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POST: Collecting Digital Content at the Library of Congress

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2017

In a guest post on The Signal, the Library of Congress’ digital stewardship blog, Joe Puccio (LOC) describes the current status of digital collecting at LOC, as well as their future goals: The adopted strategy is based on a vision in which the Library’s universal collection will continue to be built by selectively acquiring materials ...

CFP: Remaking Collections

Mar

23

2017

The Open Library of Humanities (OLH) has released a call for papers for a special collection of articles that “will address emerging creative practices around digital collections” and “document current practice and theory through diverse case studies and articulate multidisciplinary understandings of the art, design, computing, heritage and humanities practices.” Potential topics include: Experimental and ...

CFP: Graduate Students Speak Out: Gaining Knowledge in Digital Humanities

Mar

23

2017

The Canadian Society of Digital Humanities / Société canadienne des humanités numériques has put out a call for papers for a panel at the annual CSDH/SCHN conference at the Congress of the Humanities and Social Sciences. The organizers are looking for short papers from current graduate students “that discuss or reflect on the opportunities they ...

JOB: Visiting Residency Librarian, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (4 positions)

Mar

23

2017

From the announcement: The University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign’s Library is pleased to announce a new opportunity for early-career librarians to gain professional experience and mentoring through a new library residency program. The residency program is offered to librarians within two years of receiving their degrees. The University Library seeks opportunities to help early career ...

JOB: Instruction and Outreach Librarian, University of Florida

Mar

23

2017

From the announcement: The Instruction and Outreach Librarian at the George A. Smathers Libraries is a 12 month, tenure track faculty position, which serves as the instruction, outreach, and student engagement librarian with additional responsibilities supporting Library West’s Humanities and Social Sciences (H&SS) reference and collection services. Develops and leads library programs related to student ...

CFP: Bucknell University Digital Scholarship Conference (#BUDSC17)

Mar

16

2017

Bucknell University, with support from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, will host its fourth annual digital scholarship conference (#BUDSC17) from October 6-8, 2017. The theme of the conference is “Looking Forward, Looking Back: The Evolution of Digital Scholarship.” #BUDSC17 is committed to expanding the definition of digital scholarship to be more inclusive across diverse communities, ...

POST: Developing a Digital Preservation Infrastructure at Georgetown University Library

Mar

16

2017

In a guest post on the Signal, Joe Carrano (Georgetown University, National Digital Stewardship Residency program) describes his NDSR Project, “building digital preservation processes for digital preservation platforms” that allow the institutions to collocate materials, document workflows and deposit them in the digital preservation repository, Academic Preservation Trust. Carrano outlines the project goals and completed milestones closing with ...

POST: “Gothic DH” at Washington and Lee

Mar

16

2017

Christian Howard (University of Virginia) authored a post that was cross posted on the Washington and Lee Digital Humanities blog and the Scholar’s Lab Blog at the University of Virginia in which he describes a collaboration with Taylor Walle (Washington and Lee University) in the English 232 class, “Frantic and Sickly, Idle and Extravagant: The Gothic ...

POST: Digital Humanities Training Opportunities and Challenges

Mar

16

2017

Lee Skallerup Bessette (University of Mary Washington) authored a post on ProfHacker about training opportunities in the digital humanities. Citing the lack of low-cost, low barrier opportunities, Bessette shares the opportunities she compiled in 2015 and 2016 as well opportunities compiled in 2017 by Katherine D. Harris. Bessette touches on the debates around whether coding ...

POST: A Library of Congress Lab: More Use and More Users of Digital Collections

Mar

16

2017

Abbey Potter (Library of Congress) authored a post summarizing Michelle Gallinger’s (Gallinger Consulting) and Daniel Chudnov’s (Chudnov Consulting) report, “Library of Congress Lab” , which discusses “how libraries and other research centers have developed services that use computational analysis, design, and engagement to enable new kinds of discovery and outreach.” Potter interviews the authors to gain additional insight ...

RESOURCE: New and Improv(ing) Digitization Cost Calculator

Mar

16

2017

Joyce Chapman (Duke University) and Genya O’Gara (Virtual Library of Virginia) contributed an update about the Digitization Cost Calculator developed by the Digital Library Federation Assessment Interest Group (DLF AIG) in the March/April Edition of D-Lib Magazine. The purpose of the Calculator is to support institutions in estimating the costs of digitization projects before they ...