JOB: Associate Director of Development for Digital Initiatives, New York Public Library

From the announcement: The New York Public Library, based in the world’s information capital, has made great strides growing our reach in the digital realm.  NYPL must continue to brand itself as an essential, unique contributor to New York City’s digital sector while raising significant new funds that will allow NYPL to scale quickly and ...

JOB: Web Archivist for ArchiveIt, Internet Archive

From the announcement: The Internet Archive is seeking a Web Archivist for ArchiveIt. Come help us help others save the web! Archive­It is a web archiving service first launched in 2006 that enables our 350+ library and archive partners to capture, manage, preserve, and provide access to the highest quality content from the web. As ...

RECOMMENDED: Digital Sources & Digital Archives: The Evidentiary Basis of Digital History (Draft)

This week, Trevor Owens (IMLS) posted a draft of an essay he is contributing to A Companion to Digital History, with an eye to receiving comments and discussion that could improve the essay draft. Owens’ draft of “Digital Sources & Digital Archives: The Evidentiary Basis of Digital History” interrogates how the digital shift within archives affects the work of historians. At this point, ...

PROJECT: Digitizing History: The South African Truth and Reconciliation Commission Archive

Bernard C. Moore (Michigan State University) has published a post on MSU’s Cultural Heritage Informatics Initiative blog, detailing the South African Broadcasting Corporation (SABC) Truth and Reconciliation Commission website. Moore opens by describing the impetus behind the project and its construction. Launched in coordination with the South African History Archive in 2013, in commemoration of ...

POST: Submissions to DH2016 (pt. 1)

Scott Weingart (Carnegie Mellon University) has published the first DH2016 post in his ongoing series analyzing submissions and acceptances to the annual Digital Humanities conference. Weingart scraped data from the conference submission tool (ConfTool), which allowed him to compare this year’s number of submissions, type (long paper, short paper, panel, or poster), number of authors ...

POST: Acquiring at Digital Scale: Harvesting the StoryCorps.me Collection

StoryCorps, a large-scale oral history project archived at the American Folklife Center, recently created the StoryCorps.me mobile application to act as “a global platform where anyone in the world can record and upload an oral history interview.” In a post to The Signal, the Library of Congress digital preservation blog, Nicole Saylor (American Folklife Center Archive) ...

CFParticipation: DLF Digital Library Pedagogy Interest Group

Elizabeth Kelly (Loyola University) and Eleanor Dickson (HathiTrust Research Center) have authored a guest post on the Digital Library Federation‘s blog, announcing the Digital Library Pedagogy Interest Group. Possible discussion topics for the group include: assignments and instructional techniques using digitized and born-digital cultural heritage collections emerging digital pedagogy tools and digital humanities projects reviewing ...

CFP: Library Publishing Forum 2016

The Library Publishing Coalition has released a CFP for the 2016 Library Publishing Forum, to be held May 17-19 in Denton, Texas. The theme of this year’s conference will be “Amplifying Scholarship: More Choices, More Voices.” As the post states, “Libraries as publishers have the means to expand access to publishing, creating opportunities for diverse ...

JOB: Assistant Professor (Digital Resources Librarian), Sam Houston State University

From the announcement: Position will provide leadership in planning, selection and organizing digital projects, including electronic thesis and dissertations and an institutional repository. Participates in professional activities, professional development, scholarly research, publication and service activities as outlined in Academic Policy Statement 900417,Faculty Reappointment, Tenure and Promotion. dh+lib ReviewThis post was produced through cooperation among Katrien ...

JOB: Head of Digital Library Services, University of Utah

From the announcement: The J. Willard Marriott Library seeks an energetic, visionary, innovative, and accomplished professional for the position of Head, Digital Library Services (DLS). This is an excellent opportunity to work with collaborative, energetic, and enthusiastic colleagues in developing and delivering an information environment that significantly advances end-user resource discovery and use of digital ...

Cultivating a New Design Lab: An Interview with Justin Schell

Justin Schell is the Learning Design Specialist at the University of Michigan Library, where he is leading the development of the Shapiro Design Lab. Alix Keener, who conducted this interview, is the Digital Scholarship Librarian at the U-M Library. Alix: I’m enjoying that there’s a Star Wars BB-8 robot rolling around in the background of ...