OPPORTUNITY: Black Book Interactive Project

The Black Book Interactive Project, a Mellon- and NEH-funded collaborative research project that is working to increase black-authored texts in the digital humanities, has issued a call for application for two programs: The Digital Publishing Scholars Program invites applications from “higher education professionals, graduate students, and scholars who have been actively working with Black literature ...

OPPORTUNITY: ACRL Digital Scholarship Section Liaison Positions

The ACRL Digital Scholarship Section (DSS) is currently seeking applications for two liaison positions: Liaison to ACH One liaison will serve a two-year term (May 2023-June 2025) as the ACRL liaison to the Association for Computing and the Humanities (ACH) as part of the ACRL Liaisons Program. This is a new liaison position to ACH. ...

JOB: Assistant Professor, Digital Humanities (Purdue)

From the announcement: The Purdue Libraries seek an Assistant Professor who will join a vibrant group of faculty in the Purdue University Libraries and School of Information Studies to teach and apply innovative digital methods to humanistic research questions. The faculty member will teach courses that contribute to the Libraries’ co-sponsored graduate and undergraduate certificates ...

JOB: Clinical Assistant Professor and Digital Scholarship Librarian (U Illinois Chicago)

From the announcement: The Digital Scholarship Librarian plays a critical role in the development and delivery of digital scholarship programs and services to the UIC community. This position will provide instruction, consults, and training to UIC faculty and students in support of digital scholarship and digital humanities research methods. This position reports to Head of ...

JOB: Data Reference & Collections Librarian (New York University)

From the announcement: The Data Reference & Collections Librarian plays a key role in connecting university researchers with data sources, building rich data collections at NYU Libraries, and contributing to wider efforts to bring ethical and social justice concerns to data access, collection development, and our role in the research lifecycle. Required Qualifications: Minimum one ...

RECOMMENDED: Data Primer: Making Digital Humanities Research Data Public

Published earlier in 2022, the collaboratively authored and edited Data Primer: Making Digital Humanities Research Data Public (Felicity Tayler; Marjorie Mitchell; Chantal Ripp; and Pascale Dangoisse) provides an overview of current practices around data management and curation for digital humanities practitioners. Book Description Data management and curation are important processes for digital humanists: without proper ...

RESOURCE: Freedmen’s Bureau Search Portal

The National Museum of African American History and Culture has announced the launch of the Freedmen’s Bureau Search Portal – a comprehensive search platform allowing users to search over 1.7 million pages of Freedmen’s Bureau records. From the announcement: The portal allows users to search records from the United States Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and ...

CFP: Collections as Data: State of the Field and Future Directions

Funded by The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, the 3-year Collections as Data: Part to Whole project culminates in an international summit: Collections as Data: State of the Field and Future Directions. The Collections as Data: Part to Whole team has shared a Call for Participation for this collaborative international working event, which will be held ...

CFP: Inclusive Pedagogies and Services

From guest editors of a forthcoming Reference Services Review issue, Dr. Kawanna Bright and Dr. Mónica Colón-Aguirre, comes a Call for Papers regarding Inclusive Pedagogies and Services. From the Call: How do we create cultures of inclusivity in libraries where librarians not only value inclusive principles, but enact them in meaningful ways? Reference Services Review (RSR) ...

OPPORTUNITY: The Art Historical Image in the Digital Age

“The Art Historical Image in the Digital Age” is a two-week seminar that will take place at the Kunsthistorisches Institute in Florenz – Max-Planck-Institut (KHI) from June 26 to July 7, 2023. The seminar will be led by Emily Pugh, Principal Research Specialist for Digital Art History, Getty Research Institute, and David Ogawa, Associate Professor ...

EVENT: DEFCon Speaker Series: Tatiana Bryant

The Digital Ethnic Futures Consortium is running a virtual speaker series alongside its other AY 2022-2023 events. On December 15, 2022, the DEFCon Speaker Series features Tatiana Bryant (Barnard College). Register to participate in the Zoom session. About the session: Please join us on Thursday, December 15, 2022 at 1pm Eastern/10am Pacific for the DEFCon ...