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POST: Maps (and other things) online

Nov

12

2015

Lise Summers (State Records Office of Western Australia) has shared a post about her institution’s migration of records from Aeon to AtoM. Summers describes the process of moving 6,600 digital objects and 7,200 images. Maps from the collection are now available online. AtoM has enabled new loading and viewing capabilities: In our old system, we were restricted ...

POST: When the Technology Changes on You

Nov

12

2015

Maha Bali (The American University in Cairo) authored a post on ProfHacker this week reflecting on how to handle changes to technology we use in teaching and teaching and learning from alterations to the user experience (Twitter’s shift from stars to hearts) to the loss of a tool (Zeega). She closes by extolling the benefits of hosting various ...

JOB: Director, Center for Digital Research and Scholarship, Columbia University

Nov

12

2015

From the announcement: The Columbia University Libraries seeks a motivated, collaborative, and forward-thinking professional to lead its Center for Digital Research and Scholarship (CDRS). CDRS works to increase the utility and impact of research produced at Columbia by creating, adapting, implementing, supporting, and sustaining innovative digital tools and publishing platforms for content delivery, discovery, analysis, ...

CFP: Canadian Society for Digital Humanities

Nov

12

2015

The Canadian Society for Digital Humanities/Société canadienne des humanités numériques has issued a call for proposals for their annual meeting, to be held in conjunction with the Congress of the Social Sciences and Humanities, at the University of Calgary, May 30-June 1, 2016. The Society encourages “scholars, practitioners, and graduate students” to submit proposals “on all ...

POST: A Linked Data Journey: Proof of Concept

Nov

5

2015

The Library and Information Technology Association (LITA) Blog has published a post by Jacob Shelby (Iowa State University), “A Linked Data Journey: Proof of Concept.” In this second installment of his series aiming to clarify the concept of Linked Data, Shelby walks through the process of how he created a Linked Data catalog record, including hyperlinks to the completed ...

POST: Ghosts in the Machine

Nov

5

2015

Scott Weingart (Carnegie Mellon University) has published a post on his blog reflecting on the “materiality and cost” of Holocaust remembrance, following a tour of the USC Shoah Foundation. Weingart ties his interest in acting as his family’s historian and genealogist into a larger reflection on the institutional workings of preservation, particularly in a digital ...

RESOURCE: Presentations from Designing Libraries IV Available Online

Nov

5

2015

CNI announced that the presentations from the Designing Libraries IV conference, held in September at North Carolina State University, are now available online through NCSU Libraries. As the news release states, “There is a wealth of information here on trends in library buildings, technologies, services, and organizational issues.” Sessions that might be of particular interest ...

RESOURCE: American Archive of Public Broadcasting Online Reading Room

Nov

5

2015

The Library of Congress’ blog, The Signal: Digital Preservation has published a guest post by Karen Cariani, Alan Gevinson, and Casey Davis (WGBH), on the American Archive of Public Broadcasting’s (AAPB) Online Reading Room. The AAPB Online Reading Room is a collaboration between WGBH Educational Foundation and the Library of Congress, and is designed to ...

OPPORTUNITY: ACLS Digital Extension Grant Program

Nov

5

2015

The American Historical Association‘s AHA Today blog highlighted a new grant program from the American Council of Learned Societies‘ (ACLS). The ACLS Digital Extension Grant program is designed to provide “flexible support at the level of the digital research project as opposed to the individual scholar.” This funding can cover a range of project activities, such as: ...

JOB: Open Access and Institutional Repository Librarian, University of Massachusetts Amherst

Nov

5

2015

From the announcement: UMass Amherst, the flagship campus of the University of Massachusetts system, sits on nearly 1,450-acres in the scenic Pioneer Valley of western Massachusetts, 90 miles from Boston and 175 miles from New York City. The campus provides a rich cultural environment in a rural setting close to major urban centers. As a ...

JOB: Literatures & Digital Humanities Librarian, University of California, Berkeley

Nov

5

2015

From the announcement: The University of California, Berkeley seeks a collaborative and service-oriented librarian to support world-class research and teaching through the development of the Library’s research collections and engagement with faculty and students associated with scholarship and practices in English and American Literature, comparative literature, and digital humanities. Responsibilities Reporting to the Head of ...