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RECOMMENDED: Digital Sources & Digital Archives: The Evidentiary Basis of Digital History (Draft)

Dec

10

2015

This week, Trevor Owens (IMLS) posted a draft of an essay he is contributing to A Companion to Digital History, with an eye to receiving comments and discussion that could improve the essay draft. Owens’ draft of “Digital Sources & Digital Archives: The Evidentiary Basis of Digital History” interrogates how the digital shift within archives affects the work of historians. At this point, ...

PROJECT: Digitizing History: The South African Truth and Reconciliation Commission Archive

Dec

10

2015

Bernard C. Moore (Michigan State University) has published a post on MSU’s Cultural Heritage Informatics Initiative blog, detailing the South African Broadcasting Corporation (SABC) Truth and Reconciliation Commission website. Moore opens by describing the impetus behind the project and its construction. Launched in coordination with the South African History Archive in 2013, in commemoration of ...

POST: Submissions to DH2016 (pt. 1)

Dec

10

2015

Scott Weingart (Carnegie Mellon University) has published the first DH2016 post in his ongoing series analyzing submissions and acceptances to the annual Digital Humanities conference. Weingart scraped data from the conference submission tool (ConfTool), which allowed him to compare this year’s number of submissions, type (long paper, short paper, panel, or poster), number of authors ...

POST: Acquiring at Digital Scale: Harvesting the StoryCorps.me Collection

Dec

10

2015

StoryCorps, a large-scale oral history project archived at the American Folklife Center, recently created the StoryCorps.me mobile application to act as “a global platform where anyone in the world can record and upload an oral history interview.” In a post to The Signal, the Library of Congress digital preservation blog, Nicole Saylor (American Folklife Center Archive) ...

CFParticipation: DLF Digital Library Pedagogy Interest Group

Dec

10

2015

Elizabeth Kelly (Loyola University) and Eleanor Dickson (HathiTrust Research Center) have authored a guest post on the Digital Library Federation‘s blog, announcing the Digital Library Pedagogy Interest Group. Possible discussion topics for the group include: assignments and instructional techniques using digitized and born-digital cultural heritage collections emerging digital pedagogy tools and digital humanities projects reviewing ...

CFP: Library Publishing Forum 2016

Dec

10

2015

The Library Publishing Coalition has released a CFP for the 2016 Library Publishing Forum, to be held May 17-19 in Denton, Texas. The theme of this year’s conference will be “Amplifying Scholarship: More Choices, More Voices.” As the post states, “Libraries as publishers have the means to expand access to publishing, creating opportunities for diverse ...

JOB: Assistant Professor (Digital Resources Librarian), Sam Houston State University

Dec

10

2015

From the announcement: Position will provide leadership in planning, selection and organizing digital projects, including electronic thesis and dissertations and an institutional repository. Participates in professional activities, professional development, scholarly research, publication and service activities as outlined in Academic Policy Statement 900417,Faculty Reappointment, Tenure and Promotion. dh+lib ReviewThis post was produced through cooperation among Katrien ...

JOB: Head of Digital Library Services, University of Utah

Dec

10

2015

From the announcement: The J. Willard Marriott Library seeks an energetic, visionary, innovative, and accomplished professional for the position of Head, Digital Library Services (DLS). This is an excellent opportunity to work with collaborative, energetic, and enthusiastic colleagues in developing and delivering an information environment that significantly advances end-user resource discovery and use of digital ...

PROJECT: ‘A Shaky Truce’: Starkville Civil Rights Struggles, 1960-1980

Nov

19

2015

The Mississippi State University History Department and Libraries have launched a digital history project entitled ‘A Shaky Truce’: Starkville Civil Rights Struggles, 1960-1980. Developed by a cross-disciplinary team of faculty, librarians, graduate and undergraduate students, the project documents two decades of civil rights struggles in Starkville, MS. The purpose of this project is to tell a ...

POST: Opportunities Created by Emerging Technologies

Nov

19

2015

Katina Rogers (The Futures Initiative, Graduate Center, CUNY) has posted her position paper for an upcoming Council of Graduate Schools workshop on the future of the dissertation. In it, she links the changes and challenges afoot for dissertations with those facing the greater landscape of scholarship and scholarly publishing. The same questions of values, methods, and ...

POST: Agile Development: Building an Agile Culture

Nov

19

2015

Leo Stezano (Columbia University Libraries) wrote a post for the LITA Blog entitled Agile Development: Building an Agile Culture. In the post, Stezano outlines some tips for fostering a successful agile development shop in a library setting. Additionally, he provides links for further reading on agile development teams and the broader discussion of institutional culture issues ...