RESOURCE: Writing History in the Digital Age

The digitalculturebooks imprint of the University of Michigan Press has released Writing History in the Digital Age, edited by Kristen Nawrotzki (Heidelberg University of Education) and Jack Dougherty (Trinity College). The volume is born-digital and open access, and used CommentPress to facilitate open peer review. Readers can view the final online version, the CommentPress version, ...

JOB: Digital Preservation Librarian, Marshall University

From the job description: As a member of the Special Collections Department team, research, develop, document, and implement a digital preservation program to ensure preservation of all the University’s archival, manuscript, map, rare book, and other special collections of enduring value. dh+lib ReviewThis post was produced through a cooperation between Liza Booker, Lisa Gayhart, Lauren ...

JOB: Director, Digital Initiatives and Services, NYPL

From the position announcement: Reporting to the Chief Library Officer of The New York Public Library, the Director, Digital Initiatives and Services leads the experimentation, implementation and portfolio management of the digital user experience. This person partners with internal and external stakeholders to identify, design, incubate and ensure delivery of an excellent user experience across ...

CFProposals: Data Driven: Digital Humanities in the Library

Proposals are currently being accepted for Data Driven: Digital Humanities in the Library. The conference, sponsored by the South Carolina Digital Library, the College of Charleston and the Charleston Conference, will be held June 20-22, 2014 in Charleston, South Carolina. Submissions are being accepted for lightning rounds (250-500 word abstract), long papers (abstract of 1500 ...

CFProposals: Personal Digital Archiving Conference

This year’s Personal Digital Archiving Conference, hosted by the Coalition for Networked Information, will take place April 10–11, 2014, in Indianapolis, Indiana (n.b. the conference date has been changed; it was originally announced to be held April 17-18). The organizers are accepting proposals for 20-minute paper presentations, lightning talks, and posters on the theme of ...

POST: Collaboration Before Preservation: Recovering Born Digital Records in the Stephen Gendin Papers

Mark Matienzo, Digital Archivist at the Yale University Library, wrote a blog post for Yale’s Manuscripts and Archives Blog about “the importance of collaboration both within Yale and beyond about our efforts to preserve and provide access to born digital records.” Matienzo describes how he collaborated to process the born digital records in the Papers ...

RESOURCE: Digital Scholarship and Digital Libraries: Past, Present, and Future

At the recent International Conference on Theory and Practice of Digital Libraries (TPDL), Christine L. Borgman of the University of California, Los Angeles, delivered a keynote presentation, “Digital Scholarship and Digital Libraries: Past, Present, and Future.” Drawing on materials from her forthcoming book Big Data, Little Data, No Data, the keynote traced transformations in scholarly communication such ...

JOB: Director, The Albert M. Greenfield Digital Center for the History of Women’s Education

From the Announcement:  The Bryn Mawr College Library is seeking a dynamic scholar to lead the development of The Albert M. Greenfield Digital Center for the History of Women’s Education, an online portal to support original research, teaching, and the exchange of ideas about the history of women’s education, both in the United States and ...

JOB: Digital Archivist, DePaul University

From the announcement:  “The Digital Archivist will report to the Head of Special Collections and Archives.  The Digital Archivist will work collaboratively across the library and the University to expand the library’s capacity to responsibly acquire born-digital archival content, manage existing digital holdings, and ensure the effective acquisition, appraisal, description, preservation, future migration, access to ...

POST: Genre, Gender, and Point of View

In a new post, Ted Underwood discusses a paper he co-authored for the IEEE “big humanities” workshop that is now available on arXiv as a preprint. He also reviews some questions that arose after the paper was presented regarding the use of first-person narration and gender. According to Underwood, “The paper argues that the blurry mutability of genres is ...

POST: How to Get MODS Using the NYPL Digital Collections API

Dot Porter has written a post sharing her experience working with the NYPL Digital Collections API . Porter explains her initial attempts, roadblocks, and solutions to batch-downloading MODS records for between 1500 and 2000 objects. (Hint: she was able to do it “with a Mac terminal and just a little bit of XSLT.”) dh+lib ReviewThis post was ...