JOB: Digital Archivist & Special Collections Librarian, Rhode Island College

From the announcement: The individual will provide vision and leadership in directing and managing the College’s Special Collections and Digital Initiatives unit to provide Rhode Island College members and the community access to locally produced content and the College’s unique collections. Processes primary source materials including rare books, manuscripts, college archives, and photographs that require ...

JOB: Data Literacy Librarian, DePaul University

From the announcement: Reporting to the Coordinator of Reference, Instruction, and Academic Engagement, the Data Literacy Librarian will play a key role in developing programmatic support of numerical and geospatial data services, including facilitating access to data resources and providing research and instruction support to faculty and students in their use across the curriculum. The ...

RESOURCE: Sorting through a Set of US Government PDFs

The Library of Congress released a set of 1,000 PDF files, randomly selected from .gov domain sites. This is the first of many anticipated datasets the Digital Content Management section is preparing in order to “extract and make available sets of files from the Library’s significant web archives holdings.” The broader project seeks to make LC web ...

RESOURCE: Launch of the DARIAH Open Blog

The DARIAH Open blog aims to provide a single space where information around the emerging landscape of Open Humanities can be disseminated, discussed and evaluated. The blog is primarily geared towards researcher communities, including librarians, working with arts and humanities disciplines and broader stakeholder groups, such as the GLAM-sector, partner organizations or different policy-making bodies. From the announcement: ...

CFP: Transforming the Authority of the Archive

Abstract proposals are requested for a proposed edited collection: Transforming the Authority of the Archive: Undergraduate Pedagogy and Critical Digital Archives. This collection will explore how archives-based undergraduate pedagogy transforms the institutional authority of the archive. The collection will be proposed to the peer-reviewed, open-access, digitally-native Lever Press in association with Fulcrum, a scholarly communications ...

CFP: Digital Frontiers: Tear Down the Walls

Digital Frontiers welcomes submissions for the 2019 conference, Tear Down The Walls, hosted by UT Austin in Austin, TX on September 26-28, 2019. Digital Frontiers is a conference and community that brings together the makers and users of digital resources for the humanities. From the call: Digital Humanities scholars deal with numerous barriers and borders as they ...

JOB: Digital Projects Specialist, UNC-Wilmington Library

From the announcement: The Digital Initiatives Program at Randall Library creates, preserves, and provides access to unique digital collections to support research and teaching. The Digital Projects Specialist oversees daily operations in converting a wide range of materials to digital formats, providing quality control, and ensuring that standards and best practices are followed. In collaboration ...

JOB: Digital Scholarship Research Developer, Stanford University Libraries

From the announcement: The Stanford University Libraries’ Center for Interdisciplinary Digital Research (CIDR) is seeking a full-time Digital Scholarship Research Developer to build sophisticated, sustainable, and generalizable projects and platforms in order to support interdisciplinary research in the computational social sciences and digital humanities at Stanford. Regular tasks will include analyzing, designing, developing, deploying, modifying, ...

RECOMMENDED: Can we decolonize OER/Open? #DecolonizeOpen

Taskeen Adam (University of Cambridge), Maha Bali (American University in Cairo), Cheryl Hodgkinson-Williams (University of Cape Town), and Tannis Morgan (BCcampus) have published a guest blog on the OER19 website. In “Can we decolonize OER/Open? #DecolonizeOpen,” Adam, Bali, Hodgkinson-Williams, and Morgan break down how decolonization, diversity, and inclusion, while seemingly in-line with the goals of the open educational ...

RESOURCE: Data Management Practices in Academic Library Learning Analytics: A Critical Review

Kristin A. Briney (University of Wisconsin – Milwaukee) has published “Data Management Practices in Academic Library Learning Analytics: A Critical Review” in the Journal of Librarianship and Scholarly Communication. As the abstract makes clear, Briney’s paper details data management practices by librarians in academic libraries and compares the on-the-ground situation to NISO’s principles on user ...

CFP: The Journal of Interactive Technology and Pedagogy

The Journal of Interactive Technology and Pedagogy has released a call for submissions for the next issue, edited by Shelly Eversley (Baruch College, CUNY) and  Krystyna Michael (The Graduate Center, CUNY). The Journal of Interactive Technology and Pedagogy (JITP) seeks scholarly work that explores the intersection of technology with teaching, learning, and research. We are interested in ...