Providing Access through GIS Data at the Avery Library

Aug

4

2016

Leo Stezano (University of California, San Diego) has published a post on the LITA blog about his work at the Avery Library of Architectural and Fine Arts at Columbia University to “explore the possibilities that GIS data offers for providing access to and context for collections. Stezano recounts three projects (The New York Real Estate Brochures ...

POST: Looking for Open Digital Collections

Jul

28

2016

In a post entitled “looking for open digital collections,” Sarah Werner (@wynkenhimself) returns to the problem of digital access to special collections, to detail the complexities of locating and working with digital images from the collections of libraries, archives, and museums. What I need for my work are images able to be freely used, whether because they ...

POST: Co-Hosting a Datathon at the Library of Congress

Jul

28

2016

In a post on the The Signal, Jaime Mears (Library of Congress) reflects on the June 2016 Archives Unleashed 2.0: Web Archive Datathon. With support from the National Science Foundation, Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada, the Internet Archive, Rutgers University, and the University of Waterloo, the workshop presented “an opportunity to collaboratively unleash our ...