RESOURCE: Using Palladio to Analyze Historical Migration Patterns

Sarah Zhang (Simon Fraser University) has published a tutorial for using spatial network visualization tool Palladio to analyze migration patterns.  Zhang wrote the tutorial to elucidate details of the visualizations it creates, using a dataset that diverges from those in use in other tutorials. …when I drilled in the visualization produced by Palladio based off ...

POST: IMLS Announces Investment of $8.1 Million to Strengthen America’s Libraries

Late last week, the IMLS announced 45 grants (totaling $8,155,005) to libraries and other information organizations. These include awards to many digitally-inflected projects including The Democratic Knowledge Project at Harvard University, The Trustees of Indiana University’s Shared BigData-Gateway for Research Libraries, and The Digital Library Federation (DLF) and HBCU Library Alliance. Information on all of the ...

JOB: Digital Initiatives Projects Librarian, University of Alberta Libraries

From the announcement: The University of Alberta Libraries (UAL), with a long tradition of technological innovation and service excellence, seeks a dynamic and engaged professional to play a key role in the planning and execution of a growing program of digital library initiatives.Reporting to the Head, Library Publishing and Digital Production Services, and working within ...

JOB: Four Open-Rank Tenure Track Positions in Information Studies, Syracuse University

From the announcement: Syracuse University’s School of Information Studies (The iSchool, ischool.syr.edu) seeks scholars and leaders to fill four open-rank tenure-track faculty positions to start in Fall 2019. Successful candidates will have a productive program of research in an information-related field and be able to contribute to the development of students and courses in our ...

JOB: Assistant Professor/Digital Archivist, Mississippi State University

From the announcement: A tenure track faculty position providing innovative, dynamic, team-oriented responsibilities as Digital Archivist. Mississippi State University Libraries has a highly collaborative environment where excellence in job performance, scholarship, and service are valued and required. The successful candidate will assist in building the Libraries digital services and collections combining the technical skills necessary ...

JOB: Head of Scholarly Communication, Copyright & Publishing, Dartmouth College

From the announcement: Working closely with Library leadership, library departments, and units across campus such as ITC, defines and develops a collaborative, coordinated program to provide the campus community with current information, education, expertise, and tools to support new models for the dissemination and tracking of the results of research, scholarship, and teaching. 20% Advises ...

What I’m Reading This Summer: Kristen Mapes

Note: As the dh+lib Review editors work behind the scenes this summer, we have invited a few members of our community to step in as guest editors and share with us what they are reading and why the dh+lib audience might want to read it too. This post is from Kristen Mapes, Assistant Director of ...

What I’m Reading This Summer: Tierney Gleason

Note: As the dh+lib Review editors work behind the scenes this summer, we have invited a few members of our community to step in as guest editors and share with us what they are reading and why the dh+lib audience might want to read it too. This post is from Tierney Gleason, Reference and Digital ...

What I’m Reading This Summer: Anna Kijas

Note: As the dh+lib Review editors work behind the scenes this summer, we have invited a few members of our community to step in as guest editors and share with us what they are reading and why the dh+lib audience might want to read it too. This post is from Anna Kijas, Senior Digital Scholarship ...

POST: The Gospel of Unicode: Digital Love Letter(s) and Art Through Numbers

Sarah Bond (University of Iowa) has written a blog post reflecting on a recent news item she reported in Hyperallergic discussing the proposed addition of over 2,000 hieroglyphs into Unicode. In “The Gospel of Unicode: Digital Love Letter(s) and Art Through Numbers,” Bond gives a brief introduction into the development of Unicode and its use ...

RESOURCE: FAIR Principles for Library, Archive and Museum Collections

Lukas Koster and Saskia Woutersen-Windhouwer (both University of Amsterdam) have published an article in the Code4Lib Journal entitled, “FAIR Principles for Library, Archive, and Museum Collections: A Proposal for Standards for Reusable Collections“: In this article[2] we propose a body of requirements for making LAM collections findable, accessible, interoperable, and reusable (FAIR), as well as ...