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POST: A Historian in the Stacks: Finding a Professional Home in the Library

Aug

4

2016

In a post on the AHA Today blog, Annie Johnson (Temple University) discussed her trajectory from history graduate student to library publishing and scholarly communications specialist. I got involved with the DH community in these ways not because I thought it would lead to a job, but because I believed that DH had the potential to ...

POST: Sharing historic moments through Google Arts & Culture’s American Democracy Collection

Aug

4

2016

In a post on The National Archives Narations blog, Meredith Doviak (The National Archives) announced the National Archives’ contributions to Google Arts & Culture’s American Democracy Collection. The collection of interactive exhibits about presidential elections in the United States involved collaborations with the WNET Thirteen, The Thomas Jefferson Foundation, the Archive of American Television, and the National ...

POST: Providing Access through GIS Data at the Avery Library

Aug

4

2016

Leo Stezano (University of California, San Diego) has published a post on the LITA blog about his work at the Avery Library of Architectural and Fine Arts at Columbia University to “explore the possibilities that GIS data offers for providing access to and context for collections. Stezano recounts three projects (The New York Real Estate Brochures ...

POST: Looking for Open Digital Collections

Jul

28

2016

In a post entitled “looking for open digital collections,” Sarah Werner (@wynkenhimself) returns to the problem of digital access to special collections, to detail the complexities of locating and working with digital images from the collections of libraries, archives, and museums. What I need for my work are images able to be freely used, whether because they ...

POST: Co-Hosting a Datathon at the Library of Congress

Jul

28

2016

In a post on the The Signal, Jaime Mears (Library of Congress) reflects on the June 2016 Archives Unleashed 2.0: Web Archive Datathon. With support from the National Science Foundation, Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada, the Internet Archive, Rutgers University, and the University of Waterloo, the workshop presented “an opportunity to collaboratively unleash our ...

RESOURCE: Digital Humanities and Digital Media: Conversations on Politics, Culture, Aesthetics and Literacy

Jul

28

2016

Earlier this month, Open Humanities Press released the new volume Digital Humanities and Digital Media: Conversations on Politics, Culture, Aesthetics and Literacy, edited by Roberto Simanowski. The observations shared in this book take the form of conversations about digital media and culture centered around four distinct thematic fields: politics and government, algorithm and censorship, art ...

CFP: ‘Lives of Data’ Workshop

Jul

28

2016

From the call for the Lives of Data Workshop, to be held January 6-7, 2017, at the Centre for the Study of Developing Societies in Delhi : The key questions which the workshop will explore are: What is data? How is it imagined, collected, archived, developed, scraped, parsed, mined, cleaned, used, interpreted, re-produced, circulated and deleted? How ...

CFP: LITA @ ALA Annual 2017

Jul

28

2016

From the call: The LITA Program Planning Committee (PPC) is now accepting innovative and creative proposals for the 2017 Annual American Library Association Conference. We’re looking for full or half day pre-conference ideas as well as 60- and 90-minute conference presentations. The focus should be on technology in libraries, whether that’s use of, new ideas ...

JOB: Digital Production Editor, New York University Libraries

Jul

28

2016

From the announcement: This position will work on a grant-funded project to create richly tagged online publications. Reporting to the project manager for the Enhanced Networked Monographs project, this position will have several components: work with a software developer and the project team to refine a set of terms from a large set of digital ...

JOB: Digital Scholarship Librarian / Bibliographer – Boston College

Jul

28

2016

From the announcement: This Digital Scholarship Librarian / Bibliographer advances digital humanities by providing research services, technical support, and project management assistance, focusing on applications in the humanities, as well as providing liaison services for the History Department. S/he maintains knowledge and practical expertise in an evolving interdisciplinary landscape of digital humanities tools and methods. S/he works with ...

JOB: Humanities Librarian for the Fine Arts – University of Texas Libraries, Austin

Jul

28

2016

From the announcement: Purpose of position: Provide strategic approaches to selection, teaching, discovery, and delivery of digital and print information resources and research life cycle support for Department of Art and Art History, College of Fine Arts’ various design centers, Bridging Disciplines Program in Digital Arts and Media, and other disciplines. Essential functions: Provide reference ...