EVENT: Building A Transatlantic Digital Scholarship and Data Skills Exchange

Research Libraries UK’s Digital Scholarship Network (RLUK DSN) and the Digital Library Federation’s Data and Digital Scholarship Working Group (DLFdds) are hosting an interactive event to explore shared interests between the US and UK research libraries in relation to digital scholarship and skills development, towards “building a transatlantic digital scholarship and data skills exchange.” From ...

EVENT: Everything is Data Except When It’s Not: AI, the Library, and Digital Research Practices

The University of Colorado’s Museum of Natural History, University Libraries, and Research Computing are hosting a “Curating the Campus” speaker series, exploring how digital cultural heritage collections can contribute to campus research and teaching missions as well as engagement of broad audiences. Part Three includes, “Everything is Data Except When It’s Not: AI, the Library, ...

EVENT: Day of DH 2021

This year’s Day of DH (#dayofdh2021) will be held on April 29. Organized by Loyola University Chicago and UCLA in USA, University of Guelph in Canada, and Università del Piedmont Orientale in Italy, this year’s theme is multilingual DH, intended “to open up conversation about projects being undertaken in the various languages and put together ...

EVENT: Open Humanities Data Forum

As part of the Research Data Alliance (RDA) 17th Plenary Meeting, there will be free virtual event about humanities data. Scheduled for April 23 from 3:00 pm – 4:30 pm UCT, the Open Humanities Data Forum will focus on the Journal of Open Humanities Data, with an emphasis on linguistics data. From the announcement: What counts ...

EVENT: OCLC Research Discussion Series: Next Generation of Metadata

The third and final part of OCLC Research Discussion Series, the Closing Plenary webinar, will take place on Tuesday, April 13, and will bring together and highlight what was discussed in the previous sessions. The series focused around two reports: “Transitioning to the Next Generation of Metadata”, by Karen Smith-Yoshimura, which “brought together six years ...

EVENT: Digital Humanities Librarianship Online Symposium

The co-conveners of the ACRL Digital Scholarship Section Digital Humanities Discussion Group (DSS DHDG) invite you to attend an online symposium on digital humanities librarianship, to be held on Monday, 29 March 2021 at 12noon EST / 5pm UTC. Presentations: Laura Braunstein (Digital Humanities Librarian and Co-Lead, Digital by Dartmouth Library, Dartmouth College), “Stealth Outreach: ...

EVENT: EH/DH: Energy Humanities and the Digital Turn

The University of Toronto’s Digital Humanities Network will be concluding their 2020-2021 Lightning Lunch Series with a final session focusing on “Energy Humanities and the Digital Turn,” to take place virtually on March 30th at 12p-1p EST. Speakers include Anne Pasek (Trent University), Caleb Wellum (University of Waterloo), and Lisa Parks (University of California at ...

EVENT: Hitting the Service Ceiling: The Prohibitive Cost of Professional Development in Academic Librarianship

On 9 April, the Librarians for Equitable Professional Development (LEPD) will be hosting “a free panel discussion that centers the experiences of academic librarians as we try to navigate professional development and service amidst economic uncertainty.” From the announcement: Join us to learn about the unacknowledged economic disparities related to professional development & service for ...

EVENT: Introduction to the Scholarly Communication Notebook

The ACRL Digital Scholarship Section (DSS) Open Research Discussion Group will be hosting a virtual discussion forum on Monday, 29 March 2021 at 3:00-4:00pm Central Time. Josh Bolick (University of Kansas), Will Cross (North Carolina State University), and Maria Bonn (University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign) will present, ” Introduction to the Scholarly Communication Notebook.” As open ...

EVENT: Lightning Talk Series on Digital Collections in Teaching and Research

The ACRL Digital Scholarship Section Digital Collections Discussion Group is hosting a Lightning Talk Series focused on Digital Collections in Teaching and Research. There will be three sets of talks, all scheduled for 11am PT / 1pm CT / 2 pm ET. #1: Collaborating on Digital Collections in Teaching and Research. Friday, March 26 (registration ...

EVENT: Global Digital Humanities Symposium

Registration is now open for the sixth annual Global Digital Humanities Symposium, hosted by Digital Humanities at Michigan State University. Happening April 12-15, this free virtual symposium features a broad range of topics and speakers, including: The Programming Historian: A Global Case Study in Multilingual Open Access and DH Tutelage/Instruction Convergences of Past and Present ...