The Institute of Museum and Library Services released application guidelines for the Fiscal Year 2017 round of National Leadership Grants for Libraries (NLG). These grants “support projects that address significant challenges and opportunities facing the library and archive fields and that have the potential to advance theory and practice. Successful proposals will generate results such as new ...

From the call: From the latest digital preservation tools to new digital exhibits, the tools and technologies at the disposal of archives profession are constantly changing and emerging. Are you interested in new technologies and digital projects and want to explore their impact and utility for archives and archivists? Do you have more than a passing ...

The National Endowment for the Humanities and the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation have announced a jointly funded program to “support individual scholars pursuing research projects that require digital expression and digital publication,” the NEH-Mellon Fellowships for Digital Publication. Projects funded through this fellowship program: … must be conceived as digital because the nature of the ...

Registration is open for the 2016 slate of Humanities Intensive Learning & Teaching Institute offerings. This year’s program takes place at Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis from Monday, June 13 to Thursday, June 16th. Courses include: Building and Sustaining Digital Humanities Centers Digital Pedagogy and Networked Learning Getting Started with Data, Tools, and Platforms Humanities Making Humanities Programming ...

From the announcement: The Digital Strategy interns will assist with the ongoing project to make the Museum and Library’s unique collections available and searchable online. The interns, under the guidance of the Digital Strategy department, will focus on enhancing previously created metadata using a controlled vocabulary and schema. They will gain familiarity with Islandora, the ...

The American Historical Association‘s AHA Today blog highlighted a new grant program from the American Council of Learned Societies‘ (ACLS). The ACLS Digital Extension Grant program is designed to provide “flexible support at the level of the digital research project as opposed to the individual scholar.” This funding can cover a range of project activities, such as: ...

The Digital Library Federation has announced a partnership with the Digital Humanities Summer Institute to provide discounts to the summer digital humanities training programs to all affiliated with its member organizations.  Additionally,  they will provide full-tuition scholarships for five “DLF-DHSI Cross-Pollinator Fellows.” From the announcement: DLF recognizes the value of partnering with endeavors that seriously engage issues ...

Adeline Koh (Richard Stockton College) authored a post for ProfHacker about the Digital Pedagogy Lab‘s offerings including upcoming courses: Teaching with Twitter and Learning Online. Koh adds: What I greatly appreciate about the Digital Pedagogy Lab courses is that they have provided adjunct and student rates for all the classes. They are also short–each of them ...

In an effort to bring new voices and perspectives to its annual conference, the Digital Library Federation (DLF) is offering several fellowships and travel awards. The DLF Forum will be held October 26-28, 2015, in Vancouver, British Columbia. The fellowships and awards include: ARL + DLF Forum Fellowships for Underrepresented Groups DLF Forum Fellowships for ...

Washington State University is hosting a series of webinars around the theme of “critical making in digital humanities.” The sessions are held online from 10:00-11:30am PST/1:00-2:30pm EST and are free, although signup is required. Sessions include: March 12, 2015 “DUST: Critical Making and Alternate Reality Games (ARG).” Kari Kraus, University of Maryland March 17, 2015 ...