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POST: On Digital Literacies

Nov

3

2016

Lee Skallerup Bessette (University of Mary Washington), Autumn Caines (Capital University), and Maha Bali (American University in Cairo) co-authored a post on ProfHacker responding to The New Media Consortium’s report, “Strategic Brief on Digital Literacy.” Responding to five different points, the authors reflect on the relationship between organizations like The New Media Consortium and various ...

RESOURCE: Digital Humanities: What Can Libraries Offer?

Nov

3

2016

Shun Han Rebekah Wong (Hong Kong Baptist University) has authored an article analyzing collaborative authorship and library involvement in the digital humanities: Wong, S. H. R. (2016). Digital Humanities: What Can Libraries Offer? [pdf postprint] portal: Libraries and the Academy, 16(4), 669-690. The abstract is reproduced below: The collaborative aspect of digital humanities is one ...

TOOL: Fulcrum

Nov

3

2016

The University of Michigan Press/Michigan Publishing and the University of Michigan Library IT announced the beta launch of the new digital tool, Fulcrum. This platform uses the Hydra/Fedora Framework and “helps publishers present the full richness of their authors’ research outputs in a durable, discoverable, and flexible form.” During this beta phase, the platform will feature its ...

RECOMMENDED: Speculative Collections

Nov

3

2016

Bethany Nowviskie (Digital Library Federation) published the text of the talk she gave at the Harvard Symposium about the future of library collecting, “The Transformation of Academic Library Collection: A Symposium Inspired by Dan C. Hazen.” It is the sequel to her talk, “Alternate Futures, Usable Pasts,” featured in the Review last week. In this talk, entitled ...

RESOURCE: Finding the Public Domain: The Copyright Review Management System

Oct

27

2016

Ithaka S+R has published “Finding the Public Domain: The Copyright Review Management System,” an issue brief written by Melissa Levine (University of Michigan). Providing an overview to the Copyright Review Management System (CRMS), “a system to train and coordinate reviewers to assess the copyright status of digitized books held in the HathiTrust Digital Library,” the ...

RESOURCE: DHCommons Journal, 2016

Oct

27

2016

DHCommons has released their second publication, and announced an expanded remit that can include completed as well as mid-stage projects, and that future publications will be published on a rolling schedule: We have also reconsidered our publishing schedule as we felt that the digital-only nature of DHCommons meant it no longer needed to be tied ...

RESOURCE: Institute-wide Task Force on the Future of Libraries

Oct

27

2016

The Massachusetts Institute of Technology released their Institute-wide Task Force On the Future of Libraries report. The task force, comprised of 30 people representing faculty, graduate students, undergraduate students, and staff were divided into three working groups: Community and Relationships, Discovery and Use, and Stewardship and Sustainability. Collectively, they offer a vision for the libraries, “using the ...

POST: Data and Humanism Shape Library of Congress Conference

Oct

27

2016

Mike Ashenfelder (Library of Congress) has published a write-up of the Library of Congress’ Collections As Data conference on the LOC blog The Signal. Ashenfelder notes that the conference “coalesced into two main themes: 1) digital collections are composed of data that can be acquired, processed and displayed in countless scientific and creative ways and 2) ...

JOB: Research Data Curation Metadata Librarian, UC San Diego

Oct

27

2016

From the announcement: The successful candidate for Research Data Curation Metadata Librarian will be a part of the Research Data Curation Program, working integratively with the Digital Object Metadata Management unit within Metadata Services. They will provide consultation services to researchers and other data owners, assisting in analysis of their materials, modeling their collections, advising ...

CFP: Discussion Topics-DLF Digital Pedagogy Interest Group Working Lunch

Oct

27

2016

The DLF Digital Pedagogy Interest Group issued a call for discussion topics for the Working lunch at the DLF Forum on November 8, 2016 from noon-1:30pm. Potential participants can add topics to this Google Document. dh+lib ReviewThis post was produced through a cooperation between Caleb Derven,Rachel DiCresce,Heather Hill, Kathryn Kuntz, Ariadne Rehbein, Samuel Russell, and Ashley ...

POST: Alternate Futures, Usable Pasts

Oct

26

2016

Bethany Nowviskie posted the text of the talk she gave at the Marquette University Digital Scholarship Symposium in September, 2016 where she explores “the temporal orientation of the next generation of digital libraries and digital scholarly projects.” Citing Jarrett Drake’s essay “#Archives for Black Lives: Building Community Archives of Police Violence in Cleveland,” Nowviskie asks, “can we ...