CFP: Bibliography for the 21st Century (MLA 2015)

A call for proposals sponsored by the Libraries and Research discussion group and the Bibliography and Textual Studies discussion group of the Modern Language Association (MLA) has been issued on “Bibliography for the 21st Century”: Bibliography has long been integral to literary studies, textual studies, and book history. Not only does it serve an evidentiary ...

JOB: Digital Humanities Librarian, OSU Libraries

From the announcement: The Digital Humanities Librarian will establish and grow a dynamic, multifaceted program that addresses the growing demand for digital arts and humanities support on campus.  Working with arts and humanities scholars, faculty and students, the Digital Humanities Librarian will foster successful adoption and application of digital arts and humanities approaches to research, ...

JOB: Digital Collections Specialist, Library of Virginia

From the announcement: The Library of Virginia, the archival agency for the Commonwealth of Virginia, is seeking a creative and innovative professional to serve as our Digital Collections Specialist. Reporting to the Digital Initiatives & Web Services Manager in the Information Technology Division, the individual selected for this position will work with the agency staff ...

JOB: Head of Digital Experience, Archives of American Art

From the announcement: The incumbent will serve as the Archives’ Head of Digital Experience in an ongoing effort to improve the website www.aaa.si.edu as the primary means of communicating information about the Archives within the context of the Smithsonian Institution, and in providing access to collections and resources. Included in the responsibilities are coordinating and ...

POST: J-Term: Team Engagement Developers

Caro Pinto (Mount Holyoke College) discusses her experience co-teaching the course Media Archaeology, Digital Humanities & The Archives, which experimented with the concept of a humanities lab in the classroom. Projects included appraising digital photos, taking apart an iMac, and running programs on a C-64. Pinto also discusses how librarians need to adapt their pedagogical ...

JOB: Associate University Librarian for Special Collections and Archives, GW

From the announcement: The GW Libraries seeks nominations and applications for an Associate University Librarian for Special Collections and Archives (AUL/SC&A).  The person in this recently redefined position will lead a dynamic team in developing policies, strategies and innovative approaches to growing the collections and services that give the twenty-first century research library its identity. ...

PROJECT: Calling All Walt Whitman Fans

The Chief Archivist of the United States, David Ferriero, issued a call to assist The Walt Whitman Archive at the University of Nebraksa-Lincoln  in discovering new Walt Whitman documents. In 2011, the Archive discovered 3,000 documents penned by the famous author during his years working as a clerk in the Office of the Attorney General, ...

TOOL: etcML: text classification tool

Geoffrey Rockwell has written a post introducing etcML (Easy Text Classification Machine Learning) a new, freely available, text analysis tool developed at Stanford. The tool’s “primary mode of analysis is ‘classification,’ which you can think of as automatic categorization”: The tool allows you to pass a text (or a Twitter hashtag) to an existing classifier like the ...

RECOMMENDED: Asking For It

Last week, OCLC Research released the report “Does every research library need a digital humanities center?” Written by Jennifer Schaffner and Ricky Erway, the report is aimed at helping library administrators communicate with their deans and provosts about the library’s roles in digital humanities. Bethany Nowviskie (University of Virginia) offers a response that acknowledges the report’s value ...

RESOURCE: Does Every Research Library Need a Digital Humanities Center? An OCLC Research Report

OCLC Research has released a new report, “Does every research library need a digital humanities center?” [PDF].  Written by Jennifer Schaffner and Ricky Erway, it: [I]s intended to prepare research library directors and other decision-makers to respond to questions from deans or provosts who may ask what the library is doing about the digital humanities. It discusses specific ...

POST: Scholar Sourcing, Crowdsourcing, and Community Sourcing

In a post to her website, Digital Humanities Librarian Laurien Taylor (University of Florida) discusses the use of community-sourcing and scholar-sourcing in her work. These terms, Taylor argues, are distinct from “crowdsourcing” because they are more targeted in scope, focusing not on “the entire online world” but on commitments at the institutional level, which in ...