JOB: Digital Social Science and Humanities Specialist, Michigan State University

From the job description: The Department of History at Michigan State University is seeking a specialist in Digital Social Science and Humanities to coordinate its new digital initiative, LEADR (Lab for the Education and Advancement in Digital Research). The successful candidate will have knowledge of digital research methods and tools; experience developing collaborative research projects; ...

JOB: Digital Resources Librarian, University of Mary Washington

From the position announcement: The Digital Resources Librarian works collaboratively with the Special Collections Librarian and other personnel to create, maintain, and promote UMW Libraries’ digital collections, including creating policies and usage guidelines, planning and implementing workflows, and overseeing quality control. Under the supervision of the Special Collections Librarian, this position will develop strategies for ...

JOB: Digital Initiatives Librarian, University of Toronto

From the position announcement: The incumbent will coordinate the digital projects team in carrying out the planning and execution of scalable and sustainable digital projects to make scholarly output and research resources available online. Responsibilities include providing leadership in setting goals, and implementing policies and priorities for digital project work in collaboration with the digital ...

JOB: Digital Scholarship Librarian, University of Toronto

From the position announcement: will be to work with faculty to support and enable the use of digital content in new research through the provision of sustainable and scalable digital research tools, methods and frameworks. Working collaboratively with library colleagues and university partners, this librarian will also promote the discovery, use and interoperability of the ...

POST: Keeping the “L” in Digital: Applying LIS Core Competencies to Digital Humanities Work

In an article in The Journal of Creative Library Practice, Kaetrena Davis Kendrick of the University of South Carolina Lancaster places “many core activities of [Digital Humanities] squarely in the domain of modern librarianship.” Reviewing the ALA Core Competencies of Librarianship, Kendrick “reveals how LIS competencies have been applied to a Korean popular culture DH project at ...

JOB: Senior Software Developer, Texas Digital Library

From the job description: To design, develop, maintain and enhance the systems that support the activities of the Texas Digital Library (TDL). TDL provides digital repository software to academic libraries, manages, maintains codebase for the Thesis and Dissertation Management Systems, and develops code toward digital asset preservation.   dh+lib reviewThis post was produced through a ...

JOB: Director of Digital Strategy and Technology Integration, Carnegie Library, Pittsburgh

The Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh (CLP) seeks a dynamic and engaged technology leader to play a key role in positioning the Library as a recognized, trusted and relevant resource for our community in an increasingly digital world. The successful candidate for this newly created position will possess a shared vision of the importance of technology in ...

RESOURCE: New Roles for New Times: Transforming Liaison Roles in Research Libraries

A new report from ARL, New Roles for New Times: Transforming Liaison Roles in Research Libraries [pdf], by Janice M. Jaguszewski and Karen Williams, draws on “interviews with administrators at five ARL libraries (Duke University, University of Guelph, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, North Carolina State University, and Purdue University) and the authors’ own extensive experience in research ...

RESOURCE: Best of Both Worlds: Museums, Libraries, and Archives in a Digital Age

G. Wayne Clough, the Secretary of the Smithsonian Insitution, recently published a freely available ebook outlining the efforts of libraries, archives, and museums like the Smithsonian, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, and the British Library to create and sustain digital strategies while maintaining meaningful in-person experiences. Clough calls for collaboration among institutions as well as ...

RESOURCE: Now Available, Software Takes Command, Open Access Edition

Lev Manovtch has announced an Open Access edition of his new book Software Takes Command, published by Bloomsbury Academic. First released in July 2013, as volume 5 of a series of International Texts in Critical Media Aesthetics, the book traces the concepts and techniques of contemporary software like Photoshop, Illustrator, and Final Cut back to development ...

CFP: Digital Humanities 2014

A call for proposals for Digital Humanities 2014, in Lausanne, Switzerland, has been issued in 11 languages. From the announcement: The Alliance of Digital Humanities Organizations (ADHO) invites submissions of abstracts for its annual conference, on any aspect of the digital humanities. This includes but is not limited to: humanities research enabled through digital media, ...