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EVENT: Critical Librarianship and Pedagogy Symposium

Sep

10

2020

The Critical Librarianship and Pedagogy Symposium (#claps2020) is currently underway. Hosted by the University of Arizona Libraries, and running from September 1-17, the online symposium features a range of free events, from keynote talks to flipped discussions and social events. “Critical pedagogy recognizes that education is shaped by outside political and economic forces, often to ...

CFP: Digital Humanities in the Library: Challenges and Opportunities for Subject Specialists

Sep

10

2020

The editors of Digital Humanities in the Library: Challenges and Opportunities for Subject Specialists welcome chapter proposals for a revised second edition. Five years after the publication of Digital Humanities in the Library, digital humanities — as a field of study and community of practice — continues to transform how scholars and librarians research and ...

CFP: ACRL Data Literacy Cookbook

Sep

10

2020

Kelly Getz (Eastern Michigan University) and Meryl Brodsky (University of Texas, Austin) are editing an ACRL Data Literacy Cookbook, and are seeking proposals from academic library practitioners for chapters that describe “practiced lesson plans, curriculum map development, activities, and events designed to promote and educate data literacy through library instruction and outreach.” In particular, they ...

JOB: IMLS Revolutionary City Project Data Manager

Sep

10

2020

From the announcement: With an eye towards the 250th anniversary of our nation’s founding in 2026, the American Philosophical Society (APS), in partnership with the Historical Society of Pennsylvania (HSP), and the Library Company of Philadelphia (LCP), seek to hire a Digital Project Manager to lay the groundwork for the development of an innovative digital ...

Digital Literacy on a Dime: Designing Community-Based Digital Humanities Institutes across North Carolina Universities

Jun

4

2020

The Digital Humanities Collaborative of North Carolina (DHC-NC), formerly known as The Triangle Digital Humanities Network (TDHN), is a cross-institutional community of practice for the digi-curious humanists in North Carolina. The mission of the DHC-NC is to promote DH projects and practices across North Carolina in an inclusive and equitable fashion. In the Fall of ...

PROJECT: Volta River Commodities

May

7

2020

As part of the Cultural Heritage Informatics Initiative, Ryan Carty, a third-year PhD student in the History Department at Michigan State University, created the Volta River Commodities, a digital history project that focuses on trade statistics maintained by colonial officials stationed along the Volta River. Carty used commodity data obtained in the National Archives in ...

PROJECT: Fighting Fascist Spain: The Exhibit

May

7

2020

Montse Feu, an associate professor at Sam Houston State University, introduces Fighting Fascist Spain: The Exhibit, a project that visualizes the story of the Sociedades Hispanas Confederadas (SHC), a group of US Hispanic cultural and mutual aid societies devoted to the antifascist cause. This group was known for its activism and publication of, particularly through ...

RESOURCE: 2020 NDSA Agenda for Digital Stewardship

May

7

2020

The National Digital Stewardship Alliance (NDSA) Agenda Working Group has recently announced the publication of the 2020 NDSA Agenda for Digital Stewardship. According to the Working Group, made up of Micah Altman (MIT Libraries), Karen Cariani (WGBH Media Library and Archives), Bradley Daigle (Academic Preservation Trust), Christie Moffatt (National Library of Medicine (NLM)), Sibyl Schaefer ...

RESOURCE: Free Access to Digital Records

May

7

2020

The National Archives are currently making digital records available on their website at no cost to registered users. Registration is free, and as long as they abide by the terms of fair use, users can add up to ten items at a time to their baskets, with a maximum of 50 items over 30 days. ...

CFP: HathiTrust Research Center Advanced Collaborative Support Proposals – Deadline Extended

May

7

2020

The HathiTrust Research Center (HTRC) has extended the deadline for proposals for its Advanced Collaborative Support (ACS) Program. ACS promotes collaboration between researchers and HTRC staff “to solve challenging problems related to computational analysis of the HathiTrust corpus.” From the call: For this round of projects, we seek to collaborate with researchers who have independently ...

PROJECT: Innovator Brian Foo Incorporates “Citizen DJs” into Design Process

Apr

30

2020

Brian Foo, Library of Congress’s Innovator in Residence, authored a guest post on LOC’s The Signal blog on the Citizen DJ project. Foo describes the “central goal” of Citizen DJ is “to invite the public to create new music using audio and video material from the Library of Congress. Materials were handpicked for this project ...