JOB: Digital Archivist & Institutional Repository Librarian, Worcester Polytechnic Institute

From the posting, the person in this position: Manages, plans, and develops WPI library’s digital archives and institutional repository, including collections of faculty and student scholarship, digital cultural and data collections, digital exhibits, and digital publishing systems and services. Collaboratively determines user functions, interfaces, and services for digital archives and repositories, partnering closely with WPI’s Information Technology ...

JOB: Digital Archivist, Davidson College

From the posting, this person will partner with the Special Collections Librarian, the Project Archivist for Justice, Equality, and Community, the College Archivist, and other members of the library staff to preserve and make accessible born-digital and digitized archival content.  The Digital Archivist will lead the development and implementation of policies, standards, and procedures for ...

POST: Radical Speculation and Ursula K. Le Guin

Issue 12 of Ada: A Journal of Gender, New Media, and Technology reimagines new media and technology in the works of science fiction author Ursula K. Le Guin. The papers in the special issue were drawn from the December 2016 Tiptree Symposium at the University of Oregon, an event that celebrated Le Guin’s work. Editor ...

RESOURCE: Dissertation to Book? A Snapshot of Dissertations Published As Books in 2014 and 2015, Available in Open Access Institutional Repositories

The Idealis has just featured “Dissertation to Book? A Snapshot of Dissertations Published As Books in 2014 and 2015, Available in Open Access Institutional Repositories” by Anna Marie Johnson, Tyler Goldberg, and Robert Detmering (all University of Louisville), published in the Journal of Librarianship and Scholarly Communication. The authors found that: Only a small percentage ...

CFP: Global Digital Humanities Symposium

Michigan State University is hosting the third Global Digital Humanities Symposium on March 22–23, 2018. The organizers are currently accepting submissions, especially on the following topics: Critical cultural studies and analytics Cultural heritage in a range of contexts DH as socially engaged humanities and/or as a social movement Open data, open access, and data preservation ...

JOB: Open Access Specialist, Boston University

From the posting, this position will: Assist in meeting the institutional repository (OpenBU) collection development and policy fulfillment needs of BU Libraries by selecting, gathering, and verifying BU-produced intellectual output and its corresponding metadata. Assist in maintaining the quality, accuracy, and integrity of the University’s master list of scholarly articles. Act as BU Libraries’ principal ...

JOB: Digital Scholarship Archivist, MIT

From the posting: The Digital Scholarship Archivist will initiate new ways of engaging students, faculty and the community with digital archives, rare and special collections, and will promote and interpret archival, rare and unique collections through innovative and engaging digital exhibitions, educational programming, social media and other creative means. The Digital Scholarship Archivist will promote ...

RECOMMENDED: Experiencing the Bust

Laura Mandell (Texas A&M) has posted “Experiencing the Bust,” a response to Timothy Brennan’s “Digital Humanities Bust,” the Chronicle of Higher Education article that caused a stir earlier this month. In it, Mandell asserts that “digital humanities is only busted if you expected it to be salvific,” noting that “it is the utopianists who deserve ...

POST: ‘Digital’ is Not the Opposite of ‘Humanities’

The Chronicle of Higher Education has published “‘Digital’ is Not the Opposite of ‘Humanities’,” a response to Timothy Brennan’s recent “Digital Humanities Bust” article, written by Sarah E. Bond (University of Iowa), Hoyt Long (University of Chicago), and Ted Underwood (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign). Taking issue with Brennan’s dismissal of literary analysis using quantitative ...

POST: Data Packages for DH Beginners

Miriam Posner (UCLA) has shared a brief blog post, “Data Packages for DH Beginners,” explaining her method for gathering and preparing datasets for use in her introductory DH classroom. [T]he typical student who enters my DH101 classroom has facility with Word, PowerPoint, maybe Excel, maybe some of the Adobe suite, but not a ton of ...

RESOURCE: Colonial and Postcolonial Digital Humanities Roundtable

Roopika Risam (Salem State University) has shared the text of her portion of a Colonial and Postcolonial Digital Humanities Roundtable at the College of William and Mary’s Race, Memory, and the Digital Humanities Conference (#RMDHatWM). Risam’s contribution discusses attempts to “redress the inequalities in the digital cultural record,” advocating for a multifaceted approach that includes ...